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Calendar

Video walkthrough: Watch on Loom (link coming soon)

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Calendar is your central view of everything happening in your program — vet appointments, breeding dates, puppy pick-ups, socialization milestones, and any other events you schedule. It pulls together events from all your dogs and litters into one place.

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What You Can Do Here

• Switch between Month, Week, Day, and Agenda views
• Add new events by clicking any day, dragging across a time range, or using New Event
• Drag events to reschedule them, or drag their edges to change how long they run
• Search events and filter by a specific dog or litter, or by event type
• See dog birthdays automatically without manual entry
• Mark events as complete when they’re done
• Sync your BreederBuddy calendar to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or any app that supports iCal
• Recurring, timed, and all-day events are supported

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How It Works

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Adding an Event

1. Go to Calendar in the left menu (under Events).
2. Click on a day (or drag across a time range in Week or Day view), or click New Event.
3. Fill in the Title, Type, and any Description. Check All day for events without a set time (you’ll pick a First Day and Last Day), or set a Start Time and End Time.
4. Optionally use Associate With to link the event to a specific dog or litter.
5. Tick Email Reminder? to get an email before the event, or Recurring Event? to repeat it every so many days, weeks, months, or years.
6. Save — the event appears on the calendar.

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Completing an Event

When an event is done, mark it complete:

1. Click the event on the calendar.
2. Select Complete on the card that pops up.
3. The event is logged as completed. Health-related events can create a health record for the dog (or every puppy in the litter) at the same time.

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Syncing to an External Calendar

BreederBuddy can sync your events to any calendar app that supports iCal (Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, etc.):

1. Click Sync to Calendar on the Calendar page.
2. Tap Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. Your calendar app opens and asks you to confirm the subscription. This works the same on an iPhone, iPad, Mac or PC.
3. Using a different app? Choose Copy the link and add it to that app as a subscribed calendar.

Events from BreederBuddy then appear in your calendar and stay updated. Apple Calendar usually picks up changes within an hour; Google and Outlook can take several hours. If you ever share the link by mistake, the account admin can choose Reset link in the same window. Calendars using the old link stop updating, so subscribe again with the new one.

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Showing Only Some Events (Like Due Dates)

1. On the Calendar, find the Show on calendar panel beside the calendar. On a phone, tap Filters to open it.
2. Untick every type you don’t want to see. For example, to see only due dates, leave just Est. Whelpings ticked under Breeding.
3. To focus on one dog or litter, pick it in the dropdown at the top of the panel (it starts on Everything).
4. Click Show all to bring everything back.

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Event Colors

Each event’s color comes from its Type (for example Medical, Litter, Business, or Pickup). The colored dot next to each type in the Show on calendar panel is its color key. To change an event’s color, open it and pick a different Type. You can’t choose your own custom colors.

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Repeating Events (Monthly or Yearly Care)

For care that repeats forever, like monthly heartworm or a yearly vaccine:

1. Click New Event and fill in the Title and Type.
2. Use Associate With to link it to the dog.
3. Tick Recurring Event?.
4. Set Repeat every (for example, 1) and Frequency (for example, Month(s) or Year(s)).
5. Optionally set When should it stop repeating?, and tick Email Reminder? if you want an email each time.
6. Save. The event repeats on the calendar.

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Follow-Up Reminders After a Health Record

When you log a vaccine, deworming, test, or vet visit, BreederBuddy offers to create a follow-up reminder. Click Yes, Create Follow-up and an event opens with a suggested date: These suggestions can’t be changed in Settings, but you can change the date on each follow-up before you save it. For a puppy series (for example, boosters 3 weeks apart), just pick the right date. Start Time is when the reminder appears on your calendar, and End Time is when it ends (it only affects how long the block looks). If you tick Email Reminder?, the email is timed from the Start Time. Skipped it? Click the calendar-plus button next to any health record to create a follow-up later.

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Dog Birthdays

BreederBuddy automatically adds dog birthdays to your calendar based on each dog’s date of birth. You can turn them on or off with the Birthdays checkbox in the Calendar’s filter panel.

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Go-Home Days

Every litter’s go-home day is on the calendar automatically: “Autumn puppies go home” on the litter’s go-home date, or on the estimate from its birth date until you set one (marked est.). A puppy with its own go-home date gets its own entry. These rows follow the litter and the puppy, so change the date there and the calendar moves with it; they can’t be dragged. They also come through to Google Calendar and Apple Calendar with the rest of your feed.

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Tips & Common Questions

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Still Have Questions?

We’re here to help. If something isn’t working the way you expect, or you’d like to have a discussion around a certain topic, please reach out to us anytime through the chat in the bottom right corner of your screen. Thank you.