Scheduling, client records, visit reports and invoices — for sitters, walkers, groomers, trainers and daycares. No commission, ever.
Start freeno card required · publish your page free
Someone you trust, with proof it went well.
Find sitters, walkers and groomers near you. After every visit, a written report arrives — what was done, when, with photos — from someone you've met and chosen yourself.
Scheduling, client and pet records, care plans, visit reports and invoices — and a public booking page where new clients find you. One tool, the whole day.
Tend matches you with pet-care providers who keep a real record of every visit — every meal, every walk, every photo — and send it to you the moment they're done.
The business platform for sitters, walkers, groomers and trainers who keep exact records — scheduling, clinical care, reports, invoices, and a booking page of your own.
Everything on Tend runs through the visit record. The provider keeps it as they work; the owner receives it the moment the visit ends. Same record, both sides — that's the whole idea.
What the provider logs
The routine
The checklist comes from Mochi's own care plan — meals, litter, play — so nothing is left to memory.
As it happens
Checked off during the visit, not reconstructed at the end of the day.
Timestamped photos
Any step can carry a photo — stamped with the moment it was taken, not added later.
Visit report · MochiTue Jun 9 · 08:00–08:45
“Mochi was bright and affectionate today — she ate the moment the bowl touched the floor.”
✓Breakfast + fresh water08:04
✓Litter scooped08:11
✓Play — feather wand, 15 min08:19
✓Morning pill, with breakfast08:05
✓ sent to Dana the moment the visit was completed — automatic on Pro
What the owner receives
Right away
The report lands in your portal and inbox when the visit ends — not at the end of the week.
Written like a note
It opens with a sentence about your animal, not a form. The data is underneath, exact.
On record
Every visit stays in the record — browse back months, visit by visit.
For pet parents
Know your pet is in good hands — then know how it went.
Search
Search by what your pet actually needs.
Filter by service — a Saturday groom, a week of walks, overnight sitting — plus dates and neighborhood. Availability is real: providers set their capacity, and search respects it. No calling five places to find one open slot. And if your pet needs medication, one filter shows only providers who can give it.
full groom · sat jun 14 · 941173 results
TPTidy Paws Grooming ★ 4.9 · 117 verified appointments · 0.6 mi✓ sat · 2 slots open
CCClip ’n Clean ★ 4.8 · 64 verified appointments · 2.1 minext opening jun 21
Ranked by real availability, rating, distance and response time — the breakdown is shown, not hidden.
Your portal
Request, follow, pay — in one place.
Propose a visit — or just grab an open slot: providers publish real bookable times, and returning clients take them instantly, no approval round-trip. Reports arrive as they happen, invoices arrive itemized, and you can pay online in two taps — or however your provider prefers.
Your portalM
Booking request — full groom · Tofusat jun 14pending
Visit report — Tue Jun 9“Mochi was bright…”✓ read
Invoice INV-0139$96.00sent
Pay online when your provider offers it — or pay them directly and they mark it settled.
The pet record
Your pet's record belongs to you.
Vaccines, medications, behavior notes and vet contacts — kept once, owned by you, and attached to every request you send, so a new provider knows exactly what Biscuit needs before saying yes.
You decide who sees it. Sharing is per provider and revocable any time.
Biscuit · beagle · 5 yrsB
Rabies vaccinethru 03/2027✓ current
Apoquel 16mg1× daily · AMactive
Behaviorgood with dogsdoor-darter
VetDr. Alvarez · (415) 555-0188
Shared with Brightleaf Pet Care — consent is per provider, revocable any time.
Your instructions
Your care notes become the checklist.
Write your own checklist items, or drop in a care document — a vet's discharge sheet, your feeding routine — and Tend turns it into action cards on the provider's visit checklist. You review what it parsed; nothing is guessed.
Want eyes on something? Mark a card and it comes back with a timestamped photo.
Care documents · Biscuitreviewed by you
post-op-care — dr-alvarez.pdfuploaded jun 2✓ 3 action cards
Written by you, or pulled from the document — then on every visit checklist, checked off and photographed.
Messages
Every conversation, where the booking is.
