Crestimates

• How to generate a Crestimate

  Make a Crestimate for one of your animals: the four fields it needs, generating and refreshing, the short wait while it runs, the optional fields that raise confidence, and the daily limits.Few readers

• What is a Crestimate?

  A Crestimate is an automated, data-driven estimate of an animal's market value that sits on its profile. What it is, what goes into it, how it is made, and what its confidence ratings mean.Few readers

• Showing a Crestimate and using it for pricing

  Turn on a public Crestimate summary and control exactly what buyers see, use the estimate to price a fixed listing or an auction, and understand how a Crestimate can feed your Finance management value.Few readers

Groups

• Offer a count group to buyers: applications and reservations

  Publish a count group, set its public step, deposit policy, and application fee, screen applications, take deposits held securely, and match buyers.Few readers

• Create and manage animal groups

  Create a group for the way you work, choose its tracking mode and membership rules, and manage records, finances, and activity in one place.Few readers

• Manual, smart, and hybrid groups

  Decide how animals join an Animal-profiles group: hand-pick them, let rules keep the list current, or both, with every filter explained.Few readers

• Apply records and track activity for a group

  Record once for a whole group, choose same-for-all or per-animal rows, schedule recurring care, and follow Records, Financials, and Activity.Few readers

• Track animals by count with count groups

  Track a flock, clutch, litter, or batch by number, follow the expected/born/available breakdown, and split into individual profiles when ready.Few readers

Records

• The animal records tab

  Every animal profile has a Records tab that holds its full health and care history, public and private.Few readers

• Health and medical records

  Log vaccinations, medications, exams, surgeries, and test results, with every field and privacy default explained.Few readers

• Care, growth, and identity records

  Log routine care, weights and measurements, and papers like registration, pedigree, and certifications.Few readers

• Importing records

  Bring existing records in from spreadsheets, vet PDFs, or photos, and review what Creatures extracts.Few readers

• Adding a record

  Log any health or care record, choose its type, set its privacy, and log for several animals at once.Few readers

Animal profiles

• Pedigree, family, and lineage

  How pedigree works on Creatures: sire, dam, and offspring, building the tree on creation or later, the Pedigree tab graph, suggesting a parent, DNA-resolved parents, the public herdbook, and where registrations live.Few readers

• Claiming a reference animal someone created for you

  How to claim a reference animal: the instant path when you were invited, the admin-review path when you were not, what claiming changes, and claiming on behalf of an org or as a new user.Few readers

• Public, private, and reference animals

  The three kinds of animal profile: public, private, and reference. What each means, who can see it, how to make an animal private, and why a reference animal cannot be made private.Few readers

• Your animal's profile page: the tabs and what each one does

  A tour of the animal profile: the hero, then every tab (Posts, Gallery, Records, Pedigree, History, Finance, Groups, Breeding, Memorial, Reviews), what each shows, and who can see it.Few readers

• Adding an animal to Creatures

  Why an animal profile matters, and a walkthrough of the Add-an-animal form: every field, the owned-versus-reference fork, privacy, species and breed, dates, and the guest path.Few readers

• Co-owners and team members: sharing access to an animal

  The owner, co-owner, and team roles on an animal, exactly what each can and cannot do, and how to add, invite, and change members from the team sheet.Few readers

• Reference animals: documenting lineage and inviting the owner

  Create a reference animal for an ancestor or another breeder's animal, then invite the real owner to claim it: in-app, by email, or by text, with the 14-day reminder, resend limits, and the share link.Few readers

Care plans and reminders

• Care plans

  Apply a reusable schedule of care steps to an animal, customize each step, and let it generate reminders.Few readers

• Care plans for animal groups

  Apply a care plan or a record to a whole animal group at once, so recurring care is scheduled for every member.Few readers

• Reminders and upcoming care

  Set reminders, get follow-ups automatically, act on the Upcoming care strip, and sync to your calendar.Few readers

Import

• Importing from Rabbit15, Cavy15, Goat15, and Poultry15 (the winrbro import)

  The dedicated import for breeders coming from Evans Software Solutions herd software. It reads your XML export directly and brings in animals, pedigree, show wins, litters, weights, and production records in one pass, with a few honest caveats.Few readers

• Reviewing, editing, and confirming an import

  The heart of importing: check and edit each drafted animal, resolve anything flagged for review, catch duplicates, choose where the animals land, then confirm. Nothing is created until you do, and a fresh import is reversible for 72 hours.Few readers

• Importing your animals (bring your whole herd in)

  Bring an existing herd onto Creatures in bulk instead of typing each animal in: what you can upload (spreadsheets, exports, PDFs, photos, even a public website), the file limits, and what happens while Creatures reads your files.Few readers