The visitor app for wildlife centres
They get the map, today's schedule and a page for every animal they see. You get a way to talk to them in November about the Christmas event, without ever having had their email.
Free for your visitors. No login, no sign-up, nothing to talk them into.
Or email hello@rangerwild.com. A person reads every email and replies within a couple of days.
How you reach them later
Normally a day out ends at the car park, and you have no idea who came.
Ranger is a free app with no login. Visitors download it at your gate and it stays on their phone. Those who leave notifications on can hear from you weeks or months later: the Christmas event, the half-term talks, a new arrival. You never collect a name or an email address.
Visitors get a better day, and you can still reach them months later without having their email.
Your centre's name leads on your pages. Visitors see you first, Ranger second.
What your visitors get
Talks, feeds and displays, with the next one flagged as it gets close.
Your site, illustrated, with every enclosure marked.
Its story, its conservation status, and a sponsor button where you offer sponsorship.
Their pass lives in the app, ready to show at the gate.
No account needed. Visitors get Ranger from a QR code at your gate or a tap-to-download card on the desk.
What you get
It's started raining, so the afternoon display moves. Change it from your phone and every visitor's schedule updates within seconds. Fewer people at the desk asking what's happening.
Move a talk, add one, cancel one. It takes about thirty seconds.
Move a display indoors or cancel it, and visitors with your centre's notifications on hear about it straight away.
Ten minutes before each one, visitors on site get a nudge, so fewer find out about it in the car park.
Today's café offer, the shop, the sessions you still have room on, in front of visitors while they're on site.
Today's visitors, QR scans and your most-viewed animals, on your dashboard.
Issue a pass, give them the code, and it is in their wallet.
The maths
Think about what a family of four spends on a day out with you: tickets, the café, the shop. One or two extra family visits a week covers what Ranger costs. Everything above that is yours.
Ranger won't ask you to run more experiences than your keepers and animals can manage. It helps you fill the slots you already run, and puts today's café offer and the shop in front of everyone on site.
Your conservation story
Every animal gets its own page, showing where it stands on the IUCN Red List, from Least Concern to Critically Endangered. Your conservation and rescue work sits alongside, in every visitor's pocket.
It makes the education and conservation work you already do easy for visitors to find, and easy for you to point to.
Launching first at
Knutsford, Cheshire
A BIAZA member with around 180 birds across 50 species: the largest birds of prey collection in the North West. Ranger is built for their site and launching there first.
Getting started
A call or a visit. We want to know how your day runs: when the talks are and where everything sits.
Your illustrated map and your animals, loaded and ready. We give you the QR codes to put on your own signs and posters. Most centres are live in a few weeks, not months.
From then on, today's schedule takes thirty seconds to update.
Email us and someone who knows your centre picks it up. For bigger teams, there is a support portal to log requests and see where they are.
Where it goes next
Every centre sits inside the same app. As more join, a family who had a good day at a centre like yours can find you in it.
Ranger is launching at Gauntlet. Everything above works with your centre alone. Nothing depends on anyone else joining.
Visitors start to cross over, and you'll see how many families found you through another centre on the app.
An audience that already chooses days out like yours, reachable without buying an advert.
The early centres get the audience the later ones will pay to reach.
No. They scan a QR code at the gate and download the app. No sign-up.
Yes, as more centres join. On your pages, your centre's name comes first.
Most centres are live in a few weeks, including your illustrated map. We do the building; you check it over.
It depends on your visitor numbers, and every centre gets every feature. You can pay across the season or annually. Ask us for your price.
Tell us about your centre and we'll come back to you within a couple of days.
Prefer a call? Tell us a good time and we'll ring you.
Or email hello@rangerwild.com. A person reads every email and replies within a couple of days.
