The pet parent
One account for every pet in the household.
Petworking vs. Rover
20% of every booking it delivers, published and unchanged by volume.
Rover's published sitter fee is 20% in most US states, 25% in California and on RoverGO, with an 11% booking fee charged to the pet parent on top and capped at $50. Rover is also testing per-client tiers in selected cities. Petworking marketplace commission is 7% on every plan and applies only to transactions Petworking generates. Payment processing applies separately.
Written by Petworking. Last checked 15 September 2026. Rover service fees.
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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 Rover 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 |  | Rover |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Every plan and every volume comes out ahead here, and the gap grows the more of your work arrives through the marketplace.
What you save on a new client against Rover
Rover's published sitter fee is 20% of the bookings it delivers, 25% in California and on RoverGO, and it applies for as long as that client keeps booking. The Petworking marketplace commission is 7% on every plan, it applies only to a transaction Petworking generated, and it is $0 the next time that same client books you directly.
Your Petworking plan
Petworking, 7% once$35.00
Rover, 20% every time$100.00
$65.00a month kept on the same bookings$780 across a year
Rover figures use its published 20% sitter fee from Rover's help centre. California and RoverGO are 25%, an 11% booking fee is charged to the owner on top, and Rover is testing per-client tiers in selected cities. Payment processing applies to the transaction as well, as it does to every paid transaction, and it is a named rate rather than a hidden margin. A client who books you directly next time carries no marketplace commission at all.
This comparison is marketplace commission only: 7% for Petworking on every plan versus the reference 20% Rover sitter fee. Petworking payment processing is separate and is not included in the saving shown.
The commission is the whole comparison.
A marketplace earns its fee by finding you someone new. Rover's published fee is 20% of the booking, and it applies to the bookings after it as well. Petworking charges 7% commission only on transactions it generates. When that client books you directly next time the marketplace commission is $0, and normal payment processing still applies. Attribution belongs to the transaction, never permanently to the customer.
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.
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Founding 25 businesses receive their first location on Multi-site, our highest tier, free for life. Transaction fees still apply at Multi-site rates.