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Booking terms for catteries, drafted from your notes

ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini turn your notes on deposits, vaccinations and vet care into clear booking terms for you to check. Free to about $27£20€24A$38C$38 a month.

At a glance

  • What it costsFree–$27Free–£20Free–€24Free–A$38Free–C$38 a month

  • Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$24£18€21A$35C$34 a month

  • Pays for itselfWithin the month

  • Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked . How we check prices

The problem

Cattery disputes tend to start with something nobody wrote down: a refund for a canceled Christmas stay, a cat turned away for an out-of-date vaccination, a vet bill. If one disputed 14-night Christmas stay at $20£15€18A$29C$28 a night, $279£210€250A$403C$395 is written off each year, that's money a clear page of terms could have kept.

What the AI does

Write bullet notes on how you work: deposits and when they're refundable, cancellations and peak dates, the vaccinations you require and what happens if a record is out of date, shared pens for one household, vet treatment and who pays, collection times, and what owners should bring. Paste the notes into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask for booking terms in plain English with numbered clauses, using only your notes. Check every line, compare it with any template your insurer or trade association offers, and have anything unclear checked before owners agree to it.

A worked example

A 10-pen cattery in Northumberland has terms on a photocopied sheet from years ago and had a dispute last Christmas over a canceled 14-night stay.

Before

Old terms, silent on peak cancellations; one 14-night stay at $20£15€18A$29C$28 a night ($279£210€250A$403C$395) written off last year

After

Clear terms agreed at booking; that $279£210€250A$403C$395 is payable as agreed

What it's worth

About $24£18€21A$35C$34 a month, averaged over a year, if clear terms mean one disputed 14-night stay at $20£15€18A$29C$28 a night ($279£210€250A$403C$395) is paid as agreed rather than written off (an assumption). A kept charge carries almost no cost, so it is counted in full. The free plans of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are enough; a paid plan at about $27£20€24A$38C$38 a month wouldn't pay back for this alone.

How to set it up

  1. Write bullet notes under headings: deposits, cancellations, peak dates, vaccinations, shared pens, vet care, collection, what to bring.
  2. Paste them into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask for plain-English booking terms with numbered clauses, using only your notes.
  3. Delete anything you didn't ask for, such as limits of liability or charges you don't make.
  4. Check the vaccination and shared-pen clauses against your license conditions.
  5. Have the terms checked, then show them on your booking page and get owners to agree before paying a deposit.

What goes wrong

  • Unfair terms, such as keeping the whole fee for any cancellation, can't be enforced under consumer law.
  • This is help with wording, not legal advice.
  • Don't paste customers' names or the details of a dispute into an AI tool.
  • Terms that don't match your booking system's deposit and fee settings confuse owners; make them match.

More ideas for Catteries

Cattery booking software: online pens and peak deposits

KennelBooker lets owners book a pen online, including family pens, and pay a deposit at your Christmas and summer rates. From about $59£44€52A$84C$83 a month.

  • Costs $59–70£44–53€52–63A$84–102C$83–100/mo
  • Worth $178£134€159A$257C$252/mo
  • Pays for itself in about two weeks
  • Some setup needed

Waitlist for catteries: refill canceled pens in peak weeks

Revelation Pets keeps a waitlist with automated notifications, so a canceled Christmas pen goes to the next family quickly. From about $55£41€49A$79C$77 a month.

  • Costs $55–67£41–50€49–60A$79–96C$77–94/mo
  • Worth $130£98€117A$188C$184/mo
  • Pays for itself in about two weeks
  • Easy to set up

Peak week occupancy check with ChatGPT for catteries

Upload last year's bookings to ChatGPT and see which weeks were full, so peak dates and rates match real demand. From about $9£7€8A$13C$13 a month.

  • Costs $9£7€8A$13C$13/mo
  • Worth $67£50€60A$96C$94/mo
  • Pays for itself in about a week
  • Easy to set up

AI chat for catteries: answer owners while you clean pens

Tidio's Lyro AI answers website questions on vaccinations, what to bring and booking from your own content, and hands the rest to you. From about $37£28€33A$54C$53 a month.

  • Costs $37–45£28–34€33–40A$54–65C$53–64/mo
  • Worth $89£67€80A$129C$126/mo
  • Pays for itself in about two weeks
  • Some setup needed

Medication and diet notes for catteries: one record per cat

Revelation Pets keeps each cat's diet and medication notes on its profile, owner-entered before the stay, and prints boarding cards. From about $55£41€49A$79C$77 a month.

  • Costs $55–67£41–50€49–60A$79–96C$77–94/mo
  • Worth $106£80€95A$154C$150/mo
  • Pays for itself within the month
  • Easy to set up

Consent forms for catteries: shared pens and vet care signed

KennelBooker has owners sign your terms, shared-pen consent and vet consent online before the stay, stored on their record. From about $59£44€52A$84C$83 a month.

  • Costs $59–70£44–53€52–63A$84–102C$83–100/mo
  • Worth $80£60€71A$115C$113/mo
  • Pays for itself within the month
  • Easy to set up

Cat boarding license renewal: a backup reminder

A Google Sheet row creates a calendar reminder 10 weeks before your cat boarding license expires, behind your own diary. Free on Zapier's free plan.

  • Free
  • Not measured in money
  • Not a money saving
  • Some setup needed

Last updated October 17, 2026.