Two visits a day, for fourteen days, entered once.
A sitting diary is not a weekly pattern — it is bursts. A fortnight of twice-daily visits, then nothing, then three houses at once over half term. The scheduling has to handle that without thirty separate entries.
- Recurring visits across a run of dates
- Several houses in an afternoon, in the order you will do them
- Booking requests from owners before they travel
- Cancellation fees when a trip is called off late
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Sitting work arrives in lumps, and lumps break calendars.
A dog-walking diary is beautifully regular. A sitting diary is a family going away on the 3rd for eleven days, two visits daily, overlapping with a second client from the 8th, plus a one-off for someone’s hospital stay. Entering that as twenty-two calendar events is an afternoon’s work and a guaranteed mistake somewhere in the middle.
The bookings are runs
A start date, an end date and a frequency — not a weekly repeat that goes on forever.
The days are rounds
Six houses in an afternoon needs an order, not six alarms.
And plans change
A cancelled flight, an extended trip, a return a day early. All of it has to be easy or it will not get recorded.
Set the pattern, set the dates, done.
- Recurring visits — daily, twice daily, or set days of the week
- One occurrence moved or cancelled without unpicking the rest
- One-offs dropped in around the runs
- Priced from your own service list — a twenty-minute drop-in is not an hour walk
- Overlap warnings showing what else you already have over that slot
Six houses, in order, with the late one first.
Today does not list your visits by clock time and leave you to work it out. Anything that should have started and has not is lifted to the top.
- Running late, next, later today, done
- Access instructions on the card, at the door
- Call the client or open directions without opening the job
- Start the visit from the same card
They ask, you answer, and a late cancellation is actually charged.
- Owners request visits from CorePaw before they go
- Accept, decline, or propose a different time
- Either side can cancel, and the other is told
- Your notice period and your fee, recorded on the booking
- The fee lands on the next invoice alongside the visits — not as a policy nobody enforces
- Assign visits to a colleague covering that area
Straight about what it does not do
There is no route planning or optimisation between houses, no drag-and-drop planner, no calendar sync and no staff availability or holiday management. 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
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 clients request bookings?
Yes. An owner requests a job from CorePaw, you get a notification, and you can accept, decline, or propose a different time that bounces back for them to confirm. Either side can cancel.
Can I charge cancellation fees?
Yes. You set a notice period and a fee. A cancellation inside the notice period records the fee against the booking and it appears as billable work on the next invoice alongside the walks — otherwise a cancellation policy is just words on a page. Both defaults are deliberately gentle, so nobody is surprised by a charge you never set.
Does it warn me about booking conflicts?
Yes, when you create a booking it shows what else is already out over that slot. They are warnings, never blocks — a walker who wants seven dogs out at once is not asking your software's permission.
Can I assign work to staff?
Yes. Any booking can be assigned to a member of your business, and a restricted employee sees only what is assigned to them. Every walk also records who actually did it, so the owner's report can name them and you can answer "who did Tuesday?" from your own data.
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.
Put one holiday run in.
Twice daily for a fortnight, and see how long it takes compared with what you do now.
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