A MushMate partner — a gear maker, a dog food brand, a race organiser, a club — can now offer MushMate to its mushers. It does not hand out hundreds of codes: it has a single one, a word like NONSTOP, printed on a card in its parcels, slipped into a newsletter or announced at the start of a race.
How it works for you
- On Android, tap "I have a code": when you open the app, even before creating your account, or later in Settings, on the read-only banner or on the subscription screen. Type the word. The app tells you straight away what the partner offers you, before asking you for anything.
- On the website, open the partner's link (
mushmate.eu/code/NONSTOP): same offer, and a button to activate it. - Type the word however it comes:
nonstop,Non-Stopandnon stopare the same code. - One date to remember: Settings shows "Offered by Non-stop dogwear · until …", and the badge at the top of the screen warns you 30 days before the end.
What others see — and what they never see
- Your kennel's members see the same line as you in Settings: who offers the access, and until when.
- The partner only sees numbers: how many mushers activated its code, month by month, and how many places are left. Never your name, your kennel's name or your address. Its page does not contain them; the database does not give them to it.
- Nothing else changes in the app. "Offered by" is the partner's only trace: it does not choose your rations or the gear you are advised, and it does not write to you.
What it does not do
- No code field in the iPhone app. Apple forbids an app from unlocking access with its own code (App Store rule 3.1.1). On iPhone, the code is activated on the partner's page, in the phone's browser, and the app then reflects the access. This is not "not yet": it is Apple's rule.
- No credit card, and nothing that renews. When the offered months end, your kennel goes back to the usual rule: you subscribe, or it switches to read-only, exactly as at the end of a trial.
- No stacking. A kennel has one partner offer at a time, and an account activates a code only once.
- Not for a kennel that already subscribes, nor for lifetime access. See below.
Three choices made against the obvious
A word, not a key. The usual way would have been to give each musher a unique code nobody can guess. But a unique code cannot be said out loud at the side of a trail, and that is how things travel among mushers. A word is remembered, repeated and typed in five seconds. In return, each code has a cap on activations and a deadline, chosen by the partner: that is what keeps it from paying for the whole internet if its word spreads.
The offered months come on top of your trial, they do not replace it. If you activate the code on day ten of your free trial, the six months start after the trial ends, not today. Activating early or late gives the same date: you do not have to work out the right moment.
A kennel that already subscribes is turned away. The code is there to introduce MushMate: the partner pays for it for new mushers, not to offer months to someone who already pays. The app tells you so plainly rather than taking it and changing nothing. On the other hand, a kennel that has switched to read-only can activate a code: that is where it helps most.