Walkies records your walks and visits as they happen. Walks are tracked with GPS, visits keep a timeline of what you did, and your clients can follow along live and get a report with photos when you finish.
Walks and journeys
Walks, hikes and runs: Walkies tracks the route, time and distance, and you log pees and poops for each dog. Walk dogs from different homes, with a report each or one group report. See How do I start and end a walk?
Pet taxi: track a journey with GPS, for any type of pet. See How do I record a pet taxi trip?
Pick up and drop off: tell clients you've collected their pet, or dropped them home, without tracking a route. See How do I mark pets as picked up and dropped off?
Visits and stays
Drop-ins: log what you did, with photos. Pet sitting, training, grooming and meet & greet visits work the same way. See How do I do a drop-in visit?
Daycare, boarding, overnight stays and home sitting: starting the stay checks the pets in, and ending it checks them out. Tap Ready for pickup to tell your client their pet can be collected. See How do I start and end a daycare or boarding stay?
From a booking: start a booked appointment from Appts, so it's linked to the booking. See How do I start a visit from an appointment?
What you can add
Updates: food, water, medication, play, household jobs, grooming and toilet breaks, or your own custom updates. See How do I log updates during a visit? and How do I add a custom update?
Photos and videos: how many you can add depends on your plan. See How do I add photos and videos to a visit?
Notes and checklists: overall notes, notes for each pet, and your own checklists to tick off. See How do I tick off a checklist and add notes? and How do I add a checklist?
Report cards: a picture of the visit to send by text, WhatsApp or any app. See How do I send a report card?
What your clients see
A message when you start, so they can follow along live in the Walkies Journal app.
A message when you finish, with a link to the report: the route map, distance, time, photos, updates and your notes. The link opens in the app, or in a web browser for clients without it.
Live chat with you, or the team member doing it, in the walk or visit's Feed, while it's happening and afterwards. See Can I live chat with clients during a walk or visit?
Messages go by email, and by push notification in the Journal app. SMS and WhatsApp need Walkies Pro or Max. See How do I choose which notifications all my clients get?
Activity settings
In Menu > Your app settings > Activity settings, you can hide your route from clients until a walk ends, stop recording routes, and get reminders as the booked time runs out. See How do I hide my route or change activity settings?
On your iPhone and Apple Watch
Walks and shorter visits in progress show on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Home Screen widgets start a walk, drop-in, taxi and more, and show today's appointments.
On Apple Watch, see the time and distance of the walk you're on, and add pees and poops for each pet.
If Apple Health is connected, walks are saved to Health as workouts.
Afterwards
Find, change or delete finished walks and visits in Menu > All completed activities. See How do I find my completed walks and visits?
To log your mileage between visits, see How do I track a trip?
Good to know
Walkies needs location access to track walks.
The weather on walks and visits needs Walkies Pro or Max.
Team members only see the walks and visits they're on, and can live chat with the client in each one's Feed.