For every relief veterinarian

Your relief work comes home.

Whether you have an LLC with lots of direct bookings, or just pick up a few shifts a month on an app, your relief work is scattered across emails, text, marketplace apps, spreadsheets, and a shoebox of 1099s. Roost turns all of it into one calendar, one invoice trail, and one picture you own outright. And your practices get a portal to schedule and pay you. Start for free until your relief work earns $25K a year. After, a year of Roost costs less than a single shift.

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You own your data, not Roost. Export everything, anytime.

The problem

Your relief work lives in eight places. None made for you.

The calendarsBooked in one, confirmed in another, remembered in a third.

The appsEach one sees its own shifts. Nothing else.

The texts & emailsWhere your independent bookings actually happen.

The spreadsheetTrying to hold the rest together.

The mileage appKnows the miles, not the shifts they belong to.

The invoice docA Word template and a prayer.

The check pileMailed when the practice remembers. Deposited when you do.

The shoeboxWhere 1099s and receipts wait for April.

Every gap costs real money: uncaptured mileage, missed deductions, chased invoices, a tax season spent reconstructing the year. Roost puts it back together.

What Roost is

The operating system for your relief work

Every shift, wherever it came from

Independent bookings and marketplace shifts, side by side. One calendar, one invoice trail, one picture of what you’ve earned. You don’t change how you work. Roost adapts to you.

Bill it, bank it, don’t chase it

The invoice builds itself from the shift you worked, and the reminders go out without you writing them. Opt to take payment through Roost and the money lands in your account already matched to the shift. Or keep getting paid the way you do now. Either way, collecting stops being the extra job.

Own what you built

Your practices, your rates, your history: always exportable, never held hostage. No non‑competes, no lock‑in on the relationships you built. Roost is the operating system you invest in for your relief work, not a middleman you work for.

Why Roost Payments

Getting paid is the last unpaid job

You worked the shift, built the invoice, sent it, and now you wait. The check comes when the practice gets to it (unless you remind them). Then you photograph it or drive it to the bank, and wait again for it to clear. Roost Payments takes each of those steps off your plate, and makes it easy for the practice, too.

The chaseThe invoice, then the reminder, then the awkward follow‑up.Roost sends the invoice and the reminders, and the practice pays online.
The depositPhotograph the check, or drive it in, then wait days for it to clear.Bank transfer or card, straight to your account. No check to deposit.
The matchThen work out which payment covered which shift.With Roost Payments, each payment matches itself to its invoice and shift.

Getting paid always has a cost

Some show up on bank statements, others in the form of time, energy, or anxiety. If you choose to use Roost Payments within a paid Roost plan, a $1,000 shift paid by bank transfer costs $10 or less. The invoice Roost already built gets paid, the money lands in your account, and it matches itself to the shift.

You’re still the one being paid. The sale is yours, the funds are yours the moment they settle, and the payment runs through Stripe, between you and the practice. In the $10 example above, Stripe gets $5 for processing and Roost keeps the rest. Optional card payments cost more (about 3.4% in the example above). Fees for Roost Payments vary by plan.

Optional on every plan and separate from your subscription, always. Keep getting paid however you do today and Roost still builds the invoice, sends the reminders, and keeps the record.

Booking independently

What changes when a practice books you directly

Marketplaces can be a good way to find new practices, and their share pays for that work. Instead, working directly with practices has benefits for everyone involved, and Roost handles the scheduling, invoicing, and collecting the marketplace would otherwise be doing for you.

Through a marketplace

The practice pays	$1,440
The marketplace’s share (16.7%)	$240
You receive	$1,200

Booked directly with the practiceThe practice pays$1,320
Getting paid via bank transfer through Roost Paymentsabout $12
You receiveabout $1,308

The practice pays $120 less. You keep about $108 more.

An example, not a quote. Your rates will differ, but the arithmetic works the same way. Fees for Roost Payments vary by plan.

Whether you book all direct, all marketplace, or a mix of both, Roost keeps everything in the same picture.

The other ledger

Doing it by hand isn’t free either

The phone tag. The “what dates work for you?” threads. The invoice you built in Word and had to resend twice. The mileage log that never quite matches the shifts. None of it gets billed at your hourly rate. It just leaks. Put numbers on the leaks and the math comes up short.

A year of by‑hand admina worked example

Scheduling by text & phone tag“what dates work for you?” threads, across every practice, ~2 hrs a month	24 hrs
One shift lost to a calendar mix‑upa double‑booking, a wrong date, a thread that just died	−$1,200
Invoicing & chasing paymentbuilding, sending, resending, following up, ~2 hrs a month	24 hrs
Undeducted mileage~100 missed miles between practices each month, at the 76¢ IRS rate, assuming a 25% tax rate.	−$228
Gone each year, plus ~48 hours of your time	−$1,428

Your numbers will differ. That’s the point. Count your own phone‑tag hours and missed miles for one month and do the same math.

