If a sitter says they charge $11 per drop in visit is that $11 dollars per dog? or $11 dollars total per visit to let my two dogs out?

If you had previously been arranging for drop in visits with your sitters, you would have already been paying their drop in rate, though there was no way to differentiate this from overnight care with Rover's pricing options. Many of the travel sitters on this site have always provided drop in visits (many of them ONLY provide drop in visits) and they just had to make the site work for them using the rate options provided.

In some instances, drop in visits may be more cost effective than paying a flat overnight fee; however, when scheduling multiple visits, you're also paying for time and travel costs beyond just the time the sitter spends with your pets. The visits may be something like 30 minutes, but the sitter may invest 60 minutes of their time for each visit, which is time they can't be devoting to other clients, so if you're comparing the cost of multiple drop in visits to the cost of overnight care, you may notice that the drop in visits add up quickly because of how restricting they can be on a sitter's schedule. If a sitter is providing overnight care at your home, they may still be able to take on a client or two for drop in visits and still spend the majority of their time at home with your dogs.

You do have to ask the sitters how they charge and what that charge entails. Nothing on Rover is standard, as sitters control their fees and how they're charged. Rover only recently implemented new service categories,, which allow sitters to easily differentiate between drop-in visits and overnight at the customer's home. The drop-in rate is per visit, but you should definitely talk to the sitter about how the length of the visit, what the sitter will do and if a single visit charge covers both dogs.

Sitters have the option of publishing their rate for additional dogs they are servicing, so for sure ask your sitter what that rate is, in case they may not have seen that option on the website. I charge a base fee for the first dog or cat, and a lower fee for each additional pet for drop in services. I'm there anyway, so it seems logical additional pets would have a lower fee. As previously mentioned, all sitters establish their own rates so it could vary a lot in different markets and situations.