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Pedigree Transfers

A pedigree transfer hands a rabbit and its recorded ancestry to another OmniBurrow account as live records, not a PDF of a pedigree, but the rabbit, its parents, its grandparents, and everything else you have on file, sitting in the buyer's herd. Their future litters then carry the lineage properly. It is a two-sided handshake: you send it, and they accept.

Two kinds: transfer the rabbit, or share a copy​

There are two things you can send, and they do different jobs.

  • Transfer the rabbit. The animal changes hands. When the recipient imports it, the rabbit joins their active herd and yours is marked Sold. Recording a sale always sends this kind.
  • Share a copy. Only the records travel. The recipient gets the rabbit as a reference rabbit, there so their pedigrees are complete, and your rabbit stays exactly as it was. Use it for a stud service, a co-owned rabbit, or a buyer of offspring who wants the full ancestry.

Either way the ancestors arrive as reference rabbits, records the recipient does not own.

By default the whole recorded lineage goes across. It can be limited to three generations — the ARBA-standard pedigree depth — if you would rather not hand over your full ancestry.

What travels with it​

Besides the pedigree itself, you choose what goes along for the rabbit you are sending:

  • Show record: its entries, placements and legs. On by default.
  • Photos: the rabbit's photos, copied into the recipient's account. On by default when you transfer the rabbit, off when you share a copy. They arrive a little after the rabbit does.
  • Weight history: every weigh-in on file. On by default when you transfer the rabbit, off when you share a copy.
  • My notes: your private notes on the rabbit and its ancestors, and the notes on its weigh-ins and show entries. Always off unless you turn it on.

A sale starts from the same place: the show record, photos and weight history go, and your notes stay behind. When the buyer has an email address, the sale screens show these choices so you can change them for that sale. The recipient sees what comes with a transfer before they import it.

What arrives belongs to the recipient from then on; editing or deleting yours later does not change theirs. That includes photos: the recipient gets their own copies and keeps them.

Three things worth knowing:

  • A shared link works differently for each kind. A copy shared by link or QR code can be imported by everyone you give it to. A transfer of the rabbit works once: the first person to import it receives the rabbit.
  • Ancestors are not duplicated. If the recipient already holds one of the ancestors, from an earlier transfer or because the line started in their own rabbitry, the new rabbit is linked to that record. Two littermates share one copy of each parent.
  • An ancestor the recipient typed in is matched too. A rabbit they entered themselves is recognised by its registration number, or by its ear tag together with its sex and either its date of birth or its name. Everything they recorded for it is kept; a sire or dam they had not recorded is filled in from the pedigree being imported.
  • Copies can go to as many people as you like. You can share a copy of the same rabbit with several people at once. The rabbit itself can be on its way to only one new owner at a time.
  • A rabbit that comes back is not duplicated either. If a rabbit returns to an account that previously held it, its existing record is reactivated rather than a second copy being made.

Your buyer does not get your herd — only the rabbit named in the transfer and its ancestry. Nothing about your other animals, contacts, or finances travels with it.

Send a transfer​

Most transfers happen without you doing anything separate: recording a sale prepares one automatically whenever the buyer has an email address, and sends them the claim link along with their receipt and pedigree PDF. See Deposits & Sales.

You can also start one directly from a rabbit with Share or transfer: choose whether to transfer the rabbit or share a copy, then enter the recipient's email address and an optional message, or create a link and QR code instead. A rabbit you no longer hold, or a reference rabbit, shows Share pedigree instead and offers only the copy, since it cannot change hands.

Dashboard → Transfers lists everything incoming and outgoing, with its status.

A transfer sits in one of several states: pending with the recipient, pending invite if they do not have an account yet, then accepted, rejected, cancelled, expired, or unclaimed. A link you created without addressing it to anyone shows Link expired when it runs out; make a new one whenever you need it.

You can cancel a transfer any time before it is accepted, and resend the invite email if it went astray. If the address was wrong, or the recipient uses a different one, Change email sends it to the new address and turns off the old link. If the recipient opens the link from a different account and asks, you can simply Approve that account from your Transfers list instead, or Decline, in which case they are told. Invite links expire after 14 days.

A link that has stopped working says why when someone opens it: it was sent to a different email address, a newer link replaced it, it was already imported, or it expired.

Invite emails carry a proper one-click unsubscribe header, so a recipient who does not want them can opt out from their mail client in one action.

Accept a transfer​

If you are the recipient and already have an OmniBurrow account, the transfer appears in your Transfers list and you accept or reject it. Accepting drops the rabbit and its ancestors into your herd immediately. Your phone gets a notification when one arrives, and opening it shows that transfer first. You also get an email with the pedigree PDF attached, including when you have already imported it from the notification.

If you do not have an account yet, the emailed claim link is your route: create an account with the email address the transfer was sent to, follow the link, and it is accepted for you. The email address has to match — that is what stops a forwarded link being claimed by somebody else. If you sign in with a different address, the claim page offers Ask the sender to approve this account. The sender sees the address you are signed in with, in their Transfers list and by email, and can approve or decline. If they approve, it is imported for you straight away.

The sender is emailed either way, so they know whether it landed.

Import from the QR code on a pedigree​

Every pedigree PDF you print or email carries a QR code. Someone holding that pedigree can scan it, sign in, and import a copy in one step: the rabbit and up to three generations of ancestors, as reference rabbits. You do nothing, and your rabbit is untouched. You are emailed when someone imports this way, and it shows in your Transfers list.

The code does not expire, because the paper does not. If you would rather your printed pedigrees did not allow this, turn off Let people import from the QR code under Settings → Pedigree in the web app, or Import from pedigree QR code in the mobile app's settings. That stops every code you have already printed from importing, and pedigrees you print afterwards carry a code that only explains how to ask you for the records. Pedigrees printed before this feature existed carry the older kind of code too.

Scanning the code with a phone opens a page in the browser. If the OmniBurrow app is installed, Open in app on that page hands the import to the app, where you are already signed in.

Multi-rabbit transfers​

Selling several rabbits at once creates one transfer covering all of them, not one per animal. The claim screen lists every rabbit name so the buyer can see exactly what they are accepting, and accepting brings all of them across together. When more than one rabbit is claimed, the buyer lands on their transfers list rather than a single rabbit.

That matches how a multi-line receipt sale works — one email, one claim, everything in it. See Kits & Phenotype Buckets.

Why transfers need a connection​

Needs a connection — by design, not a limitation

Almost everything else in the mobile app works offline, because your phone holds a full copy of your data and can reconcile later. A transfer is different: it is a negotiation between two separate accounts, and neither device can decide on its own that the other party accepted. There is no offline answer to give.

This is the one feature that is online-only by design. See Offline-First Sync and the feature matrix.

One related behaviour: undoing a sale cancels the transfer that sale created. A claim link you have already emailed stops working, which is what you want when a sale falls through, but tell the buyer, because they will not necessarily be told by the link failing.