Comparison
A facility-oriented platform built primarily around boarding, daycare and grooming at a physical location. Kip is built around mobile grooming, includes every feature on every plan, and prices per business rather than per van, per location or per user. Here's how the two compare.
| Kip | Gingr | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $49/mo billed annually | $109/mo per location |
| Top published price | $99/mo billed annually | $209/mo per location |
| Charged per | Business — unlimited vans on Team | Per location |
| Messaging | Unlimited on every plan | Two-way SMS sold as a separate add-on |
| Built for | Grooming businesses, mobile first — one van to a fleet | A facility-oriented platform built primarily around boarding, daycare and grooming at a physical location |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | See their site |
Sources: Gingr on Capterra · Gingr vs DaySmart on G2
The real differences
Gingr
Facility operations — kennels, runs, daycare groups and a front desk.
Kip
The van. Routes, drive time, service zones and a native field app are the core of the product, not an add-on to a facility system.
Gingr
Payment processing, two-way SMS and employee scheduling are priced separately from the base plan.
Kip
Every feature is in the price. There is no add-on menu.
Gingr
Per location.
Kip
Per business, on the number of vans — and unlimited vans on Team.
Included in every plan
No add-on menu and no premium tier holding features back. These come with Solo and Team alike.
If you do move
Export your clients from Gingr, import them into Kip, and look at the result before it's permanent. If it isn't right, one action rolls the entire import back — and you can keep Gingr running alongside Kip until you're genuinely ready to stop.
Map your columns once. Kip parses the file, matches households and shows you what it's about to create before it creates anything.
Kip finds the same client and the same dog arriving twice and merges them as part of the import rather than leaving you a mess.
If the import isn't right, undo the entire thing and try again. Not a partial cleanup — the whole import, reversed.
Click through a fully populated Kip with a sample business before you put a single real client in it.
Keep both running while you build confidence. Kip is designed for the overlap rather than demanding a clean break.
Services priced, hours set, zones drawn, booking link live, payments connected. Kip tracks it and tells you what's left.
Concierge migration is free on every plan — we'll do the import for you.
Kip's pricing
2 months free when you pay annually
Solo
One groomer, one van or salon
Billed annually · $588/year
The whole product — nothing held back for a higher tier.
Team
Two or more vans, a salon team, or any staff
Billed annually · $1,188/year
Unlimited vans. Unlimited staff. Still one flat price.
Multi-location
Several locations or a large fleet
Priced on your locations and fleet
Custom pricing, hands-on migration, a named contact.
14-day free trial · No credit card to start · No contract, cancel any time