Dog Walker Software Built for UK Businesses

The calendar is built for walkers, not hairdressers. Day view runs your morning like a tight little route sheet — addresses, dogs, durations and payment status — with big tap targets for a phone in a wet coat pocket. Week view zooms out so you can spot a Thursday-afternoon gap or an overloaded Tuesday before you commit to a new booking.

Drag a walk to a new slot when a customer cancels at 7am and the dog, price and notes all move with it. Block out school runs and your own time off so the dog walker software never double-books you against real life.

Most of a professional dog walker's diary is the same handful of dogs on the same handful of days. PawLoop models recurring bookings as first-class series, not 52 copy-pasted events. Define each dog's weekly template once — days, time windows, walk type, price — and the system projects twelve weeks of bookings ahead.

Skip a bank holiday, pause for a customer's two-week holiday, move a single occurrence — the underlying pattern stays intact and resumes automatically. This is the reason most walkers eventually outgrow spreadsheets.

One profile per household with everything you actually use on a walk: address, access notes (key codes, alarm sequences, side-gate quirks), preferred contact method, billing details, vet contact, emergency contact and your onboarding notes. The information that usually lives in a five-month-old WhatsApp thread.

Every walk and every payment is on the customer's profile, searchable and sortable — so "when did you last walk Bailey?" or "have I been paid for March?" takes seconds, not an evening.

Breed, age, temperament, recall notes, lead and harness preferences, feeding, medication, allergies and the things that only matter to the person actually walking them. Photos so a new walker recognises the right dog at the door.

Multi-dog households link to one customer record but each dog keeps its own profile — exactly how packs, pricing and care notes actually work in practice.

See at a glance who's paid, who's overdue and what's outstanding this month. Issue monthly invoices, handle partial payments, and stop trying to remember which customer pays bank transfer and which one always sends cash on a Friday.

For teams, walker payouts are tracked alongside customer payments so you always know who's owed what at the end of the month.

Connect Xero once via OAuth. From then on, every paid walk in PawLoop flows into Xero as a sales line against the right customer contact, with the right account code and tax rate. Invoices issued from PawLoop appear in Xero with a click. No double entry. No reconciliation marathon at month end.

Full detail on the Xero integration page.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax requires self-employed UK dog walkers above the income threshold to keep digital records and submit quarterly updates to HMRC through approved software. The threshold reaches £20,000 by 2028 — most full-time walkers will be in scope.

Because PawLoop logs every walk as a time-stamped digital record and syncs it to Xero (an HMRC-recognised MTD-compatible provider), your quarterly submission is a matter of minutes, not a weekend hunched over receipts.

The Starter and Solo plans are sized for one-person operations. Recurring schedules, customer and dog records, payment tracking and — from Solo upwards — Xero and Making Tax Digital. Everything a self-employed walker needs without the feature bloat of multi-branch field-service tools.

The Team plan adds multi-walker scheduling, per-walker assignments, role-based access and per-staff pricing (£9 per active staff member). Coordinate routes, share customers, keep payouts tidy and let each walker run their own day on their own phone — without losing the central view of the business.

Built and supported in the UK. GBP throughout, UK date formats, UK bank holidays pre-loaded, Xero UK chart of accounts, Making Tax Digital alignment, GDPR-aware data handling and customer records that fit how British households actually share a dog. The dog walker software you'd build for yourself if you walked dogs in Cheshire, Cornwall or Camden.