PerfDog
Over the years
PerfDog 2015
Spring 2015
PerfDog begins!
After Neeta stays up late getting hand cramps, Rod gets serious about revolutionizing dog event management, starting with hunt tests.
We show the first working prototype to friends in the Rocky Mountain Vizsla Club at our Summer Picnic and they're excited. 👏
2016
Summer 2016
We're live!
Up and running with a registration wizard and payments with either credit cards online or mailed in checks.
Summer 2016
2017
Spring 2017
Field trials and Extras
We officially support AKC pointing breed field trials! We take online (and mailed in) entries and payments, generate labels and catalogs, take and report results to the AKC, and much more.
Online reservations and payments for meals, camping, donations, and lots more. We only charge if you do - getting head counts is free!
Winter 2017
Waiting list support
By popular demand, we automatically manage waiting lists, send acceptance emails, let secretaries set entry limits, and more.
Winter 2017
2018
Summer 2018
Catalogs and Volunteers
Hunt test and field trial secretaries can create, post, and email PDF catalogs that they can also use to record and report results to the AKC.
We let secretaries manage their volunteers like judges, gunners, bird planters, and many more.
2019
Spring 2019
Running orders
Drag and drop running orders with automatic conflict fixing, lunch breaks, stopping for the day, and much more!
This is a "game changer" feature for many secretaries who save hours because we resolve conflicts across judges, courses, and handlers.
Spring 2019
2020
Spring 2020
New logo!
We got a new logo, which looks a lot nicer!
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Summer 2020
Email, club websites, search, and history!
Secretaries can easily send email to judges, committee members, volunteers, entrants, and more (one of our most popular features to this day!).
Anyone can search for events, dogs, judges, and clubs. They can also see dog activity histories (including field trial placements and hunt test passes) and judge activity histories (who they judged, who they put up, for which clubs, and when).
All dog clubs get a free website on PerfDog so they never have to remember who has the special laptop or scramble when their "webmaster" leaves the club.
Secretaries can add water test stakes to hunt tests and field trials.
Summer 2020
Fall 2020
Club membership!
Full support for club membership, including applications, approvals, online payments, email reminders, fast and easy renewals, sending email and newsletters to club members, voting for board members and officers, map-based member directories, financial reports, annual AKC reports, and more!
Winter 2020
Clinics, training, fun days, picnics, and club newsletters!
Organizers can now manage their rattlesnake avoidance clinics, training days, and activities of all kinds. We only charge when you do, so free events are truly free (e.g., picnics, fun days, meet-ups).
All these activities can use PerfDog to take entries (and optional payments), create running orders, generate labels and catalogs, email participants, and so much more.
Clubs can also create and email club newsletters, all free of charge.
Winter 2020
2021
Spring 2021
Dog swap and move, customizations, help center
Secretaries can easily move dogs from one stake to another and replace dogs within a stake. As always, secretaries have full control over their events!
Administrators can customize the language we use everywhere when referring to a "premium", "judge", "brace", "running order", and more to better fit activities like water trials, classes, rattlesnake avoidance clinics, etc.
Help is available on every page by clicking in the lower right corner.
Summer 2021
Clubs can pay processing fees for entrants
By popular demand, clubs can now completely hide PerfDog processing fees for entrants and deduct all fees from their final proceeds check. This can dramatically cut down on complaints in some clubs, sports, or parts of the country.
Summer 2021
Fall 2021
Our first "real" home page.
Instead of jumping straight into the application, we added a page that tells people what we're all about (with a nice picture of Race).
2022
Summer 2022
Multiple closing dates, Portuguese Water Dog Water Trials
Admins can set up to 5 different closing dates (e.g., early, late, day of show) with different prices per stake in each time period.
Official support for Portuguese Water Dog Water Trials, which has become very popular with the breed!
Summer 2022
Fall 2022
Self-service event setup and payout, automatic premium checker
Previous secretaries can now set up events online immediately, without filling out a form or sending email, any time of day or night.
Secretaries can also go through the "finalization wizard" to double check everything (including their event's final spreadsheet) and start the "get paid" process online.
The enhanced automatic premium checker understands common nicknames (e.g., Robert/Rob/Bob/Bert) when double checking content. If it finds any issues, it says exactly what is missing or doesn't match (e.g., stakes, judges, entry fees).
2023
Spring 2023
Full self-service, payment options, on-site updates, email logs, AI helper
Admins can now set up their own events (optionally starting from a copy of another club's event), determine who to pay (e.g., landowner, caterer), and how much (e.g., amount per dog or per handler).
On-site event updates by email and text messages keep everybody up-to-date so they don't have to walk around asking "who's up now? when do I run? when do we stop for lunch?"
Secretaries can see a log of all emails sent that pertain to their events, including who they went to, when, and if there were any issues.
In addition to our help center containing over 100 articles and videos, our new AI helper (Max) helps all users get answers any time of day or night.
Home page refresh:
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Multiple accounts & emails & logins, hiding dogs, and emojis 😀
PerfDog users can have multiple email addresses (to use as back ups when we have issues sending to the primary), can login in multiple ways (e.g., with Facebook, Google, and an email/password), and can merge accounts if they accidentally created more than one login. This all makes it much easier to avoid having duplicate users in the system or forgetting how you signed in last year!
Dogs can be hidden so they don't show up in your list, which is helpful for several reasons.
Have fun with the emoji support we added to emails, texts, notes, stake descriptions, and more! 🎉🍻🐾
2024
Brand new website!
We're always improving and innovating, month after month, year after year.
Stay tuned to see what comes next!
If you made it this far, you might want to see our full release notes!
