When it is their own animal, trust weighs more than price: how you handle a nervous one, who picks up in an emergency, how the appointment actually goes. That belongs on the site, not only in the conversation at the counter.
People search by animal and by need, not by category: breed, size, boarding over the holidays, neutering. A price by size and a slot this week decide the rest.
Out-of-hours cover is what people look for at the worst possible moment. Saying plainly what happens on a Sunday night, and who to ring, is remembered long after the price of a consultation is forgotten.
What happens if something goes wrong is what the owner wants to hear: the follow-up call, the aftercare, who to ring at the weekend. Saying it plainly is worth more than any promise about how much you love animals.
Every cat owner fears the same thing: a cat that stops eating. Bringing their own food, keeping usual times, watching the bowl and the tray, the point at which you telephone, when a vet is called and who pays decides more than any photograph of the suite.
For a territorial animal, whether cats see or smell each other is the real question. Separate pens with visual screening, whether neighbours are audible, private space per cat, keeping housemates together and how often it is cleaned and aired — separation, not square metres.
A holiday spent feeling guilty is not a holiday. How often a photograph or message arrives, whether you may call and at what hours, whether a camera exists and who answers a message at ten at night decides the second booking as much as the first.
Vaccination rules are where bookings fall apart the day before. Which vaccinations are required, how long before arrival, what happens with an indoor cat that has never had them, whether a flea treatment is checked and what documents to bring belongs in the booking flow.
What matters about your website isn't that it's pretty, but that it works: that's why we integrate online booking, rooms and care and photos and updates, so every visit has something clear to do and ends up a customer.
We work with the technology that best fits your cat hotel: WordPress, WooCommerce or bespoke development, always with a fast, secure and easy-to-manage website. We hand it over ready and, if you want, train you to run it yourself.
Reviews and your Google profile decide many visits to a cat hotel. We work your Google Business Profile, reviews and website SEO together, so when people search for you in your city, you appear — first and well rated.