Managing a dozen feeders one at a time is a part-time job. Managing hundreds is a full-time job you didn't ask for — using a timer that was never built for your scale. WildCore Ranch Mode treats your feeders as a herd: one schedule, one map, one report. Built for operations that measure land in miles, not square feet.
If you have more than a handful of feeders, you've probably hit at least one of these.
Season changes, hunting dates shift, daylight moves — and you're updating 178 feeders individually. Each one a separate login, a separate save. Or even worse, requiring a hands-on visit to each one in the field to make changes.
Your guide notices a problem in the field, calls or texts you, and now you're guessing which feeder it is. With WildCore you find out the moment the controller detects an issue — by feeder name and GPS location on your ranch map. No more guessing.
Wildlife tax exemption audit. Biologist's annual report. Ranch manager's records. Lease compliance documentation. Most controllers can't tell you when a feeder fired last Tuesday, let alone produce a season's worth of timestamped logs across the whole property. WildCore can.
Got gravity-door feeders? Every other controller treats each door action as a separate generic feed event, leaving you to mentally pair the opens and closes and calculate how long the door stays open. Miss the math on one and the door's open all night. Pure headache, at scale.
Set the schedule for the group. Every feeder in it updates on its next check-in. Change one thing once, done.
Every feeder on a single map, color-coded green / yellow / red. The one needing attention is the red dot. Two seconds.
Optional summary email goes out daily or weekly. Owner, manager, hunting guide, accountant — whoever needs it gets it.
WildCore natively understands gravity-door feeders. Schedules show paired open/close events as a single setting with an open-feed duration, not two fake feed timers to keep straight. The door logic, sequencing, and timing happen under the hood. You just pick when the feed window starts and how long the door stays open.
Set "30 minutes before sunset" once and every feeder in the group adjusts itself every day, year-round. No spring/fall recalibration. No DST headaches. Each feeder uses its own GPS location to figure out exactly when sunset is at that spot.
Got feeders spread across leases, properties, or hunting blocks? Group them by location. Each group has its own schedule, its own report recipients, its own status view.
Owner wants weekly summaries. Hunting guide wants real-time alerts when something's wrong. Manager wants daily reports. All configurable per group, all sent automatically.
Pro feeders use cellular. Plus-mode Minis use your property WiFi. Mix and match within a group — cellular where there's no WiFi, WiFi where it's cheaper. Ranch Mode doesn't care which.
Really remote? WildCore controllers can power on a Starlink Mini just long enough to check in, then shut it back down — turning satellite internet into a feeder-friendly few-minutes-per-day load instead of a 24/7 power hog. Seamless connectivity even where cellular and WiFi can't reach. We've thought of it all.
For gravity-feeder operators: schedule open and close times as a pair, coordinated across the group. Manage when animals can access the feed, property-wide, without touching each feeder.
Every feed, every check-in, every status change logged and synced to the cloud. Pull up any feeder's history when a client or manager asks, without driving out to the field.
What it actually costs to run WildCore at scale.
Ranch Mode is included with every active Plus or Pro plan. Groups, reports, paired scheduling, map view — all included. You pay for the plan on each feeder, not for the features.
Every new feeder includes the first month free. No auto-renew — we email you when it's time.
For ranch operators who don't want to think about renewals, WildCore lets you pre-purchase service blocks and keep them in your account. When a feeder's plan is about to expire, the system automatically applies an available block — no email reminders, no payment to make in the moment, no feeder going dark while someone chases down a credit card.
Buy a stack of blocks at the start of the season and forget about it. Service plans renew themselves as long as blocks are available and auto-renew is toggled on. Run out of blocks and the system reverts to the standard email-and-renew flow.
If you're managing 10+ feeders, multiple properties, or you're outfitting clients, we want to talk. Bulk pricing, distribution partnerships, and tailored deployment are all on the table. Need a custom report, a new feature added, or something else to add value to your operation? Just ask.