What is day training?

Day training, or day school, is when an owner drops their dog off in the morning, the trainer runs short training sessions through the day, and the owner picks up in the evening. The dog goes home every night, unlike a board and train stay.

How is day training different from board & train in HeelYeah?

Board & train is a continuous multi-day residential program with a structured intake and nightly summaries. Day training is a per-day service with its own roster, daily capacity per trainer, recurring bookings, and an end-of-day report card. They are separate modules, and you can run both.

Can owners see how the day went?

Yes. As you log updates through the day, the owner's report card updates live in their own portal. There is no share step and no texting. You can also generate an AI end-of-day summary and review it before the owner sees it.

Can clients book day training themselves?

Only if you turn it on. Client self-booking is off by default; when enabled, clients request a day and the request is checked against your daily capacity before it is accepted.

How does billing work for day training?

When you complete a day, HeelYeah! either generates a per-day invoice (including a late-pickup fee if one applies) or draws the day down from a prepaid package. Invoices are paid through Stripe from the client's portal.

Day training software

From drop-off to report card

The owner drops off in the morning, you run mini-sessions all day, they pick up at five. HeelYeah! keeps the roster and your capacity, turns quick logs into a report card the owner watches live, and bills the day when it's done.

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The day training roster beside a dog's shared day report: skill progress, homework for the owner, a care log and photos from the day

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You're Riley, with four dogs in and no spare minutes. Tap what happened with Luna today and watch Casey's report card fill in on her phone, live.

LunaMon, Sep 21 · checked in 8:05 AM

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Luna's dayMon, Sep 21 · with Riley

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Training

Loose-leash walkingBig win
Place · down-stayProgressing
Door mannersKeep practising

Care

LunchAte it all
Nap1:15 – 2:30, crate
MedsApoquel with lunch ✓

Built for the way a day school runs

Day training isn't a long 1:1 or a short board & train stay. It gets its own roster, its own capacity and its own report card. Here's one day of it.

8:00
Drop-off
The roster knows who's coming.
Every dog booked in today, with feeding and medication notes already on their profile. Check them in at drop-off, or mark a no-show.
Capacity per trainer
10:00
Through the day
Log it as it happens.
Quick taps between mini-sessions. The owner's report card updates in their portal in real time: no share step, no photo dump over text.
Live report card
3:30
End of day
The AI drafts, you decide.
Turn the day's logs into a summary of what you worked on and how it went. You review and edit it before the owner sees it.
Fetch and up
5:00
Pickup
Check out, with late fees handled.
Check the dog out at pickup. If they run past your cutoff, a late fee line is added when you've configured one.
Late fees
5:01
Billing
The day bills itself.
Complete a day and it invoices through Stripe, or draws down from a package the client already bought.
Invoice or package
Next week
The series
Recurring days, set once.
"Every Tuesday and Thursday" is one setup. Pause it for a vacation, edit it when the schedule shifts, or cancel the rest in one move.
Recurring series

Set how many dogs a day can hold, with a per-trainer override. Once a day is full it stops taking bookings instead of quietly overfilling. Cancel a single booking or clear a whole day at once.

Day training questions

Day training, or day school, is when an owner drops their dog off in the morning, you run short training sessions through the day, and they pick up in the evening. The dog sleeps at home. It is different from a 1:1 lesson with the owner present, and different again from a residential board & train stay.

Board & train is a continuous multi-day program with a structured intake, day-by-day journal logs, and nightly AI program summaries. Day training is per-day: its own roster, its own daily capacity per trainer, recurring bookings, and an end-of-day report card. They're separate modules and plenty of trainers run both.

Yes, and they don't have to wait for it. As you log updates, the report card in the owner's portal updates live. At the end of the day you can generate an AI summary of the day's work, and you review and edit it before the owner sees it.

Only if you turn it on. Client self-booking is off by default. When it's on, a client requests a day and the request is checked against your daily capacity before it's taken.

When you complete a day, HeelYeah! either raises a per-day invoice, including a late-pickup fee if one applies, or takes the day off a package the client already bought. Invoices are paid by Stripe from the client's portal.

HeelYeah! has five named tiers: Free ($0/month), Sit ($9.99/month), Fetch ($49/month), Heel ($99/month, the most popular tier), and Franchise (custom pricing). Day training is included from Fetch upward, AI end-of-day summaries included.