TailDesk

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"].

1.0.3

• Added WordPress Dashboard widgets for upcoming capacity and pending booking requests.
• Added a service filter in dashboard widgets with quick links to filtered booking and calendar views.
• Allowed booking start dates in the past for admin-created and admin-updated bookings.
• Removed built-in Pro extras and Pro booking field payload handling from core booking flows.
• Added new booking hooks for integrations and updated translation files.
• Added PHP 7.4 support by aligning runtime requirement checks with code requirements.

1.0.2

• Added centralized date format handling across admin and frontend.
• Improved booking and calendar admin workflows, including date validation and filtering.
• Added click_url support for availability calendar interactions.
• Updated booking email output and translation files.

1.0.1

• First public release of TailDesk.
• Addressed plugin review team feedback.

1.0.0

• Initial version.