The pet parent
One account for every pet in the household.
Petworking vs. DaySmart Pet
The cheapest subscription in the category, and what it does not carry.
The reference entry price for DaySmart Pet is $29 a month with card processing billed separately. That is the same subscription price as Petworking Independent. The calculator compares the subscription and processing separately; the wider comparison is the marketplace and the portable pet record. Confirm DaySmart pricing before deciding.
Written by Petworking. Last checked 15 September 2026. DaySmart Pet pricing.
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One platform. More of the pet world.
One animal, one lifeHere is every place one animal is cared for in a year, and the stretch of it DaySmart Pet is built for.
Vet
Grooming
Training
Walking
Sitting
Boarding
Food
Licences
Pickup
All nine, one recordScope, not quality. A short bar is a product that chose a lane and is probably excellent in it. We are arguing that the animal does not live in one lane.
| Capability |  | DaySmart Pet |
|---|---|---|
| Both of us do this | ||
| Business management | ✓ | To verify |
| Customer CRM | ✓ | To verify |
| Pet profiles | ✓ | To verify |
| Online booking | ✓ | To verify |
| Payments | ✓ | To verify |
| Memberships and subscriptions | ✓ | To verify |
| Inventory | ✓ | To verify |
| Multi-location | ✓ | To verify |
| And then there is the rest of the pet world | ||
| Portable Pet PassportThe record belongs to the pet parent and travels with the animal. | ✓ | – |
| Consumer marketplacePet parents find you without you buying the click. | ✓ | – |
| Cross-business pet identityThe same animal, recognised at the vet, the groomer and the sitter. | ✓ | – |
| Professional networkThe people caring for the same animals, connected to each other. | ✓ | – |
| Business-to-business referralsSend work to someone you trust, and get it back. | ✓ | – |
| Order ahead and collectCustomers order in the app and pick up at the counter. | ✓ | – |
| All-pet species architectureRabbits, birds and reptiles are not filed under Other. | ✓ | – |
| Universal competitor migrationBring your data from wherever it lives today. | ✓ | – |
| Consumer spending dashboardPet parents can see what they spend on each animal. | ✓ | – |
| Pet licences and permitsKept where the renewal reminder can find them. | ✓ | – |
This competitor’s capabilities have not yet been verified. Unchecked shared capabilities read “To verify”. A tick means they publish it, a tilde means they publish something close with a caveat we have stated, and a dash means we found nothing. Vendors change fast: send us anything we have got wrong and we will fix it and say so.
DaySmart is the cheaper line item past about $527 a month in card volume on the free plan, and at every volume against the paid plans. If the marketplace and the portable record are not worth anything to your business, DaySmart costs less.
What you save switching from DaySmart Pet
Plan against plan: your Petworking tier plus payment processing, against a named DaySmart Pet tier plus Square in-person processing at 2.5%. Both sides have tiers, so pick the two that actually match your operation. The figure is whatever it is, including when it goes the other way.
Your Petworking plan
Their comparable planMatched to your plan. Change it if their tiers line up differently for you.
Petworking Independent$143.00
DaySmart Pet Basic plus Square$104.00
$39.00more a month with PetworkingPetworking does not come in under DaySmart Pet on price at any volume on this plan.
What the difference buys
Petworking costs $39.00 more a month here. This is what that difference buys, on top of the software itself.
A consumer marketplacePet parents searching for what you do can find you in Explore and book you there. Practice software runs the business you already have.
The Pet PassportOne record for each animal that leaves with the pet, readable by the vet, groomer or sitter you refer to, so nobody rebuilds the history.
The PetworkYour professional profile, verified credentials and closed-loop referrals, attached to you rather than to whoever employs you.
Every species at species levelFields and husbandry attach to the species, so a ball python and a bearded dragon do not share a care model, and no animal is filed as Other.
No commission on your own clientsThe 7% applies only to a transaction Petworking generated. Everyone you bring or import stays at $0 commission, permanently.
Migration on any planSelf-serve import is free, and we will do it for you from $149. You never have to buy a bigger plan to get help leaving your old system.
If none of that is worth $39.00 a month to you, the cheaper line item is the right answer, and we would rather you worked that out here than after switching.
Independent plan fee$29.00
Payment processing, 3.80% of $3,000$114.00
Marketplace commission$0.00 on your own clients
Petworking Independent, total$143.00
DaySmart Pet Basic plan fee$29.00
Card processing, 2.50% of $3,000$75.00
DaySmart Pet Basic, total$104.00
Both sides exclude per-booking amounts: Petworking's $0.30 a transaction, and any fixed per-transaction charge on the other side. Petworking's 7% marketplace commission is excluded because it applies only to transactions Petworking generates, and is $0 on clients you bring yourself. DaySmart Pet Basic: Published by DaySmart. Daycare and boarding calendars are $25 each on top. DaySmart publishes basic packages from $29 a month on its own site, with Deluxe at $69 and Premium at $199. Daycare and boarding calendars are add-ons at $25 a month each, so a grooming and daycare business pays $54 rather than $29. Most of these vendors publish in US dollars while Petworking prices in Canadian dollars, which moves the crossover once converted. Vendor pricing changes, so check it before you decide.
The reference entry subscription is $29 a month, the same as Petworking Independent. Your selected processing rate and card volume decide the difference shown above. This is not a blanket price-saving claim.
This one is not a price argument.
The cheapest line item depends on your card volume, plan and actual processing rate. The calculator shows where that changes, including when DaySmart costs less. The reason to consider the broader platform is the marketplace and the portable record, not a blanket promise of savings.
The Pet Passport
Records, licences, permits and certifications the pet parent carries between businesses.
Their professionals
Vet, groomer, trainer, walker, sitter. Records, bookings and progress in one place.
Commerce and pickup
Retail, subscriptions and payments, collected from the business that sold it. Delivery coming soon.
Software should not create another job for your team.
Petworking Founding Pros are set up by the people building the product, not handed a knowledge base.
Founder-led onboarding
White-glove setup
Data migration assistance
Service and pricing setup
Staff setup
Customer onboarding assistance
Launch materials
Direct product feedback access
Your business should not have to figure out the platform alone.
Pet care is bigger than dogs and cats.
12.6 million Canadian pets are not dogs or cats. Petworking is being built for the whole pet world.
DogsCatsRabbitsBirdsReptilesFishSmall mammalsAmphibiansExoticsMore
One platform should not require every animal outside the two largest categories to become “Other.”
Canada had approximately 29.76 million pets in 2024, of which roughly 12.58 million were neither dogs nor cats. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Pet food trends in Canada, 2025. Data year 2024.
Switching should not mean starting over.
Petworking is being designed to import your existing business data rather than forcing you to rebuild it manually. We can migrate or preserve:
- Customers
- Pets
- Pet records
- Services
- Pricing
- Staff
- Bookings
- Appointments
- Memberships
- Packages
- Subscriptions
- Products
- Inventory
- Transactions
- Notes
- Documents
- Custom fields
If your current software can export it, our goal is to ingest it.
Talk to us about migrationFounding businesses receive white-glove migration support.
Ready to bring your business into the network?
Founding 25 businesses receive their first location on Multi-site, our highest tier, free for life. Transaction fees still apply at Multi-site rates.