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Pet care apps for New York's walkers, groomers, kennels and vets.

Codeeo handles pet care app development in New York for dog walking companies, grooming salons, boarding kennels, daycares and veterinary practices across the five boroughs. We build the owner app, the staff app and the back office as one product, so a client on the Upper West Side can book a groom, approve a walker's key pickup from the doorman, see a photo of the walk and pay, all from one screen. In a city of apartments, elevators and tight schedules, that saves your team hours every week.

We have no New York office. Our team works with New York clients remotely, with discovery sessions, design reviews and release demos on video calls. Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US with a team of 80+ based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi.

Built for
Walkers and sitters, grooming salons, boarding kennels, daycares and veterinary practices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Typical timeline
Fixed jointly after discovery, once the first release and any vendor integrations are pinned down and written into the plan.
What you own
The repositories, app store listings, servers, domain and the full client, pet and visit history, all held in accounts your company controls.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer

Modon
Majid Al Futtaim
HP
Belkin
Dulsco Group
OneClickDrive
Hanayen
HMS
Clocksprings
Ghezlan

Features for New York pet businesses

Designed for apartments, doormen and back-to-back walks.

Pet care in New York City runs on logistics. Walkers carry keys for dozens of buildings, wait for elevators and juggle group walks between Park Slope and Prospect Park. Groomers in Manhattan work in small spaces where every table slot counts, and mobile vans fight for parking. Daycares in Long Island City and Williamsburg take dogs from owners who commute by subway and cannot easily return early. Veterinary practices field calls from owners who want an answer before deciding whether to cross the river for an appointment.

Weather adds its own rules: summer pavement that is too hot for paws, and winter salt and snow that change walk routes and grooming demand. The capabilities below are the pieces we assemble for New York operators, ordered roughly by how often clients here ask for them.

Explain your project
  • Walk scheduling and live tracking

    Recurring and one-off walks, solo or group, with GPS check-in at the building, a live route map, photo updates and a short report on bathroom breaks and behavior. Owners on a train with no signal get the summary as soon as they reconnect. Walk notes can include leash pulling or reactivity so the next walker is prepared.

    Clients see that every walk happened, start to finish.

  • Key, doorman and building access

    Secure notes for each home: doorman names, lockbox codes, elevator rules, which door to use and where leashes hang. Only the assigned walker sees them, and access changes are logged when keys move between staff.

    Fewer missed visits caused by a locked lobby or a lost key.

  • Pet sitting and overnight stays

    Pet sitting app development in New York has to cover overnights in small apartments, cat drop-ins while owners travel, medication schedules and plant watering requests. Sitters get checklists that work offline in basements and older buildings with weak signal.

    Owners travel knowing exactly what was done and when.

  • Salon grooming bookings

    Pet grooming booking app development in New York means protecting scarce table time. The booking flow asks for breed, coat condition and handling notes, takes a deposit where your policy requires it, and offers late slots to commuters who cannot drop off before work.

    Fewer empty slots and fewer surprises on the table.

  • Veterinary appointment and triage

    Veterinary appointment app development in New York pairs online booking with structured triage questions, so urgent symptoms are routed to a call while routine vaccines and wellness checks go straight to the calendar. Records requests and vaccine certificates are handled in the app.

    Phones ring less, and urgent cases still reach a person fast.

  • Boarding and daycare check-in

    Reservations, vaccine proof, feeding and medication instructions, and a QR check-in at the front desk. Daycares can sell packages and show live capacity, which matters on rainy days and holiday weekends when demand jumps.

    Check-in takes seconds instead of a clipboard and a queue.

  • Payments, tips and invoices

    Apple Pay, Google Pay and stored cards through a processor that tokenizes card data, with weekly invoicing for regular walk clients, tips for walkers and groomers, and automatic receipts. Owner messages can go out in English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian or another language each client chooses.

    Getting paid no longer depends on chasing Venmo requests.

  • Weather alerts and route changes

    When a heat advisory or a snowstorm hits the city, managers can shorten walks, swap routes to shaded or cleared paths, add paw wipe and salt rinse notes, and message affected clients in one step. Daycares can also open extra indoor slots and notify regulars who usually walk instead.

    Clients hear about weather changes from you before they have to ask.

