One platform for everything a zoo licence-holder actually needs — animal records, medical, feeding, weighing, staff rota, HR, training, enclosure cleaning, and live compliance scoring against the DEFRA Standards of Modern Zoo Practice (SoMZP 2024). Built by keepers, for keepers, with UK support.
Purpose-built zoo management software has to cover a lot of ground: welfare, health, staff, safety, regulatory compliance and public engagement. Animal Database UK handles all of it without you having to stitch together five separate tools.
Every animal on your collection with species, sex, DOB, identifier, provenance, movements, transfers and lifecycle events. Signed acquisition and disposal agreements generated automatically for licence audits.
Full medical timeline per animal — treatments, medications with dose schedule, vaccinations, quarantine placements, vet visits, post-mortems. Push reminders when a dose is due or overdue.
Species-level diet plans, daily prep schedules, keeper-approved feeding logs, leftovers tracking, stock deduction, and full food inventory across suppliers. Prep approvals routed to the right seniority level.
Every weight recorded against target range, with automatic alerts when a bird flies underweight or a mammal drops below its acceptable range. Historical trend charts per individual.
Recurring shifts, keeper roles, cover swaps, holiday requests and approvals, HR-linked working hours. Volunteers can flag unavailability and even offer alternate times to shift managers.
Digital training log per employee, courses assigned, competency sign-offs, renewal reminders for statutory training (first aid, firearms, dangerous species handling). Auto-generates the training matrix for licence inspections.
Configurable cleaning frequency per enclosure type, keeper sign-off, stale-clean escalations, approval routing. Photo evidence when required.
Live percentage score against the DEFRA Standards of Modern Zoo Practice (2024). Twelve areas graded on real data — records, movement, health, weighing, environment, feeding, safety, training, H&S, conservation, documentation, welfare — with missing items surfaced automatically.
Animal sponsorship shop with recurring billing via Stripe, gift-aid capture for registered charities, contactless donation stations, and public-facing sponsor pages branded to your collection.
Most zoo software started life abroad and was retrofitted for the UK. Animal Database UK was written in the UK, for the UK, and every workflow is designed around the regulations you actually get inspected on.
Any UK animal collection required to hold a licence — from small AAL wildlife rescues to full DEFRA-licensed zoos and safari parks.
Straight answers on the questions collection owners and curators typically ask.
Zoo management software is a digital record-keeping platform that replaces paper records and spreadsheets for animal collections. It handles the day-to-day of running a zoo or wildlife park — animal identification, medical logs, feeding, weighing, enclosure cleaning, staff rota, training records, and licence compliance — all in one place. In the UK it is used by zoos, safari parks, wildlife parks, aquariums, falconry centres and Animal Activities Licence holders to meet the DEFRA Standards of Modern Zoo Practice (SoMZP 2024).
Yes. Animal Database UK includes a live Zoo Standards scoring engine that maps against the 2024 Standards of Modern Zoo Practice. Twelve compliance areas are scored on real data — records, movement, health, weighing, environment, feeding, safety, training, health and safety, conservation, documentation and welfare — with a weighted overall percentage. Missing items are surfaced automatically so inspection preparation is a matter of clicking rather than digging through cabinets.
Yes. The platform has three licence tiers — Private (small private collections), AAL (Animal Activities Licence holders) and Zoo (full zoo licence). Features scale with tier, so an AAL holder gets what they need for their inspection framework without paying for the full zoo-standards engine, and a licensed zoo unlocks everything including SoMZP scoring, conservation project tracking and IUCN status integration.
Yes. Animal Database UK is built and hosted in the UK by Lloyd Digital UK Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 17291164). Support is UK-based and the platform is built specifically around UK regulatory frameworks — DEFRA SoMZP, Animal Activities Licence, RIDDOR reporting, UK GDPR, DBS checks and BIAZA best practice.
All data is held on UK-hosted servers. Access is per-user, per-collection, per-permission — a keeper only sees the animals in their department if the admin has set it that way. Every state-changing action is written to an audit log so there is a permanent record of who did what and when. Staff who leave are archived through a single unified flow that revokes access across the app and HR record at once.
Both. The platform is a responsive web app — works in any modern browser, mobile or desktop, no installation. There is also a companion native app for iOS and Android for keepers who want push notifications for medication reminders, feeding alerts and rota changes.
Animal Database UK pricing is tiered by licence type and animal count, with a Private tier for small collections, an AAL tier for Animal Activities Licence holders, and a Zoo tier for full zoo-licence sites. All tiers include the mobile app, live UK support and platform updates. Full pricing is on the home page — the tier is determined by your DEFRA licence class and current collection size.
Transparent per-tier pricing that scales with your collection. Sign up in a few minutes — no long contract, no per-user fees.
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