Services · Ecommerce development · Pet care booking sites
Codeeo takes on pet care booking website development Manchester walkers, sitters, home boarders and small daycares can run their week from. Owners in city centre apartments and suburban terraces set up a regular schedule once, pay for it automatically and change a single day without a string of messages. Your team sees who is booked where, what has been paid and which homes need a key collected, all from one admin.
We build the website and its booking and billing system, not a mobile app. Codeeo works with Manchester clients remotely: discovery, design reviews, testing and training all run over video call, with a shared task board so you always know where the project stands.
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What owners and your team get
Most walking and sitting customers do not book once. They want the same walker at the same time every weekday, a cat visit twice a day while they are away, or a home boarder they trust for every holiday. Generic booking tools are built for one-off appointments, so Manchester operators end up running regular schedules in a spreadsheet and billing them by hand at the end of the month.
We build the opposite: a booking system where the regular schedule is the default and the one-off is the exception. Owners set up their pattern, see what each week costs and pay by card or Direct Debit. Skipping a day, adding a visit or pausing for a holiday follows rules you set. Your team sees a weekly plan per carer, with access notes for each address, from Ancoats and the Northern Quarter to Didsbury, Chorlton and Salford Quays. Busy weeks, sick days and holidays are planned for in the rules rather than patched by hand.
An owner books Monday, Wednesday and Friday walks at midday as one schedule rather than dozens of separate bookings. The system generates each visit, assigns the usual carer, and shows the owner upcoming visits and charges for the next few weeks.
Regular customers book once and stay booked.
Owners can skip a day or add an extra visit up to a cut-off you set, such as the evening before. Pauses for holidays are handled without cancelling the schedule, and late changes are charged or credited according to your terms.
Changes happen online, inside your notice period.
Schedules can be billed weekly or monthly, in advance or in arrears, by saved card or Direct Debit. Missed or skipped visits are credited automatically on the next bill, and owners download invoices from their account.
No more end of month invoicing from a spreadsheet.
Each host in a home boarding network sets the dates they can take a guest and the kinds of dogs their home suits, such as no cats or no puppies. Owners book from hosts who match, and the stay is paid by deposit and balance.
Bookings only go to hosts who can actually take the dog.
Visits are booked by number per day and length, with feeding, medication and litter notes per pet. Sitting bookings can require a meet and greet visit first, booked and paid as its own step.
Visit details sit in the booking, not in a message thread.
City centre buildings often need a fob, a concierge name or a parcel room arrangement. Each address stores how carers get in, in a restricted field shown only to the carer booked for that visit.
Carers arrive knowing exactly how to get into the building.
Sell bundles of walks or daycare days with a clear expiry date and refund rule. The account shows what remains, and the system uses packs before charging the card, so owners never pay twice for the same visit.
Prepaid credit is tracked, not forgotten.
Set the postcodes each carer covers and any travel supplement for outlying areas such as parts of Trafford or Stockport. Supplements are shown in the price before checkout, never added afterwards.
Rounds stay tight and prices stay honest.
When a carer marks a visit as done in the admin, the owner receives a short email or text confirmation with any note the carer adds. Reminders go out before meet and greet visits and before payments are taken.
Owners know the visit happened without having to ask.
Each carer's working days, holidays and maximum visits per day are set in the admin. When someone is off sick, the system lists the visits affected and suggests colleagues covering the same postcodes, and owners are told by email if their usual carer is changing for the day.
Absences are covered in minutes, not over an evening of phone calls.
Who this is for
Greater Manchester is ten boroughs, and a walking or sitting business here often crosses the boundary between Manchester, Salford and Trafford several times a day. Pet care online booking system development in Manchester is therefore less about a single shopfront and more about schedules, areas and people. These are the operators we hear from most. Many of their customers work long office days in the city centre or at MediaCityUK and expect to manage everything from a browser at their desk, so the booking site has to work as well on a work laptop as on a phone.
You have a full book of regular customers and spend Sunday evenings working out the week and the invoices. We move your customers onto standing schedules, set your cut-off rules and bill automatically by card or Direct Debit. Owners manage their own skips and extras, and you get a clear weekly plan for each walker. When a walker leaves, their schedules move to a colleague in one step, with owners told who is coming instead.
We import your existing customers and their schedules.
You coordinate hosts in homes across the city and match dogs to them by hand. The site lets each host keep their own calendar and house rules, and owners book only from hosts who fit. Home boarding run as a business needs a licence from the local council, so we can record which authority licensed each arrangement, whether that is Manchester City Council, Salford City Council or another borough. Hosts see only their own guests and earnings, while you keep the customer relationship and the payment.
Licensing details are confirmed with your council, not assumed.
Your customers live in apartment blocks in Castlefield, Ancoats and Spinningfields and travel often. The site books visits per day with feeding and medication notes, handles fob and concierge arrangements and takes payment before the trip. A meet and greet booking is required for new customers, so you see each home before the first visit. Owners who travel for work can book a block of visits weeks ahead and pay for the whole trip at once.
You run a daycare in Didsbury, Chorlton or Prestwich with a fixed number of licensed places. The booking site sells days, regular weekdays and packs, closes days at capacity and holds bookings until vaccination records are approved. Parents of puppies can book a settling-in session first. Waiting lists for full days are kept per weekday, so a freed Tuesday place goes to someone who asked for Tuesdays.
Capacity comes from your licence, set in the admin.
Ways to work together
Independent walkers and sitters usually start with a fixed scope project: website, booking system and billing in one build. Growing networks often keep a monthly retainer for new services, new areas and changes to how they bill. Businesses building a booking platform to offer other operators can take a dedicated team for a longer programme. Every option is remote, with a named contact, a shared board and reviews by video call. Whichever route you take, decisions about scope and timing are written down before work starts, and changes during the build are agreed and recorded rather than slipped in quietly.
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
We choose the stack after discovery. Smaller operators often suit WordPress with a custom booking layer; networks with hosts and recurring billing usually need a Laravel or Next.js platform. Billing runs through UK providers for cards, wallets and Direct Debit. Your team changes services, prices, areas and carers from the admin without a developer. Hosting is set up in your own account, and the code is yours at handover, so you are never tied to us to keep the site running.
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With your regular schedules and how you bill them.
For walkers and sitters the regular customer matters most. We start by mapping how your weekly patterns, cut-off times and billing work, then design the booking system around them. One-off bookings, new customer meet and greets and holiday cover come next. Once the rules are agreed, design and build follow on a staging site you can try. The timing for your project is set out in a written plan after discovery, not guessed at the first call.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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