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Entering a competition

This page walks through the whole thing in six steps. You create an account, add your dogs once, then pick your classes and pay by card. Your music, your entries, your results and your dogs' history all stay in one place, and if the organiser has switched the scoreboard on you can follow the scores on the day.

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1 Create your account 2 Add your dogs 3 Find an event 4 Choose your classes 5 Check the price and pay 6 On the day, and after

Create your account

It is free and takes about a minute. One account covers every event on the site.

Registration asks for your name, your email address and a password. We then email you a six-digit code to confirm the address is yours. Type it in and you are signed in. If the email is slow to arrive you can resend it, or skip the code and verify later.

The Join Dog Events registration form with first name, last name, email, password and confirm password fields — Registering at /Account/Register. Name, email, password.

The Verify Your Email page showing a six-digit verification code field — Enter the six-digit code from your email to finish verifying.

The same login covers everything: entries, dogs, payments, and any classes you judge.
If you forget your password, the sign-in page has a reset link that emails you a secure link back in.
You can change your name, email address or password at any time from My Profile.

Add your dogs

You only do this once. After that, entering a class takes three clicks.

My Dogs holds the dogs on your account. Add each dog's registered details and they are ready to enter any event on the site, so you never type them out again. Each dog can have its own handlers, which covers a dog run by someone else in the family, or by a different handler in a different class.

The My Dogs page listing registered dogs as cards — My Dogs. Every dog on your account, with a card each.

The Add Dog form showing dog name, kennel name, KC number, breed, sex and date of birth, with a handlers section — Adding a dog: pet name, kennel name, KC number, breed, sex, date of birth.

Handlers. Add as many as you need. You are the primary handler automatically, marked with an Owner chip.
Status. If you mark a dog Retired it stops appearing in new entry forms, but it keeps all its history.
History. Every dog has a results page showing the events it has competed in and how it placed.

info Kennel name and KC number are what appear in the show catalogue, so it is worth getting them right first time. You can edit a dog later and it will not affect past entries.

Find an event

Browse what is coming up, narrow it down, and read the schedule before you commit to anything.

Upcoming events are listed on the home page and in full on the event search, where you can filter by name, discipline and date. The only events that appear are ones the organiser has published and opened for entries, so if you can see it, you can enter it.

The event search page with search, category and date filters above a grid of event cards — Search and filter by name, discipline or date. Each card shows the date, location and entry status.

Open an event and everything you need to decide is on one page before you spend anything: the date and venue, the closing date for entries, the entry prices including the member price if the organiser offers one, any extras such as parking or camping, and the full class list with how many places are left in each.

An event page showing entry prices, the class list with capacity counts, and an Enter Event button — The event page. Prices, extras, classes with remaining places, and the Enter Event button.

Capacity. Each class shows its entries against its limit, for example 12/20.
Closing date. Once entries close, the button changes to Registration Closed.
Judges and helpers assigned to a class are listed, so you know who you are running under.

Choose your classes

One row per entry: class, dog, handler. You can add as many rows as you like in one go.

The entry form is kept simple. Pick a class, pick a dog, and the handler fills itself in from that dog's handler list. If you want another class, or the same class with a second dog, click Add another entry at this event and fill in another row. It all goes through one checkout.

The event entry form with class, dog and handler dropdowns filled in and a price breakdown panel — Class, dog, handler. Full classes show as FULL and cannot be selected unless the organiser allows overspill.

For Heelwork to Music and freestyle classes your music is part of the entry. You upload the MP3 in the same form and it goes straight to the organiser, so nobody is emailing files around on the morning of the show.

The music upload area of the entry form with an uploaded MP3 file chip — Music upload. Drop in your MP3 and it is attached to that entry.

The extras section of the entry form with parking ticked and a licence plate field showing — Extras. Tick parking or camping. Parking asks for your licence plate.

Several dogs and several classes. Add every entry for the event in one form and pay once.
Extras such as parking and camping are set by the organiser and added to the same payment.
Anything missing is flagged before you pay. If a class, dog, handler, music file or licence plate is not filled in, it says so at the point of entry rather than afterwards.

