Manual
Getting started
From sign-up to your first completed trail — this page walks you through the basics.
Create an account
Open the app with the Log in button and choose Sign up. You confirm your email address before you can sign in.
- Choose a username of 2–30 characters — letters, digits, spaces and underscores.
- Registration is currently by invitation of the Happy Trailing team.
- Switch between English and Dutch any time with the language picker in the navigation.
Understand the roles
What you can do in Happy Trailing depends on your subscription.
- Free — you walk as the runner on trails others plan for you.
- Basic — plan and run your own trails, manage dogs and user access.
- Premium — everything in Basic, plus videos synced to the track.
- Trainer — everything in Premium, plus locations and appointments for group sessions.
Your first trail
- Register your dog under Dogs.
- Link with your training partners via User access, so you can select each other.
- Create a trail, pick handler, dog and runner, and optionally draw a planned route on the map.
- Activate the trail when the runner starts — routes are recorded live in the app.
- Complete the trail and record the details (weather, rating and comments).