Best Zoo Software

ZooEasy is animal administration software aimed at improving breeding results, available to breeders and organisations working with all kinds of animal species, published in English and Dutch with a free 30 day trial and both yearly and monthly billing.

Focusing on breeding rather than on collection management is what distinguishes this from the zoo software most people expect, and it addresses a genuinely technical problem.

Breeding decisions depend on pedigree analysis, and pedigree analysis is unforgiving arithmetic that people do badly by intuition. The central question is relatedness: how closely two candidate animals are related through every path in their shared ancestry, not just the obvious ones. Two animals with no common parent or grandparent can still be substantially related through repeated ancestors further back, and that is invisible without calculation.

Getting it wrong has consequences that appear generations later as reduced fertility, higher juvenile mortality and expressed genetic defects, by which point the affected animals exist and the decisions that produced them cannot be undone.

For small populations, which describes most conservation breeding programmes and many rare breed registries, managing relatedness across the whole population rather than pair by pair is the entire discipline. A programme that optimises each pairing individually will still lose genetic diversity if the same successful lines dominate.

Supporting all species rather than specialising matters for organisations holding mixed collections, and for breed societies whose data structure is the same regardless of what animal it describes.

Publishing in Dutch alongside English reflects a European base, which is relevant since pedigree registries and breed societies are strongly national in structure.

Pricing is published with yearly and monthly options and a free 30 day trial, with published figures around GBP 5,04 and GBP 16,96 written in European decimal notation, and subscriptions cancellable at any time.

ROLLER is venue management software for attractions, published as an all-in-one solution covering online and in-venue selling, ticketing, point of sale, memberships, waivers and guest experience, aimed at growing attraction businesses.

Digital waivers appearing alongside ticketing is the detail that identifies the intended venues, and it is more consequential than it sounds.

Trampoline parks, climbing centres, adventure attractions and similar venues require every participant to sign a liability waiver, and doing that on paper at the door is the single worst point in the operation. Families arrive, queue, complete forms on clipboards for each child, and the entry point congests at exactly the busiest moments. The waiver is also the document that matters most if an injury occurs, and paper forms are frequently illegible, incomplete or unfindable a year later when they are needed.

Collecting waivers online at booking removes the queue entirely and produces a searchable record tied to the visit, which is both an operational improvement and a genuine risk management one.

Memberships as a first-class capability reflects how these venues actually make money. Attraction economics depend heavily on repeat visits, and converting a family who visited once into an annual pass holder changes the revenue per household substantially while also smoothing the cash flow that seasonality otherwise makes difficult.

Combining online and in-venue selling in one system addresses the reconciliation problem that separate systems create, where a venue cannot easily tell whether capacity was sold online or at the door, and cannot manage capacity limits across both.

Pricing is published on a pricing strategy page but no figure was captured, so confirm current rates with the vendor.

Aluvii is amusement and attraction management software covering point of sale, self-service kiosks, ticketing and tours, published across adventure parks, amusement parks, aqua parks, fun centres, indoor playgrounds, ski resorts, trampoline parks, water parks, zoos and aquariums, with hardware and payments offered alongside the software.

Supplying hardware and payments together with the software is the operationally significant choice, and it reflects what these venues actually need.

An attraction is a physical retail environment with unusual demands. Ticket windows, kiosks, food outlets, gift shops and gate scanners all need equipment that works outdoors or in wet conditions, survives being handled by seasonal staff, and keeps operating on the busiest day of the year when failure is most expensive. Software procured separately from hardware leaves the venue integrating both and being told by each supplier that the problem belongs to the other.

Self-service kiosks address the specific economics of attraction staffing. Admissions demand is extremely peaked, with most of a day's entries arriving within a couple of hours, and staffing for that peak means paying people to stand idle for the rest of the day. Kiosks absorb the peak without the payroll, which is a direct and calculable saving rather than a convenience.

The breadth of venue types shares one underlying model: timed or dated admission, capacity limits, add-on purchases and repeat visitation. A zoo and a trampoline park differ enormously in experience and barely at all in what the software must do.

Payments being part of the offering matters because attraction transactions are numerous and small, so processing rates materially affect margin, and a venue negotiating separately usually has less leverage than a platform aggregating many venues.

Pricing is not published, which is normal where hardware, software and payment processing are quoted together.

Vantix provides ticketing systems for attractions covering online ticketing, self-serve kiosks and other sales methods, with built-in reporting, pricing, scheduling and facilities management, published as covering everything from base configuration through day-to-day operations.

Including facilities management alongside ticketing is the unusual combination and it reflects how these venues are actually run.

An attraction is not only a place that sells admission. It operates rooms, spaces, equipment and staff that need scheduling, and much of its revenue comes from things that are booked rather than ticketed: function rooms, education sessions, birthday parties, group visits, venue hire and behind-the-scenes experiences.

Those bookings compete for the same physical resources as general admission. A room booked for a corporate event cannot host a school group, and an education officer scheduled for one session cannot take another. Managing that in a separate system from ticketing means double bookings, and double bookings at an attraction are discovered when two groups arrive.

Pricing as a built-in feature rather than a configuration detail is worth noting, because attraction pricing is genuinely complicated. Rates vary by age band, by concession status, by day of week, by season, by advance purchase, by group size and by member status, and combinations of those apply simultaneously. Software treating price as a fixed attribute of a ticket type cannot express that, and venues end up with dozens of near-duplicate ticket types that make reporting meaningless.

Covering base configuration through daily operations acknowledges that these systems are configured for a specific venue rather than installed, and that the configuration is where most of the implementation effort goes.

Pricing is not published.

Centaman is attraction management software published as an all-in-one platform covering ticketing, self-service kiosks, customer engagement, membership CRM, food and beverage point of sale, retail point of sale, access control, reporting and business intelligence, with an API for integrations.

Publishing membership CRM as distinct from ticketing is the structural detail that matters most for zoos and museums specifically, because their commercial model differs from a pay-per-visit attraction in ways the software has to reflect.

A zoo derives a substantial and often dominant share of revenue from members rather than day visitors, and a member is a fundamentally different relationship from a ticket buyer. They renew annually, visit repeatedly, may donate separately, might attend member events, and frequently hold a family or household membership covering people who arrive in varying combinations.

Ticketing software treats each entry as a transaction, which describes a day visitor accurately and a member badly. Membership needs renewal cycles, lapse handling, household relationships, benefit entitlements and a communication history, which is customer relationship management rather than retail.

Getting renewals right is the commercially decisive part. A membership base that renews at eighty percent versus seventy percent is a materially different business, and renewal depends on knowing who is lapsing before they lapse, which requires the visit and communication history to sit alongside the membership record.

Access control connected to that record is what makes membership work at the gate, since a member should enter on their card without a transaction while their visit is still recorded, which is precisely the data that predicts renewal.

Food and beverage and retail point of sale in the same platform matter because secondary spend is where attractions make their margin, and knowing what a visitor spent beyond admission requires those transactions to attach to the same visit.

Pricing is not published.