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Yes. Choose Start here on the dashboard and follow the four-step guide. Younger exhibitors should ask an adult for help with payments, medications, deletion, and important breeding or veterinary decisions.

Begin with one real animal. Add its photo, then save breeding, barn, growth, or show records as they happen. Showstock never adds made-up animals to a customer account.

Choose Start here, then scroll to What every section does. The guide explains Home, Animals, Breedings, Litters, Growth, Genetics, Daily Management, Operation Center, Coaching, Show Center, Trophy Wall, Species Guide, Reports, and Account & Plan. It also shows which subscription includes each section.

Open What do these words mean? in Genetics or Growth for plain-language explanations of pedigree, sire, dam, EPD, ADG, inbreeding, polled, gestation, and projections.

Choose Create account, enter your name, operation, plan, billing schedule, email, and password. Customer accounts do not require ChatGPT.

Choose Customer login, then Forgot password. Submit your account email and the Showstock founder will receive your reset request.

Use Founder login at the top of the Showstock home page. Founder access is restricted to the authorized founder account.

After signing in, choose Add animal. Enter the animal’s species, breed, sex, birth date, identification, sire, dam, and current lifecycle status.

For medication, vaccination, and deworming records, save the exact product, dose and unit, reason, route, frequency, duration, person who administered it, veterinarian or clinic when applicable, label or prescription source, withdrawal days, safe market date, lot number, and expiration date. Copy these details from the approved label or veterinarian instructions.

No. Showstock stores the withdrawal information you enter and can calculate a calendar date from the treatment date plus the entered number of days. Always verify the approved label and veterinarian instructions. Extra-label drug use requires a veterinarian-set withdrawal interval.

Yes. Edit the animal and change Lifecycle status to Sold, Deceased, Archived, or another appropriate status.

Open My Herd, find the animal, and choose Delete. Deletion is permanent, so download or preserve any records you still need.

Open an animal profile and choose Files & media. You can upload photos, videos, registration papers, DNA certificates, PDFs, and scanned documents.

Yes. When adding a record in Genetics, Daily Management, Shows, Growth, Coaching, or the Operation Center, use the Photo or video field before saving.

Photos and documents can be up to 15 MB. Videos can be up to 100 MB. A connection is required when saving a record with an attachment.

No. Showstock’s calculators are planning estimates. Confirm genetic defects, horn status, registry information, and mating decisions with DNA results, breed associations, and qualified professionals.

The planner adds a source-backed species average to the breeding date and shows a typical window. Every result links to its veterinary or Extension reference. Breed, litter, offspring sex, management, and individual gestation lengths vary, so confirm important timing with your veterinarian.

Showstock uses veterinary and university Extension references for its planning ranges and provides structured recordkeeping fields. It is not a veterinary service, diagnosis, prescription, or guarantee. Confirm treatments, withdrawals, pregnancy status, genetic tests, and breeding decisions with the applicable veterinarian, approved label, laboratory, registry, or government authority.

It estimates the contribution of one valid common-ancestor path. Add every unique valid path, or use full pedigree software for a complete coefficient.

No. The live customer program currently uses formula-based calculators, automated timelines, and editable templates. It does not call a generative-AI model, run an autonomous agent, or use customer content to train an external AI model.

No. Review every estimate and draft. Confirm animal-health, medication, withdrawal, breeding, genetic, sale, eligibility, and show decisions with the applicable veterinarian, label, laboratory, registry, qualified professional, or official source.

No. Showstock stores authorized media as records but does not use facial recognition, voiceprint identification, fingerprint identification, iris scanning, or other biometric identification.

Open AI & Safety from the home-page footer, then submit the private support form with the feature, date, account email, and what happened. Do not send your password or unnecessary sensitive information.

No. Showstock is a livestock project recordkeeping and preparation tool. AET is the official agricultural-education record system used by many schools and FFA programs. Keep the official record in the student’s school AET account and follow the agriculture teacher’s requirements.

