A simpler Pet Sitter Plus alternative
Pet Sitter Plus is a long-standing pet care management system covering sitting, walking and multi-service businesses. PawLoop is a lighter, dog-walking-focused alternative for walkers who want the walks, the money and the paperwork in one place without a big setup.
Facts here about Pet Sitter Plus are limited to what they publish themselves, check petsitterplus.com for their current features and pricing.
Dog walking, not every pet service
Pet Sitter Plus is built to cover a broad range of pet care services and business sizes. That breadth is useful if you run visits, sitting, day care and walking across a large team.
PawLoop covers dog walks and dog boarding, and does those two things properly. Fewer settings to configure, fewer screens to learn, and defaults that match how a walker actually runs a week.
Set the weekly loop once
Recurring walks are the backbone. Create a loop for a client's dogs on their usual days and times and the calendar fills forward. Change a single day without unpicking the pattern, and group dogs walked together so the morning reads clearly.
Boarding sits on the same calendar, priced per night, and booking is boarding-aware so a dog already staying with you isn't double-charged for a walk during the stay.
Running the same week, faster
Onboarding walks you through your walk types, prices per dog and billing day, and you're working in minutes. New clients can fill in their own details and dogs through a private link you share by text or WhatsApp. You review and approve, and everything is created for you.
- Per-dog pricing with per-client overrides
- Client and dog profiles with vet, medical, feeding and behaviour notes
- Dog photos shown across the calendar and profiles
- Duplicate matching when an onboarding submission looks like an existing client
Invoicing, payments and paperwork
Invoices are generated from completed walks and stays, branded with your logo and emailed out. Marking an invoice paid marks every linked booking paid too. Payments tracking shows pending, due and paid at a glance, and reporting on Solo and Team plans shows revenue over time and by client.
Insurance certificates, licences, contracts and welcome packs live in the document hub and are shared with a client only when you choose.
Where we're not there yet
PawLoop is young software. There's no client booking app, no GPS tracking, no card collection from your clients in-product, and Xero bookkeeping is on the roadmap. Text messaging in the notification centre is on the roadmap too; email is live now.
The roadmap is public and our members vote on what comes next.
Start free, then a simple monthly price
No payment card required to start. Starter stays free forever for up to 10 clients, and Solo and Team are £18 and £25 a month.
What dog walkers say after moving their admin into PawLoop
Rated 5 out of 5 onTrustpilot
Running my business feels manageable again now
I'm a dog walker in Norwich who WAS seriously struggling with the amount of admin that comes with running a small business. Scheduling, invoicing, messaging customers... it was eating into my evenings, particularly at monthly invoicing time, and it was starting to affect how I felt about a job I otherwise absolutely love.
Then I found Pawloop and it has genuinely saved me!
The app is so easy to understand and really user-friendly. I can schedule all my walks into a clear diary, which my customers can also view, saving me even more time sending messages about their dog's walks. Then, when it comes to invoicing, it's pretty much done at the click of a button. It's saved me hours and hours of admin every month.
I'm also really impressed by the price. At £18 a month, it's affordable for a small dog walking business and worth every single penny (and more!) for the time it's given back to me.
Running my business feels manageable again now
I'm now back to spending my working day enjoying the dogs rather than thinking about the admin waiting for me at home, and, most importantly, my evenings can be spent actually being present with my family. You can't really put a price on that.
I've also loved being able to make a few suggestions about the app's functionality and seeing the Pawloop team listen and make updates incredibly quickly. It really feels like they're building the app alongside the people actually using it.
I've found this 100x easier and better than Peter Sitter Plus.
Thank you, Pawloop, you've made running my little business feel manageable again!
Very responsible to ideas and changes
Very responsible to ideas and changes, answered messages and emails quickly. Excellent tool to help me run our boarding and dog walking business, has cut done on my admin time considerably!
Start free, upgrade when you grow
Starter is free forever within its limits. Solo and Team add unlimited clients, reporting, the client portal and multi-walker scheduling.
For new dog walkers starting and organising their business.
- Up to 10 clients and 30 pets
- 100 bookings per month
- One-off and recurring walks
- Boarding, meet & greets and compliance tracking
- Invoices, billing and payment tracking
For established independent dog walkers running their business full time.
- Everything in Starter
- Unlimited clients, pets and bookings
- Private client portal
- Client notification centre and scheduled emails
- Complete revenue, expense and profit reporting
For growing dog-walking businesses with multiple walkers or staff.
- Everything in Solo
- Multiple walker and staff accounts
- Shared calendar and booking assignments
- Roles and module-level permissions
- Staff leave requests, approvals and cover
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