The Pet Sitter Blog
Expert insights on pet care, the pet sitting industry, and building a pet sitting business.
Move your pet-sitting clients from a spreadsheet
Bring a clean client list into The Pet Sitter, check the imported records and invite clients when you are ready to arrange their next booking.
By The Pet Sitter Team
A pet sitter’s month-end records checklist
Check bookings, payments and invoices separately, then download the records your bookkeeper needs without confusing billed work with money received.
By The Pet Sitter Team
The Pet Sitter is now free
Free for pet sitters. Free for pet parents. No booking commission. We’re removing paid tiers and opening our existing business tools to every independent sitter.
By The Pet Sitter Team
Take Pet-Sitting Bookings From Your Own Page
Give your existing clients one link for dates, pet details and booking requests, while keeping your own prices and payment arrangements.
By The Pet Sitter Team
Leaving Rover in the US, the UK and Germany: your reviews, your clients and what the terms actually say
Rover's own 2026 terms, fee pages and help centres on what you can take when you leave, what stays behind, and a 30-day plan that does not breach the contract you signed. Sourced from Rover's own pages — and, where rover.com blocks us, from archived copies of them — with links.
By The Pet Sitter Team
The Pet Sitter Is Built in Belgium, Open Worldwide
Free software for independent pet sitters worldwide, built in Belgium. Bring your own clients and keep your booking earnings.
By Graeme Rycyk
The AI Assistant Is Currently Disabled
The dashboard AI assistant is disabled. Use your free dashboard tools and contact our team for help.
By The Pet Sitter Team
If You’re Not Paying, Are You the Product?
Free software, independent analytics choices and access to your own business records.
By The Pet Sitter Team
Is Your Pet Sitting Platform's Cover Actually Insurance?
Most sitters on the big marketplaces believe they are covered, and cover is one of the headline things a 15 to 25 percent commission is sold as paying for. The terms say otherwise — and where a scheme is not insurance, a refusal to pay has no ombudsman, no regulator and no written reasons owed to you.
By The Pet Sitter Team