Walk bookings

Your round, in one place

Walks are their own kind of booking — short, repeating, and stacked up across a day. Book them by duration, cap how many dogs you'll take, put a walker's name on each one, and let regulars book the whole week in one go.

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Solo or group walks · Daily caps · Walker assigned · Repeat bookings

Tuesday walks

Sam

Bella · Labrador

Solo · 45 min

09:30

Milo · Border Collie

Group · 1 hr

11:00

Ziggy · Cockapoo

Group · 1 hr

11:00

Daily limit reached — 12 dogs

Illustration of a walking day

How walk bookings work

Built around a round that repeats, not a one-off stay.

1

Set your walk lengths

Define the durations you sell — a half-hour pop-out, a 45-minute solo, an hour with the group — and price each one.

2

Cap the day

Set how many dogs you can genuinely handle in a day. Once the cap is reached the day stops taking bookings, online and off.

3

Book the round

Add walks to the diary with a check-in time, or let customers book online. Regulars booking Monday to Friday get confirmed in one click, not five.

4

Walk and go

Check-in and check-out times can update themselves as the walk happens, so nobody's typing times in afterwards.

Built for a walking business

The bits that matter when you're doing twelve of these before lunch.

A cap that means it

The daily limit counts dogs, not bookings — so a customer booking three dogs takes three of your places, which is the honest way to count it.

Times that keep themselves

Check-in and check-out times can update automatically as walks start and finish, instead of being tidied up at the end of the day.

The walker on the booking

Assign staff to walks and keep individual rounds straight. You can show the walker's name to the customer in their portal, or keep it internal.

Whole weeks at once

A customer booking every weekday makes one multi-day booking, and confirming the first confirms the series.

Online booking

Let customers book walks themselves, auto-confirmed or held pending your approval — useful when a new dog needs meeting first.

Cancellation fees

Charge for a walk cancelled inside your notice window, as a fixed fee or a percentage. Cancelled-with-fee bookings still show in revenue reports.

Vaccination rules

Require in-date vaccinations before a walk can be booked online, the same as any other service.

Priced your way

Per walk, per duration, or per dog — with your own rates rather than a fixed model.

Call it what you call it

"Walk" can be renamed everywhere it appears — Adventures, Pack Walks, Field Trips.

Frequently asked questions

Can I limit how many dogs I walk in a day?

Yes. Set a daily limit and the system counts dogs rather than bookings, so a customer booking three dogs uses three places. Once the cap is reached, that day stops accepting further walk bookings including online ones.

Can customers book a walk online?

Yes. Walks can be published to your online booking portal with your durations and prices. Bookings can be confirmed automatically or held as pending until you approve them, which is handy when you want to meet a new dog first.

Can a customer book the same walk every weekday?

Yes. They make one multi-day booking rather than five separate ones, and confirming the first booking can confirm the whole series in one action.

Can I show my customers which walker is taking their dog?

Yes, that's a setting. Assign staff to walks and choose whether the walker's name appears in the customer's portal or stays internal.

Do walks support cancellation fees?

Yes. Charge a set amount or a percentage when a walk is cancelled within your notice window. The booking is marked as cancelled with a fee adjustment and still appears in your revenue reports.

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