Pet sitting software for one person: what you need and what you do not
Most pet sitting software is built for companies: staff schedules, employee permissions, client portals. If you work alone, you end up paying team prices for screens you will never open. Here is a plain checklist of what a one-person operation actually uses, and what it does not.
What you need
- Client and pet records with photos. One page per client, one per pet, so you always know who and which animal.
- A real notes field per pet. Medications, feeding schedule, quirks, vet info, gate codes, where the leash and food live. This is the feature you will touch every single day.
- Scheduling that treats a stay as one booking. A ten-day stay should be one entry, not ten. Day-by-day entry is one of the loudest complaints sitters have about their tools.
- A calendar subscription. Your bookings should appear in the calendar app you already live in (Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook) without opening anything else. You should never open your business software just to see your day.
- Charge math done for you. Per-day rate x number of pets x number of days, computed from the booking, so multi-pet jobs stop getting undercharged.
- Invoices generated from bookings. Not assembled by hand at the end of the month.
- Your data exportable, anytime. Your client list is your business. If you cannot walk away with it, the software owns you, not the other way around.
- Built for your phone. The work happens in hallways and kitchens, not at a desk.
What you do not need
- Staff scheduling, team seats, roles, and permissions. You are the staff.
- A client login or portal. Your clients text you. They will not create an account to see a schedule, and asking them to install something adds friction to a relationship that runs on trust.
- A marketplace profile. If your business runs on referrals and your own client list, a directory of competing sitters is not a feature, it is a place to lose clients.
- Per-booking or per-transaction fees. A busy month should not raise your software bill. Fees that scale with your work are a tax on growing.
- Photo feeds and sharing streams. A photo on the record so you know the animal: useful. A social feed to maintain: another job.
What it should cost
One flat price you can predict. You should be able to say what your software costs for the year without a calculator, and the number should not change because you had a good month.
Where PetSit sits
PetSit is built for solo sitters and does everything on the first list and nothing on the second. It is 12 dollars a month, flat, with no per-booking fees, after a 30-day free month that requires no credit card. It works fully in English and French, installs on your phone's home screen like a normal app with no app store, and your records export at any time as JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and CSV (comma separated values) files. If a friend covers a job for you now and then, you can note who covered the booking; that is a label, not a paid seat.
See it working in two minutes
PetSit is management software for one person running a pet-sitting business: client and pet records, pet and house notes, scheduling, and invoices in one place, built for your phone. Your bookings flow into the calendar app you already use (Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook), so your whole day stays in one view. The demo is a full working example with sample data. No signup needed, and it is not your data, so nothing can break.
The free month lasts 30 days and needs no credit card. After that, 12 dollars a month, flat, with no per-booking fees.