Custom animal registration app for pet shops
A pet shop has to keep a record of its animals: origin, arrival, care and sale. The register sits in the office, but the work happens with the animals. Appfront builds an app for staff in the shop, so arrival, care, illness and sales are recorded on the spot, and the register is always accurate.
What is an animal registration app for pet shops?
Anyone who keeps and sells companion animals commercially must have their premises registered with RVO and keep a record of their animals, under the Decree on Animal Keepers. At the point of sale, the seller provides written information about care, and the buyer must be at least 16 years old. The register itself is covered on our page about animal registration software.
The work happens in the shop. A delivery arrives and is entered in the register later, if someone remembers. Fish, bird and rodent care gets done but is not recorded. A sick or dead animal is reported verbally. And at the point of sale, a member of staff pieces together the right information for the buyer. During an inspection, or when a buyer comes back with a question, it turns out the register doesn't match what happened in the shop.
A staff app removes that problem. We build custom software because shops differ: which species, individual or group records, which till system, and how care is organised. Which data is mandatory per species follows from the rules that apply to your shop.
Recorded at the animal
Arrival, care and health as they happen.
Care per round
Ticked off per enclosure, with who and when.
Complete sales
With the buyer's information included.
How we build your animal registration app for pet shops
We start in your shop: which species, how animals arrive, how care is organised, and how sales work. We often begin with arrival and care, because that is where the register most often falls behind. Till integration and health alerts follow once the first version is running well.
Species, enclosures and care.
What staff need at the animals.
With the animal register and the till.
Going live, and updating when rules change.
What an animal registration app for pet shops actually does
The components below feature in almost every animal registration app. Which ones you need depends on your species.
Arrival
With origin and supplier.
Enclosures
Per tank, cage or aquarium.
Care
Rounds ticked off.
Health
Illness and mortality with photo.
Sales
Information for the buyer.
Register
Always up to date.
Who we build an animal registration app for pet shops for
The app is intended for shops selling live animals. The more species and staff, the more the app delivers.
Pet shops
Many species. An accurate register matters most.
Garden centres
An animal section alongside the rest. Changing staff.
Aquarium specialists
Groups per tank. Care is the core.
Chains
Multiple shops. One way of working matters.
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This page is about an app for the shop floor. For the register in the office, see our page on animal registration software for a pet shop, for the till, our page on till software, and for animal care in general, our page on animal care software. You can read about our approach at getting an app built.
Why Appfront for your animal registration app for pet shops?
A register that lags behind the shop, and care that happens but is written down nowhere, make an inspection tense and a buyer's question awkward. That is what we build against: recorded per animal, care per round, and a sale with the information attached.
Register is accurate
What happens is written down.
Demonstrably cared for
Every round recorded.
Buyer informed
The right information attached.
Security and privacy for an animal registration app in the pet shop
The app holds data on animals, suppliers and buyers. Access is set up by role, and every registration is logged with the time and the employee's name.
The app also works without signal in the warehouse, and sends everything as soon as there is a connection. The data is stored in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily back-ups. We record the processing in a data processing agreement.
Frequently asked questions about an animal registration app for pet shops
Questions pet shops ask before getting started with this.
It lets shop staff record what happens to the animals: arrival with origin, care per round, illness and death, and sale. Everything goes straight into the animal register, so the register matches the shop.
The software is the register in the office, with the reports for an inspection. This app is for the staff member with the animals, so the register is filled in the moment something happens.
Under the Besluit houders van dieren (Animal Keepers Decree), a commercial premises must be registered with RVO (the Netherlands Enterprise Agency) and keep a record of its animals. On sale, the buyer receives written information, and the buyer must be at least 16 years old. Which details exactly depends on the species.
Yes. You register dogs and cats individually, while fish, birds and rodents are often registered by group or by enclosure. The app handles both.
The employee selects the animal or group, the app shows the information for the buyer and asks for age where required. The sale comes through the till and the animal leaves the stock on hand.
Yes. In a warehouse or behind the shop, signal is not always good. The app keeps working and sends everything as soon as there is a connection.
Check that first. A till records the sale, but usually not the origin, care and health per animal. Custom development makes sense if you want to record that without extra paperwork.
Keep the animal register up to date at the moment itself?
Tell us which animals you sell, how arrival and care are recorded now, and which till you use. We will show you how the app looks.