TailDesk

TailDesk is a booking plugin for pet sitters who manage bookings by day instead of by time slot.

It helps you accept pet sitting requests directly from your WordPress website, show availability based on daily capacity, and manage bookings 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 day based booking workflow.

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

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.
• Limit booking forms to selected services.
• Control the order of booking form fields in the block editor.
• 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.
• Protect public booking forms with a configurable honeypot, minimum fill time, and privacy-conscious rate limiting.
• Optionally add Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA v2, or Google reCAPTCHA v3.
• Receive email notifications when a new booking request is submitted.
• Manage bookings, statuses and internal notes in WordPress.
• Generate and print invoices from the booking admin screen.
• Configure global date format, pricing format and notification settings.
• Configure invoice company details, tax settings and yearly invoice numbering.
• View upcoming capacity and new booking requests in the WordPress Dashboard.

TailDesk works well for:

• solo pet sitters
• dog sitters and cat sitters
• dog daycare requests
• holiday pet care
• home boarding
• small pet care businesses
• other 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"].

TailDesk Pro

TailDesk Pro is an optional extension for pet sitters who need more control over bookings, pricing and workflows.

With TailDesk Pro you can:

• add service extras and advanced pricing rules
• set minimum booking days per service
• use more flexible capacity rules per service
• add custom booking fields per service
• sync website bookings with Google Calendar
• use other Google Calendar events as capacity blocking overlays
• customize customer emails per service
• use multiple invoice templates and more advanced invoice layouts

Blocks

TailDesk Booking Form

Insert a pet sitting booking request form anywhere with the block editor.

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

Site owners can choose which services are available in each form and control the order of customer fields.

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.

You can also send visitors to a custom page or form when they click an available date.

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"]