Parents tap their dog's photo at the door. Your team sees who's here on the big screen — with the chime, the spotlight, and the notes. No more shouting over the kennels.
Your team stops playing telephone between the front desk and the back of the house. Parents stop standing around waiting. Dogs come home faster.
At drop-off and pickup, the parent finds their dog on a tablet by the door and taps a single big button. No accounts, no passwords.
A chime plays. A 15-second spotlight pops up on the staff display with the dog's photo, owner, and notes — visible from anywhere in the kennels.
Staff bring the dog out, tap "Complete," and the request moves to the day's history. Everyone knows who's still waiting, at a glance.
Parents type the first letters of their dog's name. They tap "I'm here!" The screen confirms. That's it. No logins, no QR codes, no asking the front desk where Sherlock is today.
A live dashboard with three columns — dropped off, pending pickup, and picked up. A chime plays when a new parent arrives. A full-screen spotlight makes it impossible to miss, even with a Great Dane in your lap.
Upload a photo, jot down "allergic to chicken," and the front desk and staff display are immediately in sync. Archive instead of delete — old regulars come back, and you don't want to retype their details.
A friendly chime and a full-screen photo spotlight so the staff in back know exactly who needs to come out.
Two taps a day per dog. You get a clean record of who arrived when and who's still in your care.
Faces, not text. New staff recognize Bailey-the-Aussie immediately, even on day one.
The notes you'd otherwise scribble on a clipboard live right on the dog's card — visible to whoever's at the door.
iPad, Android tablet, an old laptop, a wall-mounted display — if it has a browser, it works.
Pin the room's camera feed in the corner of the staff display, and give owners a daily-code link to peek in on their dog from anywhere.
Co-parents, dog walkers, the grandparent on Tuesdays — add as many as you need, with the emergency number right on the dog's card.
Bringing dogs over from a spreadsheet or another tool? Drop in a CSV and your whole roster — names, breeds, owners, notes — loads in seconds.
Run it in our cloud or on a Raspberry Pi behind your counter. You choose where the data lives.
DropBark is built to fit around your daycare — not the other way around. Brand it, bend it, and tell us what's missing. The roadmap is mostly built from things customers asked for.
Your logo, your colors, your domain, your welcome copy. Run it in our cloud or on a Raspberry Pi behind the counter — you choose where the data lives.
The owner cam, multi-owner support, CSV import — they all started as customer asks. Tell us what would save your team five minutes a day, and it goes on the list.
Need it to talk to your scheduling tool, your POS, your calendar, or a Slack channel? We'll scope the integration — existing tools stay, DropBark just clicks in.
Start with the pickup workflow your team feels every day. Add hosting, hardware, or multi-location support when you need it.
For facilities that want DropBark running on their own hardware.
For most single-location daycares that want us to run it.
For busy teams that want custom polish and faster support.
Most teams start with a $299 branding and onboarding setup. On-prem hardware installs are quoted separately, usually $499-$799 plus hardware.
Need several facilities under one brand? Multi-location plans start at $129 per location per month with shared branding and centralized support.
Imports, special workflows, and integrations can be scoped as fixed projects or billed hourly after the first demo.
One tablet (or old laptop) at the front for parents, and one screen in the staff area — that can be a wall-mounted TV, a tablet, or just a monitor. Plus internet, if you choose the hosted version.
No. They walk up, find their dog by name, and tap one button. You handle adding them to the roster from the manager portal the first time they visit.
Yes. It's lightweight enough to run on a Raspberry Pi behind your counter if you want to keep everything in-house and offline. We help you set it up.
Every paying customer gets a white-label setup: your logo, your colors, your domain, and your welcome copy on the kiosk.
Local plans start at $49/month, hosted plans start at $89/month, and Pro plans start at $149/month. Most teams also have a one-time setup fee for branding, roster import, and launch help.
For most daycares, under an afternoon. We help you import your roster, theme the screens, and get the staff display up on a TV.
Tell us a little about your daycare. We'll set up a sandbox with your roster, your colors, and your logo, and walk you through it on a 20-minute call.