Bring your clients. The Pet Sitter helps independent sitters organise date-range bookings, client records, care updates and payment tracking when messages and spreadsheets become awkward. It is business software, not a promise of new clients.
| Metric | The Pet Sitter | Precise Petcare |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cost (solo) | Free — no subscription or commission | US$20/mo; ≈US$228/yr with the 5% annual discount |
| Commission on bookings | 0% | 0% — Precise Petcare takes no cut of bookings either |
| Client acquisition | Your own shareable profile and booking link; no client acquisition included or guaranteed. In-product search is on the roadmap. | Not included |
| Staff support | Built for solo sitters — team plans are on the roadmap | Yes — banded pricing to 101+ staff, payroll included |
Precise Petcare is business management software for pet sitting and dog walking companies — founded in 2009, publicly launched in 2012, and one of the longest-established products in the category. It charges no commission on bookings and runs no marketplace: the subscription buys operations tooling, and finding clients remains entirely your job.
Assigning visits across a team, paying staff and managing custody of keys are different needs from running a solo service. The useful choice is whether your daily work needs those team workflows or a simpler place to organise the clients and bookings you already have.
The Pet Sitter is for independent sitters with existing clients who are outgrowing messages and spreadsheets. It helps organise that work; a shareable public page is not a client-acquisition service.
What each product includes
Business management software for pet care companies — no marketplace
Your profile, booking link, date-range bookings, messaging, report cards, unlimited client records and CSV client import are free.
Not included — no marketplace or directory; you bring every client
Your own shareable profile and booking link; no client acquisition included or guaranteed. In-product search is on the roadmap.
Banded by active staff: US$20/mo solo to US$390/mo at 101+ staff, full feature set at every band; SMS metered separately
Free — no subscription or commission
Deep — recurring visit schedules, per-visit times, staff assignment, territories
Streamlined date-range bookings — one request, one price, no visit-by-visit admin (no per-visit times or recurring series) — with an availability calendar and iCal/Google/Apple calendar sync
Card collection through your own merchant gateway (8 integrated options); Precise Petcare adds no surcharge
Manual invoices, completed-booking invoices and accounting CSV export are included at no cost. You receive client payments directly and record them yourself; The Pet Sitter does not automatically collect or verify payments.
A core strength — staff scheduling, permissions, payroll, key management, banded pricing that stays cheap as teams grow
Built for solo sitters — team plans are on the roadmap
Lives inside your own client records and website
Add past reviews manually for human review before publication. Your profile and booking link are free; search-engine indexing requires profile approval and your choice to be listed.
Staffed pet care companies running recurring visit routes — especially larger teams, where banded pricing shines
Independent sitters with existing clients who want simpler day-to-day administration, not a staffed dispatch operation.
Depth for staffed operations
Fifteen-plus years of development aimed at companies with employees: permissions, payroll, key custody, pricing rules. Precise Petcare wins by being the most complete back office for a staffed pet care business, and it invests accordingly.
Growing with its customers' headcount
Pricing bands step up as customers add staff — a legitimate model that keeps solo pricing low and aligns revenue with customer growth rather than with booking volume.
Retention through the whole workflow
When scheduling, payroll, keys and client records all live in one system, the subscription earns its renewal through depth. Good software economics, honestly won.
Your clients
Bring your clients. The Pet Sitter helps independent sitters organise date-range bookings, client records, care updates and payment tracking when messages and spreadsheets become awkward. It is business software, not a promise of new clients.
Voluntary repeat use
Keep the next booking easier to organise: dates, pet details and client history are in one place. Book Again creates a new request or proposal that still needs confirmation; it is not an automatic recurring schedule.
The solo sitter's full lifecycle
Keep bookings, client details, care updates and invoices together. The tools are free, and you decide whether they fit your day-to-day work.
Bring your clients. The Pet Sitter helps independent sitters organise date-range bookings, client records, care updates and payment tracking when messages and spreadsheets become awkward. It is business software, not a promise of new clients.
This is an honest assessment, including the cases where Precise Petcare is simply the better tool today.
Staff scheduling, granular permissions, built-in payroll and key management are core Precise Petcare strengths, and its banded pricing stays economical as the team grows. The Pet Sitter has no staff accounts today, so for a team it is not yet an option at all.
Daily walk rounds and repeat drop-in schedules with per-visit times are exactly what its scheduling engine models. Our bookings are date ranges, which suits whole-day care but not multi-visit days.
Precise Petcare connects to your own merchant gateway for card payments without adding a surcharge. The Pet Sitter never collects payment — owners pay you directly, which is simpler but manual.
The full feature set at US$20/month solo — pricing rules, payroll, key management, unlimited clients — is a lot of software for the money, if operations tooling is what your business needs.
Independent sitters with existing clients who want simpler day-to-day administration, not a staffed dispatch operation.
Your profile, booking link, date-range bookings, messaging, report cards, unlimited client records and CSV client import are free. Manual invoices, completed-booking invoices and accounting CSV export are included at no cost. You receive client payments directly and record them yourself; The Pet Sitter does not automatically collect or verify payments.
Add clients without a paid tier or client-count cap. Import client records by CSV; historical bookings, invoices and payment credentials do not transfer.
Precise Petcare is US-centric (it sells internationally, but pricing is USD-only and the product is English-only). The Pet Sitter is a Belgian company selling worldwide, in five languages, and it takes the local ways owners actually pay you — bank transfer, PayID, PayPal, your own Stripe — rather than routing your money through us.
Manual invoices, completed-booking invoices and accounting CSV export are included at no cost. You receive client payments directly and record them yourself; The Pet Sitter does not automatically collect or verify payments.
Our private client key register and custody history are implemented. Staff accounts, payroll, recurring timed visits, offline field check-ins and automatic card collection are not available. Team workflows and accounting integrations remain on the roadmap; our calendar subscription is one-way iCal, not two-way scheduling.
Manual invoices, completed-booking invoices and accounting CSV export are included at no cost. You receive client payments directly and record them yourself; The Pet Sitter does not automatically collect or verify payments.
No. Precise Petcare is business management software; it runs no marketplace or public directory, and its subscription does not include client acquisition. Every client is one you found yourself. Share your profile and booking link with your own clients from day one. Owner-side search, team and facility workflows are on the roadmap.
No — and we want to be clear about that. Precise Petcare takes 0% of your booking revenue, and card processing runs through your own merchant gateway with no added surcharge from them. The Pet Sitter is free for sitters and owners, with no subscription, booking commission or client limit.
Our private client key register and custody history are implemented. Staff accounts, payroll, recurring timed visits, offline field check-ins and automatic card collection are not available. Team workflows and accounting integrations remain on the roadmap; our calendar subscription is one-way iCal, not two-way scheduling.
The Pet Sitter is free. The other provider’s published software prices remain in their original currency; check current features, tax, billing period and regional terms before choosing. External payment-provider fees are separate.
Yes. Many sitters run operations software alongside marketplace listings — the two do different jobs. Today, The Pet Sitter gives you profile and booking links to share with clients you already reach; public owner discovery that may bring new clients is coming soon. Precise Petcare can run your back office alongside it. There are no exclusivity requirements on our side.
Your profile, booking link, date-range bookings, messaging, report cards, unlimited client records and CSV client import are free. Manual invoices, completed-booking invoices and accounting CSV export are included at no cost. You receive client payments directly and record them yourself; The Pet Sitter does not automatically collect or verify payments.
Bring your clients. Make the next booking easier.
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