BarkBus

Run your pack school from a van, not a spreadsheet.

BarkBus is dog walking software built by a pack school in Cromwell, New Zealand, and used on our own vans every morning. It takes the printed sheet, the WhatsApp group and the spreadsheet nobody trusts off your plate, so the morning run is quiet: drivers know who's next, owners get a ping the second their dog is on board, and billing catches itself up without a Sunday-night reckoning.

Six things BarkBus does for you (every one included on every plan):

• Live maps & routing: see every stop on a map, optimise the route in one tap, and get turn-by-turn guidance without leaving the app.
• Hands-free pickups: next dog, address, gate code, all on the lock screen. One thumb, tap, go.
• Owner portal: owners get a ping the second their dog is on board, and can mark absences, request homestays and book from their phone. No more "where is he?" texts.
• AI does your admin: paste a client message and the assistant reads it, looks up the dogs and drafts the booking.
• Auto-bills & reconciles: every pickup bills itself. Connect your bank and payments flow in and match to the right owner.
• Homestays, handled: book once and the schedule, driver, dashboard and billing all update themselves.

From install to your first run in under ten minutes: drop in a screenshot of your current pack list, a Google Sheet or a photo of a paper list, and the assistant imports your dogs.

One simple price by vans, every feature on every plan, unlimited staff logins, and no charge per staff member. First month free, no card needed. Built for dog walkers, daycares and pack schools, in New Zealand and Australia first and widening from there.