Gingr is fundamentally a kennel and daycare platform — when shelters try to use it, the seams show. Freezes mid-transaction, payment holds that vanish, and email features that fail with permission errors. Here's a shelter-first alternative.
Gingr is primarily kennel/daycare/grooming software with adoption features bolted on. Shelters using it consistently hit edges — freezing, payment failures, and email permission errors — that don't show up in the boarding use case.
PawMates Pro covers shelter boarding (stray holds, isolation, foster boarding), kennel cards, and scheduling. If commercial boarding/daycare is your primary business, a dedicated boarding tool may fit better — but for shelters, PawMates Pro is the right shape.
PawMates Pro runs with automatic failover and redundancy, browser-based across any modern device. There's no local app to freeze and no on-site server to crash.
Yes. Pet records, applications, adopter contacts, and transaction history — free migration done by our team.
PawMates Pro Rescue Free is $0/month for foster-first rescues (up to 25 active pets). Kennel shelter plans start at $149/month (Starter) and scale to Growing ($299), Pro ($599), and Large ($899) by intake volume. Rescue Plus is $79/month. Every plan includes unlimited users, free data migration, daily backups, and a free adopter app — no per-seat or per-adoption platform fees. Gingr uses tiered kennel/daycare pricing; PawMates Pro is shelter-first with every module included on every plan.