We come out and set it up.
A Sable team member sits down at your desk, builds your diary around how you already run, brings your records across and stays until your first real booking is in. Free. Starting in Scotland; elsewhere, ask us. Then Sable runs the lot — bookings, payments, client records and new customers — for 3% of payments through Sable, no monthly fee. Sable is built and tested at Kuruba, where Sable’s founder works.
UK businesses only, for now. Rather do it yourself? Start now — it takes minutes. Ask Sable in the corner: prices, setup, how bookings work.No monthly fee. No setup fee. No lock-in.
Setup, support and updates are free. We come to your door (starting in Scotland; elsewhere, ask us), set it up around how you run and bring your records across. Sable takes 3% of each payment made through it, so a quiet month costs little. Stripe’s card fee is separate.
Finds you customers. Runs your diary.
Marketplaces bring you customers and charge 15–20% commission. Subscription software takes a monthly fee and brings you nobody. Sable does both for 3% of payments through Sable.
Customers find you
Pet owners find Sable businesses in the app — and AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can check your live availability and hand over your booking link. New bookings, no ad budget.
The rest runs itself
Check-in, records, payments, to-the-penny reconciliation — the whole back office, from the same system that took the booking.
Both jobs, 3%
No subscription, no listing fees. 3% of payments through Sable; Stripe’s card fee is separate. The introduction and the admin together, where a marketplace charges 15–20% for the introduction alone.
The jobs that eat your day, done by the software.
Most software in this trade is a booking diary with a card reader bolted on. Sable is the rest of your business — bookings, check-in, records, payments, the reconciliation — one system, from one company.
Paid in full at booking
Take payment when clients book, or let them pay you directly: you choose per service. Online payments are refunded automatically if you decline.
Hotel-style check-in & check-out
Owners watch a countdown until check-in opens, then confirm their exact drop-off time — to the quarter-hour — and book their collection time the same way.
An arrivals board that chases
See who's confirmed and who's gone quiet. Ring or WhatsApp the quiet ones in one tap, and mark them coming while you're still on the phone.
Ask Sable
Type "who's arriving Saturday with two dogs" and get the answer. No filters, no digging through menus.
Money that reconciles
Every payment lands on a ledger that matches your card account to the penny. Full names, real dates, clickable rows.
One profile per pet
Vaccinations, diet, vet, quirks — captured once, attached to every booking. Families book together and amend together.
Six kinds of pet business. One system.
The same engine — bookings, payments, client records, Ask Sable — shaped to how each trade actually runs.
Boarding kennels →
Paid-in-full bookings, hotel-style check-in, occupancy by pen, vaccination records.
Catteries →
The same care for cats — separate capacities and rates, one diary.
Dog groomers →
Appointments from real availability, up-front payment that stops no-shows.
Dog day care →
Full and half days, spaces counted properly, regulars on account.
Pet taxis →
Journeys with addresses, runs timed around grooms and day care.
Dog trainers →
Classes and 1-to-1s, spaces per class, every dog's story in one place.
This is the app.
Screenshots of the app, on a demo business. Ask a question in plain English and get the answer with the figures under it.
Ask ChatGPT where to board your dog. Sable answers.
Clients can find you through ChatGPT and Claude. Add sable.vet/mcp as a connector and the assistant checks live availability at Sable businesses and hands over the booking link.
"I'm away the 21st to the 24th — where can my dog stay?"
Your assistant asks Sable, gets each business's real nightly space and an estimated price, and links you straight to booking.
For the technically curious
A public, read-only MCP server: live availability and published rates only — never names, pets or booking details. Claude: Settings → Connectors. ChatGPT: Apps → Advanced.
We come out and set it up. Free.
A Sable team member comes to your door (starting in Scotland; elsewhere, ask us), sits down at your desk with whoever actually keeps the diary, and builds Sable around how you already run. About half an hour — longer if there are years of records to bring across, and we stay until it's done.
No two businesses run the same way, so nothing is set up by form. You tell us how you work and it's set up to match — then we keep working with you after, until the admin is as light as it can get. Need something Sable doesn’t do? Tell us. Most of Sable was built from requests like yours.
- 1Your rulesServices, rates, capacity, deposit and cancellation policy — set up the way you already run things, not the way software wants you to.
- 2Your recordsCustomers, pets, vaccinations and years of bookings brought across from your old system or the paper diary. Nobody fills in a form twice.
- 3Your boardEvery kennel, pen, run or slot drawn up, with this week's arrivals already on it.
- 4Your website and your teamYour booking link on your site and Facebook page, logins for your staff, and a walk-through for whoever answers the phone.
- 5Live before we leaveYour first real booking taken while we're still in the room, the money landing in your own bank account.
Built for boarding first. Now every pet service.
The same booking, payments and one-profile-per-pet system works for every pet service. Kennels, catteries, groomers, dog day care, pet taxi and dog training businesses are all live today — one platform for the businesses, one app for the owners. And the network already pays off: one booking, and the pet taxi collects the dog at the front door, drops him at the groomer or day care, and brings him home — timed and coordinated by Sable, not by four phone calls. Every business that joins brings its customers with it.
Book in minutes. Check in before you arrive.
One profile for every pet, attached to every booking — the kennels already knows Bella's nervous and what she has for tea. Cancel up to check-in under the business's own policy, always shown before you pay.
Two apps are on their way to the App Store and Google Play — Sable for Pets (everything pet related) and Sable for Business for the people who run the place.
Run a pet business? We'll come to you.
Book a free setup visit and you're live before we leave — your rules, your records, your first real booking — listed on the marketplace only when you say so, for 3% of payments through Sable, no monthly fee. We only earn when your diary fills. Rather do it yourself? You can, in minutes.