Animal Friends OS runs the day as a round: walks, drop-in visits, overnights, meet & greets and transport, in time order, with six live counters (visits, completed, remaining, unassigned, expected revenue, miles walked). Every visit captures start and finish GPS and the distance walked. If the walker’s phone loses signal mid-route, every action queues on the phone stamped with the real time it happened, and replays automatically the moment signal returns — nothing is lost and nothing is re-timed to when the phone reconnected. Clients get a public report card with no login: arrival and departure times, duration, distance, what was logged, photos, a note, and the route the dog actually walked.
The round at /dashboard/walking shows the day by date, filterable by walker, with six live counters: visits, completed, remaining, unassigned, expected revenue, and miles walked. Visits are listed chronologically along a time rail — by when they happen, not by which order they were booked in, so a 4pm meet & greet never sits above the 8am walk.
Walks, drop-in visits, overnights, meet & greets, and transport — one round, one calendar, one client record.
A visit nobody is assigned to does not sit quietly. The round calls it out.
One visit can cover more than one pet from the same household.
Dog walkers hit cell dead zones — basements, rural routes, parking garages — far more than most field staff. Every action on a visit (start, event, finish) is queued on the walker's phone the instant it happens and stamped with the time it actually occurred. When the phone finds a signal again, the queue replays automatically and idempotently: a replayed action can never double-start a visit or move it. A visit recorded in a dead zone keeps the time the walker acted, not the time the phone reconnected.
Every visit captures GPS coordinates at start and finish, and the system computes the distance walked. It is documented proof of where a visit started and ended, not a continuous live map while the walk is happening — we are not claiming a feature that isn't built.
While on a visit, a walker logs pee, poo, water, fed, meds, and play as they happen — plus photos and a note. All of it lands on the client's report card automatically.
Every completed visit gets a public report card: arrival and departure times, duration, distance walked, everything logged during the visit, any photos, a note from the walker, and — if the visit was on a Walk Route — the drawn route the dog actually walked.
Draw a named route on a map — terrain and a description included — and it's measured as you draw it. Put a visit on that route and the client sees exactly where their dog went. Renaming a route later never rewrites a report card a client already has; each card keeps the route name as of the visit it belongs to.
A public link, no login, where the owner picks a route your business has marked client-selectable and a time window. It arrives as a request — it never lands on the round unagreed. You confirm it, and only then is it a scheduled visit.
Chosen days of the week, ending on a date or after a number of visits, with caps you set.
Encrypted at rest. Every reveal to staff is logged — nobody sees a code off the record.
Per visit type, with optional holiday and after-hours surcharges. No rate set means the visit stays unpriced, never guessed.
Payments still run through Stripe only — see /os/facts for the full, current list of what is and is not built across the whole platform.
There are two honest paths to this module, depending on what kind of business you run. A walking- or pet-sitting-only business buys OS Walk — its own ladder, priced by how many active walkers you have, not by location or staff seat: $19/month for one walker, $39 for up to 5, $79 for up to 10, $119 for up to 20, $159 for unlimited. No activation fee on any of them. If your business also books boarding, daycare or grooming, dog walking is included at no extra charge inside Starter, Professional or Premium instead, which start at $69/month plus a one-time $49 activation fee. A multi-service business running more than one location or vehicle pays a separate, graduated per-location rate on that ladder (the first is included free; extras run $69 each for the next four, $59 each for the next five, $49 each after that) — that is about how many places you work from, and has nothing to do with turning walking on.
| Software | Starting price | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Friends OS (OS Walk) | $19/mo | Priced per active walker, not per staff seat or location; no activation fee |
Prices above are each vendor's own published starting price as of this writing, not a review-site aggregate.
Yes, by design. Every action — starting a visit, logging an event, finishing a visit — is queued locally on the phone the instant it happens and stamped with the real time it occurred. When the phone regains signal, the queue replays automatically and idempotently, so a dead zone never loses a visit or shifts its recorded time to whenever the phone found a tower again.
Walks, drop-in visits, overnights, meet & greets, and transport — all on the same round, the same calendar, and the same client and pet record as the rest of the business.
A report card at a public link, no login required: arrival and departure times, duration, distance walked, everything logged during the visit (potty breaks, water, feeding, medication, playtime), any photos, a note from the walker, and the drawn route the dog walked if the visit was put on one.
The app captures GPS coordinates at the start and the finish of a visit and computes the distance walked. It is proof of where a visit started and ended, not a continuous live-tracking trail while the walk is in progress — that is not built.
A Walk Route is a named path your business draws once on a map — with terrain and a description — measured as you draw it. Put a visit on that route and the client’s report card shows exactly where their dog went, every time that route is walked. Renaming a route later never rewrites a report card a client already received; each card keeps the route name as it was at the time of that visit.
Yes, at a public link with no login: the owner picks a route your business has marked as client-selectable and a time window. It arrives as a REQUEST your business confirms — it never lands on the round unagreed.
Yes. A recurring schedule runs on chosen days of the week, ending on a date or after a set number of visits, with caps you control.
Keys and door codes are encrypted at rest, and every time one is revealed to a staff member, that reveal is logged. Nobody can see a code without it being on the record.
You set a rate per visit type, with optional holiday and after-hours surcharges. A visit with no rate configured stays unpriced rather than being guessed at — nothing is charged by assumption.
Depends which kind of business you are. If you only do walking and pet sitting, OS Walk is its own ladder priced by how many active walkers you have — Walk Solo starts at $19/month for one walker, no activation fee. If you also book boarding, daycare or grooming, walking is included at no extra charge inside Starter, Professional or Premium, which start at $69/month plus a one-time $49 activation fee.
Yes, a visit can include more than one pet from the same household. And if a visit on the round has nobody assigned to it, the round flags it loudly rather than letting it sit quietly unstaffed.