Best Time To Pet Alternative 2026

Time To Pet was designed for visit-based businesses. Pet sitters go to a client's home, perform a visit, and log their time. Dog walkers pick up dogs, walk a route, and return them. The entire platform is optimized around this workflow — GPS check-in, visit journaling, client messaging, and invoicing by visit count. The problem starts when your business model evolves. You lease a space and start offering grooming. You add kennels and begin boarding dogs overnight. You open a play yard and launch daycare. You buy a van and start offering pickup and delivery. Suddenly you need grooming calendars, kennel assignment, feeding schedules, capacity dashboards, transport dispatch, and recurring memberships — none of which Time To Pet was built to handle. The per-staff pricing model also becomes painful as you hire. Time To Pet charges based on staff count, so every new employee increases your software bill. For a facility with eight to twelve staff members, the monthly cost can climb to $150 or more — for software that still does not have the facility modules you need.

Animal Friends OS was built for the exact business model Time To Pet was not designed for. If you have a building, kennels, grooming tables, play yards, and a front desk, AFPC OS is your platform. Grooming gets per-groomer calendars, breed profiles, before/after photo capture with watermarks, and recurring appointment scheduling. Boarding gets kennel/run assignment, feeding schedules, medication administration logs, vaccination verification, and multi-night stay management. Daycare gets capacity dashboards, daily play group management, and photo updates. Training gets session tracking, curriculum management, and progress notes. Transport dispatch is a full module — not a GPS pin on a map. Schedule pickups, returns, and round trips. Assign drivers to routes. Send automated SMS updates to clients when their pet is picked up and when they are on the way home. This module runs a real pet taxi fleet every day. The price is flat $45/month starting tier with no per-user fees. Hire ten staff members, the price does not change. Add every module, the price does not change.