Bookings and the calendar
Resources
Manage locations, kennels, rooms, and equipment
5 guides
- Getting Started with ResourcesResources are the spaces, equipment and schedules your services are booked into, such as rooms, pens, vans or a meet and greet calendar. Each one has a type, a number of pets it takes at a time, working hours and the services that use it.Updated 27 September 2026
- Resource Capacity ManagementA resource's Pets at a Time is how many pets can use it at the same moment, not how many it takes in a day. Petboost stops online bookings past that number and shows how full each resource is on the calendar.Updated 27 September 2026
- Resource Working Hours & Blocked TimesA resource is only bookable inside its working hours. Blocked times take it out of use for maintenance, cleaning or events, and special dates change its hours for a date range.Updated 27 September 2026
- Service-Resource AssignmentA service lists the resources it can be booked into, such as rooms, stations or vans. You set the list from the resource's Services section or the service's Team & Resources tab, and the service decides whether a resource is required.Updated 27 September 2026
- Resources FAQResources are the physical spaces, equipment, and assets that your business uses to deliver services. They can be fixed locations like kennels and rooms, or movable assets like vehicles and equipment.Updated 13 September 2026
Decision guides in this area
The calls behind the settings.
AM and PM visits: one booking or two, and how to price the second?One booking per day carrying two timed services, priced as a shorter second visit on its own service, because the services field holds two start times while keeping the day on one card and one invoice.Decision guideDaycare and a groom on the same day: one booking or two?One booking with both as services on it, because the services field holds two start times, two team members and two resources while the family still gets one arrival, one card and one invoice.Decision guideHow big should a puppy class be?Six to eight puppies with one instructor, because the ceiling is how many handlers one voice can coach at once rather than how many puppies fit in the hall.Decision guideHow many dogs should be on a group walk?Start at four for a solo walker and only go higher once your council limit, your lead hand and your vehicle all agree, because the ceiling on a group walk is set outside your booking system before it is set inside it.Decision guideStaff or station: what should your capacity hang off?Hang it on whichever one you would actually turn a booking away for, and on both only when both genuinely bind, because every constraint you add that is not real removes slots you could have sold.Decision guideShould every new daycare dog do a temperament test first?Yes, and it has to be a booked service the software enforces rather than a promise on your website, because the assessment you skip is the one you skip on the busiest morning of the year.Decision guideWhat commits a weekly walk, and is the meet and greet paid?A standing series with a card on file commits it and a deposit cannot, because recurring bookings do not take one, and the meet and greet is a paid first visit that gates the walks behind it.Decision guideShould boarding have fixed check-in and check-out windows?Yes, published on the service so the booking form enforces them, because open-ended collection is what breaks the next stay rather than a courtesy you extend to good customers.Decision guideHow many dogs can you board? The number that paysBoarding capacity is runs multiplied by nights, not pets per day, and the number worth setting comes from staffing and cleaning time rather than from how many beds you own.Decision guide