Next step: buying the hunt straight from the app

What the autumn has shown us

The app has been out through seven weeks of red deer hunting and the first weeks of the moose hunt. It is the first time we have seen it used at scale, and one pattern keeps coming back: hunting is bought on the web, but hunted with the app.

Between the two sits a receipt in your inbox and a hunting ground you have to find all over again. Whoever buys hunting from us has to make their own way into the app, and not everyone does before they are standing on the ground. That seam is what we want gone.

Buying moves into the app

We are working on bringing the whole purchase into the app:

• Find the hunt in the app, with hunting cards for a day, a week or a season.
• Buy it without logging in again. Payment goes through the same secure checkout as today, and the hunting fee is checked against the Register of Hunters just as it is on the web.
• Get the card straight in as a hunting ground with its boundaries on the map, ready to start a hunt on.
• Cards a hunting partner has bought for you show up in your app, and you are told they are there.

The rest of the way is built

What happens after the purchase is already in the app:

• A purchased hunt sits in the feed with its status: upcoming, harvest report missing, filed and paid.
• You start the hunt on the purchased ground straight from the start sheet.
• The harvest report is filed in the app, and the harvest price is paid without logging in again.
• The rights holder can require the report to be in before you can buy your next card.

Harvests that simply go where they should

This is the dullest feature on our list, and perhaps the most valuable.

A harvest has to be recorded in several places today: in the team's own records, with the rights holder, in the association's quota accounts and with the municipality. We want you to report it once, in the app, and have it find its own way onward.

The report from a purchased hunt already goes straight to the landowner. Next, the harvest should also reach the association's quota accounts when a member hunts with their team, and the municipality should be able to get the reports in the format it uses. Where public registers exist, we connect to them rather than build yet another place to type the same thing.

A guide as an add-on

We hear the same thing from two directions. New hunters would like to buy hunting, but do not want to go alone to ground they do not know. And rights holders say it is safer to let in people who bring someone who knows the area.

So we are working on a guide as an add-on to the hunt, both local and professional.

More hunting to choose from

Buying in the app is only worth something if there is hunting to buy. Our main job this winter is getting more mountain boards, associations, large valds and landowners' associations to list their hunting, with card sales, draws and settlement that work for them.

It goes quickly once the decision is made. Nordre Kaldfjord Grunneierlag had its card sales ready the same day, and Vindafjord Jakt og Fiskelag no longer has to send invoices for its members' hunting.

If you hold hunting that ought to be easier to sell, get in touch. That is the conversation we most want to have right now.

And a little further out

Sweden is next. The app and the website are available in Swedish, and the handbook is written in Swedish. Now we are building what differs between the countries: hunting seasons, currency and units of area. We will say when it is ready.