Doxford

RATING:

4.7

(19)

About Doxford

With our pet daycare booking and management software, you can easily manage your business as a dog walker, pet sitter, or trainer. Our system offers a range of features to help you keep track of your clients and their pets, including a central location for storing data, invoicing and payment tools, a booking calendar, and the ability to schedule appointments and upload important documents. We also provide a financial reporting feature to help you keep track of your business finances. Our software is easy to use and can be tailored to meet the specific needs of your company.

Doxford Pricing

Doxford is available on a pay-as-you-go basis. Pricing starts at $39.90 per month ($24.90 per month if paid annually) and scales with number of active users.

Starting price: 

$24.90 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Doxford Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Doxford

1 - 5 of 19 Reviews

Anonymous

501-1,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2019

Simple software

Great for keeping your business organized and productive.

PROS

All in one for managing your pet based business. Keeping track of your clients alone makes this software invaluable. 24/7 customer support.

CONS

Haven't found any software issues in my time using it yet. Maybe a few more customization options would be nice.

Vendor Response

Thank you for such a nice review. We're working on the system every day, so there's gonna be many more valuable features really soon!

Replied July 2019

Lara

Individual & Family Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2021

Best Pet Sitting Software I’ve Found

I don’t often write reviews however I feel like this one deserves a special mention because it’s really good and it is getting better every day. I like the visuals and the graphics and the thought behind it. The software maker is really easy to contact with any suggestions and feature improvements and he has already implemented quite a few things I suggested. It’s nice because you can tailor it exactly to your needs which saves you time. With other ones I didn’t like the design and it wasnt customisable so I couldn’t change much, but this is great! You can tell that the software [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] genuinely cares about making it just right for your business needs. It’s saved me so much time as before I was doing everything manually by hand. It has pet info, client info, payments, calendar, invoicing, email templates, booking system, vaccine parts, legal disclaimer sections, check in/out, etc etc. I went through a lot of software trials before deciding on this one and I’ve now been using it for about a year. They have a trial you can do first, which is what I did. Hope that’s helps someone in their pet sitting business.

PROS

I really like the design, colours, customisability and features. The customer service is second to none. It has absolutely everything you need to run a good pet sitting business all in one place.

CONS

There are a few improvements to the booking system that the software [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is still working on. At the moment I use youcanbook.me for the meet and greet part but other than that I use Doxford. But probably within a week of writing this they’ll be perfect as whenever I contact him he makes changes really fast to get it better! That’s one of the things I like so much about Doxford is how much he listens and perfects it to my company’s needs

Reason for choosing Doxford

As above: I personally feel that Doxford has better design, fantastic customer service, much more helpful altering things to exactly fit my company as I needed it, much more logical layout.

Reasons for switching to Doxford

Much better design, fantastic customer service, much more helpful altering things to exactly fit my company as I needed it, much more logical layout.

ALEXANDER

Veterinary, 11-50 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed May 2021

Not enough time with it

PROS

It was easy to keep up with appointments that were last minute

CONS

I don’t think that I had enough time to see anything significantly wrong with the program

Jana

Individual & Family Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2021

Exactly what I needed!

I was looking for something very specific & Doxford fit the bill completely. I wanted something affordable for a 1 person team. I knew going in that I wanted text notifications, reports with pictures and notes, plus the ability to track payments. I also needed to easily manage my schedule and be able to customize my services to each clients needs. All that while being able to access this from any device! Doxford still checks all of those boxes for me months later!! I actually went down almost the entire list on Capterra for pet sitting software, and tested them. Took me a month, so I did my research and found Doxford to be the best and most affordable for all of those things I needed. Doxford's calendar view shows me everything going on that day, week and month- it's perfect! Prior to using Doxford I was having to use a physical calendar and two apps on my phone. It was ridiculous! Now, I can glance at the calendar and know who is paid up, what appointments are confirmed and when I have openings! AMAZING! One thing I didn't know I would want, that Doxford offers, is that I can have complete pet profiles with feeding instructions, medications and personality descriptions. I like having all that info right at my finger tips in the software, so I don't have to dig through paperwork or try to remember everything on my own. It's SO HELPFUL when you can see your notes from a past stay to refresh your memory on boarding a particular dog.

PROS

I love that I can easily view and manage my schedule online from anywhere. My customers get text notifications with a link to their check in report with pictures. I like how I can actually customize the reports a little bit too, so I can check off meals or medications that have been given. Everything is so nice and streamlined for me because all the information I need is in one place. Saves me time and my customers love it! Also, their support team is on top of everything, so its nice knowing someone has your back!

CONS

I do wish I could have multiple owners receive text message alerts. As of right now you can only have the notifications sent to one phone number. However, I told the dev about this wish and it may be in the works. Any time I have brought up a feature idea to the support team they are all ears. I can tell they love what they do.

Reason for choosing Doxford

Doxford offered ALL the things I am looking for at an affordable price. Other software would have only some of what I needed, or the price was too high for me. I like how easy it is to use the Doxford software and mobile app together. I really enjoy the overall look and design of Doxford a lot more than the others I tested too.

Reasons for switching to Doxford

I switched from the Walkies app because they were making way too many changes that made the app less and less useful for me. Also, I was not able to use that app on an android phone or on my computer and I needed that flexibility. There had been the promise of an android app for the better part of a year and it never happened so I just decided to move on to something more fitting.

Cassandra

Veterinary, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2021

Growing groomer

So far my experience has been good. I have made suggestions that the company has implemented and used my ideas.

PROS

Doxford is a less expensive software to use. It is a growing service so being patient with the lack of features is important but for the price it does what you need it to. They have been amazing at listening to suggestions. I think the program has the potential of being a great program to use.

CONS

I miss some features such as taking credit cards with the program, having confirmation texts sent to customers to respond and we know they confirmed their appointment.

Reason for choosing Doxford

It was cheaper even tho it lacked alot of features but they said they were open to ideas and suggestions.

Reasons for switching to Doxford

They were expensive and features that I needed daily would stop working such as confirming appointments, creating a new client, scheduling an appointment. Whenever they added a new feature something else stopped working. Also, when you called in with issues they always "submitted a ticket" to have it fixed and would let you know when it was fixed but never received anything back about it