Recurring Scheduling for dog walkers
Set it once. Walk it every week.
- Set each pet's pattern once and PawLoop generates every future booking for you, with no copy-pasting into a calendar.
- Run a loop every week, every 2 weeks or once a month on the date or weekday that matches how the client actually books.
- Skip or move a single day for a bank holiday or a client's holiday and the rest of the series carries on untouched.
The vast majority of a professional dog walker's diary is the same handful of dogs on the same handful of days. Generic booking apps treat every walk as a one-off, which means rebuilding your week from scratch every week. PawLoop's recurring engine flips that around: you define each pet's pattern once and PawLoop projects the bookings ahead for you.
Loops can run weekly, fortnightly or monthly, with the start time, duration, price, team member and an optional end date all set on the loop itself. Skip a day, move a slot, pause for a holiday or bulk pause several loops at once, and the series carries on intelligently around it. You can see as far ahead as you want, with a booking window you control, so capacity problems show up long before they bite.
Key takeaways
What Recurring Scheduling does for your business
Weekly templates in seconds
Pick the days, times and dogs once. PawLoop generates every future booking automatically. No copy-pasting into a calendar.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly
Pick every week, every 2 weeks, or once a month on the date or weekday you choose. The client's real pattern, not a weekly-only compromise.
Smart series, flexible dates
Skip a Tuesday for a bank holiday or a client's holiday without breaking the recurring pattern. The series carries on the following week.
Always weeks ahead
See exactly what your business looks like for the next quarter and spot capacity issues before they bite.
Why recurring-first matters
Recurring schedules aren't a feature bolted on top of a calendar. They're the way most dog walking businesses actually run. PawLoop models recurring bookings as first-class objects, so a Tuesday 11am walk for Bailey is a series, not 52 individual events. When something changes, you change the series, or just one occurrence, and everything stays in sync.
Weekly templates per dog
Each dog has its own weekly template: which days, which time windows, which walk type, which price. Walking three dogs from the same household? They can share a template or have their own. Onboarding a new client takes under a minute.
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly, whichever fits the client
Not every regular is a weekly regular. Choose every week and the days you tick run every single week. Choose every 2 weeks and the same days run every other week, which is how a lot of dog walking and day care clients actually book. Choose every month and the walk runs once a month on a date or a weekday you pick, such as the last Friday. Set the start time and duration, the date of the first walk, an optional end date and a label, and PawLoop shows the pattern in plain English along with the per-walk price and the weekly value before you save.
Holidays, bank holidays and exceptions
Real life happens. PawLoop lets you skip a single occurrence, pause a series for a client's two-week holiday, or block out a bank holiday across your whole calendar. Without breaking the underlying pattern. The series resumes automatically.
Always weeks ahead
PawLoop rolls forward a twelve-week horizon by default, and you can set the window anywhere from four weeks to a full year. You can see capacity issues before they happen, plan time off, and give clients confident answers about future availability.
Recurring Scheduling questions, answered
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