Rover skims 31% — 20% off your rate, 11% off your owner. Clickity Clack takes 1%. Stripe takes the card fee. Everything else is yours. Same walk, same price, +$7.83 per walk in your pocket.
Rover's own published fees: 20% off the walker, 11% off the owner. Do the math.
| On a $30 walk (owner pays $30 total) | Clickity Clack | Rover |
|---|---|---|
| Platform fee | $0.30 (1%) | ~$9.30 (31% combined) |
| Card processing | $1.17 (Stripe, shown on receipt) | included in the 31% |
| Walker take-home | $28.53 🟢 | $20.70 |
| Per-walk gain | +$7.83 🟢 | — |
That's $7.83 per walk. 10 walks a week = $78.30. Compounds fast.
Not 4.5%. Not "plus processing." Not "plus trust and safety." One percent flat, plus whatever Stripe charges to swipe the card. We show you the full breakdown on every payout. No mystery math.
Owner's price doesn't work? Counter-offer. Extra dog? Overnight? Longer walk? Set your base rate, your additional-dog rate, your overnight rate. They accept or negotiate. Your business, your pricing.
Every walk is tracked live. Owners see the route. You get proof of service. If something goes sideways, the map exists.
You built those relationships. You remembered Biscuit can't have chicken. Rover didn't do that — you did.
Send your owners a link. Same walk, same $30 they paid before — and now you take home $7.83 more on every single one. Everybody wins except the platform that was quietly skimming nine bucks.
On Rover, you can't lower prices to win more clients — their fee stack eats any discount twice. Drop the rate, your take-home drops AND the owner still pays 11% on top. Both sides lose. Rover still wins.
On Clickity Clack, the rate you set is the rate the owner pays. No 11% on top. No 20% underneath. So here's what's possible:
Same paycheck. Bigger book of business. Happier clients.
Rover charges walkers for a "background check" at signup. A background check. For walking dogs.
What are they screening for? Canine-related felonies? Prior history of stealing kibble? The whole thing is paperwork theater that extracts a fee from people who are already giving up 20% of every walk. We don't do it. We never will.
If an owner wants to know you're not a weirdo, they meet you. They meet their dog. That's what a meet-and-greet is for. Adults can assess other adults without a platform charging money to run a name through a database.
Rover markets a "Guarantee" that covers up to $25,000 CAD in vet bills if your dog gets hurt on a walk. Sounds amazing! Here's what their own Guarantee Terms actually say:
Then it gets better. To actually collect, your claim has to pass all of these filters:
It's not insurance. They wrote that themselves, in all caps. It's a marketing asset with a 250-dollar tollbooth in front of it.
We don't sell you one. We tell you the truth: if you want real pet insurance, buy it from a company that's actually regulated as an insurer. Don't pay a marketplace to pretend.
Look at a Rover receipt. Then look at ours. Decide who's being straight with you.
What the hell is "Standard Rate (50%) @ $18"? Fifty percent of what? Why is there a line item explicitly named "Rover Service Fee" on a service the owner thought they were already paying for? Deliberately confusing.
Three numbers. Card fee, platform fee, payout. Plus the tip — 100% of every tip goes to the walker. We don't touch it. We don't "process" it. We don't skim it.
Profile, photos, bio. That's the whole onboarding. No background check fee.
Per-walk base, additional-dog add-on, overnight rate. You decide.
Owner's price doesn't work? Propose yours. Your call every time.
GPS runs, invoice drops, payout hits your Stripe account.
| Walker tier on Rover (reported take-home) | Same gross on Clickity Clack | Gained per year |
|---|---|---|
| Median walker: $42,768 | $56,374 | +$13,606 |
| 75th percentile: $55,443 | $73,081 | +$17,638 |
| Top 10%: $69,708 | $91,898 | +$22,190 |
Drop rates 25% on Clickity Clack (e.g., $22 instead of $30), owners save 27%, and walker availability fills up fast. The same price point that was "tight" on Rover becomes "affordable" on Clickity Clack.
Most walkers pick a middle path: small price drop, big volume bump, bigger paycheck, grateful owners.
Math assumes Rover's published 20% walker service fee + 11% owner booking fee = 31% combined platform friction. Clickity Clack friction = 1% platform + Stripe processing ≈ 4.5%. Earnings baselines from Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter.
On a $30 Rover walk, your walker actually takes home $20.70. The other $9.30 goes to Rover.
On Clickity Clack, your walker only needs to charge $22 to take home the same $20.70. You save $8 per walk. They earn the same. Rover gets nothing.
If they are, you're overpaying by $8 every walk. If they're not, send them this link — they'll thank you, and your next walk will cost less.
Yes. Plus whatever Stripe charges to process the card (~$1.17 on a $30 walk). We show the breakdown on every payout.
Correct. A background check doesn't tell an owner whether you're good with dogs. A meet-and-greet does.
Correct. We're not an insurance company, and Rover's "Guarantee" isn't one either — read their own terms. If you want real coverage, buy real pet insurance from a real insurer.
Direct deposit, fast turnaround. Exact timing depends on Stripe's payout schedule for your account.
That's the whole idea. Your client list is yours. We give you a shareable link.
Canada only for now. We're focused on doing it right in one country before expanding.