Pet shops and groomers
A groomer takes bookings for each service online, and sells food and toys from the shop.
Dog walkers and pet sitters
Every walk is on your calendar, and owners hear from you by voice. Magpie bills each household every month.
A walker working alone uses Magpie without a team. A business with several walkers works in one Magpie team.
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This combination of five Magpie areas fits a dog walker or pet sitter.
- Forms
- Forms takes each new client's details, their pet's needs and their vet.
- Contacts
- Contacts keeps each owner, with their pet's notes and every invoice.
- Calendar
- Calendar shows every walk and drop-in, and your regular walks repeat each week.
- Walkie Talkie
- Walkie Talkie sends an owner a voice message from the walk.
- Invoicing
- Invoicing bills each household every month, and they pay by card.
New clients send their pet's details, their vet and the key arrangements before the first walk.
Forms gives you a sign-up Form with your own questions. It can ask for the dog's recall, feeding and medication, and the vet's name and number. A question can appear only after an earlier answer.
An owner can attach a file, such as a vaccination record. Magpie will email you each response, and you can download them all as a CSV file.
Each owner's page keeps their pet's notes, your visits and every invoice.
Contacts gives each owner a page of their own. A pinned note keeps what you need on every walk, such as the dog's allergies.
Its activity lists your notes and calls, and each invoice sent or paid. A follow-up reminds you to call on a date, such as before a holiday sit.
Every walk is on your calendar, and repeats each week until you stop it.
Calendar shows each walk as a To-do on its day and time. A regular walk can repeat every weekday, every week or every two weeks. Each can remind the walker an hour or 15 minutes before.
In a team, each walk has the walker it is assigned to. A drop-in, a pet sit or a meet-and-greet goes in as an event, with its address.
Owners hear how the walk went in a voice message from you.
Walkie Talkie sends voice messages, recorded as you hold to talk, and text messages too. You invite an owner from outside your team. They see only their conversation with you.
If you lose signal in the park, the recording carries on and sends when signal returns. Who has heard shows whether the owner has listened.
Magpie sends each household the same invoice every month.
Invoicing bills each owner for the month's walks, with the number of walks and your rate. Once it is recurring, it goes out every month until you change or end it.
Owners pay by card from the email, into your own Stripe account. Reminders go out until each invoice is paid. Cash is recorded by hand.
Four more areas cover meet-and-greets, your links, posts and receipts.
- Appointments
- Appointments gives you a booking page for a meet-and-greet or a one-off drop-in. Magpie emails the owner a confirmation.
- Link-In-Bio List
- Link-In-Bio List gives your Instagram bio one page of links, such as the sign-up Form.
- Social Media
- Social Media posts the week's walks to Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn at the time you choose. For Instagram, Magpie will remind you to post it.
- Expenses
- Expenses keeps each receipt, such as treats and poo bags, photographed on your phone.
A new dog goes from the sign-up Form to daily walks and a monthly invoice.
The owner's contact page holds the details as you go.
The sign-up
The owner fills in your Form, with the dog's habits and the vet. Magpie will email you the answers.
The meet-and-greet
They book a meet-and-greet on your booking page. Magpie adds them as a contact.
The notes
You pin the dog's details, such as feeding and medication, to the owner's contact page.
The walks
You add the midday walk as a To-do that repeats every weekday, for its walker.
The updates
After each walk, the walker sends the owner a voice message.
The invoice
At the start of each month, the owner's invoice is sent, with a Pay online button.
Setting up takes four steps.
Publish your sign-up Form
You choose the questions for a new client and share the Form's address. Help: Build, publish, and share a form.
Connect Stripe
You connect your Stripe account, so owners can pay by card. Help: Connect Stripe to receive money.
Add your regular walks
You add each walk as a To-do that repeats, with its time and reminder. Help: Use To-dos.
Invite an owner to talk
You invite each owner to a conversation in Walkie Talkie. Help: Talk with Walkie Talkie.
Plans
A walker working alone fits Pro, the paid plan for your own work. It has no limit on invoices or contacts. A business with several walkers fits the Team plan, one price for up to 25 members.
Owners you talk with join as guests and take no member place. A free plan has room for 10 guests, and a paid one for 100.
On the free plan, you can create 5 invoices a month and keep 100 contacts. Magpie adds no fee to invoice payments.
Other businesses that care for pets and homes have pages of their own.
Cleaning companies
A cleaning company plans each crew's shifts and runs a checklist at every house.
Questions dog walkers and pet sitters ask
Can I set up regular walks that repeat every week?
Yes. Each walk is a To-do with its day and time. It can repeat every day, every weekday, every week or every two weeks. It shows on your calendar on each date.
Can I get a reminder before each walk?
Yes. A To-do can remind you at its time, 15 minutes before or an hour before. Reminders are emailed to the person the walk is assigned to.
Can I give walks to the walkers who work for me?
Yes. In a team, each walk is assigned to one walker. It shows in their To-dos and on the team calendar. They get its reminders.
Can I keep each dog's feeding and vet details with its owner?
Yes. You write them in a note on the owner's contact page and pin it. The pinned note stays near the top of the page. Search covers your notes, so you can find a dog by name.
Can new clients fill in a form before the meet-and-greet?
Yes. A sign-up Form asks your own questions, such as the dog's habits and the vet's number. It can have several pages, and a question can appear after an earlier answer. Magpie will email you each response.
Can an owner send me their dog's vaccination record?
Yes. A File question takes a PDF or a photo of up to 10 MB. Only the people who can see the Form's responses can open it.
Can I send owners a voice message from the walk?
Yes. Walkie Talkie sends voice messages, recorded while you hold to talk, and text messages too. You invite the owner from outside your team, and they see only their conversation with you.
What if I lose signal in the park?
The recording carries on on your phone, and sends when the connection returns. A recording that was cut off is offered to you again, so it is not lost.
Can I see whether an owner has listened?
Yes. Who has heard shows who has played each message. The owner can play unheard messages in a row, at the speed they choose.
Can owners book a meet-and-greet online?
Yes. Appointments gives you a booking page with your services, such as a 30-minute meet-and-greet. The owner chooses a free time. Magpie will email them a confirmation with a link to reschedule or cancel.
Can I bill each owner every month?
Yes. You make an invoice with the month's walks, then make it recurring. Magpie will send an invoice with the same lines every month, with a Pay online button. You can change the lines, pause it or end it.
Can owners pay by card?
Yes. Each invoice email has a Pay online button. The money goes to your own Stripe account. Magpie adds no fee; Stripe's processing fee applies. You can also record cash or a bank transfer by hand.
Can I bill for a holiday sit as a one-off?
Yes. You send an ordinary invoice with a line for each night or drop-in. Reminders go out until it is paid.
Can I keep my receipts for the business?
Yes. You add each expense with its amount and date, and photograph the receipt on your phone. A receipt can wait in the Receipt Inbox until you fill in the details.
Can I put all my links in one place for Instagram?
Yes. A Link-In-Bio List is one public page of links, such as your sign-up Form. It counts the clicks on each link.
Put your walks on a calendar.
Create a Magpie account and publish your sign-up Form.