Check the price and pay

You get an itemised breakdown, then pay by card. There are no bank transfers or cheques involved.

The price breakdown updates as you go. There is a line for each class entry labelled with the class and dog, a line for each extra, and one service fee for the purchase, which covers card processing and running the site. That fee is charged once per purchase rather than per class, so entering four classes together costs one fee, not four.

The price breakdown panel itemising two class entries, parking, the service fee and the total — Every line itemised, with the total you will actually be charged.

The secure card checkout page listing the entry line items — Payment is taken on Stripe's hosted checkout. Your card details never come to us.

Once you have paid you land back on a confirmation page and a receipt is emailed to you. The organiser sees your entry immediately.

The entry confirmation page showing Payment Successful and a View My Entries button — Payment Successful. Your entry is confirmed and a receipt is on its way.

warning_amber Entry payments are non-refundable, so check your classes, dogs and handlers before you pay. If a card payment gets interrupted, going back into the entry form reloads what you had put in so you can finish paying without typing it all again.

On the day, and afterwards

Follow the scores as they come in, and keep the results afterwards.

My Entries lists everything you have entered, grouped by event. There is an Active tab for what is coming up and a Completed tab for what has been and gone, with your placings.

The My Entries page showing active entries grouped by event with dog, class and paid status — My Entries. Every entry, its class, its dog, and its payment status.

If the organiser switches on the live scoreboard for a class, anyone with an account can follow it and there is nothing to install. Open it on your phone at the ringside and it refreshes itself as the judge confirms each score, ranked highest total first.

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The live scoreboard. Rank, dog and handler, each judging category, and the total.

Afterwards, every dog keeps its own history page showing the events it has competed in, the classes, and the scores behind each result.

A dog's competition history page listing past events with results — Each dog's history. What it entered, where it placed, and the detail behind the score.

What this does for you as a competitor

pets Your dogs entered once

library_music Music with the entry

You upload your MP3 for HTM and freestyle classes as part of entering, so the organiser has it straight away.

receipt_long You see the price first

An itemised breakdown before you pay, with one service fee per purchase rather than one per class.

credit_card Card payment

Paid on Stripe's checkout with a receipt by email, so there is no transfer or cheque to organise.

leaderboard Results as they happen

Where the organiser has switched the scoreboard on, you can follow a class from your phone as the judge confirms each score.

history The history stays

Entries, payments and results stay on your account, per dog, for as long as you want them.

Common questions

Does it cost anything to have an account?

No. Accounts are free. You only pay when you enter an event, and you see the full total before you confirm.

What if the class I want is full?

A full class shows as FULL and cannot be selected. Some organisers switch on overspill, which opens an extra section of the same class automatically, and in that case you can still enter.

Can I enter several dogs and classes at once?

Yes. Add a row for each entry in the same form and pay for the lot together. The service fee applies once to the purchase, not once per class.

Can I change or cancel an entry?

Entry payments are non-refundable, so it is worth double-checking before you pay. If something needs correcting, contact the event organiser. Their details are on the event page.

Do I need an account to watch the scoreboard?

Yes, although signing up is free and takes a minute. Once you are in, any live scoreboard the organiser has switched on is there to follow.

Is this only for Heelwork to Music?

No. HTM is where it started, which is why the music handling is built in, but the same entry, payment and scoring flow works for agility, obedience, rally, scentwork, working trials, fun days and training classes.

What about flyball?

Not yet. Flyball is teams racing head to head in heats over several rounds, and the site currently treats a class as a list of individual entries that get ranked once, so there is nowhere to put teams, heats or divisions. Entries and payment would work, the results would not, so we would rather say so than half-support it. It is on the list for the future, and if you run flyball and want it sooner, open a support ticket and tell us how your league scores.

Ready to enter?

Create an account, add your dogs, and you are a couple of clicks away from your first entry.

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