A dog-show platform for all of Europe: entries, catalogues, ring app and results in 21 languages

FCI dog shows across Europe still run on paper. Exhibitors post entry forms or fill in dated web forms, pay by bank transfer and wait for a ring number. Organisers retype every entry into a catalogue, plan rings and judges in spreadsheets, and publish results days later as a PDF. The existing entry sites look and work like they were built fifteen years ago, often in one language.

Dog Shows Online is our own platform, built with a show organiser who knows the rules from the inside: it had to handle the real FCI structure (ten breed groups, hundreds of breeds, classes, CAC and CACIB titles), work in the exhibitor's own language, and keep working in a ring hall with no signal.

We designed and built the whole platform on Next.js 16 and Supabase. Exhibitors find a show anywhere in Europe on a season map, enter one or several dogs on a single page, upload certificates and pay in one go, with a multi-dog discount worked out across entries. Organisers get their own area: show setup with a checklist, custom registration questions, a ring planner that assigns judges and breed groups and warns about clashes, bank-transfer confirmation in bulk, and the finals programme.

On the day, each ring secretary opens a private link to the ring app, which keeps working offline and syncs when the signal returns; judges sign off their ring and every owner gets a PDF of their dog's results by email. The public catalogue lets anyone search for a dog by name, number or owner, and results go online ring by ring as judging happens, down to Best in Show.

The full breed list comes from the FCI nomenclature, the first real show catalogue (220 dogs, 77 breeds) was imported from print, and the whole site, emails included, is translated into 21 languages. Public pages are cached at the edge and answer in well under a third of a second.