BarkBus

BarkBus is the operations app for pack-school dog walkers. The driver's phone runs the morning — turn-by-turn to every dog, gate codes when you pull up, one tap to pick up. Behind the scenes, AI quietly handles the admin, the billing and the bank reconciliation, so you can get back to the dogs.

Built in Cromwell, NZ, and trusted to run real runs every morning.

FIVE JOBS BARKBUS TAKES OFF YOUR PLATE

Mornings that run themselves Today's Run is a cockpit: the next dog's photo, address and gate code up top, the live route map underneath, one tap to pick up or flag a no-show — the office is notified instantly. Reorder stops when traffic forces it. The lock-screen widget keeps working with the phone in your pocket, through all three phases of the day: Pickup, Roll Call, Dropoff.

Navigate dog to dog Built-in turn-by-turn navigation, with every stop pinned by the dog's photo. Pull up and the app switches to arrival mode by itself — the gate code takes over the screen and one tap puts the dog aboard. No juggling a second maps app.

AI handles the admin Paste a client message and the assistant reads it, looks up your owners, dogs and schedule, and drafts the booking as a confirm card. It catches scheduling conflicts you'd miss ("Monday isn't a van day") and proposes the fix before the card reaches you. Nothing in your database changes until you tap Confirm. Powered by Claude.

Your books do themselves Charges generate from what actually happened on the runs. Upload your bank statement and reconciliation runs on autopilot: AI matches every deposit to an owner, remembers your payers month to month, and applies the confident matches itself. What's left is a tidy "who's behind" list, oldest first, with one-tap payment nudges.

Homestays, handled A multi-night homestay is one record. Book it once — with a live price estimate as you type — and the schedule absorbs it, the dashboard counts it, the driver's run flags it, and the billing line just appears. One record of truth, zero double-entry.

YOUR CUSTOMERS GET AN APP TOO Owners log in to see pickups and dropoffs live, get a notification as their dog comes aboard, mark away days, and request homestays — which land on your desk as one-tap approvals.

WORKS EVERYWHERE YOU DO Phone in the van, tablet on the passenger seat, laptop on the desk. Plan the week on the calendar, run the morning from the lock screen, and let the books reconcile themselves by close of business.

First month free. No lock-in.

Learn more at https://barkbus.app