GPS Visit Tracking

GPS visit tracking uses the location sensor in a walker's or sitter's phone to record where a service actually took place. During a dog walk it captures the route as a map the owner can view; during an in-home pet-sitting visit it confirms the provider was at the house and for how long. The result is trust: owners get proof the service happened as promised.

For dog-walking and pet-sitting businesses this feature is a major selling point and a safeguard. Owners paying for a midday walk want assurance it occurred, and a GPS map plus timestamps and photos delivers that far more convincingly than a text saying "all done." It also protects the business in disputes, since there's an objective record of arrival, departure, and route.

In software, GPS tracking is tied to the visit or appointment. The provider starts the visit in the app, walks, and ends it; the app logs start/end times, distance, and the path, then includes them in the visit report sent to the owner. Some platforms add geofencing to auto-detect arrival at the client's address, and pin-drop markers for where the dog peed or pooped.

Because it relies on the provider's phone and consumes battery and data, good implementations track efficiently and degrade gracefully when signal is poor, while still logging enough to verify the visit.