One thread per client — and the booking's paper trail lives inside the conversation. Requests, date changes, meet & greet times and photos interleave with the messages, so “wait, what did we agree?” has an answer you can scroll to.
Leaving town? One tap lets your vet know who's covering and shares the record they'd need if anything comes up.
Messages · Brightleaf · one threadsince apr 2026
Booking request — drop-in · Mochijun 14–16pending
DH“Flight changed — could we start the 13th instead?”09:14
Request amended → jun 13–16history keptupdated
B“Done — approved for the 13th. Side gate as usual?”09:21
Record shared with Dr. Alvarez — covering jun 13–16vet notified
Messages and bookings in one place — nothing is he-said-she-said, nothing is lost in texts.
For providers
Run the whole day from one page — whatever kind of care you give.
Sitting, walking, boarding, daycare, grooming, training — every service starts as a template and bends to how you actually work: your fields, your checklists, your rates. Less admin, more of the day with the animals.
Sitting & drop-ins
Checklists built from each pet's care plan, a report sent the moment you're done.
Dog walking
Recurring plans — Mon–Fri 12:30, set once — with GPS-verified check-ins on Pro.
Boarding
Overnight stays with nightly rates, capacity caps, and multi-day invoices that add themselves up.
Daycare
Daily headcount limits that search respects — and staff seats when it's not just you.
Grooming
Your own intake fields — coat condition, clipper lengths — on every appointment, with before & after photos.
Training
Session notes and homework land on the owner's report, so progress is on the record.
01Claim your page
Pick your corner: tend.page/you. Two minutes.
02Start from templates
Pick your services, set your rates. Sensible defaults, working day one.
03Make it yours, forever
Rename anything, add fields and checklist items, price per client. No ceiling.
Scheduling & agenda
Today, at a glance.
Every visit on one agenda — one-off or recurring. Set a plan like walks, Mon–Fri 12:30 once and Tend keeps the schedule; reschedule or cancel a day without breaking the series.
And you don't just block time — you open slots: paint the hours you want booked, per service, and they go live on your page for clients to take. When you're already in a neighborhood with time between visits, Tend suggests a neighbor slot — one more client at almost no travel cost.
16:30Scout — training sessionrecall · wk 3 of 6scheduled
20:00Mochi — drop-in · medsscheduled
Care plans & checklists
Every pet's routine, kept exactly.
Each pet's care plan — meals, walks, litter, the occasional pill — becomes the visit checklist automatically. You check it off as you go, attach a timestamped photo to any step, and it all flows straight onto the owner's report. Nothing reconstructed from memory at the end of the day.
Caring for diabetic or senior pets? Switch on the clinical layer for timed, logged medication — there when a client needs it, invisible when they don't.
Care plan · Mochion every visit
Breakfast + fresh waterAM visitsroutine
Litter scoopedevery visitroutine
Morning pill 2.5mg08:00 · with foodtimed
✓ Checked off at 08:04 — straight onto Dana's report
Billing & payments
Invoices that write themselves.
Generate an invoice from a client's unbilled completed visits, priced by each service's rate — or by the client's own rate. Grandfather your longtime regulars, set holiday pricing, or keep one flat fee: the rate card is yours, per service and per client.
Clients pay online through the portal — or hand you cash, Venmo or a check, and you mark it paid. Both are first-class; card data never touches Tend.
Invoice INV-0142 · The Bennettssent
7 × Daily walk$168.00
2 × Drop-in visit$64.00
Total due$232.00
Paid online jun 12 · 09:41 — or collected your way, marked settled in one tap.
Your storefront
A booking page that works while you work.
Publish your page at tend.page/you — services and rates, credentials, photos and your verified reviews. Clients book 24/7 from a link, no app to install, and requests arrive with the pet's record attached — no back-and-forth, no intake forms.
BBrightleaf Pet Care ★ 4.9 · 132 verified visits · Cole Valley✓ verified
Boardingovernight$58/night
Drop-in visit45 min · report$32/visit
Sat openings09:0010:3013:00
Real slots, straight off the calendar — regulars book them instantly · tend.page/brightleaf
The tools, live
Don't take our word for it — click around.
