Bring the records you already keep.

Upload the workbook as it is

Not a template. Not a cleaned-up version with the columns in our order. The file you actually keep — with the header row three rows down, the column called "Tag #", the notes column somebody has been using for four different things.

The mapping is proposed, then you fix it

Land & Herd reads the sheet and proposes a plan: which of your columns becomes a tag, which is a birth date, which is a breed, and which parts of the file are animals versus tasks versus inventory. One upload can land in more than one place.

Then it shows you the plan and stops. Nothing is written while you're looking at it. You can change any mapping, drop a column you don't want, or ask about a decision in a chat alongside the preview — "why did you map that to classification?" — and adjust it from there.

Ancestry comes through too

If your sheet names a dam and a sire, the import links them as real relationships rather than leaving them as text — including calves listed against a mother. The family tree you've been maintaining by hand in adjacent columns arrives as a family tree.

You approve before a single row is written

• 👀A full preview of what will be created, before anything is created.
• 💬A chat beside the plan for working out the columns it guessed wrong.
• 🎯More than one target — animals, tasks, inventory and more from one file.
• 🌳Dam, sire and calves mapped as real links between animals.

The order matters and it's deliberate: propose, review, confirm, then write. An import that silently creates four hundred records is worse than no import at all, because the cleanup costs more than the typing would have.

What it doesn't do

Import is one-way — it brings records in. There's no export screen yet to send them back out, and we'd rather say that plainly than let you find out later. It's on the list; until it ships, email [email protected] and we'll get you your data.