Gear

Owner and handler add an item from “Add equipment”; when editing: retire or delete.

• Fields: type (1), condition, name (2) — it suggests itself from the brand and model until you've typed your own —, brand (3) as free text (the kennel's known brands are suggested, never enforced: a hand-sewn harness stays recordable), purchase date, usage in kilometres.
• Service reminder (optional): “Service every (km)” and “Service every (days)”, two independent thresholds; left empty, no reminder is armed — nothing is made up on your behalf. Kilometres count from the last maintenance that resets the clock, or from the purchase; days count from that same maintenance or, failing that, the purchase date — with neither, the days interval doesn't run yet. A threshold reached shows “Maintenance due” on the item and sends an e-mail once per cycle; clearing a threshold turns the reminder off on that axis.
• Worn item (harness, bootie, coat, rest blanket, life jacket): a Model field completes the brand, with the same free suggestion. The size isn't entered here, but on the dog's sheet or in the “By dog” table.
• When creating, tick several dogs (4): each gets its own item. When editing, an item stays assigned to a single dog (or none); you can also add its photo and change its retirement date.
• “Retire” moves it to “Retired” without erasing its maintenance history; “Delete” erases it with that history, after an explicit confirmation.

Under “By dog”, a click on a cell records what that dog wears for that type of item.

• Form: brand, model, size; for booties, a fourth field, the position (all paws, front or rear). It pre-fills with the brand and model of the item already assigned, or with the size already recorded if you're correcting it.
• Reading a cell: “—” means no item; a model name in plain text (“size not recorded yet” on hover) means an item is assigned but no size has been recorded.
• The same entry exists, dog by dog, on the “Worn equipment” card of its record.
• Colour tells the size: on the dog's card, a harness size shows its swatch (dot: the harness; bar: the cord). The Non Stop code is already there (Freemotion 5.0; Nansen: blue cord = whole size, red = half size). “Colour and photo” sets your own marker (tape, paint, twelve colours to choose from) — it replaces the manufacturer code for your kennel — and the harness photo. If two sizes of a model carry the same marker, the card says so. On the phone, the Line step of the departure shows, for every dog on the line, “Balto: 5.5” with its swatches.
• At a glance: the swatch follows the size wherever it is read — in the “By dog” cells (web and phone), on an item's card (“Balto wears: 5.5”), on the “Kennel harnesses” sheet (with the colour's name, for black-and-white printing), in the dog's card header (“Harness 5.5”) and, on the phone, next to the name in the Pack's List view (only sizes that carry a colour).
• The default harness: a dog can have several harnesses (one per model). You choose the one for team lines — “Make default” on the dog's card, or in the harness cell of “By dog” (“Harness for team lines”), on the web and on the phone — and change it whenever you like. None is chosen on its own, not even the first one recorded. A line's composition shows that harness alone and counts it in “Harnesses to take out”; while a dog has several and no default, it says “Harness to choose”. A dog with a single harness has nothing to choose.

Each card expands its maintenance history; owner and handler add a line, correct it or delete it.

• History (1): date, kind (Repair, Replacement, Inspection, Cleaning, Other), cost and notes when they were noted; viewable item by item, with no limit.
• Print the fleet (Equipment header, website): an A4 sheet of the gear in service other than the dogs' — one block per type (sleds, lines, quads…), with condition, usage, last service, service due, and a “Loaded” box to tick with a pen before a race. The box is not saved. On the phone, Equipment › “Share” gives this sheet and the harness sheet as PDF.
• Adding a line (2): the date, the kind, and an optional cost and notes.
• Correcting or deleting a line: “Edit” reopens the line with its date, kind, cost and notes; “Delete” removes it after a confirmation. A line's item doesn't change: maintenance logged on the wrong item is deleted and logged again on the right one. A service logged by mistake can be corrected or deleted, and the service reminder is recalculated straight away without it.
• Resetting the counters: an inspection, a repair or a replacement resets the service reminder's counters; a cleaning or an “Other” is logged without resetting them.
• Runners have their own counter: a pair of runners is an item of its own (type “Runners”), mounted on a sled from the sled's card (“Change pair”, on a date). Its kilometres are the sled's while it is mounted; the day of the change counts for the new pair. Servicing the sled does not reset the pair, and vice versa.

An “In service” rig becomes selectable when you log an outing; its kilometres count for it.

• When logging a GPS-less outing from Dogs, the “Gear used” section offers your “In service” sleds, quads, bikes, scooters and karts with their total usage (kilometres entered here, plus those from outings already linked). With none: “No durable rig in service. Add one under Gear to track its wear.” The choice is optional and never blocks logging.
• Afterwards (1), the rig is corrected on the outing's page, on the website and the phone (the “Equipment” line, owner and handler): the kilometres then count towards the chosen rig, and no longer towards the one it replaces. The list only offers rigs that match the outing's activity: a kart for a kart outing, a sled for a sled outing. A canicross, cani-hike, kicker, skijoring or pulka outing has no rig to choose; if one was linked by mistake, “Change” lets you pick “No equipment”. An imported outing with no activity offers all your rigs.
• Kart outings logged before November 2026 stay on “No equipment”: nothing links them automatically. Correct them one by one with “Choose”.

The phone holds the inventory, adds and edits items, logs maintenance and shows the whole pack's sizes — offline.

• Inventory, grouped by type. The owner and handlers tap “Add equipment” (at the top of the list, or from the empty screen) and then an item to edit it: the website's fields, service reminder included — except the catalogue model, the photo and creating for several dogs at once (one dog at a time). Writes are local and leave at the next moment the network is there.
• Pack sizes: “Pack sizes”, at the top of the list (and under the empty screen), opens the table of the whole pack, like the website's “By dog” angle: one active dog per row (a dog on loan or gone has none), one worn type per column, the size in each cell. The table scrolls sideways and the dog's name stays pinned. An empty cell stays “—”; an item assigned with no size recorded says “size to record”; sizes that are recorded but whose model hasn't reached the phone yet are counted under the dog (“1 size pending”), never taken for an absence. The owner and handlers tap a cell to record or correct that dog's size for that type: the dog's own size entry opens on the right type. Other roles read the table, with no button. It all reads and writes without a network. What the website does on top: pre-fill the brand and model from the assigned item; here, one cell at a time.
• Retiring: “Retire this equipment” takes an item out of the “In service” list (a message at the top of the screen offers “Undo” for 4 seconds); the “Retired” section keeps it readable and “Put back in service” brings it back. A viewer, a vet or a guide sees the list, with no button; deleting an item stays on the website.
• Maintenance: on an item whose service interval (kilometres or days) is set, “Maintenance due” appears when it's due and “Log maintenance” (always available, a link otherwise) becomes a button; it asks for the kind, the date, and an optional cost and notes, no network needed. “Maintenance log”, under an item that has any, opens its history: everyone can read it; owner and handler tap a line to correct or delete it, and “Maintenance due” is recalculated.
• Before a GPS-tracked outing, “Which equipment?” offers your durable rigs with their usage when the chosen setup uses one (sled, quad, bike, scooter, kart): one at a time, none blocks the start; for other setups, no picker. “Start now” ticks the rig when only one is compatible, none when there are several.