Switching from Sweep&GoA Sweep&Go alternative that runs your whole recurring pet service business
Sweep&Go is the incumbent in this trade, and plenty of good businesses run on it. If you are here, you are probably weighing what a decade newer product buys you. Here is the honest comparison.
Where Sweep&Go is genuinely good
Sweep&Go was built specifically for pet waste removal, and it shows. It handles per dog pricing, recurring scoop schedules, and client notifications the way this trade expects, and it has years of operator feedback baked in. It is a legitimate, purpose built tool, not a generic system wearing a costume.
Where it stops for this trade
Where it falls short is age and the monthly bill. Sweep&Go charges for every active staff member, so each hire raises the price, and the interface has not kept pace, which operators feel most in the office where the daily clicks add up. HoundStack covers the same trade specific foundation, includes at least one teammate on every plan, keeps HOA DNA compliance with chain of custody inside the app, and gives techs a field app built for the truck. Native iPhone and Android apps are coming, with the day’s route on the iPhone Lock Screen.
What the same crew costs, in dollars
An owner and two techs: 3 active staff, monthly billing.
Sweep&Go
HoundStack
To be fair: their EntreMANURE tier would be $29 × 3 = $87 a month, but it caps every tech at 15 jobs a day, which a dense route passes before lunch.
The gap widens as you hire. At 10 active staff, Scoop&Go is $39 × 10 = $390 a month. HoundStack is $274 on Growth ($199 with 5 included + 5 extra at $15).
Sweep&Go prices as published on sweepandgo.com/pooper-scooper-app/pricing, July 2026, monthly billing. Their promos and bands change; check their page for current numbers.
Side by side, honestly
| Capability | Sweep&Go | HoundStack |
|---|---|---|
| Per dog pricing and scoop schedules | Yes, genuinely built for this trade | Yes |
| Pricing model | Per active staff member, every month | Flat tier with an employee allowance |
| Monthly cost at 10 active staff | $390 on Scoop&Go | $274 on Growth |
| DNA compliance with chain of custody | No, tracked outside the app | Built in |
| Interface | Functional, showing its age | Built a decade later, and it shows too |
What the migration actually looks like
Sweep&Go has a named, dedicated import tool in HoundStack. Four steps, and nothing is written to your account until you have seen a dry run summary.
- 1
Upload your export
Export your data from Sweep&Go and hand it to the Sweep&Go importer. It knows Sweep&Go's export format, so there is no reshaping files by hand.
- 2
Preview the mapping
Every field is shown mapped to its HoundStack destination before anything happens. Adjust the ones that need it.
- 3
Dry run
A full trial pass produces a summary of what would be created, changed, and flagged. Nothing is written yet.
- 4
Confirm
Happy with the dry run? Confirm, and the real import runs. Clients, properties, and dogs arrive mapped and ready to zone.
Bring your book over without a lost weekend
Start today and run the Sweep&Go importer with a dry run, seeing your own clients on the dispatch board before you commit to anything.
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