Billed from their start date
Whether you are going full time or replacing the group-chat-and-bank-transfer routine, here is what makes the difference.
Walk bookings, packages, pick-up and drop-off texts and payments in one place. Retire the WhatsApp threads, the calendar app and the payment chase.
No per-seat fees, no module unlocks, no hidden costs. Solo pricing that stays predictable when you bring on a second walker.
Location-verified check-ins exist because walkers asked us to prove the job was done. Lead notes, recall flags and route preferences live on each dog's profile, and every walk can carry photos and a report card the owner opens on their phone.

Scout
Walkers grow into home visits, pet sitting and daycare days. Each service category is individually designed, then unified, so your packages, prices and clients stay in one place.
Scout
45 min Walk
Ruby
Solo Walk
Maple
Home Visit
Bandit
Overnight Sitting
Pepper
Daycare
Your clients and dogs come across from spreadsheets, a notes app or whatever holds them today. Simulate Pet Owner shows exactly what owners will see when they book, before you go live.
Booking as Scout
Find an available time
Pay nothing today
Whether you walk solo or lead a pack, pick the plan that matches your stride.
For smaller walking businesses
AUD
Over $7,500
Best For
Professional dog walkers ready for automated scheduling, walk packages, and getting paid reliably.
“I'm chasing payments and spending my evenings texting clients. There has to be a better way.”
For busier walkers
AUD
Appointments
Best For
Walking businesses running more walks and sending more texts each month than Pro includes. Every feature, with more room.
“We're doing more walks every week. I want room for the volume without changing how we work.”
For walking businesses
AUD
Over $20,000
Best For
Dog walking companies with multiple walkers, fleet operations, and enterprise-level scheduling needs.
“My team needs a shared source of truth: who's walking which dogs, when, and where.”
Included on every plan
Every plan has every feature. Pick by how busy you are, and change any month.
Pet owners want to know their dog is being walked, where, and for how long. Petboost gives you GPS location proof and a geotagged photo map, automatically.
One-tap GPS location recording at start and finish. Timestamped proof of walk for complete pet owner transparency.
Walk photos auto-shared with pet owners, each pinned to a map with GPS coordinates. A visual photo map of the entire walk.



Weekly or fortnightly walk series that repeat automatically. Manage the full series when schedules change.
A free, SEO-optimised microsite with your services, pricing, and online booking. Branded with your colours.
Mobile Number
Every GPS check-in, checkout, and geotagged photo appears on an interactive map and timeline, giving pet owners complete proof of walk for every service.
Graziella · Dog Walk
Suzie · Bondi · 2:00-3:00 PM
Suzie arrived to start Graziella's walk
2:00 PMPhoto added
2:18 PMPhoto added
2:34 PMSuzie finished Graziella's walk
2:55 PM
2:18 PM
2:34 PMBundle different walk lengths into one prepaid package, set how many of each, and clients redeem them at their own pace. No more chasing individual walk payments.
Choose which services are included and how credits are allocated
Multi-service Package
This package includes multiple service types. Pet owners can choose which service to book each time they redeem a credit.
Credit Allocation
Shared pool
All services share one pool of credits
Per service
Each service gets its own capped credits
Pools
Each pool has a balance. A pool holds one or more services
Credits Per Service
1 Hour Walk
30 Min Walk
Pack Walk
Total credits in this package: 20
Vaccination certificate
Customers must provide vaccination certificates or titer test results for their pets
Define exactly which suburbs you service. Customers outside your area see the service is unavailable in their location. No wasted enquiries for areas you don't cover.
70%+ of bookings happen after hours. Customers see your real-time availability and book themselves. Automatic reminders, once you switch them on, cut the confirmation texts you send by hand.
Auto-finalise appointments
Generate the invoice and prepare for payment
Auto-pay invoices
Charge the card on file as soon as the invoice is finalised
Kiwi
1 Hour Walk
With Auto-pay invoices on, the card on file is charged once the invoice is finalised. Zero payment chasing. Works with or without packages. An expiring card is chased before it breaks the run.
Buddy's walk every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Petboost books the whole series, charges each walk, and keeps your weeks full without the back-and-forth.
End after
4
Stops
28 min
Drive time
8:00am - 11:45am
On the road
Buddy
Bondi
Luna
Bronte
Max
Coogee
Rosie
Clovelly
See every walk as a route. With the Trips Booster add-on (a paid add-on), Magic Optimise puts each group's pick-ups in drive order and keeps your walks in booked order unless you let it move them, and each stop shows its arrival window and hands off to Google Maps. Run the day from your phone.
A weekly walk does not have to fall over because one Tuesday at ten is already booked. Let visits move by a day or more and the series offers another free time that day first, then the days either side.
These aren't trivial feature differences. They're architectural advantages that solve real customer pain points.
Automate as much or as little as you want, from booking to payment. With customers booking for themselves, day or night, the admin looks after itself and your front desk stays calm. Customers book, confirm, pay, and get reminded without a single phone call.
Two modes for different workflows. Magic Availability Check handles availability-checked bookings with confidence. Quick Create gives you direct control to schedule without restrictions.
Get paid automatically with Auto-pay invoices. Built-in invoices branded with your logo, colours & ABN. Stripe Bank Feeds carry card payments into Xero for your bookkeeper to reconcile. We use Stripe under the hood to securely manage all payment processing.
Customers buy 10-walk bundles at 3am and redeem credits as they book. Lock in prepaid revenue.
Set precise limits for every kennel, play area, grooming station, and van, and online bookings never go past them.
Purpose-built for dog trainers. Not recurring appointments pretending to be courses.
Dozens of automated insights analyse your revenue, team, services, customers, and geography. Period-over-period comparisons, forecasting, and ready-to-use email templates.
Design Principle
Not mobile-friendly. Mobile-native. 100% feature parity across desktop, tablet, and phone. We even wrote custom drag-and-drop code for iPad.
When your team adds customer-facing notes or photos to a visit, the pet owner can open a visual report card with them, plus a gentle nudge to rebook and leave a Google review.


