Three tabs: My account, My kennel, Integrations
Settings opens on three tabs, visible to every role: "My account" (you, as a person), "My kennel" (what the kennel is, shows and keeps) and "Integrations" (what talks to the outside world: the mobile app, Strava, the CAMT console). Not every setting is editable by everyone, though: each tab keeps its own owner-only actions — editing the kennel's profile and focus, inviting members, creating a season, engaging an expert, restoring a backup. A "Your access" card, at the top of "My kennel", reminds you what YOUR role and the kennel's focus open up for you; the roles themselves (Owner, Handler, Vet, Viewer, Guide) are covered in Getting started with MushMate.
My account: your identity, your weight, your data
This tab is about you, not the kennel. "Your name" — visible to your teammates in members, availability, messages and notes; left empty, your email address shows instead. Below that, an email change (confirmed on the new address). "My weight (kg)" records yours: when you start an outing you drive, the app freezes it into the computed load, and correcting it later changes no outing already recorded; left empty, your outings fall back to the kennel's reference weight. This weight is visible to your teammates, next to your name, in the "who is driving" picker.
Two GDPR actions close this tab: "Export my data" downloads a JSON of everything that belongs to you (kennels, dogs, plans, logbook), and "Delete account" erases it permanently once you type DELETE to confirm — a kennel where you're the only member disappears with it.
My kennel: profile, units, measure freshness
"Public profile" gathers the kennel's photo (compressed before upload) and its details: kennel name, musher name, region, coordinates, discipline (mid-distance or long), bio, and the "You're mostly…" focus (Training, Breeding, or both) — that last choice decides which menu entries your team sees. A "Temporary trip" block sits alongside it: during a raid or a training stint away from the kennel, four fields (two coordinates, two dates) make the dashboard's weather follow that location and blend days spent at the kennel and on the trip into the heat-acclimatization calculation; the four fields go together — clearing them clears the trip.
"Display units" switches between metric (kg, km) and imperial (lb, mi) — storage always stays in kilograms and kilometres, only the display changes. "Measure freshness" sets after how many days a dog's body-condition score or reference weight are called old: an old score keeps holding back the dog it flagged, while an old reference weight stops holding it back instead.
Visibility, sharing, and deceased dogs
Four toggles decide what people OUTSIDE the kennel can see: "Public profile" (your kennel's name on the tracks you publish), "Public traces" and "Public litters" (allow publishing one at a time, nothing goes public by default), and "Public leaderboard", which also opens your route times and your dogs' race record to other kennels — see Club and leaderboard for exactly what that last setting turns on. Each one saves on its own, the moment you flip it.
Next to them but separate, "Deceased dogs" decides what YOU see at home: hidden, a deceased dog disappears from your lists (web and phone) without anything being erased — its record and stats stay, and turning the setting back on brings it back. The count of dogs currently hidden shows under the toggle whenever there are any.
Backup: download and restore
"Download backup" fetches a full JSON of the kennel's data. "Choose a file…" restores from that kind of file: a merge, never an overwrite — rows that already exist are skipped, nothing is deleted — and a summary then counts what was added or skipped, table by table, with a separate warning for anything the file carried but couldn't be written back (a dog with an already-claimed microchip, a chore slot already taken…). Restoring is owner-only; downloading is open to any member. Both need a kennel with full access — the trial qualifies, read-only access does not.
Model settings now live in the Plan
One last block of "My kennel", "Model parameters", is now just a pointer: towed weights (musher, bike, sled, quad, kart, scooter, pulka), the overtraining window and the young-dog regime are set in The training plan instead, where their effect shows directly on the generated sessions.
Integrations: the mobile app and Strava
"Mushmate app" shows your email, the number of sessions already received, and the date of the latest one — proof that the phone is really talking to the same kennel. "Strava" is a separate card: a "Connect Strava" button opens the OAuth authorization; once linked, it names the connected account and offers "Review and import activities" — a screen where you pick the period to search (30 days, 3 months, 1 year, 2 years), see each activity marked New, Likely duplicate or Already imported, assign it dogs, then confirm the selection. An expired link (a revoked Strava token) offers "Reconnect Strava" instead; "Disconnect this account" keeps the sessions already imported.
The CAMT console, an advanced option
Still under Integrations, the "CAMT Console" card opens — for anyone who wants to go further — the same tool our product veterinarians use to calibrate the engine: exploring how each parameter shapes generated plans, offline, without touching the kennel's data. The hosted version opens in one click; a local, fully offline Docker archive remains the alternative for anyone who'd rather nothing go over the network.
Your subscription: trial, status and read-only access
Settings carries no separate "Subscription" card: your membership status — "Trial · D-N", "Comped · D-N", "Member" or "Read-only" — shows as a persistent pill in the app's header, on every screen, not just here. A new kennel gets 30 days of trial with full access. Once that runs out without a subscription, the kennel drops to read-only: a banner announces it throughout the app, with a button to export your data before it's deleted at the end of the grace period — export stays available even in read-only, only writes are blocked.
MushMate does not yet sell a self-serve subscription on the web: wherever a setting requires one (the backup above, the Strava import, the Plan's freshness projections), a "Contact us" link opens a pre-filled email to the team to work out the details — no price or commitment length is shown in the app itself yet.
On mobile
Settings also exists on the phone, with most of the same options (weight, measure freshness, deceased dogs, backup and restore through a file picker, the young-dog regime) — display units remain a web-only setting for now. Subscribing, though, is actually handled there: a "Subscription" entry opens a purchase screen that shows the offer and its price exactly as returned by the App Store or the Play Store — never a fixed price, since it varies by country and currency — and an "I already have a subscription" button recovers a subscription already paid for under the same store account, in case the kennel's provisioning lagged behind the payment.
Going further
- Club and leaderboard — exactly what "Public leaderboard" turns on, once enabled here.
- The training plan — where towed weights, the overtraining window and the young-dog regime are now set.