Document Storage & Management
Two different things live under Documents, and it helps to keep them straight:
- Uploading files you've been given — registration papers, a CVI, a signed contract
- Generating documents from your records — pedigree certificates, bills of sale, health histories
This page covers uploading. Generating is under Printable Reports.
Uploading a Document
From a goat's profile → 📄 Documents, or farm-wide from ☰ More → 📄 Documents.
Accepted file types: PDF, JPG, PNG, DOC, DOCX
A photo of a paper document works fine — most registration papers arrive as paper, and a clear phone photo is a perfectly good archive copy.
What Each Document Stores
| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| Title | How you'll find it later |
| Type | See below |
| Goat | Which animal it belongs to, if any |
| Document date | The date on the document, not the upload date — this is the one that matters for anything with an expiry |
| Notes | Context your future self will want |
Document Types
- 📜 Registration Papers
- 💉 Health Certificate
- 💰 Sales Contract/Receipt
- 📋 Other Contract
- 📁 Other Document
Farm-Wide vs. Per-Goat
Documents attached to a goat travel with that animal's record and can be included when you sell or transfer her. Documents that belong to the farm rather than an animal — insurance, licences, supplier contracts — live in the farm-wide Documents section.
The registration certificate that gets filed in a drawer is the one you'll be hunting for at 9pm the night before a show. Photographing it on arrival takes ten seconds.