This is the provider desktop, running right here with sample data. Open Schedule for the agenda — and the Open slots view, where you paint bookable hours — then Requests for the inbox and message thread: approve a request, propose meet & greet times, build an invoice.
app.tend.page · provider desktoplive demo
The live desktop demo needs a bigger screen — open it directly on a laptop.
sample data · the same app runs phone-first on the day — it installs to your home screen · open full screen
The marketplace
Demand built in — on terms that respect your business.
Your storefront doubles as a listing in Tend search. When the marketplace brings you a brand-new client, Tend takes a one-time match fee on that first booking — that's what funds finding them. Every booking after is direct, and direct means 0%.
01 · the find
They find you.
A pet parent searches by service, dates and what their pet needs. Your page ranks on real availability and verified reviews — not on who paid for placement.
02 · the matchfirst booking only
One match fee.
Tend's cut of that first booking pays for the demand that found them — and that's the only cut it ever takes. No commission hiding in your subscription.
03 · forever after
Your client. 0%.
They rebook you direct — your rates (per client, if you like), your invoices, your relationship. Tend never charges for them again.
The contrast: a marketplace like Rover takes the same 20% on the first booking and the forty-first. Tend charges once, because after the match the client is yours — on the books, in your records, paying you directly. For pet parents nothing changes: no fees, no markups — the price you see is the provider's.
Or flip it — open requests
Don't want to search? Post what you need — service, dates, neighborhood, your pet's record attached — and matched providers come to you with offers: a real rate and real slots. Offers, not bids: only providers with the capability and the capacity to actually do the work can respond, and nothing ranks by cheapest. You pick; the match fee works the same.
Trust & safety
Trust, the way a record-keeper builds it.
No vague guarantees. Tend's answer to “can I trust this person with my animal?” is verification you can check, labels that don't exaggerate, and a record of every visit.
A real business, on the record
Providers publish under their real name and business identity, and those who take payment online are identity-checked by Stripe before a dollar moves. Every claim on a storefront sits next to the record that backs it.
Credentials, labeled honestly
Insured & bonded, pet first-aid, vet-tech background — shown as declared by the provider, verified where we can. Tend never blurs the difference.
Proof on every visit
Timestamped checklists, photos from the moment, GPS-verified check-ins — and reviews that only exist after a real visit. Trust built from records, not stars.
Ready for the bad day
The pet's record carries vet and emergency contacts and a vet-release consent you control — and one tap tells your vet who's covering while you're away.
Payments run through Stripe — card data never touches Tend, and nothing is charged until a request is approved.
Verified-visit reviews
Reviews you can take literally.
A review on Tend can only be written after a completed, verified visit. No imported stars, no anonymous drive-bys from people who never booked you — if it's on a provider's page, it happened. Your reputation, finally off Google and on the record.
“There's a photo and a note in my inbox before she's even left the block. I stopped worrying somewhere around visit three.”
DHDana H. · Mochi (cat) may 2026 · 41 visits✓ verified
“I ran my grooming shop out of three apps and a paper book. Now the appointments, the before-and-afters and the invoices are the same thing — and new clients find me on Tend.”
MMarisol C. · provider tidy paws grooming · sfprovider
“Tidy Paws had a real Saturday opening — no phone tree, no ‘we'll call you back.’ Tofu's report came with before-and-after photos, and rebooking took one tap.”
Every rating above is tied to a completed, verified visit on the platform — that's the only kind Tend accepts.
The field
You shouldn't have to choose between demand and a business.
Marketplaces bring you clients, then charge you for them on every booking, forever — and the relationship stays theirs. Booking tools give you software and leave the finding-clients part to you. Tend is built to be both, with a proof layer neither has.
Marketplaces · Rover, Wag, Meowtel
Booking tools · Scritches & others
Tend
Who brings the clients
They do — that's the draw.
You do. The page only works if you already have the audience.
Both doors — marketplace search, and your own page at tend.page/you.
The cut
20–40% of every booking — including the 40th visit from your most loyal client — plus owner-side fees on top.
None — flat software fee.
A one-time match fee on the first booking a brand-new marketplace client makes — then 0%, forever. Direct clients: never anything.
Whose client is it
Theirs — taking a client off-platform is against the terms.
Yours.