  • Staff payouts and timesheets

    Walk counts, visit durations and tips roll up into timesheets and payout reports for employees or contractors, ready for your payroll or accounting software.

    Payroll stops being a Sunday night spreadsheet job.

  • Client reviews and referrals

    After a walk, a groom or a stay, the app asks for a quick rating and private feedback first, so problems reach you before they reach a public review site. Happy clients get a referral code to share with neighbors in the same building, which is how many walking companies in New York grow block by block.

    More referrals from the buildings you already serve.

Is this you?

Four New York pet businesses we are set up to help.

New York City regulates some pet businesses directly. Under Article 161 of the City Health Code, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issues permits for grooming establishments and boarding kennels, and the Department also runs dog licensing. Veterinarians are licensed by the State Education Department through its State Board for Veterinary Medicine. We take these into account when we plan records and admin tools, and we start each project from your operation rather than a template.

01

Dog walking and sitting companies

You run on trust and timing. We give your walkers a staff app with routes, building notes and offline checklists, give clients live updates and photos, and give you a dispatch board that shows who is where across Manhattan or Brooklyn. Growth into a new borough becomes a settings change, not a new spreadsheet. Walkers covering Astoria in the morning and the Upper East Side in the afternoon see a clear order of visits with travel time between them.

Most NYC walking companies start here, with scheduling, check-ins and payments.

02

Grooming salons and mobile groomers

Your margin depends on full tables and prompt pickups. We build booking rules by coat and size, deposits for new clients and reminders timed to each dog's grooming cycle. If you hold a DOHMH grooming permit, the admin area can keep the permit details and renewal date in view so nothing lapses unnoticed. Mobile groomers get parking and loading notes per address, which matters on streets where double parking draws a ticket.

03

Boarding kennels and daycares

Capacity, vaccine compliance and communication with anxious owners matter most. We build reservations, check-in, playgroup management and daily report cards. Facilities that need a DOHMH boarding permit can track inspection dates and veterinary oversight arrangements in the same dashboard their managers already use. Owners can extend a stay or add a bath from their phone while traveling.

Permit requirements are confirmed with DOHMH by you; we build the tracking.

04

Veterinary practices and practice groups

You want fewer phone calls, prepared appointments and better reminder compliance. We build booking, triage, intake forms and records access, connected to your practice management software. Telehealth is scoped carefully, because New York's rules on establishing a veterinarian-client-patient relationship remotely have been the subject of pending legislation. Reminder campaigns for vaccines and dental cleanings are sent from the same system.

From kickoff to launch for a New York pet care app.

  1. 01Kickoff on videoWe walk through your day with you and two or three staff, from the first walk to the last pickup, and agree the workflow the first release will fix.
  2. 02Service blueprintA written map of every screen, role and integration, with the building access, payment and messaging rules agreed before design starts.
  3. 03Design and usabilityOwner, staff and admin interfaces designed and tested on phones, with walkers trying the staff flows outdoors where screens and signal are at their worst.
  4. 04Engineering sprintsFortnightly builds shown on a video call and installed on your devices, so you can try real walks and bookings before launch.
  5. 05Launch to existing clientsWe release to a group of loyal clients first, fix what they report, then open the app to everyone with store listings and onboarding messages ready.
  6. 06Grow and maintainOS updates, security patches, monitoring and new features chosen from usage data, released on a schedule your team can plan around.

Technology

What we build this with.

React Native or Flutter for the mobile apps, background location services tuned for battery life on long walk days, a Node.js or Laravel backend, and cloud hosting on AWS or Google Cloud. We use Stripe or a comparable processor for payments and tips. Each choice is explained in plain language, and the stack is documented for whoever maintains it after us.

01Mobile

  • Swift
  • Kotlin
  • Flutter
  • React Native

02Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

03Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Common questions from New York pet care operators.

We price after discovery, against a written scope rather than a guess.

The biggest factors are how many apps you need, how many user roles they serve, and which integrations are required. A walking company with live GPS, offline checklists and contractor payouts needs more engineering than a single salon's booking app. Multilingual content, data migration from your current tools and custom reporting add more. After discovery we give a fixed price for the first release and show which features could move to phase two. Ongoing hosting, support and app store fees are listed separately so you can budget for the year.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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PROVEN RESULTS

4.7 / 5from 23 Google reviews