Switching from Time To PetA Time To Pet alternative for recurring route-based pet services
Time To Pet is well loved software. If your business runs recurring routes, such as scooping routes, the fit shows in the daily details.
Where Time To Pet is genuinely good
For pet sitting and dog walking companies, Time To Pet earns its reputation: strong client communication, visit report cards owners genuinely like, GPS tracked walks, and scheduling shaped around sitters visiting homes. In its own category it is a very good product.
Where it stops for this trade
Recurring pet service is route work with its own billing (per dog pricing, skip reasons), and HoundStack handles both. Time To Pet has no route optimization for dense daily stop lists, no per dog waste pricing, no skip reason billing for rain days, and nothing for HOA waste stations or DNA compliance. HoundStack keeps the client friendly communication and builds the rest around the route.
The parts of HoundStack that close the gap
What the same crew costs, in dollars
An owner and two techs: 3 active staff, monthly billing.
Time To Pet
HoundStack
At this size the bills are honestly close. The difference is what the money buys: none of it goes toward route optimization, per dog waste pricing, or skip reason billing.
At 10 active staff, Time To Pet is $40 + 10 × $16 = $200 a month. HoundStack is $274 on Growth ($199 + 5 teammates at $15), with routing, billing and payments, the client portal and the field app included.
What the money covers
Every HoundStack plan includes the whole system: scheduling, routing, billing and payments, a client portal, a field app, referrals and analytics, with no add-ons to stack before you can run the business. It’s built for recurring route-based work: zones for your service area, route maps for each day, completion photos on visits, gate codes and hazards on each stop, and a concerns queue for client issues. One system runs the business, instead of several tools stitched together.
Time To Pet prices as published on timetopet.com/pricing, July 2026 (In-Home plans; their Lite and Solo tiers serve smaller sitters). Check their page for current numbers.
Side by side, honestly
| Capability | Time To Pet | HoundStack |
|---|---|---|
| Client communication and visit report cards | Excellent, genuinely loved | Also strong: email notices, photos, review prompts; texts coming soon |
| Route optimization for dense stop lists | No, visit model | One click, real drive time math |
| Per dog waste pricing | No | Native |
| Skip reason billing for rain days | No | Yes, rules per reason |
| HOA waste stations and DNA compliance | No | Built in |
| Pricing model | $16 per active staff on Team | Flat tier with an employee allowance |
What the migration actually looks like
Time To Pet 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 Time To Pet and hand it to the Time To Pet importer. It knows Time To Pet'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 Time To Pet importer with a dry run, seeing your own clients on the dispatch board before you commit to anything.
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