Routing
One route for the whole day
WalkEase used to make a separate journey out of every booking. Now anything you could reasonably do in one go is bundled into a single journey, so you are not driving the same road twice.
- 1Book your walks and drop-ins the way you always have.
- 2Open Today’s Route. Solo walks that sit together become one journey: pickup, walk, drop off, next client.
- 3A pack walk or a drop-in starts a new journey, because those genuinely are separate trips.
- 4Only pack walks get a Route Out and a Route Back. Everything else is just one route.
Routing
Every journey has a start and a finish
You pick where a journey begins and where it ends, and the next one carries on from wherever the last one finished.
- 1In Today’s Route, tap Change next to Start.
- 2Choose home, a custom address, or carry on from where the last journey ended.
- 3Do the same for the finish. At the end of the day that can be home, so the drive back counts.
- 4If the start is the same place as the first stop, WalkEase does not make you drive there twice.
Routing
Add a stop instead of guessing
Nipped home for a cuppa between two walks? That is real driving and it should count. WalkEase no longer tries to guess what a long gap meant.
- 1Open the journey and tap Add a stop.
- 2Type an address, or pick home.
- 3It slots into the route in order and counts towards your mileage.
- 4Drag any stop to reorder it. Swipe one away if you did not actually go, and swipe back to undo.
Mileage
Mileage at the new 55p rate
HMRC raised the approved mileage rate from 45p to 55p a mile for the first 10,000 business miles on 6 April 2026. WalkEase uses the rate that applied on the day you drove, so older journeys still work out at 45p.
- 1Every journey is measured on its own and shows an estimated distance.
- 2Tap Log, check it against your maps app or your odometer, and correct it if it is out.
- 3Your figure is the one that gets claimed. The estimate is only a starting point.
- 4The Money screen totals your tax year and shows what it is worth at HMRC rates.
Mileage
It remembers your corrections
Correct a round once and you should not have to correct it again every single week.
- 1Log a journey and adjust the distance to what you actually drove.
- 2WalkEase saves that figure against the route itself, not against the booking.
- 3Next time you drive the same doors in the same order, your figure comes back on its own.
- 4It is saved to your account, so a new phone picks up where the old one left off.
Routing
A proper handoff to Apple and Google Maps
Tap through to maps and the whole route goes with it, starting from your start point rather than from wherever your phone happens to be sitting.
- 1Open a journey, tap Route, then Open in Maps.
- 2Pick Apple Maps or Google Maps.
- 3Every stop carries across in order, up to ten of them.
- 4Waze was removed. Its link only ever carried one destination, which is not a route.
Invoicing
Invoices you can tidy, not just delete
Nothing in WalkEase should be a one-way door.
- 1Swipe an invoice to archive it or delete it. Swipe the other way to undo.
- 2Archived invoices stay in your records. Deleted ones are gone for good.
- 3If a walk has already been billed, you get a warning before anything disappears.
- 4Open any invoice to edit it, send the PDF, or take card payment on the same screen.
Dogs
A screen for every dog
Everything about a dog on one card, the kind you could hand straight to whoever is covering for you.
- 1Open a dog from the Dogs tab.
- 2Details, prices and care record each sit in their own box, with their own edit and save.
- 3The care record covers vet, feeding, how they are with other dogs, and how to get in.
- 4Prices can follow your default rates or be custom for that dog. Change your defaults and custom-priced dogs stay exactly as they are.