Recurring walks that bill automatically through Stripe. GPS route tracking and a timestamped walk photo you can share so the customer never texts "did you come today?" Per-dog lockbox codes, leash notes, and cancel policy built in. $1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. Card required.
Start for $1 →$1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. Card required. Cancel any time.
The $1 trial is Starter. Dispatch, two-way texting and job costing are on Crew ($39/mo).
The core of a profitable dog walking business is dead simple: a dense daily route, billing that runs itself, and proof of walk the customer can see on her phone at the office. Claver handles all of it. Built for the tech who's held three leashes on a Brooklyn sidewalk in July.
One signup. Every Friday night, Stripe pulls the week's walks automatically. The customer never sees an invoice, never has to remember to pay, never disputes a charge she forgot she authorized. Your job is to show up. The billing runs itself.
Route optimization puts the day's walks in the shortest driving order with one tap. Same walker, same hours. The difference is how many blocks she wastes between stops. Tight routes mean more walks per day and less van time eating your margin.
Walker taps Start Walk. Claver tracks the route on a map with a legal consent flow, and shows duration. She snaps a photo mid-walk with her phone, and it's timestamped on the job. Taps End Walk. You can share the route and photo with the customer from the job. No more "did you go?" texts at 2pm.
Lockbox combo, gate code, harness type, treat brand, behavioral flags, off-leash waiver status, route preferences. All stored on the dog profile. When a walker calls out sick and you send a substitute, the sub walks in knowing exactly how to handle the dog. The customer never knows the difference.
New customer finds you at 11pm on a Sunday. She books, picks her schedule, pays the deposit. The recurring walk series auto-creates on Tuesday's dispatch board. You wake up to a confirmed client. No phone tag, no back-and-forth on rate sheets.
Starter is $19/mo. Texting, AI and dispatch start on Crew at $39. The phone line and AI receptionist are on Business at $79.
A dog walking client who stays two years is not a $25-per-walk customer. She's a $6,500 annual client on auto-pay who texts her friends when her dog comes home tired and happy. Get that relationship right in year one and you keep it until the dog retires. Get one walk wrong without GPS proof, and she's on Rover by Tuesday.
The shops that hold clients for years do two things the others don't. They make the billing invisible, so the customer never has to think about paying. And they send a photo after every single walk, so trust builds quietly in the background instead of requiring a phone call to maintain.
Recurring billing is the revenue engine. A GPS-tracked route and a walk photo are what keep the engine running for five years.
When someone brings home a new puppy on a Friday and realizes Sunday night she can't leave him alone for nine hours starting Monday, she's not calling anyone. She's Googling at 11pm. If your site says "call us Monday," half those leads sign up on Wag before breakfast. Claver's booking widget captures her: she picks her schedule, sees the per-pet pricing, pays a deposit, and the first walk lands on your dispatch board. No phone tag required.
Once she's in, the recurring billing does its job quietly. Stripe pulls the week's walks every Friday night. She never receives an invoice. She never has to log in and pay. Her card on file handles it, and your bank account reflects it Saturday morning. Multiply that by a full route and you have predictable weekly revenue that compounds without you chasing it.
Route density is where your labor costs either work for you or against you. The difference between six walks and ten on a Tuesday isn't more hours. It's the dead time between stops. Claver's route optimization puts the day's walks in the shortest driving order, so you stop sending a walker from Park Slope to Carroll Gardens and back when three more dogs sit two blocks apart on the same street.
Per-dog records are what make the business survive its own growth. Every dog has a profile: leash setup, treat preferences, behavioral notes, off-leash liability waiver status, lockbox combination, gate code, water bowl instructions. When you hire a second walker or cover a sick-day route yourself, nobody has to call the client for a five-minute orientation. The profile has it. The 30-minute walk stays 30 minutes. The client doesn't notice the substitution. That's the difference between a business and a job.
Cancel anytime. 20-minute migration from your current tool.
$19/mo to start. $39/mo for growing teams. $79/mo for the full toolkit, daily recurring billing, route optimization, GPS walk tracking, per-dog records, and ad-conversion tracking. Same plans across every Claver page. No dog-walking surcharge.
Every plan includes unlimited jobs, quotes, invoices, and Stripe payments. Texting, AI, dispatch and job costing start on Crew. The phone system and full back office are on Business.
Starter: $1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. · Cancel anytime · Your data exports as CSV
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