TailDesk

Description

TailDesk is a simple booking plugin for pet sitters and petsitters who manage bookings by day, not by time slot.

It helps you accept pet sitting requests directly from your WordPress website, show availability based on daily capacity, and manage booking requests from the WordPress admin area.

TailDesk is built for solo pet sitters, dog sitters, cat sitters, small pet care businesses, dog daycares, home boarding services and other pet care services that need a focused booking workflow instead of a generic appointment system.

Use TailDesk when you want visitors to request one or more days, while you stay in control of availability, capacity and booking status.

Key features:

• Add a booking request form with a dedicated Gutenberg block or shortcode.
• Add an availability calendar with a dedicated Gutenberg block or shortcode.
• Create multiple services, each with its own daily rate and daily capacity.
• Manage day based availability instead of time slots.
• Show clear day states for available, limited and fully booked dates.
• Let visitors submit booking requests without creating an account.
• Receive booking requests directly on your WordPress website.
• Receive email notifications when a new booking request is submitted.
• Manage bookings, statuses and internal notes in WordPress.
• Use simple global pricing format settings.

TailDesk works well for:

• pet sitting
• petsitter websites
• dog sitting
• cat sitting
• dog daycare requests
• holiday pet care
• home boarding
• small pet care businesses
• day based pet care services

Both frontend tools can be added in two ways:

• Block editor: use the TailDesk Booking Form block and the TailDesk Availability Calendar block.
• Shortcodes: use [taildesk_booking_form] and [taildesk_availability service_id="123"].

Blocks

TailDesk Booking Form

Insert a pet sitting booking request form anywhere with the block editor. You can choose which services are available in the form and control the field order.

Visitors can select a service, choose a date range, enter their details and submit a booking request without creating an account.

TailDesk Availability Calendar

Insert a service availability calendar anywhere with the block editor. Choose the service in the block settings and show month by month availability on the frontend.

The calendar shows clear availability states, so visitors can see which days are available, limited or fully booked before they send a request.

Shortcodes

You can also use shortcodes if you are working with classic themes, widgets, templates or page builders.

Booking form:

[taildesk_booking_form]

Availability calendar:

[taildesk_availability service_id="123"]