Services · Mobile app development · Pet care apps
Codeeo offers pet care app development Manchester sitters, walkers, home boarders, groomers and vets can grow with. Manchester has filled up with city centre apartments in Ancoats, Castlefield and the Northern Quarter, and across the river in Salford Quays, and many of the people living in them own a dog and work long days. We build the apps that let those owners book a walk, a sitter or a stay, follow every visit on their phone and pay without a single text message.
Our 80+ people are based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi, not Manchester, and we work with UK clients remotely. Discovery sessions and progress reviews happen by video call. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US.
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Inside a Manchester pet care app
Much of Manchester's pet care happens away from a fixed premises. A walker collects dogs from apartment blocks with concierge desks and fob entry, a sitter visits cats in a terraced house in Chorlton, a host family in Didsbury boards a spaniel for a fortnight. The app has to manage people moving around the city, keys and access, and owners checking in from the office. Licensing shapes the build too. Greater Manchester is ten separate councils, from Manchester and Salford to Trafford and Stockport, and each licenses boarding, home boarding and dog daycare in its own area. In England the rules also cover arranging boarding, not only providing it, so a platform that matches owners with host homes should take licensing advice early. Because many owners here work in offices across the city centre and MediaCityUK, the daytime update often matters as much as the visit itself. Here are the features Manchester operators ask us for.
New sitters and walkers apply in the app, upload identity, insurance and any background check documents you require, and complete a training checklist. Your team approves each one before they can accept work, and expiry dates on documents trigger a reminder rather than a lapse nobody notices.
Only approved, insured carers ever see a job.
Walkers start the walk in the staff app and the owner sees the route, the duration and a photo when it ends. Toilet breaks and notes can be logged in a tap, which owners in apartments value more than almost anything else in the report.
Owners see the walk happened, not just that it was booked.
Apartment entry in Manchester often means a concierge desk, a fob, a parking code and a flat key. Each is stored against the home in encrypted fields, visible only to the carer on that visit, with a log of when keys were collected and returned.
Access details stay out of group chats and screenshots.
Owners describe their dog, and the app suggests host homes whose space, other pets, garden and experience suit it, within the capacity limits your licence sets for each host. Meet and greet requests are booked before any stay is confirmed.
Better matches and fewer stays that end early.
Pet sitting app development Manchester owners rely on needs a clear visit checklist: food, water, litter, medication, a look around the flat and a photo. Visits are scheduled once or twice a day across a holiday and each one is confirmed with a time stamp.
Owners on holiday get proof of every single visit.
Your team builds the week's rota from confirmed bookings, carers swap visits within rules you set, and completed visits feed a payout report for employed staff or self-employed carers. Mileage between visits can be recorded where you reimburse it.
Payroll and payouts built from what actually happened.
Owners who need a walk every working day sign up to a weekly or monthly plan paid by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Direct Debit. Holidays and sick days are paused in the app, and your cancellation terms are applied without an argument.
Predictable income from your regular weekday clients.
Pet grooming booking app development Manchester groomers ask about often links to boarding: a bath or tidy before the dog goes home. Owners add it when booking the stay, and the groomer's diary receives it as a timed appointment.
Extra revenue from customers you already serve.
Owners and carers message inside the booking, so instructions about a new lead, a sore paw or a changed door code are kept with the visit. Your office can step into any conversation and nothing depends on a carer's personal number.
Every instruction saved where the next carer can see it.
If a dog is injured, a lead snaps or a cat will not eat, the carer files a short report with photos from the visit screen. The owner is alerted, your office sees it at once and the report stays on the pet's file, ready for insurers or an inspector who asks.
Problems handled quickly and recorded properly.
Who this is for
Manchester's pet care businesses range from a single walker in Stretford to networks of sitters and host homes covering several boroughs. What they share is staff working out in the city, owners who expect updates and a lot of trust riding on keys and access. These are the four starting points we see most, each with a different first release. All of them handle personal data under UK GDPR, and we design consent for promotional messages to meet PECR.
You run several walkers, the rota is a spreadsheet and owner updates go out by text from personal phones. We replace that with a staff app for walks, check-ins and photos, an owner app for booking and plans, and an admin for rotas. Your walkers stop using personal numbers and your clients stop asking whether the walk happened. Adding a new walker becomes a form in the admin, not a round of introductions on WhatsApp.
Usually the quickest win for a growing walking firm.
Your hosts live in Manchester, Trafford and Stockport, and each council has its own expectations. We build host onboarding, capacity per home, matching and daily stay reports, with licence details held per council area. Before launch we encourage you to confirm with each council how your model is licensed, because arranging boarding is covered by the England regulations too. Hosts get a simple app of their own so their daily reports take minutes.
Licensing advice comes before the matching feature, not after.
You want independent sitters to list their services and owners to book them directly. Marketplace apps carry extra decisions: vetting, reviews, disputes, payments split between you and the sitter, and how much responsibility the platform takes on. We work through those with you before any screens are designed, then build a first release that proves demand in a few neighbourhoods first. Commission, payouts to sitters and refunds are designed with your accountant's input so the money side holds up as volumes grow.
Veterinary appointment app development Manchester practices request usually aims at owners who cannot ring during working hours. The app offers appointment booking by type, repeat medication requests for a vet to approve, vaccination reminders and, if your vets want them, video consultations within RCVS guidance on animals under care. It connects to your practice management system where an API exists. Branches across Greater Manchester can share one app, with clients choosing the site nearest their home or office.
How we work together
Walking and sitting firms usually begin with a fixed scope first release covering the owner app, the carer app and the admin, followed by a monthly retainer for improvements. Marketplace founders often need more discovery up front, because the business rules matter more than the screens. Vet practices sometimes add a dedicated developer once the app is live. We agree scope and cost drivers in writing before any build, and every meeting runs by video call. If a ready-made walking or sitting product would cover a small firm's needs, we will tell you before suggesting a custom build.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Cross platform apps in React Native or Flutter, with location services for walk tracking, a web dashboard for your office and cloud hosting in a UK or EU region. We choose the stack with you based on scale and who maintains the app after launch. Offline caching keeps the carer app usable in basements and stairwells with no signal.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
With your visit flow, from booking to payout.
We begin by understanding how a visit works today: how owners book, how you assign carers, how keys and fobs are handled, what owners are told and how carers are paid. That flow becomes the core of the first release. Extras such as host matching, grooming add-ons or marketplace features are planned in, but only built once the core visit flow is working for your team and clients. Timing is agreed once that core flow is scoped and written down.
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