The judging
program,
live.
DogStack turns the printed judging program into a live schedule on every phone at the show. Stewards cross off each breed with one tap. Exhibitors watch every ring from anywhere on the grounds.
Every dog show runs on a paper program, scribbled on by 8 AM.
Exhibitors stalk rings to track progress. Stewards get asked the same question every two minutes. A 10-minute delay in Ring 3 means a 10-minute panic in the grooming tent. We replaced the paper with something the whole show can read at once.
Three roles. One ring queue. Anyone can use it.
DogStack follows the jobs a show already has: clubs publish, stewards track, exhibitors watch. We didn’t invent any new ones.
Drop in the PDF. We pull out every ring, time block, breed, entry count, and judge, and hand you back a schedule to check before it goes live.
The steward gets one big button. Tap it when the breed is done, and we stamp the time and move the next breed into the ring. If the Wi-Fi drops, the tap waits on the phone. Undo is always one tap away.
Follow the rings you care about. You see what’s in the ring right now, what’s up next, and how long ago the steward last tapped. You never have to walk over and check.
You can stop guarding the ring.
Pick the rings and breeds you care about, including rings in different shows at the same cluster. DogStack follows all of them and shows you when each one last moved. It’s free for exhibitors.
Big buttons. One tap. Built for busy hands.
The steward screen is the one we sweat the most. Stewards are volunteers with their hands full. They get one button, the size of a thumb, with undo right next to it. That’s the whole tool.
- One tap
- Cross off the current breed. We stamp the time and move the ring on.
- One-step undo
- Misfires happen. One tap puts the breed back.
- Works offline
- When the venue Wi-Fi drops, taps wait on the phone and go through the moment it returns.
- PIN sign-in
- A steward signs in with a six-digit PIN and nothing else. No account, no app store, no password to forget. Any browser works.
Same PDF you already send to the printer.
Drop your judging program in. We pull every ring, time, breed, entry count, and judge into a schedule you can review and edit before publishing. Mid-show substitutions or ring moves? Edit and re-publish, and everyone at the show sees the change right away.
Your steward crosses off each breed with one tap, live to everyone at the show. This is the standard ring for any show, all-breed or specialty.
A ring tracked class-by-class is ideal for specialties, while breed-by-breed tracking works best for all-breed shows. You tell us roughly how many entries a specialty will have or how many rings your all-breed show will use, and pricing is based on that estimate. If you prepay and the final number of rings for an all-breed show, or the final entry count for a specialty, falls outside the range you originally selected, no problem. Once entries close and you send us the final counts, you’ll simply pay the difference or receive the difference back.
You pay for the rings your show actually runs, so a nine-ring day costs nine times a one-ring day.
Pick the band your entries will land in. Class-by-class rings are priced by the day, per ring. A timed reveal keeps a class schedule hidden until the minute you choose.
Any ring you work through one dog at a time counts here, however many dogs come through it.
Prepay for your rings four weeks in advance of your show and save 20%. Prepay two weeks in advance and save 10%. The discount you lock in stays with that show, so any adjustments made once final entry counts or number of rings are available receive the same discount.
Fifteen or more rings in a day? Contact us and we’ll take care of you.
* These are pilot rates through Dec 2026. We set final pricing after the pilot.
* Entry counts are per ring, per day. We check them against your schedule when you publish.
Every class, live. Revealed on show morning.
Want to track the ring class-by-class? This option is ideal for specialties.
The show-morning reveal stays intact. Publish and pay whenever you like, and the class schedule stays hidden until the moment you choose. Then it appears for everyone at once.
Running a national? We’d love to help. Talk to us and we’ll build the whole event around it.
“I’ve missed my ring because I was relying on estimated timing from the judging program, only to find that the ring was running much faster than expected. Nearly every exhibitor I know has their own version of that story.
DogStack is the tool I wish I’d had beside my crate—a simple, easy way to see where each ring actually stands without constantly running back and forth to check.”
Try it on one ring. Keep it for the cluster.
We’re bringing on a small group of clubs for Fall 2026 events.
Exhibitors use the same form. Tell us that’s you and we’ll keep you posted.