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Settings and subscription

Updated on 2026-11-07

For:Musher guide

Settings in six blocks: account, kennel, visibility, backup, integrations, subscription. Illustration.

Three tabs, your access, and what only the owner changes

Three tabs, visible to every role; only the owner changes the kennel.

The “Settings” menu entry (1) and the three tabs (2).

  • Where: the menu under your name, at the bottom of the left bar (narrow screen: “More”).
  • Tabs: “My account” (you, as a person), “My kennel” (what it is, shows and keeps), “Integrations” (mobile app, Strava, CAMT console).
  • Owner only: edit the kennel's profile and focus, invite members, create a season, engage an expert, restore a backup.
  • “Your access” (“My kennel”, under “Public profile”): your role, the focus, the end of a seasonal access, your menu destinations, those owner-only actions. Roles (Owner, Handler, Vet, Viewer, Guide): Getting started with MushMate.
  • Model: towed weights (musher, bike, sled, quad, kart, scooter, pulka, kicksled), overtraining window, young dogs: The training plan; “Model parameters” points there.

My account: name, email, weight, export, deletion

Each member's own tab: their account, not the kennel.

“My account”: name (1), email (2), export (3), deletion (4).

  • Name: seen by teammates (members, availability, messages, notes); empty, your email shows. On the phone: Manage › Account and device › Me › “My name” (needs a connection, 60 characters at most).
  • Email: the change is confirmed on the new address.
  • Weight (kg): frozen into the computed load when you start an outing you drive, or when you're designated afterwards; correcting it changes no recorded outing; empty, the kennel's reference weight applies. Teammates see it in the “Who is driving?” picker.
  • Export: “Download export”, a JSON of everything that belongs to you (kennels, dogs, plans, logbook).
  • Deletion: permanent, after typing DELETE; a kennel where you're the only member goes with it; owner of a shared kennel, transfer ownership first. Also on mobile.

My kennel: profile, focus, trip, units, measure freshness

“Public profile” gathers photo and details; the focus sets the whole team's menu.

“Public profile”: focus (1), coordinates (2), temporary trip (3).

  • Photo (compressed before upload), kennel and musher names, region, discipline (mid-distance or long), bio. On mobile: everything but the discipline (see “On mobile”, below).
  • “You're mostly…”: Training, Breeding or Both; a box announces the menu entries that change.
  • Coordinates: the kennel's position for today's weather AND for the acclimatization fortnight: each day's high is kept there (to about 1 km), and both the website and the phone, within 15 km, read it; for the first week, acclimatization stays "not known". Empty: website weather off, and acclimatization not known FOR GOOD, not just for the first week — the dashboard and the departure weather card then say so, with the way to this field. Also on mobile, but the app itself uses the phone's own position for today's weather.
  • “Temporary trip”: on a raid or camp, four fields (two coordinates, two dates) make the dashboard weather follow that place and blend days at the kennel and there into heat acclimatization; clearing them clears the trip.
  • “Display units”: metric (kg, km) or imperial (lb, mi); storage stays in kg and km. On the phone, the same setting is in Manage.
  • “Measure freshness”: days (1 to 365, 30 by default) after which a body-condition score or reference weight is called old: an old score still holds back the dog it flagged, an old weight stops holding it back. The same window feeds “Consistency and care” (statistics, site and phone): dogs with up-to-date weighing and body condition.

Visibility: what others see, share cards, deceased dogs

Four toggles decide what the outside sees; each saves the moment you flip it.

Toggles: Public profile (1), Public traces (2), Public leaderboard (3), Public litters (4).

  • “Public profile” (1): the kennel's name on the tracks you publish, which also show on your clubs' public pages; off, they stay anonymous and off those pages.
  • “Public traces” (2), “Public litters” (4): publishing allowed one at a time, nothing public by default.
  • “Public leaderboard” (3): kennel and total distance visible to everyone; other kennels also see your dogs' race record and your best measured time on each public or reference trail (never a typed time). A club's leaderboard is a separate setting (“Show my times to the club”): Club and leaderboard.
  • Share card (a dog's first, or the kennel's streak): outside the toggles; the owner shares it, card by card, after seeing it. It shows the moment (dog's name and photo, date) or the streak (last weeks, record) and the kennel's name, even with “Public profile” off; never a place, health or another dog. Also on the club's public page; its page ends with an invitation to create a kennel, repeating only that name. “Stop sharing” withdraws it, even in read-only; an image already sent stays where it went.
  • “Deceased dogs”: on the site as on the phone, a deceased dog no longer has a row in Dogs. “A line at the bottom of Dogs” leaves a nameless line there, which leads to the “Those who ran with us” sky; off, Dogs shows nothing of them. Record, outings and statistics stay. Under the toggle, the “Those who ran with us” row gives their number and opens the sky, even when off. Owner only.

Backup: download the kennel, restore a file

“Download backup” gives a full JSON of the kennel; “Choose a file…” restores it by merging.