One shift buys the year

A full year of Roost starts at $499, well under what a single relief shift grosses. Save one shift from a by‑hand calendar mix‑up or double‑booking and Roost has paid for itself. If you gross below $25K a year, Roost costs nothing at all.

~48 hrs / year

Six full working days of phone tag, calendar juggling, and invoice chasing. If your month looks like this one, that’s time spent on your own back office. Practices requesting shifts off your real availability, invoices built from worked shifts, reminders that send themselves: that’s where those hours come back.

What’s inside

The unglamorous things, done right

The parts of running relief work as a business that eat your time, handled the way a good bookkeeper would.

Roost month calendar showing confirmed shifts, pending requests, possible days, and blocked days, including a vacation block noted “Leaving for vacation”

A schedule that works your way

View marketplace shifts alongside the practices you book directly
Syncs to Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar automatically
“Possible” days, not just booked‑or‑blocked
Have a “regular”? Batches of shifts, added in one step
Add notes to any date, and choose day by day which ones practices see

The practice portal’s Request a Shift calendar: the vet’s confirmed, pending, possible, and unavailable days, with a shift being requested for August 26

The practice portal dashboard: recent activity, suggested shifts to request, and outstanding invoices with Pay Now buttons

Give your practices a portal

Each practice you work with requests shifts from only the availability you choose to show it
Shift limits let you control your workload
Automatic shift suggestions, tailored to each practice
Upcoming shifts, invoices, and payment, all in one place
Free for your practices to use
Your branding throughout
Coming soon: Your own domain

Roost practices list with practice search, showing whether each practice is booked directly or through a marketplace, and each one’s visibility window, invoice terms, prices, discounts, cancellation policy, and reminders

Your rates, per practice

Each practice can have custom rate policies, or just use your defaults
Your discount & cancellation policies, per practice
Customizable holidays that follow the calendar, Black Friday included

Roost metrics: revenue, cash collected, outstanding invoices, confirmed income still to come, and shift volume

Know your numbers

Revenue and cash collected, side by side
What’s outstanding, and how overdue
Confirmed income still to come
Shifts worked, cancelled, and your cancellation rate
Your whole year in one picture, with no April reconstruction

Invoices that collect themselves

Invoices automatically built from worked shifts
Email reminders, sent politely for you at the intervals you select
Get paid by bank transfer or card, straight to your account
Roost Payments matched to invoices automatically
Coming soon: Accounting & banking integrations

Mileage, expenses & books

Mileage logged against every shift
Expenses captured as they happen
Coming soon: Full bookkeeping tools: P&L, reports, reconciliation

You own your data and relationships

Export everything: practices, shifts, invoices, history
Works on day one and day one thousand
No non‑competes, no lock‑in on the relationships you built

Pricing

The Plans: Perch, Nest, Aerie

Start free. Pay when your relief work outgrows it. Every plan works with as many practices as you do, and the Roost Payments rate steps down as your plan goes up.

Where everyone starts

Perch

$0 /mo

Free until your relief work earns $25K a year

Land everything in one place

Every shift, every practice, and every mile in one picture, free while you’re getting established.

Onboarding: Setup session offered
Roost Payments: 1%

Direct and marketplace shifts on one calendar
Invoices built from worked shifts, with reminders
A branded portal where your practices request shifts and pay invoices
Automatic shift suggestions, tailored to each practice
Your default rates, discount & cancellation policies
Mileage & expenses, logged against your shifts
Your numbers at a glance, plus a feed to Google, Outlook, or Apple Calendar
Roost Payments, matched to invoices automatically
Full data export, always

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Nest

$49 /mo

or $499/yr (about two months free)

Run it on your terms

Everything in Perch, plus custom rates and policies you set practice by practice.

Onboarding: Setup session offered
Roost Payments: 0.5%

Everything in Perch
Custom rate policies for each practice
Discount & cancellation policies, per practice
Control what availability each practice sees
Half the Roost Payments rate of Perch

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Coming soon

Aerie

$99 /mo

or $999/yr (about two months free)

The whole operation

Everything in Nest, plus the books and integrations to keep things in sync.

