Model your kennel revenue, profit margin, and occupancy upside in 30 seconds. Built by a facility owner with over a decade of hands-on boarding experience.
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The Pet Boarding Profit Calculator uses the same five-line P&L most independent facility owners keep on a napkin — but with enough inputs to actually be useful. Here is exactly what happens under the hood.
Monthly revenue = Kennels × Nightly rate × (Occupancy % / 100) × 30.44 days
Annual revenue = Monthly revenue × 12
We use 30.44 as the average days per month (365.25 / 12) so annual and monthly numbers reconcile cleanly. Occupancy represents the share of kennel-nights actually sold — a 20-kennel facility at 65% occupancy sells roughly 13 kennel-nights of the 20 available each day.
Monthly variable cost = Kennels × (Occupancy % / 100) × 30.44 × Operating cost per kennel
Monthly staff cost = Staff cost per day × 30.44
Variable cost only applies to occupied kennels — an empty kennel does not consume food, bedding, or cleaning supplies. Staff cost is treated as fixed because you still pay your team on slow days. If your staffing flexes with occupancy, lower the staff number to your worst-case day.
Monthly profit = Monthly revenue − Monthly variable cost − Monthly staff cost
Profit per kennel per month = Monthly profit / Kennels
Profit per kennel is the single best benchmark for deciding whether to expand. If you are clearing more per kennel than it costs to build one (amortized over 7-10 years), new kennels pay for themselves. If not, fix pricing or occupancy first.
100% occupancy revenue = Kennels × Nightly rate × 30.44 × 12
Untapped revenue = 100% occupancy revenue − Current annual revenue
This is the number that usually surprises owners. Even a 10-point jump in occupancy on a 20-kennel, $45/night facility is roughly $27,000/year in new top-line revenue. Most of that gap is closed by better booking software — online booking alone typically adds 8-15 points of occupancy in the first 90 days.
To keep the tool readable we intentionally leave out: rent/mortgage, insurance, marketing, credit card processing fees (~2.9%), card on file failures, refunds, and daycare or grooming revenue from the same facility. Add those separately when you build your real P&L. If you want the full model, enter your email and we will send you the spreadsheet version.
Every boarding facility we have talked to sits somewhere on a spectrum between “I am afraid to raise prices” and “I am turning pets away every holiday.” Both problems are solvable, but you cannot fix what you cannot see. Running this calculator once a quarter — with your actual numbers — is the single most useful 30-minute exercise a facility owner can do.
Animal Friends OS was built inside a real 20-kennel facility (ours) to solve exactly the leaks this calculator surfaces: missed online bookings, no-show losses, unbilled add-ons, peak-season pricing, and manual check-in bottlenecks. It is the same software we use every day, and it is available as a 14-day free trial with no credit card.