The pet parent shopping at 11pm isn't going to call you tomorrow.

Independent pet stores run a wider spread of systems than almost any other vertical: purpose-built pet retail POS, general retail platforms, and grooming, boarding and daycare software with a retail module bolted on. Here is what our October 2026 research found in use at US pet stores, and where Zachcart stands with each.

Two things stand out in that list. First, about a third of the systems pet stores run were built for services — grooming, boarding, daycare — and sell retail as a sideline. If you ring up food and treats through grooming software, your inventory records are usually thinner than a retail POS would keep, and that is exactly what a Google feed needs: item, count, price. We can still publish from these systems, but the first step is a short check of how your products are set up. Second, only two systems on the list appear on Google's free local inventory list — Lightspeed and the pet specialist eTailPet — and vendor-native delivery connectors are rare: FTx POS reports a DoorDash connection, and the rest are unconfirmed. Three of the 29 are already connected to Zachcart (Celerant, Lightspeed Retail and NCR Counterpoint, the three the directory lists for pet). For most pet stores, the register is not going to put the shelf online by itself. That is the gap Zachcart closes, whichever row you're in.