Anna Lewis
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most of my clients come from local facebook groups and word of mouth can i keep track of that
Ruth
Online booking for pet sitters who visit at home
The owner picks how many visits a day and which dates they need while they are away, and answers there and then where the food is, which key, the code on the door and which medication at what hour. Every visit stands in the diary on its own, with the drive to the next address already counted.
How to start taking visit bookings
Setting it up takes an evening: the kinds of visit with their length, your day with the travel between addresses, and the form about getting into the flat. No separate website needed.
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Describe the kinds of visit
Feeding and the litter tray, a walk, a visit with medication, a night at the flat: each with its own length and price.
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Set your day and the travel
Morning and evening hours, days off and a break between addresses, so eight o’clock is one flat rather than two.
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Add the form and share the link
The questions about the key, the food and the medication sit in a form before the first visit. The link goes in your bio and the neighbourhood chat.
What a sitter gets
The week is set before the flight. Never two flats at eight. The same sitter on the next trip.
Bookly takes on the dates of the visits, your diary and everything there is to know about the flat, so the conversation with the owner is about the animal rather than about copying addresses into your phone.
A row of visits, not one slot
Hold the whole trip in the diary rather than in a chat thread
A family flying out for a week is not one booking but fourteen: morning and evening from Monday to Sunday. Each visit lands in the diary with its own time and its own length, so the whole trip is visible before the taxi arrives. Bookly has no "visit package" of its own: the trip stands as a row of separate bookings, and nobody else is offered any of those hours.
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Kinds of visit with their own length and price
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Booking open around the clock, the airport included
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Every date of the trip visible in one week of the calendar
One flat at eight
Do not end up in two flats at eight in the morning
A sitter’s morning peak is narrow: everyone has to be fed before nine, and there is still the drive between addresses. The diary counts the length of the visit and the break for the journey, so the owner is only offered the time you can genuinely make. With more than one sitter, each has their own diary and their own part of town.
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A diary of its own for every sitter
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A break for the drive between addresses
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A reminder to the owner before the first visit
The same sitter
Have the next trip booked with you three months out
Anyone who has handed over their keys once does not go looking again: they write long before the holiday and ask for the same sitter. The client card keeps the earlier trips, the animal’s name, its habits and your notes. And there is only one of you: your week in May is either free or already somebody’s, and the answer to that is in the calendar rather than in your head.
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A history of every family’s trips and visits
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Notes on the animal between visits
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Bookings months ahead, holidays included
Everything a sitter runs on
The instructions are collected before the flight, not from the airport
The key, the door code, where the food is, which medication at what hour and who to ring if something is wrong: everything the sitter needs, written once by the owner before the first visit.
The visit they actually need
Feeding and the litter tray, a walk, a visit with medication, a night at the flat: each with its own length and price. The owner chooses how many times a day you come, instead of "drop in some evening".
Times you can genuinely make
The owner only sees the windows the sitter can reach: the length of the visit and the drive between addresses are already in the diary.
A form about the home and the animal
Where the food is, which key, the code on the door, which medication and at what hour, the vet’s number. One form instead of a call from the boarding queue.
One link wherever you are recommended
The Instagram bio, the building or neighbourhood chat, the Google listing: the owner opens the page on their phone and books the whole trip in a few minutes.
The result in numbers
A sitter’s morning adds up to the minute
Four flats between seven and ten are not four identical half-hours: one is food and the litter tray, another an injection and twenty minutes outside, and there is the drive in between. Every visit sits in the diary with its own length and its own journey, so the owner is given the time you will really arrive rather than the one that merely looks free.
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can i put my insurance and dbs certificates on my page so owners can check them
Felix
Bookly team
Hi Felix! Add each certificate as a Single Link to the file wherever you keep it online. If there are a few, put them in a Link Group so they sit together in one tidy block.
