A visit is a job, not a walk with the route missing.
Pet sitting is the same business as dog walking with a different animal in it — and a completely different set of things to record. CorePaw Pro treats a drop-in as a first-class job: no route, the right questions, and a report the owner actually wants while they are away.
- Drop-in visits with no route, and nothing pretending there was one
- Feeding, water, litter, medication, photos and notes
- Care instructions on the card you read at the door
- A written visit report for the owner, every time
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Half the tools for this trade assume a dog on a lead.
They ask whether the animal can be let off, they want a route, and they measure the job in kilometres. None of that describes twenty minutes in someone’s kitchen at half past two, feeding a cat, topping up water, sorting a litter tray and sending a photo to an owner who is a thousand miles away and anxious.
Wrong questions
A cat asked about recall and off-lead permission tells you the software was not built for you.
The house, not the park
Key location, alarm, which door, where the food is, which neighbour has a spare — none of it fits in a walk record.
An owner who is away
They are not popping home to check. The visit report is the only thing standing between them and worrying.
The right job, with the right buttons.
The app uses the trade’s own word — a cat has a visit, not a walk — and that word appears on the screen, in the report and on the invoice line.
- Start and finish a visit with no route recorded
- One tap each for fed, water, litter, medication, photo and note
- Log against the right animal in a multi-pet household
- Times recorded as they happen, not typed up afterwards
- Works with no signal — a thick-walled house is a dead spot too
Feeding instructions where you can read them one-handed.
The information that currently lives on a handwritten note on someone’s worktop, or in a message from three weeks ago.
- Feeding and care instructions in their own field
- Pickup, access and entry instructions
- Emergency contact and vet practice, one tap from the job
- Photo, breed, age and handling notes for each animal
- Medication consent, and the medication plan where the owner has shared it
- Not shared is shown as locked, never as blank — an empty allergy list must never read as “no allergies”
Sitting rounds repeat too.
Three visits a day for a fortnight while a family is away is a scheduling problem and an invoicing problem, and both are handled the same way as a walking round.
- Recurring visits — Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or twice daily for two weeks
- Booking requests from owners, accepted, declined or moved
- Cancellation fees for a booking dropped inside your notice period
- Completed visits become invoice lines automatically
- Bulk month-end invoicing, sequential numbering, VAT and 27 currencies
- Assign visits to a colleague, with only the access you choose
Straight about what it does not do
CorePaw Pro currently supports dogs and cats. Overnight house-sitting is recorded as visits rather than as a stay with its own shape, and boarding, daycare and grooming are not modelled. There is no key-tracking register, no client portal and no marketplace.
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 I manage dogs and cats?
Yes, and the app changes shape for each. A dog gets the walking questions — recall, off lead, sociability with other dogs. A cat gets the questions that actually matter for a drop-in, and is never asked whether she can be let off the lead.
What care information can I see about a pet?
Whatever the owner has granted, plus everything you record yourself. Handling notes — recall, off lead, sociability, nervousness — sit with the pet and are visible to any carer the owner has shared it with, because they are safety information. Health details such as allergies and medication are separate, and only appear if the owner has shared them.
Can an owner restrict what I see?
Yes, per pet and per area. A household with two dogs can share one and not the other, and can share feeding but not medication. Where something has not been shared, the app shows a locked card saying so — never an empty list. "Not shared" and "nothing to report" must never look the same, because an empty allergy list read as "no allergies" is the most dangerous thing a walking app could show you.
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.
Log one visit properly.
Fed, water, litter, a photo and a note — then look at what the owner would have received.
Full access for 30 days · No card · Unlimited clients and pets