CitizenShipper teams up with Tint to offer pet transport protection plans

CitizenShipper , an online platform where pet owners come to connect with professional, vetted pet transporters, recently debuted a first in pet transportation – complimentary Pet Transportation Protection on every shipment booked through its site. CitizenShipper’s Pet Transportation Protection Plan reimburses, to a degree, a pet owner’s expense related to pet injuries, illnesses, and other unexpected issues that could occur during transport.

To deliver this, CitizenShipper partnered with Tint , a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2018 to offer embedded insurance.

“CitizenShipper transformed pet transportation and we’re glad to empower it to bring another innovation to their end users while keeping the high level of service and support they expect. By listening to CitizenShipper’s needs and applying both our expertise and technology, we created a tailor-made solution that is not only an industry-first but also a truly first-rate solution. And of course, knowing we were enhancing the process of safely bringing pets home made this project special.” – Matheus Riolfi, Co-founder and CEO at Tint.

The protection plan covers up to $1,000 in reimbursable expenses however, it isn’t insurance and does not replace regular pet insurance, which is an ongoing policy. “Many pet insurance plans do include travel coverage, but only 1% of pet owners have such policies.”