Onboarding: Setup session offered
Roost Payments: 0.25%

Everything in Nest
Full bookkeeping tools: P&L, reports, reconciliation
Accounting & banking integrations
Every payment matched automatically, not just Roost Payments
Half the Roost Payments rate of Nest, and a quarter of Perch
Your own domain

Coming soon

Not sure which plan fits? Book a demo and we’ll walk through it with you.

Perch is a free plan, not a trialPractices pay nothing to schedule with youExport everything, on every plan

Roost Payments

Getting paid, as its own thing

Optional on every plan. When you use Roost Payments, your practices pay the invoice Roost already built online, the money lands in your account, and the payment matches itself to the shift without you reconciling anything.

Perch: 1%
Nest: 0.5%
Aerie: 0.25%

These rates are for Roost Payments. Stripe’s processing fee applies on top: 0.8% capped at $5 for a bank transfer, 2.9% + 30¢ for a card.

As an example, on a $1,000 shift paid by bank transfer: $5 to Stripe, plus $10 to Roost on Perch, $5 on Nest, or $2.50 on Aerie. That’s $15, $10, or $7.50 all in.

The payment is directly between you and the practice. You’re the merchant of record, so the money is yours the moment it settles. A disputed or returned payment is yours too.

Roost Payments is separate from your subscription and has its own published rates. We’ll give notice before any change.

Questions

Asked plainly, answered plainly

Do you take a percentage of my rate?

No. Your rate is yours to set. Roost doesn’t set it or negotiate it. If you choose to take payment through Roost Payments, there’s a fee on the payment: 1% on Perch, 0.5% on Nest, 0.25% on Aerie, alongside Stripe’s processing fee. On a paid plan, a $1,000 shift paid by bank transfer costs $10 or less all in. Or keep getting paid however you do today, and there’s no fee at all.

I mostly pick up shifts on an app. Is this for me?

Yes. You don’t need an LLC or a list of practices to get something out of Roost. Add your marketplace shifts as you book them and they land on one calendar, with your mileage and income in one picture. Roost tracks what you’re still owed on each shift until it’s paid, so your totals stay accurate. That alone replaces a spreadsheet and a tax season spent reconstructing the year. Sending invoices and taking payment are still there for any practices you book directly. One thing to know: marketplace shifts are added by hand currently. Roost doesn’t connect to the marketplace apps.

Do I have to take payments through Roost?

No. It’s optional on every plan and separate from your subscription. Keep getting paid the way you do now and Roost still builds the invoice, sends the reminders, and keeps the record. Roost Payments is there because waiting on checks and matching payments to shifts by hand are some of the duller parts of this work, for you and for the practice.

When do I start paying?

When your relief work passes $25K a year. Until then, Roost is free. That’s based on your last 12 months, including the marketplace earnings you log. Once you cross $25K, you have 30 days to choose a plan, plus a one‑time 14‑day extension if you need it. Nest is $499 for the year, less than a single shift, and adds custom rates and policies for each practice plus half the Roost Payments rate. If you’d rather not upgrade, your account becomes read‑and‑export only. Nothing is deleted, and nothing is locked away.

What does it cost my practices?

Nothing. Practices pay nothing to schedule with you. They see the availability you choose to show them, request shifts, see suggested shifts on their dashboard, and receive your invoices. If you use Roost Payments, they can also pay online instead of cutting a check. There’s no sales conversation standing between you signing up and using Roost with the practices you already work with.

Will someone help me set it up?

Yes, if you want it. Every plan, Perch included, comes with the offer of a setup session. Book a setup session. You don’t need one to get started.

Is there a limit on how many practices I can work with?

No. Every plan, Perch included, works with as many practices as you do, and past practices stay in your history. Nothing is deleted when a practice goes quiet.

Do I have to stop using marketplace apps?

No. Marketplaces can be a good way to find new practices. Roost is for everything around and after those shifts: your schedule, the practices you work with directly, your invoices, your miles. Add your marketplace shifts and they sit right next to your direct bookings, whether that’s all direct, all marketplace, or a mix of both.

What if I want to leave?

You own your data, not Roost. The export button works: practices, shifts, invoices, mileage, history, all of it, in formats your accountant can use. No non‑competes, no practice relationships held hostage. If Roost stops earning its keep, you leave with everything.

Do I still need separate bookkeeping software?

For now, probably. On every plan, mileage and expenses are captured in Roost and export cleanly to whatever your bookkeeper or accountant already uses. Coming soon: full bookkeeping tools (P&L, reports, and reconciliation) with accounting and banking integrations, for vets who want the books to live in Roost too.

Every other tool in this job was made for someone else. Roost was made for you.

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The practice pays	$1,320
Getting paid via bank transfer through Roost Payments	about $12
You receive	about $1,308