Quick answer
A pet shop subscription on PetTrader is £45 a month or £450 a year, and covers a shop page listing every pet type you stock, your opening hours and location, an advert allowance refreshed every 60 days for livestock and equipment, and inclusion in the local directory pages people search. The first 200 trade members to join get their first year completely free.
£45 a month or £450 a year — twelve months for the price of ten. Nothing to pay in your first year if you are one of the first 200 trade members.
The first 200 trade members to join get their whole first year free — there is no charge at all until the 12 months are up, and you can cancel any time before renewal.
Your shop page brings people through the door, but the advert allowance also lets you list what is actually in store — small animals, birds, fish, reptiles, hutches, tanks, feed and accessories — so shoppers searching for a specific item locally land on you rather than a national retailer.
Licensing rules differ by animal, and the sign-up asks which pet types your shop is licensed to sell. Your shop page then shows exactly those, so buyers do not arrive asking for something you cannot legally supply.
Before any pet advert goes live the seller passes a photo ID check matched against a live selfie. It takes a couple of minutes once, and it is the reason buyers here behave differently to buyers on free classified sites — they arrive expecting a real, traceable business rather than an anonymous phone number.
Your business gets its own page: description, photos, the pet types and areas you cover, opening hours, phone, website, prices if you want to publish them, and any licences or registrations you hold. It is indexed by Google in its own right, so people searching for your service in your town can find it directly.
Joining, filling in your contact details and your business details takes around ten minutes on a phone. There is nothing to install and no sales call — you fill the form, claim your free first year and your page is live.
£45 a month, or £450 for a year, which is twelve months for the price of ten. While the launch offer runs, the first 200 trade members pay nothing for their first 12 months.
Yes. Hutches, cages, tanks, feed, bedding and accessories can all be advertised from the same account and appear in the equipment section as well as on your shop page.
No. The first 200 breeders, pet shops, veterinary practices and pet service businesses to join get a completely free first year. You add a card so the subscription continues afterwards, but nothing is taken during those 12 months and you can cancel before renewal.
Yes, at any time from your dashboard. Your listing stays live until the end of the period you have paid for (or the end of your free year), and you are not charged again.
Your page has its own web address and is submitted in our sitemap, so it can be found in search on its own — as well as through our directory pages for your service and your area.
If you are not a business, the route is different — read where to advertise a pet for sale, or how to rehome a pet responsibly.
