The pet parent
One account for every pet in the household.
Petworking vs. Gingr
Go beyond daycare and boarding software.
Gingr helps facilities run reservations, bookings and pet-parent communication. Petworking is being built to connect the whole pet-care relationship around that: business operations and payments, portable pet records, marketplace discovery, professional referrals and order-ahead pickup.
Written by Petworking. Last checked 15 September 2026. Gingr solutions and features.
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One platform. More of the pet world.
One animal, one lifeHere is every place one animal is cared for in a year, and the stretch of it Gingr is built for.
Vet
Grooming
Training
Walking
Sitting
Boarding
Food
Licences
Pickup
All nine, one recordScope, not quality. A short bar is a product that chose a lane and is probably excellent in it. We are arguing that the animal does not live in one lane.
| Capability |  | Gingr |
|---|---|---|
| Both of us do this | ||
| Business management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pet profiles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online booking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Memberships and subscriptions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inventory | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-location | ✓ | ✓ |
| And then there is the rest of the pet world | ||
| Portable Pet PassportThe record belongs to the pet parent and travels with the animal. | ✓ | – |
| Consumer marketplacePet parents find you without you buying the click. | ✓ | – |
| Cross-business pet identityThe same animal, recognised at the vet, the groomer and the sitter. | ✓ | – |
| Professional networkThe people caring for the same animals, connected to each other. | ✓ | – |
| Business-to-business referralsSend work to someone you trust, and get it back. | ✓ | – |
| Order ahead and collectCustomers order in the app and pick up at the counter. | ✓ | – |
| All-pet species architectureRabbits, birds and reptiles are not filed under Other. | ✓ | – |
| Universal competitor migrationBring your data from wherever it lives today. | ✓ | – |
| Consumer spending dashboardPet parents can see what they spend on each animal. | ✓ | – |
| Pet licences and permitsKept where the renewal reminder can find them. | ✓ | – |
Checked against Gingr’s own public product pages, help centre and pricing documentation on 15 September 2026. A tick means they publish it, a tilde means they publish something close with a caveat we have stated, and a dash means we found nothing. Vendors change fast: send us anything we have got wrong and we will fix it and say so.
This is the strongest software-switch case of the three, and it is still volume-limited: cheaper up to about $1,029 a month in card volume on Independent, and about $1,909 on the free plan.
What you save switching from Gingr
Plan against plan: your Petworking tier plus payment processing, against a named Gingr tier plus Square in-person processing at 2.5%. Both sides have tiers, so pick the two that actually match your operation. The figure is whatever it is, including when it goes the other way.
Your Petworking plan
Their comparable planMatched to your plan. Change it if their tiers line up differently for you.
Petworking Independent$143.00
Gingr Spa plus Square$180.00
$37.00less a month with PetworkingPetworking is the cheaper of the two below about $5,846 a month in card volume, and the more expensive one above it.
Independent plan fee$29.00
Payment processing, 3.80% of $3,000$114.00
Marketplace commission$0.00 on your own clients
Petworking Independent, total$143.00
Gingr Spa plan fee$105.00
Card processing, 2.50% of $3,000$75.00
Gingr Spa, total$180.00
Both sides exclude per-booking amounts: Petworking's $0.30 a transaction, and any fixed per-transaction charge on the other side. Petworking's 7% marketplace commission is excluded because it applies only to transactions Petworking generates, and is $0 on clients you bring yourself. Gingr Spa: Third-party listing, $95 to $114. To verify. Gingr's own pricing page publishes no figures, and third-party listings disagree: Spa is quoted between $95 and $114 a month per location depending on the source, daycare about $169, boarding up to about $209, and one listing puts monthly billing at $127 with a setup fee of $300 per location, or $200 on annual billing. Payments, SMS and staff scheduling are sold as add-ons. Every figure here is third-party. To verify. Most of these vendors publish in US dollars while Petworking prices in Canadian dollars, which moves the crossover once converted. Vendor pricing changes, so check it before you decide.
Subscription and processing are compared separately at your selected plan and volume. The crossover above uses the reference prices shown, not a promise that switching always saves money. Confirm the current Gingr quote before deciding.
Your software knows your facility. Petworking knows the pet world around it.
Facility software starts with the building and the reservation. Petworking starts with the pet, then connects the businesses, professionals, records, bookings, payments and products around them. A dog boarded with you in August is the same pet record their groomer, trainer and vet are working from.
The Pet Passport
Records, licences, permits and certifications the pet parent carries between businesses.
Their professionals
Vet, groomer, trainer, walker, sitter. Records, bookings and progress in one place.
Commerce and pickup
Retail, subscriptions and payments, collected from the business that sold it. Delivery coming soon.
The category is already proven
9M+
pet parents already use Gingr, so vertical pet software is not a hypothesis
150M+
reservations facilitated, which is the booking volume this category runs on
50M+
report cards sent, so pet-parent communication is already a core workflow
Figures published by Gingr. Vendor-reported, cited to show the size of the category, not to compare product quality.
Software should not create another job for your team.
Petworking Founding Pros are set up by the people building the product, not handed a knowledge base.
Founder-led onboarding
White-glove setup
Data migration assistance
Service and pricing setup
Staff setup
Customer onboarding assistance
Launch materials
Direct product feedback access
Your business should not have to figure out the platform alone.
Pet care is bigger than dogs and cats.
12.6 million Canadian pets are not dogs or cats. Petworking is being built for the whole pet world.
DogsCatsRabbitsBirdsReptilesFishSmall mammalsAmphibiansExoticsMore
One platform should not require every animal outside the two largest categories to become “Other.”
Canada had approximately 29.76 million pets in 2024, of which roughly 12.58 million were neither dogs nor cats. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pet food trends in Canada, 2025. Data year 2024.
Switching should not mean starting over.
Petworking is being designed to import your existing business data rather than forcing you to rebuild it manually. We can migrate or preserve:
- Customers
- Pets
- Pet records
- Services
- Pricing
- Staff
- Bookings
- Appointments
- Memberships
- Packages
- Subscriptions
- Products
- Inventory
- Transactions
- Notes
- Documents
- Custom fields
If your current software can export it, our goal is to ingest it.
Talk to us about migrationFounding businesses receive white-glove migration support.
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Founding 25 businesses receive their first location on Multi-site, our highest tier, free for life. Transaction fees still apply at Multi-site rates.