Comparison
A strong platform for pet sitting and dog walking businesses, with grooming served through its facility plan. Kip is built around mobile grooming, includes every feature on every plan, and prices per business rather than per van, per location or per user. Here's how the two compare.
| Kip | Time To Pet | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $49/mo billed annually | $25/mo (Lite) |
| Top published price | $99/mo billed annually | $79/mo (Facility) |
| Charged per | Business — unlimited vans on Team | Per account plus a per-active-user fee on Team plans |
| Messaging | Unlimited on every plan | Text messaging enabled for an additional monthly fee |
| Built for | Grooming businesses, mobile first — one van to a fleet | A strong platform for pet sitting and dog walking businesses, with grooming served through its facility plan |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | See their site |
Sources: Time To Pet billing and subscription pricing · Time To Pet on Capterra
The real differences
Time To Pet
Pet sitting and dog walking — visits, schedules and sitter coordination.
Kip
Grooming specifically: cut specifications, coat condition, size-banded pricing, vaccination expiry and a groomer's field app.
Time To Pet
Team plans add a per-active-user fee as you hire.
Kip
Staff accounts are unlimited and free on Team. Hiring does not change your bill.
Time To Pet
Text messaging costs an additional monthly fee to switch on.
Kip
Included, unlimited, on every plan.
Included in every plan
No add-on menu and no premium tier holding features back. These come with Solo and Team alike.
If you do move
Export your clients from Time To Pet, import them into Kip, and look at the result before it's permanent. If it isn't right, one action rolls the entire import back — and you can keep Time To Pet running alongside Kip until you're genuinely ready to stop.
Map your columns once. Kip parses the file, matches households and shows you what it's about to create before it creates anything.
Kip finds the same client and the same dog arriving twice and merges them as part of the import rather than leaving you a mess.
If the import isn't right, undo the entire thing and try again. Not a partial cleanup — the whole import, reversed.
Click through a fully populated Kip with a sample business before you put a single real client in it.
Keep both running while you build confidence. Kip is designed for the overlap rather than demanding a clean break.
Services priced, hours set, zones drawn, booking link live, payments connected. Kip tracks it and tells you what's left.
Concierge migration is free on every plan — we'll do the import for you.
Kip's pricing
2 months free when you pay annually
Solo
One groomer, one van or salon
Billed annually · $588/year
The whole product — nothing held back for a higher tier.
Team
Two or more vans, a salon team, or any staff
Billed annually · $1,188/year
Unlimited vans. Unlimited staff. Still one flat price.
Multi-location
Several locations or a large fleet
Priced on your locations and fleet
Custom pricing, hands-on migration, a named contact.
14-day free trial · No credit card to start · No contract, cancel any time