The short answer
Time To Pet prices by active staff — $25/mo solo, or $40/mo plus $16 per active staff member for teams, with a $79/mo facility plan. Plug N Play is $100/mo for up to 15 staff and $250/mo unlimited, so the cost stops moving as you hire.
What Time To Pet charges
Per active staff member — anyone with at least one scheduled service in the billing period, plus every admin and office manager. A ten-person team runs $200/mo.
| Lite | $25/mo | $250/yr — one-person companies |
| Solo | $50/mo | $500/yr |
| Team | $40/mo + $16 per active staff | |
| Facility | $79/mo | |
| Large Team | Custom | teams over 25 |
| Plug N Play Professional | $100/mo | 15 staff accounts, per business — not per user |
Read from Time To Pet's own pricing page on 2026-08-08. Prices change — check theirs before you decide, and tell us if this page is out of date. Their free trial: 14 days, no credit card required.
Where Time To Pet is the better choice
Pet sitting and dog walking. Time To Pet is purpose-built for visit-based, in-home work — GPS-tracked visits, route handling, sitter scheduling — and we are not. They also publish 4,500+ businesses and run a real self-serve 14-day trial. A solo sitter pays $25/mo with them and $100/mo with us.
Where Plug N Play is different
We are built for facility and program-based work — board-and-train, classes, kennels, multi-location — and we charge per business rather than per head, so hiring does not raise the software bill.
Side by side
Based on what each product lists publicly as of 2026-08-08. A blank is “not published”, not “bad at it”.
| Capability | Plug N Play | Time To Pet |
|---|---|---|
| Booking & scheduling | ||
| Invoicing & payments | ||
| Client portal / app | ||
| Two-way SMS | ||
| Business phone system | ||
| Staff email inboxes | ||
| CRM & sales pipeline | ||
| Training programs & progress | ||
| Client learning library | ||
| Contracts & e-signature | ||
| HR, scheduling & timesheets | ||
| Payroll | ||
| Website builder | ||
| Multi-location / franchise | ||
| Self-host / source access |
What switching actually involves
- 1You tell us what you run on now and what your week looks like.
- 2We build your workspace — services, staff, kennels, packages, forms — and import your clients, animals, vaccine records and history.
- 3You run both systems side by side for a couple of weeks. Nothing is cancelled until you say so.
- 4We move bookings across on a date you pick, and stay on the phone through the first busy weekend.
Common questions
Is Plug N Play cheaper than Time To Pet?
It depends on your size, and we will not pretend otherwise. Per active staff member — anyone with at least one scheduled service in the billing period, plus every admin and office manager. A ten-person team runs $200/mo. Plug N Play is $100/mo for up to 15 staff and $250/mo unlimited, per business. Small operations sometimes pay less elsewhere; teams and multi-location businesses almost always pay less here.
What does Time To Pet do better than Plug N Play?
Pet sitting and dog walking. Time To Pet is purpose-built for visit-based, in-home work — GPS-tracked visits, route handling, sitter scheduling — and we are not. They also publish 4,500+ businesses and run a real self-serve 14-day trial. A solo sitter pays $25/mo with them and $100/mo with us.
Can I move my data from Time To Pet to Plug N Play?
Yes — clients, animals, vaccine records, appointment history and open invoices. We do the import as part of setting you up, and you keep running on your current system until the new one is right.
How long does switching take?
Most businesses are taking real bookings within the first week. The 30-day trial exists so you can run both in parallel rather than jumping.
See your own business in it before you decide
We will set up a workspace with your clients and your schedule in it, free for 30 days, while you keep running on Time To Pet.