Records with no signal

Your animal records work in a barn or field with no signal.

How it works

• Open your farm’s records once with a signal. Steadfolk keeps a copy of your animals on the phone and brings it up to date whenever there’s a signal.
• With no signal, record as usual: losses and sales, counts, eggs, weights, moves, tags, notes, splits and new animals. Each one is saved on the phone and shows on the page straight away, marked not sent yet.
• Once there’s a signal, they’re sent in the order you made them: when you open the app, come back to it, or the signal returns. Phones don’t send in the background, so open the app once you’re back in range.
• Each record keeps the time you entered it, and the history notes any that were sent later.

Two people, one flock. Both phones’ records count. If one no longer fits by the time it arrives (say you both recorded the same hens lost), it isn’t recorded. The records page shows it with the reason, to discard or try again.

Keep it on your phone

• Install the app. On iPhone or iPad, in Safari: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and open it from there. On Android or a computer, use Install app in your browser’s menu. iPhones can clear what websites keep if they haven’t been opened for a while; installed apps keep it.
• Press Keep records on this device on the records page, so the browser knows to keep them.

What still needs a signal

• Signing in, and everything outside records: your store, dates and orders.
• Egg sets and hives, for now.
• An animal’s full history. The phone keeps the latest 30 records of each.

Signing out takes your farm’s records off the phone. Records you haven’t sent yet stay, and are sent when you sign back in on it.