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Tag draws, lodging and meals.

A hunting season doesn't behave like a normal booking calendar. In many draw units you don't know how many tags a hunt has until the draw results come out. Each camp sleeps a fixed number of hunters, each guide can only run so many, and every hunter on the mountain needs three meals a day.

HuntingCRM is built around those limits. A tag count stays blank until you enter it, and blank means unknown, never full. The spots on a hunt are the smallest of the limits you have set: tags drawn, beds at the property and hunters your guides can run. Hunters go on as requests until you confirm them, and overbooking is flagged instead of blocked, so you can knowingly add one more and sort the lodging yourself. Beds taken each night and meals planned come from the same bookings. Most of this is in build, and we'll show you exactly where it stands.

Mallard Bay's site describes a strong booking and payments side: online booking, deposits and split group payments through Stripe, Quick Pay links and tap to pay for in-person payments, two-way Google Calendar and Outlook sync, and custom forms and digital waivers. We didn't find draw tags or lodging limits described on the pages we read, so ask them how they handle those for a season like yours.

If your season runs on draw units and camps with a fixed number of beds, our tag draw page walks through how HuntingCRM handles the months between the application deadline and opening day.

Payments still matter on our side. Deposits are tracked with each booking, and the waiver goes to the whole hunting party at once, so your office isn't chasing signatures the week before opening day. If online booking and paying in person are what you need most, compare that side carefully. If the hard part of your season is knowing how many hunters you can actually take, start with the limits.

1. MondayThe free 30-min call. We go over your units, your season sheet, your camps and your guides.
2. TuesdayYour season sheet becomes bookable hunts, one rule per row. Anything on the sheet with a question mark comes back to you to confirm.
3. WednesdayBeds go in for each camp and a limit for each guide. Returning hunters are imported so they are already on file.
4. ThursdayRequests, confirmations, deposits and the group waiver are set up and tested end to end.
5. FridayA walkthrough with your office and guides. The first inquiries go on the board as requests.

An example first week. Your timeline is set on the call; most setups go live in about 10 days, and the second week is fixes and fine-tuning.

Who each is for.

Moving over: what we set up.

1. A free 30-min callTalk to Trent and Jared about your units, your season sheet, your camps and how hunters reach you today.
2. Load your seasonWe turn your season sheet into bookable hunts, one rule per row, and flag anything on the sheet with a question mark.
3. Set the limitsBeds for each camp and how many hunters each guide can run. Tag counts wait for the draw.
4. Bring your huntersWe import your past hunters and open inquiries, so returning hunters are already on file.
5. Bookings and paperworkRequests, confirmations, deposits on each booking, and waivers to the whole group.
6. Train your office and guidesShort sessions on the board, the requests and the guide view.
7. Run it with youThrough the draw and into the season, with changes as you see what fits.

Questions to ask any vendor.

1. How does it handle tag counts before the draw?
2. Does it know how many beds each camp has?
3. What happens when a hunt is overbooked?
4. Who sets it up, and who changes it when our season changes?
5. How long until it is live, and what does training look like?