The short answer
Gingr is boarding, daycare and grooming software priced per facility type — $109/mo for grooming, $169/mo for daycare, $179/mo for boarding. Plug N Play is $100/mo for one flat plan that also carries your phone system, staff email, payroll, contracts and website, and does not re-tier you when you add a service.
What Gingr charges
Tiered by the kind of care you sell. Add overnight boarding to a grooming business and you move up a tier. Some capabilities (employee scheduling, 2-way SMS, messaging) are listed as add-ons with prices not published.
| Spa | $109/mo | grooming and appointment-based services |
| Play | $169/mo | daycare and day training |
| Stay | $179/mo | boarding — $209/mo without their integrated payments |
| Enterprise | Contact us | multi-facility |
| Plug N Play Professional | $100/mo | 15 staff accounts, per business — not per user |
Read from Gingr's own pricing page on 2026-08-08. Prices change — check theirs before you decide, and tell us if this page is out of date.
Where Gingr is the better choice
Scale and track record. Gingr publishes 5,000+ facilities on the platform and holds a SOC 2 Type II report. If a long reference list and a completed security audit are decision criteria, they have both today and we do not.
Where Plug N Play is different
One plan instead of three, priced per business rather than per service line — and the plan includes the systems most operators buy separately: a phone system, staff email, e-signature, timesheets, payroll and a website.
Side by side
Based on what each product lists publicly as of 2026-08-08. A blank is “not published”, not “bad at it”.
| Capability | Plug N Play | Gingr |
|---|---|---|
| Booking & scheduling | ||
| Invoicing & payments | ||
| Client portal / app | ||
| Two-way SMS | ||
| Business phone system | ||
| Staff email inboxes | ||
| CRM & sales pipeline | ||
| Training programs & progress | ||
| Client learning library | ||
| Contracts & e-signature | ||
| HR, scheduling & timesheets | ||
| Payroll | ||
| Website builder | ||
| Multi-location / franchise | ||
| Self-host / source access |
What switching actually involves
- 1You tell us what you run on now and what your week looks like.
- 2We build your workspace — services, staff, kennels, packages, forms — and import your clients, animals, vaccine records and history.
- 3You run both systems side by side for a couple of weeks. Nothing is cancelled until you say so.
- 4We move bookings across on a date you pick, and stay on the phone through the first busy weekend.
Common questions
Is Plug N Play cheaper than Gingr?
It depends on your size, and we will not pretend otherwise. Tiered by the kind of care you sell. Add overnight boarding to a grooming business and you move up a tier. Some capabilities (employee scheduling, 2-way SMS, messaging) are listed as add-ons with prices not published. Plug N Play is $100/mo for up to 15 staff and $250/mo unlimited, per business. Small operations sometimes pay less elsewhere; teams and multi-location businesses almost always pay less here.
What does Gingr do better than Plug N Play?
Scale and track record. Gingr publishes 5,000+ facilities on the platform and holds a SOC 2 Type II report. If a long reference list and a completed security audit are decision criteria, they have both today and we do not.
Can I move my data from Gingr to Plug N Play?
Yes — clients, animals, vaccine records, appointment history and open invoices. We do the import as part of setting you up, and you keep running on your current system until the new one is right.
How long does switching take?
Most businesses are taking real bookings within the first week. The 30-day trial exists so you can run both in parallel rather than jumping.
See your own business in it before you decide
We will set up a workspace with your clients and your schedule in it, free for 30 days, while you keep running on Gingr.