67% of US households own a pet. Pet waste removal is a $1B+ industry with almost zero barriers to entry. The operators who win are the ones who run it like a real business — with real tools.
There is no national scooping chain on your doorstep — the US market is thousands of solo operators and small crews, each owning a few zip codes. That fragmentation is the opportunity: in most metros, the best-organized operator with the fastest response and the cleanest billing simply wins the neighborhood.
ScoopPro is built for exactly that fight: recurring weekly routes, per-yard records with dog counts and gate codes, SMS reminders from your number, and photo proof that ends "did you even come?" disputes before they start.
American scoop businesses run on weekly recurring service billed monthly — a subscription business wearing work gloves. ScoopPro treats that as the core model: every customer sits on a route day, visits generate automatically, and flat monthly billing charges the card on file through your own Stripe account.
One-time spring cleanups get quotes and payment links by text, and the follow-up question — "want us weekly from here?" — is one tap from becoming a standing route stop.
The whole product works one-handed on a phone between yards: mark the stop cleared, snap the gate photo, check the next gate code, watch the day reorder when someone cancels. Free for your first 15 customers, $47/month flat after — priced for a business where the average customer pays about that much themselves.
No — there is no federal license and, in nearly every state, no state license either. That is one of the industry’s defining advantages: the barrier to entry is a trailer hitch and a work ethic, which is exactly why the operators who win are the ones who out-organize the field.
Weekly service commonly lands around $60–$100 per month per household depending on region, yard size, and number of dogs, with one-time cleanups priced separately. ScoopPro models this directly: flat monthly billing per customer with the card on file.
Spring, decisively — operators call it the snow-melt reveal. Months of accumulation appear in a two-week window and the phone rings. A CRM matters most exactly then: one-time cleanup jobs convert to weekly service, and the route has to absorb a season of growth without dropping anyone.
Yes — associations like the aPaws community exist and membership is optional. They are worth knowing for peer knowledge and directories, but nothing about the trade requires joining; your reputation lives in reviews and referrals either way.
Import your route, text your customers, and bill the month — all before the spring rush decides your year.
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