“Backup”: download (1), choose a file (2).

  • Who: download, any member; restore, the owner; full access required (trial qualifies, read-only doesn't).
  • Merge: existing rows skipped, nothing deleted; summary added / skipped per table.
  • Separate warning: what could not be written back (person not in the kennel, same collar in a litter, chore slot already taken…).
  • Microchip or value already taken by another record: nothing is imported, and the message names the record.

Integrations: mobile app, Strava, CAMT console

Three cards: mobile app, Strava (import), CAMT console (advanced option).

Integrations: app (1), Connect with Strava (2), CAMT console (3).

  • “Mushmate app” (1): your email, sessions received, date of the latest — proof the phone talks to the same kennel.
  • “Strava” (2): the official orange “Connect with Strava” button opens the OAuth authorization; the card then names the linked account and offers “Review and import activities”: period (30 days, 3 months, 1 year, 2 years), activities marked New, Likely duplicate or Already imported, dogs chosen for all imported activities, confirmation. “Access revoked”: the same button reconnects. “Disconnect this account” keeps sessions already imported. A Strava session is visible only to whoever imported it (Strava's rule); only the dogs' load counts it.
  • “CAMT Console” (3): the tool our product veterinarians use to calibrate the engine; effect of each parameter on generated plans, offline, without touching the kennel's data. Hosted, in one click, or a local Docker archive, 100% offline.

Subscription and partner code: status, read-only, offered months

Your status shows as a persistent pill; a partner code enrols you in an event or gives you access.

The “Partner code” card: “I have a code” (1) and “Activate” (2).

  • Statuses: “Trial · D-N”, “Comped · D-N”, “Member”, “Read-only”, in the header of every screen; no “Subscription” card in Settings. New kennel: 30 days of trial, full access.
  • Read-only: trial over without a subscription; a banner everywhere, with an export button before deletion at the end of the grace period (export open, writes blocked).
  • No self-serve on the web: where a setting requires it (backup, Strava import, the Plan's freshness projections), “Contact us” opens a pre-filled email; no price or commitment length shown. Your subscription, backup and account deletion.
  • Partner code (gear maker, race organiser, club…: a word like SNOWDAY): “I have a code” field (owner), Settings › My kennel; once activated, the card becomes the partner's (logo, sentence, end date, link) for every member. The /code/<word> link leads to the same step, without an account.
  • While the offer runs: “Offered by …” at the top of every page, next to the pill, then “N days left, offered by …” in the last fourteen days (unless the kennel already subscribes); the months start from activation (they do not add to the remaining trial); a code handed out before 26 October 2026 keeps its promise: its months come on top of the trial.
  • Refused: kennel already subscribed, with permanent access, or — for a code handed out from 26 October 2026 — whose trial has ended. The partner only sees the number of activations. Using a partner code.

On mobile: settings in Manage, purchase, deletion

On the phone, settings live in Manage, and the subscription is bought there.

Manage › Kennel › backup; Account and device › Subscription; Delete my account. Illustration.

  • “Kennel”: identity (the owner edits the profile there, with a connection: photo, shrunk to 800 px before upload, kennel name, musher, region, bio and position; other roles read it), focus, visibility, the phone backup (a file of its own, which lists what it does not hold) and its restore (file picker, owner only; otherwise paste the content), measure freshness, deceased dogs, hydration threshold.
  • “Account and device”: subscription, partner code, language, name (what your teammates read instead of your email), weight, version; under the version, “Update available” (“You're up to date” otherwise) opens the store (Play Store or TestFlight), like the button at the foot of the home screen. When a version gets too old, an “An update is available” banner appears at the top of the home screen, then the “Update MushMate” screen: never offline, never during an outing, and updating keeps everything on the phone. Display units, discipline and temporary trip: web only.
  • Purchase: offer and price as returned by the App Store or Play Store, never fixed (they vary by country and currency); “I already have a subscription” recovers one already paid under the same store account. Only the owner subscribes. A kennel that is already subscribed is offered nothing: the screen shows when the current period ends and opens the store that manages it — Google Play or the App Store, whichever phone you hold.
  • Code: Android, “I have a code” on the purchase screen (under “Subscription”) and from the sign-in screen, before any account (kept, activated when the kennel is created); iPhone, no field (App Store rule 3.1.1): the partner's link, in the browser.
  • Language: at the foot of the home screen, the current language (“EN ▾”); one tap opens the list, each language written in its own language. Also in Account and device.
  • Help: “User guide”, “Frequently asked questions” (in French or English: any other app language opens English), “Privacy policy”.
  • “Delete my account”: same erasure as on the web, confirmed by typing DELETE; same row on the home screen of an account without a training kennel. Needs a connection; writes not yet sent are lost (the screen counts them). A subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play continues: cancel it in the store (“Manage my subscriptions”). As the only owner of a shared kennel, deletion is refused: “Open the members” leads to Organization › Members, where you give a teammate the Owner role.

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