The pet parent
One account for every pet in the household.
Petworking vs. Square
Payments are one part of running a pet business.
Square is a strong payments and point-of-sale company. Petworking is the pet-industry operating layer around payment processing: bookings, pet records, memberships, storefront, inventory, referrals and order-ahead pickup. Processing is a named rate; marketplace commission is separate and applies only to transactions Petworking generates.
Written by Petworking. Last checked 15 September 2026. Square Canada pricing and products.
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One platform. More of the pet world.
One animal, one lifeSquare takes the payment at every one of these stops. It does not run the work happening at them.
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 |  | Square |
|---|---|---|
| Both of us do this | ||
| Business management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Customer CRM | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pet profiles | ✓ | – |
| Online booking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Payments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Memberships and subscriptions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inventory | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-location | ✓ | ✓ |
| 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. | ✓ | – |
Checked against Square’s own public product pages, help centre and pricing documentation on 15 September 2026. 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.
Square is a card reader and a point of sale. There is no like-for-like cost comparison to run, because Square does not sell scheduling, client records or booking. What it does sell, it sells well.
This is a scope comparison rather than a like-for-like cost table. Square has payments, point of sale and booking tools; the question here is the pet-specific record and the network around that work.
We are not trying to out-payment a payments company.
We are trying to be the layer a pet business actually works in all day: POS and payments, plus booking, pet-specific operations, marketplace discovery and the Pet Passport. Payment processing is its own named line. Direct transactions carry no marketplace commission.
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.