Sitting is trust, and trust is mostly record keeping.
You are handed keys, alarm codes and animals by people who are about to be a long way away. The business that keeps those clients is the one whose records, reports and invoices are as careful as its care.
- Care and access instructions on the card you read at the door
- A visit report for every job, sent when you finish
- Runs of visits scheduled once and invoiced once
- Cover arranged without handing over your whole client book
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The details are the business, and they live in six places.
A note on a worktop, a message from three weeks ago, a phone call, a spreadsheet of dates, a folder of keys with masking-tape labels, and your memory. It works because you are careful. It stops working the moment you are ill, or busy, or trying to explain a round to someone covering for you at short notice.
Access, everywhere but one place
Which door, which key, which neighbour, which code.
Bookings in bursts
Eleven days twice daily, then nothing, then three houses at once.
And billing by arithmetic
Counting visits from a calendar at ten at night.
What you would have to explain to someone covering.
- Access and entry instructions in their own field
- Feeding and care instructions per animal
- Emergency contact and vet, one tap from the job
- Handling notes, medication consent, and health detail where the owner shared it
- Not shared shown as locked — never as an empty medical record
- Unlimited clients and pets, at no extra cost
Booked as runs, done as rounds, reported as visits.
- Recurring visits across a run of dates — twice daily for a fortnight
- Booking requests from owners before they travel
- Today lists the afternoon’s houses in order, late one first
- Fed, water, litter, medication, photo and note in one tap each
- Everything recorded offline and sent when signal returns
- A written report to the owner when you finish, with delivery status
Billed once, and covered safely.
- A whole run invoiced in one go, or the whole book at month end
- Manual invoices for food, litter, key cutting and vet runs
- Sequential numbering, VAT, branded PDFs, your payment details
- Late-cancellation fees when a trip is called off inside your notice period
- A colleague assigned to a run, seeing only those clients
- Every visit recording who actually did it
Straight about what it does not do
Dogs and cats are supported. There is no key register, no client portal, no deposits or prepaid packages, and no in-app card payment — your client pays you directly and CorePaw takes no cut. Overnight house-sitting is recorded as a run of visits rather than as a stay with its own shape.
Questions walkers and sitters actually ask
Does it work for pet sitters as well as dog walkers?
Yes. A job can be a route-tracked walk or a drop-in visit with no route at all, and the app uses the right word for it — a cat has a visit, not a walk. Sitters log feeding, litter, water, medication, photos and notes, and the owner gets the same written report a walk produces.
Can I record a home visit with no route?
Yes. A drop-in is a job in its own right: arrive, log the feed, the litter, the water, the medication, a photo and a note, finish. There is no route to record and nothing pretends there was one.
Can bookings repeat?
Yes. Most of a round is "Bella, every Tuesday and Thursday", so recurring bookings are there from the start rather than bolted on. Day and week views show what is coming, and Today lists the round in the order you will do it.
Can I create monthly invoices?
Yes. At month end, run the whole book at once: every client with unbilled completed work gets an invoice built from that work, with the walks and visits as line items. You are not rebuilding the month from a calendar and a group chat.
Can I invoice work the app never saw?
Yes. A manual invoice covers a nail trim, a bag of food, a key cutting fee or work you did before you installed anything. It still takes a number from the same sequence, so there is no gap left by billing something outside the app.
Can my staff see every client?
Only if you allow it. A restricted employee sees the jobs assigned to them and the clients those jobs belong to. Money, colleagues and everyone else's clients can all be kept out of reach, and the limits are enforced at the database level rather than by hiding buttons.
Put one holiday run through it, start to finish.
Booked, visited, reported and invoiced. That is the whole business in one client.
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