The Student portfolio includes AET Experience setup, SAE time journals, annual plans and reviews, FFA officer, committee, competition and activity journals, community service, beginning inventory, project finances, skills, reflections, teacher assistance, verification, and supporting photos.

Open Student portfolio and choose AET transfer worksheet. Review the CSV with the agriculture teacher, correct anything needed, and use it as a source while entering the official records into AET. Showstock does not automatically submit to AET.

Record the date, correct AET Experience name, activity category, hours invested, detailed description of the work, skills or learning outcomes, a supporting photo when helpful, and how the teacher or adviser assisted.

No. AET explains that unpaid Placement, Research, and Foundational SAE journal hours may feed unpaid-hour areas, while Entrepreneurship and Paid Placement are handled differently; Paid Placement relies on paycheck-entry hours. Confirm the student’s SAE type and award treatment with the agriculture teacher.

No. AET configuration and award requirements can vary by school, chapter, state, SAE type, degree, and award application. The agriculture teacher should review the student’s records before submission.

Every new subscriber receives full plan access for 7 days. Stripe securely collects a payment method at signup but does not charge it during the trial. Cancel in Account & plan before the trial ends and you pay nothing. Otherwise, the monthly or yearly plan you selected is charged when the trial ends.

Yes. Choose Monthly or Yearly during registration or in Account & plan. Yearly billing provides two months free.

Open Account & plan and choose Manage billing. Stripe’s secure billing page lets the operation owner update payment details, view invoices, and cancel at any time. After cancellation, the subscription will not renew and paid access continues through the end of the current billing period. Previous charges are not prorated or refunded except when required by law.

No. Founder-created complimentary accounts cannot start Stripe checkout. If an account already has an active or trialing Stripe subscription, cancel that subscription before changing its payment status to Complimentary.

Open any record section and choose Reports at the top. Choose daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or all-time, then download a full XLSX spreadsheet or a printable PDF. The Home report combines every section available with your plan.

When a record includes a relevant location, open Location & map pin. Enter a place or address, paste coordinates from Google Maps or Apple Maps, or choose Use my current pin on your phone. Save the record, then use its Google or Apple map link whenever you need directions.

Open Costs & income under My Barn. Add each expense or income entry, choose the animal when it belongs to one project, and enter the dollar amount. The page calculates totals automatically. Download a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or all-time spreadsheet or PDF from that page.

Operation owners can open Account & plan and create separate logins for family members or employees, subject to the plan’s user limit.

First cancel any active Stripe subscription in Manage billing. Then the operation owner can choose Delete farm & all data and type the operation name exactly. This permanently removes users, animals, records, photos, and videos.

The diamond opens your notification center. It watches expected birth dates, show deadlines, medication and barn reminders, and billing problems for your operation.

Open the diamond and select a notification to view its section, or choose Mark all read. Read status is saved separately for each user account.

In-app notifications load when the dashboard opens and refresh while the application remains open. Phone push reminders are checked every hour, and a connected calendar refreshes on the schedule controlled by Apple, Google, or Microsoft.

Install Showstock on your Home Screen, open it from the Showstock icon, sign in, and open Account & plan. Under Phone push notifications, tap Turn on phone notifications and choose Allow. On iPhone or iPad, Home Screen web-app notifications require iOS or iPadOS 16.4 or newer.

Phone permission belongs to one signed-in user on one device. Each family member or employee can choose their own reminder categories and connect each phone independently without changing another person’s phone settings.

Open Account & plan. First choose your reminder categories and lead time, then save. Under Calendar connection, turn the private link on. Apple Calendar and Outlook can open it directly. For Google Calendar on a computer, copy the link and choose Other calendars, then From URL. The subscribed calendar will then appear in the Google Calendar app on your phone.

After connecting the calendar, open your phone or computer settings and allow notifications for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Make sure alerts are enabled for the Showstock calendar. Showstock supplies the date and preferred lead time, while your calendar app controls sounds, banners, and lock-screen alerts.

Choose Create a new private link in Account & plan. The old calendar subscription immediately stops updating.