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Each visit is a booking of its own with its own time and length: morning and evening from Monday to Sunday stand in the calendar as fourteen bookings at one address. Bookly has no "visit package" module, but none of those hours will be offered to anyone else, and the whole trip reads as one week. Two or three visits a day work the same way, and if the morning is feeding and the evening is a walk, those are simply two services at two prices.
The visit itself takes the time in the diary, and a break for the journey follows it. The owner is only offered the slots the sitter can genuinely reach. With several sitters, each has their own diary and their own list of areas.
A form before the first visit collects them from the owner, and from then on they stay in the client card together with your notes. Next time nothing has to be asked again: the same flat arrives with the same instructions.
The owner writes the hours and the dose into the form, and they stay in the card as their instruction, in front of the sitter before they set off. Bookly keeps no veterinary records and issues no documents, it shows what the owner wrote and reminds you of the visit at the right hour.
No, you still send the photo yourself, in the messenger, the way you already do. What stays in Bookly is the other half: the visit in the client’s history and your note on how it went. Over a week away that is what lets you know the cat did not eat on Wednesday, instead of remembering it.
No. A booking can be placed on any date ahead, and those hours stop being free for everyone else at once. Money taken in advance you collect your own way and enter as an operation of its own in finances: over a holiday week that is the usual arrangement, because you are turning other families away for it.
Yes. Create an account, set up two or three kinds of visit and see what a week away looks like in your diary, with no card and no commitment.
Other niches in this industry
Bookly is not only for pet sitters. Pick your own line of work: the same tools are there, arranged around different days.
Online booking for a pet sitter who comes to the animal
Bookly is a Ukrainian online booking and CRM service for pet sitters: owners book visits for every date of their trip, each visit stands in the diary with time for the drive, and the key, the door code and the feeding routine stay on the client card.
A pet sitter is hired for a trip rather than for an hour. The family flies out on Sunday and comes back the next one, which means a morning and an evening every day, and for some a midday visit too, because a puppy cannot be left that long. So the conversation is the same every time: which dates, how many times a day, do you take a cat on injections, are you free over the bank holiday. While that is being answered between two addresses, from behind the wheel or in a stranger’s hallway, some of those people have already written to somebody else, and not because it was cheaper, but because the reply came before they shut the suitcase.
A booking page takes that conversation over. The kinds of visit stand there with their length and price: a short feed with the litter tray, a walk, a visit with medication, a night at the flat. The owner picks the dates and the hours themselves, at eleven at night before an early flight if that is when they remember. Bookly has no "visit package" of its own: the trip is assembled as a row of separate bookings, one for each morning and each evening, and every one of those hours stops being free the moment it is taken. What you get in return is the whole week of the trip as a week in the calendar, rather than as forty messages.
Then comes the thing that makes sitters late: the morning peak. Everyone has to be fed before nine, and there is still the drive between flats; at eight one person cannot be at two addresses. The length of each visit and the break for the journey sit in the diary, so the owner is only offered the time you will actually arrive. If you do not work alone, every sitter has their own diary and their own areas, and two bookings will not land on one person at one hour. Money taken in advance you collect your own way and enter as an operation of its own in finances: for a long trip or a holiday week that is the usual arrangement, because those dates cost you other families.
But the heart of this work is not the timetable; it is being let into an empty flat. A short form before the first visit collects everything that normally gets dictated down the phone from an airport: which key and where it is, the code on the street door, where the food is and how much to give, which medication and at what hour, whether the cat may go out on the balcony, who to ring if the animal is unwell, and the vet’s number. Those are the owner’s answers, not a medical file: Bookly keeps no veterinary records and issues no documents. From there it all stays in the client card along with your notes after each visit, so the next trip arrives with the same instructions and the owner asks for the same sitter three months ahead. The photograph after the feed you still send yourself in the messenger, while Bookly holds the history of the visits, the analytics showing what each kind of visit brings in, and the one link people pass around the neighbourhood chat.
Bookly team