Suzie Walsh
at Hounds About Town






Graziella loved their time at Hounds About Town. Book their next private walk (solo or siblings)
Graziella has 3 visits left
Pet owners are prompted to leave a Google review, right when they feel most connected to your business.
How was Graziella's experience with Hounds About Town?
Report cards are included on every Petboost plan. Notes, photos, rebook prompts and a Google review prompt, built from what your team already records. Texting a card needs Communications Booster or Enterprise.
Trusted Industry Infrastructure
Powering businesses Australia-wide big & small
300+
pet businesses
500,000+
bookings processed
9
specialised business types
Shown at a regional level. Exact locations and counts are never disclosed.
Service areas are set per service, not once for the whole business, so a group walk and a private walk can cover different ground. An owner outside the area is told before they pick a time.
A credit comes off as the family books and the balance sits in their account. Credits stay there until they are used, and a household with two dogs draws on the same pack.
Owners set the pattern once from their phone, at nine at night if that is when they think of it, and the week fills without a single call back and forth.
The card on file is charged once the walk is finished and invoiced. You are never the person asking for money at a front door you are not standing at.
Walkers and sitters run the same kind of day: keys, a round of houses and an owner who wants to know it happened. Drop-ins, overnight stays and walks book on the same calendar.
A daily feed is a single recurring pattern, and every visit in it is still its own appointment, so a single day can move without touching the rest.
Create the service as a Stay and it books with a check-in date and time and a check-out date and time, the way a housesit runs.
Arrival and departure are recorded with their location, and your notes and photos show on the owner's booking.
Sell a fortnight of visits as a package paid at booking. Each visit draws a credit as it happens, so nobody comes home to a surprise invoice.
The note you already write once per business goes out on the confirmation and the reminder, so the new walker and the client both have it.
Pre-Appointment Message
Also add to confirmation and reminder texts
Adds this message to the booking confirmation SMS and each reminder SMS. A longer text uses more credits, one per segment.
Yes, see you Tuesday
Need to cancel Thursday
Reminder: Charlie is booked tomorrow at 7:30am
Forty reminder replies on a Sunday night. The confirmations are already read, the two cancels are starred.
A walking membership counts three walks a week. The trouble has always been the client who joins on a Wednesday: either they wait until Monday to start, or their week runs out of step with everyone else on the round. Set the plan to a fixed benefit week and neither happens.
When do they pay and refresh?
On their start date
Whatever start date you pick becomes their pay and refresh day, and it defaults to today. Everyone ends up on their own day.
Fixed day of week
Everyone pays and refreshes on the same weekday. Someone who joins mid-week can start straight away by paying only for the days until the next one.
Fixed benefit week, billed from their start date
Everyone counts included uses over the same shared week. Billing still runs from their own start date, so nobody waits to join.
Which day?
Every beach, every park, every puddle. Walk photos are collected into a GPS photo map pet owners browse any time. The interactive map shows the exact spot each photo was taken, creating a complete proof of walk.


Suzie Walsh
at Hounds About Town





Every photo from every appointment, organised by date. Favourite the best ones, filter by pet, and relive every session.
2:18 PM
2:34 PMSee exactly where each photo was taken. Every walk, every park, every beach, pinned on an interactive map with the actual photo as the marker.
Pet owners trust you with their dogs every day. Petboost helps you turn that trust into Google reviews with a personalised message your team sends right after each walk.
A quick Google review helps Hound Health Bondi and other pet owners find great care.
Leave a Google ReviewA suggested review will be copied to your clipboard
Pro tip: Dog walking clients interact with you daily, building deep trust. Ask every client, right after their walk.
Listen to the 10 episodes curated for your business.
Ep 8 Walking the Walk: Mobile Business Operations
GPS check-in and checkout, route management, and multi-dog capacity for mobile dog walkers.
Ep 38 The Dog Walker's Dashboard
Route planning, check-in photos, and getting paid between walks. The mobile-first experience.
Ep 1 I Just Want to Look After Dogs
You got into this for the animals, not the admin. Em and Pat unpack why every pet business owner hits the same wall, and what the research says about the real daily experience.
Ep 3 The 3am Booking
Over 70% of bookings happen after hours. Your booking system should work while you sleep.
Ep 27 Recurring Bookings and the Power of Predictability
How regulars become revenue you can plan around. Recurring series and conflict resolution.
Ep 16 Getting Paid Without Asking
The psychology and mechanics of automatic payments. Card-on-file, pre-auth, auto-charge, and recovery.
Ep 21 The SMS That Saves You 10 Hours a Week
Confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups you never have to send manually.
Ep 26 Pet Profiles: 2,000 Tags and Why They Matter
Notes that follow the pet, not the notebook. Behavioural notes, vaccination tracking, and grooming preferences.
Ep 37 50% Self-Service: What Happens When Clients Book Themselves
Your phone stops ringing but your calendar fills up. Season 4 opener.
Ep 14 The Review That Changed Everything
How to systematically ask every client for a Google review, with 110 templates.