SitPup guide
Best Booking Widget for Pet Sitting Websites
The best booking widget for a pet sitting website is the one that collects the details you would otherwise chase by message: dates, pet details, capacity and contact. Here are the common options and where each one fits.
7 min read
Related SitPup page: Pet Booking Widget
What actually matters in a pet care widget
A pet care widget has to collect more than a name and a preferred time. Before adding one to your site, check whether it can handle the details you would normally ask for in messages.
- 1
Pet fields
Breed, age, weight and care notes collected with the request, not chased by message after.
- 2
Capacity limits
A cap on how many animals you take at once, so requests can't silently double-book.
- 3
Multi-day stays
A date range that blocks every day in between, not a single appointment slot.
- 4
No commission
A flat fee or free plan, not a percentage taken from every booking made through it.
The common widget options
SitPup is a pet booking widget that opens a booking form behind a button on your site. Best for: independent sitters, home boarding and small pet care businesses that need pet fields, date ranges and capacity. Main advantage: it is included on the Free plan and takes no commission. Main limitation: it is focused on booking requests, not payments, payroll or broad CRM. Price checked: Free plan, with paid plans for higher limits.
Booksy offers a website booking widget for Booksy businesses. Best for: service businesses that already use Booksy or want its marketplace, marketing tools and appointment setup. Main advantage: strong appointment ecosystem. Main limitation: its published positioning is beauty and wellness first, and pet-specific fields are not part of the published feature set. Price checked: $29.99/month plus $20/month per additional team member.
Calendly offers inline, pop-up text and pop-up widget embeds. Best for: simple appointment-style services, calls and fixed-length visits. Main advantage: easy scheduling and broad website embed support. Main limitation: a date range, pet details and boarding capacity usually become workarounds. Price checked: Free plan available; Standard listed from $10/seat/month when billed yearly.
Tally is a form builder that can be embedded as a standard form, popup or full-page form. Best for: collecting custom intake questions when you do not need a booking calendar. Main advantage: flexible forms with a generous free plan. Main limitation: it will not understand availability, date ranges or capacity unless you connect other tools. Price checked: Free plan available; Pro listed at $24/month.
Where SitPup's widget fits
SitPup's widget code is two lines: a div and a script tag, generated after you publish. It opens a booking form with pet fields, capacity limits and multi-day date ranges, on the Free plan, with zero commission. It works in eight languages, matches your site's language automatically, and drops into a WordPress Custom HTML block, a Wix embed element or plain HTML the same way.
Test any widget in five minutes
Before committing to one, run this on your own site.
- 1
Paste it and send yourself a request
From your phone, not just your desktop.
- 2
Check what it collected
Dates, pet details, contact, all in the same request?
- 3
Try to double-book it
Does it stop you, or accept two overlapping requests silently?
- 4
Check the cost
A flat fee, or a cut of every booking that comes through it?
Key takeaways
- Check for pet fields, capacity limits and multi-day stays before adding any booking widget.
- SitPup's widget is two lines of code, free to start, with those pieces included.
- No commission on any booking made through it.
- Works in WordPress, Wix or plain HTML the same way.
Get your widget code
Set up your services, publish, and copy two lines into your site. Free, with no commission on what you book.