Care plans
Care plans
A care plan is a reusable schedule of care steps, like a yearly vaccination and wellness routine, that generates reminders automatically. Apply one to an animal and the right tasks appear in Upcoming care on schedule, so you are not rebuilding the same reminders for every animal you keep. Each step you complete becomes a real record on the animal's profile, so the history stays complete.
The plan library
On the Records tab, the Care plans section shows plans that match the animal: curated plans Creatures provides for its species (built from recognized care guidance), plus any plans you or your organization have created. "Matched to this animal" means the plan's species and class fit, so you are only offered relevant routines.
A note you will see there matters: care schedules are informational reminders, not veterinary advice. Confirm timing and products with your own vet. The plan keeps you on cadence; your vet decides what is right for your animal.
Apply a plan
Select Add to animal on a plan to subscribe the animal to it.
The dialog gives you control before anything is scheduled:
- Start date: every step is timed from this date, so back-dating or future-dating shifts the whole schedule.
- Steps included: each step has a checkbox. Uncheck the ones that do not apply to this animal (for example a breeding-herd vaccine for a pet), and they are simply left out.
- Reminder, days before: per step, how far ahead you want the nudge.
From then on, the plan's steps appear in Upcoming care as they come due, and logging one clears it.
Create your own plan
Select Create plan to build a schedule from scratch.
Give the plan a name and description, choose what it applies to (this species, this class, or all animals, which controls where it shows up as a match), and add up to several steps. For each step you set, and each choice changes the schedule:
- Step name and the record type it logs (for example a vaccination or an exam), so logging the step creates the right kind of record.
- Timing starts from: a fixed start date, the animal's age, or completion of the previous step. This is the difference between "every animal on the same calendar" (start date), "due at 8 weeks old" (age), and "two weeks after the last step was done" (completion).
- Due after a number of days, and an optional due time.
- Repeat every so many days for recurring care, or leave it blank for a one-time step.
Manage a subscription
Once a plan is active on an animal you can pause it (with a reason, when you need to hold the schedule), resume it, or end it, and you can toggle individual steps on or off as the animal's needs change. To run the same plan across many animals at once, see Care plans for animal groups.
Related information
Updated on: 23/06/2026
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