A club brings kennels together around a shared leaderboard and group outings. Until now, getting in meant already having MushMate: the founder sent a code, to be typed into your own kennel's Club space. A musher without an account didn't know what to do with it. Every code now has its link.
How to invite
In the club's Members tab, the founding kennel's owner generates a code, as before. Next to the code, a "Copy invitation link" button. Paste the link wherever you like: a WhatsApp group, a message, an email.
It stays valid for 14 days, like the code, and several kennels can use it.
What the person who opens it sees
- The club's name and how many kennels it has, and what a club is.
- What joining means: their kennel's name, cumulative distances and what they have already made public under their name will be visible on the club's public page — to anyone with the link, and to search engines if the founder chooses. Their dogs, plans and logbooks stay private.
- Without an account: "Create my kennel and join". They sign up, create their kennel, and come back to the link each time. Nothing to type again.
- With an account and a kennel: the name of the kennel that will join, and "Join the club". They land on the club.
It's also the way to join a second club. The code form only appears when your kennel is in no club; the link always works.
What they never see
- Neither the leaderboard, nor the member list, nor the outings. The link shows a name and a number, nothing more.
- Nothing from a dead link. An expired, revoked or mis-copied link no longer names the club: it only says it's no longer valid.
- Nothing in search engines. The page is shared by link, it isn't indexed.
What it doesn't do
- Send the link for you. MushMate doesn't know your friends' addresses: you share it.
- A single-use link. Like the code, it serves the whole group for 14 days. To cut a link, revoke its code. Removing a member kennel revokes every active code, so every link.
- Tell you who came in through your link. You'll see them in the member list, not in a statistic.
- Let a kennel in without its owner. A team member who isn't the owner reads that only the owner can do it.
- The phone app. Clubs live on the website. The link opens in the phone's browser.
Three choices made against the obvious
One more click, on purpose. After creating their kennel, the musher comes back to the link and clicks "Join the club". Letting them in automatically would have been shorter. But joining a club makes their name and kilometres visible: they read it, then they confirm.
They land on the club, not on the welcome for their first dog. A new kennel usually starts by adding a dog. Someone coming from a club link wanted to join the club: that's where they land. Their dogs can wait.
A dead link doesn't say why. Expired, revoked or mis-copied: the answer is the same, and so is the remedy — ask for a new link. The page says no more about a code that no longer works.