001 / Breed Club Software
Membership dues, show entries, animal registry, and a public breeder directory in one platform built for breed organizations. The off-the-shelf version of the registry build, powered by Breed Ledger and live in production with the Gold Standard Gecko Club today.
002 / The problem
Most breed clubs run on a patchwork of email chains, spreadsheets, and a Wix site. Membership dues collected by Venmo or check. Show entries managed in Google Forms. Registration certificates generated by hand. The club secretary knows where everything lives. When they step down, the institutional knowledge walks out the door with them.
Breed club management software solves this problem in theory, but almost nobody has built it correctly for animal organizations. The tools that exist were built for professional associations, hobbyist clubs, or AKC-sanctioned event registration. None of them understand animal registration as first-class data.
003 / What is included
Member management, registry, shows, and a public face for the club. One login, one dashboard, one source of truth.
Full, associate, junior, and lifetime tiers each with their own dues schedule. Online renewal, automatic lapse handling, officer dashboards that show membership status without digging through spreadsheets.
Entry forms that capture the data your breed and show format actually use. Class assignments, payment processing, judge packet generation, and results recording in one place. Not a generic event tool.
Real registration number assignment, pedigree display, ownership transfer tracking, DNA verification, and health testing history tied to each animal. Built for breed organizations, not adapted from generic membership software.
A searchable directory of registered breeders that members maintain themselves. Indexed by Google with structured data so prospective buyers and new applicants find your club through search.
Club announcements, member newsletters, and show reminders sent through the platform instead of a personal Gmail account with a BCC list. Open rates and click-throughs visible to officers.
Dues revenue, show income, registration fees, and expenses visible to the treasurer without needing access to anyone's Venmo history. Year-end reports ready when the IRS letter shows up.
004 / Live in production
GSGC moved their full registry, membership, dues, and the NRBE 2026 show entries onto Breed Ledger. The club site lives at a custom subdomain, branded for the club, with industry sponsors visible on the homepage. Members log in once and access everything. Officers manage from a single dashboard. The public sees a real club site with the breeder directory and registry indexed for Google.
The platform is multi-tenant. Each club gets a white-labeled instance under its own branding and subdomain. The architecture scales from a 100-member single-breed club to a national association with regional chapters.
Read the GSGC case study005 / Why clubs hire me
A · The board room
I was involved in the formation of the American Bully Kennel Club and the development of the American Bully breed within UKC. I have sat in board meetings, argued over breed standards, and processed registrations. The platform reflects the work, not a developer's idea of the work.
B · The keyboard
Senior engineer with apps live across iOS, web, and AI integrations. Breed Ledger is the platform I built because the breed-club software problem was the one I knew best, and no off-the-shelf option had solved it correctly for an animal organization.
C · The translation
Generic membership tools cannot store a pedigree. Show entry tools cannot process dues. Pedigree databases cannot run a club. Combining them in one platform requires knowing what each one actually needs, which only happens when you have lived inside the work.
006 / Pricing
Discovery call is free for clubs ready to migrate within 90 days.
The standard plan covers member management, dues collection, event entry fees, an animal registration database, and a public-facing club website. Pricing scales with member count and registry volume for larger organizations.
What shapes the plan
Need something beyond the standard plan? See the custom registry build →
007 / Ready to migrate
Tell me about your organization, how many members and registered animals you handle, and what your current system looks like. I map what a real platform would do for your club and where the migration starts.
008 / Common questions
Breed Ledger for clubs and registries starts at $49/mo. That covers member management, dues collection, event entry fees, an animal registration database, and a public-facing club website. Larger registries with extended requirements (multi-chapter, multi-breed, custom workflows) sit on a higher tier or step into the custom registry build.
At minimum: member management with dues tracking, event and show entry coordination, a pedigree and registration database, a public-facing breeder directory, and basic financial reporting. Larger clubs also need communication tools, judging assignments, health testing records, and multi-region or multi-breed support. No generic tool has built all of those together for animal organizations because no generic tool's authors have run a breed club.
Yes. Breed Ledger was built for organizations that need to manage animal registration. It handles pedigree trees, registration number assignment, DNA and health testing records, and ownership transfers as first-class data. It is not adapted from generic membership software with breeder mode bolted on.
Wild Apricot handles generic membership management. It does not understand animal registration, pedigrees, or breed-specific data. EagerDog handles show entries inside established kennel-club frameworks. It does not handle membership or registry. Breed Ledger combines membership, events, and registry in one platform because that is what breed clubs actually need.
Most club implementations are configured and launched in 4 to 6 weeks. That window includes data migration from your current system (spreadsheets, Wild Apricot, an old Access database), configuration of membership tiers and dues, event and show entry setup, and registry structure setup tuned to your breed.
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