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Service-level supply policy overview

Understand when to limit boarding or daycare intake, what counts toward a limit, and how service limits differ from lodging capacity.

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A service-level supply policy controls how many pets you accept for selected boarding or daycare services at one location. Choose a fixed pet count, a percentage of eligible capacity, or No limit, then choose the applicable dates. The rules apply to staff bookings and customer Online Booking. Add-ons are not included.

Your facility may have enough space for more pets than your team can comfortably care for that day. For example, you may want to accept fewer daycare pets during a weekend with fewer staff. A supply policy lets you set that operating limit for the affected services and dates.

When to use a service limit

For example, your daycare area has space for 30 dogs, but fewer staff are scheduled over the next two weekends. You decide your team can care for up to 20 dogs each day.

Set a 20-pet limit for Group Daycare on those Saturdays and Sundays at that location. The area's physical capacity stays the same, while the service limit reflects how many dogs you want to accept on those days.

Your situation

Example policy

What it means

Fewer staff over the next two weekends

Limit Group Daycare at one location to 20 pets on the selected Saturdays and Sundays

The limit applies separately to each selected day. This rule does not change weekday limits or another location's rules.

A busy holiday boarding period

Limit Standard Boarding to 20 pets per night during the holiday period

Each applicable night has its own limit. This is not a total allowance of 20 pets across the entire holiday.

A staff training day

Set Maximum pets to 0 for Daycare on that date

The rule stops normal new intake for the selected services and dates. Existing bookings remain, and staff may be able to proceed after a capacity warning.

These numbers are examples, not recommended limits or product defaults. Choose limits based on your own operating needs; MoeGo does not calculate them from your staffing schedule.

Choose how to limit supply

Supply limit

Use it when

Maximum pets

You want a fixed pet count, such as 20 Group Daycare pets per day. Set it to 0 to stop normal new intake for the selected services and dates.

% of capacity

You want a limit based on the total capacity of lodgings the selected services can use. Choose 100%, 125% or 150%.

No limit

You do not want a service supply limit for that scope. The facility-wide pet limit still applies; this option does not turn off every booking check.

Example: if the eligible lodging capacity is 40, a 125% rule gives a supply threshold of 50. This does not create 10 extra physical spaces or remove the facility-wide pet limit. The percentage is based on eligible lodging capacity, not on a Maximum pets rule.

How It Works

A policy matches the date of the service or boarding night. The date when the client submits the request does not determine which policy applies. A request made in September for a December stay is evaluated against the applicable December rules.

Scheduled appointments and valid pending booking requests count toward used supply. For a simple example with separate pets and one daycare service:

Demand for the same service and day

Pets

Scheduled appointments

16

Valid pending booking requests

3

Proposed new appointment

2

Projected total

21

Applicable limit

20

The proposed appointment would put the service one pet over its limit, even though only 16 pets currently appear in scheduled appointments.

For boarding, each applicable night is checked separately. Space on one night does not offset a full night elsewhere in the stay. Recurring bookings are checked occurrence by occurrence.

When no special policy applies, supply comes from the configured resources and their service relationships. The service is not automatically unlimited.

How service limits compare with other capacity controls

Control

What it manages

Example

Lodging or area capacity

The configured capacity of physical spaces

How many pets an eligible room or area can accommodate

Facility-wide pet limit

The overall pet limit for a location

The location's total operating ceiling

Service-level supply policy

Intake for selected services on selected dates at one location

A temporary 20-pet Group Daycare limit on weekends

An empty room does not guarantee that a service can accept another pet. A service limit does not override the facility-wide pet limit, even if it is set to No limit or to a higher number. Spare facility capacity does not increase a service’s own limit. Staff workflows may allow continuation after a warning, so these limits should not be treated as impossible to exceed.

What happens to existing bookings

Saving or lowering a limit does not automatically cancel appointments or move pets to different lodgings.

For example, if 25 pets are already booked and you lower the applicable limit to 20, those bookings remain. Subsequent intake is evaluated against the new limit. Review any additional booking carefully rather than expecting MoeGo to remove five existing pets.

What clients experience when booking online

Supply control provides shared settings for staff bookings and customer Online Booking. Submitting a request and accepting an appointment are separate steps; review the latest capacity warning before confirming a request.

When a boarding or daycare service reaches its supply limit, customers can submit a waitlist request if Allow waitlist sign-ups is enabled and the requested dates are selectable. Joining the waitlist does not guarantee acceptance.

Existing Online Booking percentage limits, No capacity limitation settings and active capacity overrides move into Supply control. See the migration mapping and setup steps.

Common questions

Q: Can these rules limit add-ons?

A: No. They apply to boarding and daycare services, not add-ons.

Q: Can I push rules to every location from Enterprise Hub?

A: No. Configure supply rules locally at each location. Enterprise Hub pushdown is not supported.

Q: Can my business also use By Slot Points?

A: Yes. By Slot Points manages points-based grooming scheduling, while Service-Level Supply manages boarding and daycare capacity. The two calculations operate independently.

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