Xero Integration for dog walkers
Make Making Tax Digital the easy bit.
- PawLoop already keeps a digital, time-stamped record of every walk, payment and invoice, which is exactly what Making Tax Digital asks you to hold.
- When the sync lands, every paid walk flows into Xero as a categorised sales line against the right client contact, with no double entry.
- Xero is included on Solo and Team, not locked behind a top tier the way most pet business platforms do it.
PawLoop → Xero
Synced 2 minutes ago
Cooper · Group walk
Pushed to Xero · Sales
Bailey · Solo walk
Pushed to Xero · Sales
Luna & Milo · Group
Pushed to Xero · Sales
Patel household · Mar invoice
Pushed to Xero · Sales
This quarter · MTD ready
£8,420.00
142 walks · 28 clients
If you walk dogs for a living in the UK, Making Tax Digital (MTD) is coming for you. From April 2026 sole traders earning over £50,000 must keep digital records and submit quarterly updates to HMRC through MTD-compatible software, and the threshold drops to £30,000 in 2027 and £20,000 in 2028. Cash books, paper diaries and sorting it all out at year-end stop being enough.
PawLoop already gives you the foundation. Every walk you log becomes a digital, time-stamped record with the client, dog, date, price and payment status attached, and your reporting shows income by period, client and service. The Xero sync, which pushes those records into your books as categorised sales lines and sends your PawLoop invoices across too, is on the roadmap and will be included on the Solo and Team plans.
Key takeaways
What Xero Integration does for your business
Digital records from day one
PawLoop keeps a time-stamped digital record of every walk, payment and invoice today, so when MTD for Income Tax applies to you, the hard part is already done.
Walk income straight into Xero
Once the sync is live, every paid walk will flow to your Xero account as a clean line item against the right client. No manual entry.
Quarterly submissions in minutes
With your income categorised in Xero, filing your quarterly MTD updates to HMRC takes minutes, not a weekend hunched over spreadsheets.
Included, not upsold
Most competitors gate accounting integrations behind their top tier. Xero will be included on Solo, the plan most independent walkers are on.
What Making Tax Digital means for dog walkers
MTD for Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA) requires self-employed dog walkers above the income threshold to keep digital records of every transaction and submit quarterly updates to HMRC using approved software. Cash books, paper diaries and 'I'll sort it at year-end' all stop being enough. PawLoop logs every walk as a digital record at the moment it happens, with the client, dog, date, time, price and payment status, exactly the data HMRC needs.
What you can do in PawLoop today
Right now, PawLoop tracks every walk, boarding stay, invoice and payment as a complete digital record. Your reporting dashboard shows income by period, client and walk type. That's already a far cleaner set of records than a notebook or a spreadsheet, and it's the same data the Xero sync will use.
How the Xero sync will work
You'll connect your Xero account once via OAuth. From then on, every paid walk in PawLoop flows into Xero as a sales line against the correct client contact, with the right account code and tax rate. Invoices issued from PawLoop appear in Xero too. No double entry, no manual reconciliation.
Included on Solo, not locked behind a top tier
Most pet business platforms put accounting integrations on their most expensive plan. PawLoop includes Xero on Solo. The plan most independent walkers will be on. Because Making Tax Digital isn't optional and shouldn't be an upsell.
Xero Integration questions, answered
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