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 diary is in use. 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. You're listed once your checks clear. 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.
Runs your diary. Lists you where pet owners book.
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 can find your business in the Sable app. If you run kennels or a cattery, pet owners who add Sable’s connector to Claude or ChatGPT can also check your space there. No ad budget.
The rest in one place
Check-in, client records and payments, with each payment on its booking, in 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 also does the rest: bookings, check-in, records, payments and who has paid, in one system from one company.
Paid when they book, or paid to you directly
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
Clients pick their drop-off and collection times online, and you see them on the arrivals board.
An arrivals board with one-tap chase
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 on the booking
Every card payment is recorded on its booking — who paid, when and how much.
One profile per pet
Vaccinations, diet, vet, quirks — captured once, attached to every booking. Families book their pets 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.
A connector for ChatGPT and Claude.
Pet owners can add sable.vet/mcp as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT. The assistant then checks live availability at Sable boarding 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. 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, cancellation policy, and whether each service is paid online when clients book or paid to you directly — set up the way you already run things, not the way software wants you to.
- 2Your recordsClients, pets and years of bookings brought across from your old system, with vaccination dates where it holds them, or typed up from your paper diary. Payments don't come across: moved bookings show as paid, with no price.
- 3Your diaryThis week's bookings already in it. Want a kennel plan? We draw your kennels and cattery pens as they stand.
- 4Your website and your teamYour booking link on your site and Facebook page, logins for your staff once Sable has verified your business, and a walk-through for whoever answers the phone.
- 5Set up before we leaveYour diary in use by the end of the visit. Listed once your checks clear, usually within a day. Payments go to your own Stripe account; your first 30 days of payments stay there, then pay out as normal.
Built for boarding first. Other pet services as they join.
The same booking, payments and one-profile-per-pet system is built for every pet service. Boarding is live today; groomers, dog day care, pet taxis and dog trainers use the same system as they join — one platform for the businesses, one app for the owners. One booking can link them: the pet taxi collects the dog, drops him at the groomer or day care, and brings him home, timed by Sable rather than four phone calls. Every business that joins brings its customers with it.
Book online. 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 until your pet arrives. What comes back follows the business's own policy, always shown before you pay.
Two apps: Sable for Pets (everything pet related) on the App Store and Google Play, and Sable for Business for the people who run the place, on Google Play with the App Store to follow.
Run a pet business? We'll come to you.
Book a free setup visit and you're set up before we leave — your rules, your records, your diary in use — and listed on the marketplace once your checks clear and 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.