Gingr vs. PetExec: Which One Actually Fits Your Pet Boarding Facility?
Most Gingr-vs-PetExec comparisons default to team size because that's the easy axis. It doesn't work here — both are priced at $250/mo for the same 3-60 employee range. The real fork is what each one automates for you.
Gingr and PetExec are both $250/mo for 3-60 employees — the real difference is what each one automates
Pricing and integration data from the StackMatch pet boarding dataset.
Gingr and PetExec are, on paper, the closest head-to-head matchup in this entire vertical: identical $250/mo price, identical 3-to-60-employee range, and near-identical core feature sets for reservations, run assignment, and vaccination tracking. That symmetry breaks the usual comparison logic — there's no team-size threshold where one clearly outgrows the other, because they're built for the exact same size kennel. The decision instead comes down to two things: how much of your compliance workflow you want automated for you, and how many of your other tools you want it to talk to.
Direct finance & payroll integrations
Gingr: $250/mo — the broader integration footprint
Gingr covers reservations, run/kennel assignment, daycare check-in/out, and vaccination record tracking, and it connects directly to both QuickBooks Online and Gusto. That second connection matters more than it looks: if your kennel attendants' shift assignments live in Gingr, a direct Gusto sync means their hours don't have to be re-keyed into payroll by hand every pay period. The tradeoff is that Gingr's vaccination tracking is a record system, not an automated tickler — the platform holds the data, but per its own feature description it doesn't proactively push expiration alerts the way PetExec does.
PetExec: $250/mo — automated vaccination-expiration alerts
PetExec covers the same reservation and run-management ground, but its standout feature is automated vaccination-expiration alerts that fire before a booked stay — which is the single highest-stakes compliance job in a boarding facility, since a dog with a lapsed rabies or bordetella vaccine sharing a run or a daycare group with a dozen others is a real outbreak risk, not a paperwork technicality. The tradeoff is a narrower integration footprint: PetExec connects to QuickBooks Online only, so kennel-attendant hours have to be entered into Gusto by hand rather than synced.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Gingr | PetExec |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $250 | $250 |
| Employee range | 3-60 | 3-60 |
| Reservations & run assignment | ||
| Vaccination record tracking | ||
| Automated vaccination-expiration alerts | ||
| Direct QuickBooks Online sync | ||
| Direct Gusto payroll sync |
Running both platforms costs $500/mo for one job neither one does at a meaningfully different price.
Running both Gingr and PetExec at once — the most common reason we see this in the data is a manager trained on one platform joining a kennel that already runs the other — costs $500/mo combined for a single job that one platform alone does for $250. Unlike some tool-overlap cases, there's no capability gap here that justifies paying for both; they're too close in scope.
The actual decision rule
With price and team-size range identical, weigh automated compliance against payroll integration — not headcount.
- If your kennel-attendant hours already live in Gusto and you want them to sync automatically: Gingr's direct payroll connection saves real front-desk time every pay period.
- If your front desk is stretched thin and manual vaccination checks at drop-off are a recurring stress point: PetExec's automated expiration alerts catch a lapsed rabies or bordetella record before it becomes an outbreak risk, not just a compliance headache.
- If you're running a second location and inherited the other platform through an acquisition: pick one, migrate the vaccination and boarding-history data fully, and cancel the other — don't run both 'temporarily,' since that temporary period is exactly where the $500/mo shows up.
There's no team-size crossover here — both platforms are built for the same 3-60 employee band at the same price. Pick based on whether payroll sync or automated vaccination alerts solves the actual friction your front desk deals with today.
One thing worth naming directly: a lot of "best pet boarding facility software" content online is written by, or paid by, the vendor with the bigger affiliate budget. That's exactly the incentive our engine is built to be blind to; it ranks purely on fit for your stack, not on which vendor pays the biggest bounty.
Run the free audit with your real headcount and current spend to see which one — plus the rest of your stack — actually fits.