A Time To Pet alternative for waste removal instead of pet sitting
Time To Pet is well loved software, but it is pet sitting software. If your trucks run scooping routes, you are borrowing a tool from an adjacent business, and 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
Waste removal is route work, not visit work. 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
Scheduling and routes
See one click route optimization with real drive time math.
The field app
See a My Day view built for a truck running 20 stops, offline included.
And the pricing model is different at the root: priced by operational complexity, with your first 3 teammates included on every plan and one more at $10 a month flat.
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: Time To Pet is pet sitting software, so none of it goes toward route optimization, per dog waste pricing, or skip reason billing.
The gap opens as you hire: at 10 active staff, Time To Pet is $40 + 10 × $16 = $200 a month. HoundStack is $149 on Launch ($79 + 7 teammates at $10), with the route tooling included.
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: two way SMS, photos, review prompts |
| 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 or connect
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, dogs, schedules, and balances arrive ready to route.
Bring your book over without a lost weekend
Start free, run the Time To Pet importer with a dry run, and see your own clients on the dispatch board before you commit to anything.
60 day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime, data stays exportable