Evening care

The hours after daycare closes

Daycare, but for the evening — with its own sessions, its own spaces and its own prices. Because a dog dropped off at five while its owner goes out for dinner isn't the same product as a full day, and shouldn't be sold like one.

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Full or half evenings · Hourly option · Own capacity · Multi-dog pricing

Friday evening

14 / 20 spaces

Full evening

17:00 – 23:00

9 dogs

Half evening

17:00 – 20:00

3 dogs

Hourly

Priced by the hour

2 dogs

Multi-dog pricing applied automatically

Illustration of an evening session

Built for a specific problem, useful well beyond it

Where it came from

Evening care was built for daycares in South African cities, where a lot of the trade was people dropping the dog off on the way into town for dinner and collecting it on the way home. The daytime daycare was full of one crowd and the evening was a different crowd entirely — different hours, different prices, different capacity.

It turned out to be useful anywhere the evening is its own trade. And because the service can be renamed throughout, plenty of businesses use it for something else altogether — late collection, an after-work club, a supervised evening session, holiday cover that runs past closing. If you need a second daycare-shaped service with its own hours and prices, this is it.

How evening care works

Same shape as daycare, sold for the part of the day it covers.

1

Set your evening sessions

A full evening, a half evening, or straight hourly — whichever you actually sell, each with its own price.

2

Set the spaces

Say how many dogs you take per session. Evening capacity is separate from daytime daycare, because the room and the staffing usually are too.

3

Take the bookings

Online or at the desk. Confirm automatically, or hold as pending until you've looked.

4

Prices keep up

Change the dates or times on a booking and the price corrects itself, including when a customer brings a second or third dog.

What comes with it

Everything daycare has, pointed at the evening.

Its own capacity

Spaces per evening session, counted separately from your daytime numbers so a busy day doesn't close the evening.

Full, half or hourly

Sell whichever combination fits — a full evening, a shorter one, or by the hour for people who only need a couple.

Multi-dog pricing

Set the total price for one dog, two dogs and three, rather than making customers do arithmetic and you do discounts by hand.

Prices that self-correct

Move the times on a booking and the cost updates with it, so an extended evening bills correctly without anyone remembering to fix it.

Check-in times

Record the exact arrival time on the booking when that matters to you, or leave it off.

Cancellation fees

Charge for a no-show or a late cancellation, as a fixed fee or a percentage of the booking.

Online booking

Publish evening sessions to the portal with live availability, and let regulars book their own Fridays.

Vaccination rules

The same vaccination requirements as the rest of your services apply before an evening booking can be made.

Call it what you call it

Rename it to whatever you sell — Evening Club, Late Stay, Night Owls, After Hours.

Frequently asked questions

What is evening care?

It's a daycare-style booking that covers the evening rather than the working day. Dogs arrive after your daytime session ends and are collected later that night. It has its own sessions, its own capacity and its own prices.

How is it different from daycare?

Mainly hours, capacity and price. Evening care has its own number of spaces per session so it doesn't compete with your daytime numbers, and its own rates, because an evening is not usually sold at the same price as a full day.

Can I sell half evenings or by the hour?

Yes. You can offer a full evening, a half evening, an hourly rate, or any combination, each priced separately.

Can I charge less for a second dog?

Yes. You can set the total price for one dog, two dogs and three dogs, so multi-dog households are priced correctly without manual discounts.

Can I use evening care for something other than evenings?

Yes, and plenty of businesses do. The service can be renamed everywhere it appears, so it works as a late-collection option, an after-work club or any second daycare-shaped service that needs its own hours, capacity and prices.

Do prices update if a booking changes?

Yes, that's a setting. Change the times on a booking and the price recalculates automatically rather than needing to be corrected by hand.

Sell the evening properly

Try KennelBooker free for 14 days — no credit card, no contracts — and stop squeezing evening trade into a daycare-shaped box.

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