Yours — your storefront, your records, export everything any time.
Proof of care
Photo updates and star ratings.
Report cards.
Timestamped, GPS-verified reports — and reviews that only exist after a completed visit.
The pet's record
Re-typed into each app's profile.
Per-business intake forms.
Parent-owned and portable — travels with every request, consent revocable.
Runs the business
Gig tools — accept, chat, get paid.
Yes — scheduling, invoicing, CRM.
Yes — plus care plans, the clinical layer, and Team seats when you grow.
marketplace fees as published jun 2026 · rover: 20–25% provider fee + 11% owner fee · wag: up to 40%
Pricing — for providers
Free to run. Pro when you're ready.
Pet parents never pay Tend — and providers keep what they earn. No commission on your own clients, ever; the marketplace charges a one-time match fee only when it brings you someone new. Every account starts with 30 days of Pro, free.
Free
$0 forever
Everything a one-person operation needs to run the day.
✓Scheduling, recurring plans & the daily agenda
✓Client & pet records — routines, vaccines, meds when needed
✓Visit reports with photos — send when you finish
✓Invoicing & online payments, or collect your way
✓Your public storefront & booking requests
✓Verified-visit reviews
✓Up to 15 active pets — no commission on your clients
On Free, you write and send every report yourself, and check-ins are on your word. When the book fills up, those are the first things Pro takes off your plate.
Pro
most popular$19 / month
Automation and proof of service, for full books.
✓Everything in Free
+Unlimited pets & clients
+Automatic visit reports — sent the moment you complete a visit
+GPS-verified check-ins on every report
+Daily capacity controls that feed marketplace search
Writing reports by hand costs ~15 min/day — five hours a month, given back. And the GPS-verified badge sits on your storefront, where clients are deciding.
Team
$49 / month
For daycares, kennels and multi-staff crews.
✓Everything in Pro
+5 staff seats included, with roles & permissions
+Assign visits across one shared schedule
+One storefront — the whole team's reviews, in one place
1st marketplace booking → match fee · every one after → 100% yours
Marketplaces take 20–40% of every booking — forever. Tend charges once, to fund finding you the client — Pro costs less than one boarding night a month.
We move you in
Import clients, pets and care notes from a spreadsheet or your old platform — free, with a human, usually under an hour. Your schedule doesn't skip a day.
Yours to keep
Your storefront, your clients, your records. Clients pay you directly — online or in cash; Tend never holds your money or card data. Export everything, any time.
Questions, answered plainly
The fine print, out loud.
What does the match fee actually cost?+
A one-time 30% of the first booking a brand-new marketplace client makes with you — and nothing on any booking after that, ever. A $60 first booking costs $18, once, for a client relationship you keep for years.
Do my existing clients trigger any fees?+
No. Clients you bring with you, or who find your page directly, never carry a match fee — import them on day one and every booking is 100% yours.
Do my clients need to download an app?+
No. Your booking page and their portal run in the browser, from a link. Tend itself is mobile-first — it installs to your home screen like an app today, and native apps are coming.
Is the meet & greet free?+
Your call — it's a service like any other, priced by you. Many providers charge for it and credit it toward the first booking; some waive it. Tend just makes it bookable.
Do I have to approve every booking?+
Only if you want to. Per service, you choose: requests only, instant booking for returning clients (new clients still come through a request with the pet's record), or instant for everyone. Open slots can only be sold once — no double-booking.
What makes a review “verified”?+
It can only be written by the account that received a completed visit — one tied to a real, timestamped visit record. There is no other kind of review on Tend.
Can I charge different clients different rates?+
Yes — rates are set per service and per client. Grandfather your longtime regulars, set holiday pricing, or keep one flat fee.
What happens to my data if I leave?+
You export it — clients, visit history, invoices, all of it. Pets' records belong to their owners and travel with them. No lock-in is the point.
How does Tend make money?+
Two ways, both visible on this page: Pro and Team subscriptions, and the one-time match fee when the marketplace finds you a new client. Not from a cut of your work.
Tend
Care, recorded — whichever side of it you're on.
Find someone who keeps an exact record of your pet's care. Or be the one who keeps it, and run your whole business in one place.
