It supports the whole facility
Alongside animal records, Echidna maps equipment and infrastructure, keeps inspection history, follows repairs through to completion, and gives rescues tools for found-animal reports and sponsorships.
ZIMS alternative
Serious animal records without a complicated workday.
ZIMS is designed for large record networks. Echidna gives facility teams a simpler place for care logs, SOAP notes, maintenance, staff safety, documents, training, Egg Lab, and inspection-ready reports on any device.
Daily records your whole team can use
Care logs and weights save without a signal
Veterinary SOAP notes included
Multiple facilities and animal transfers
Free help moving records from spreadsheets, paper, or Animal Care Software
Published pricing from $49 a month, by animal count
Daily operations
The work that needs attention now
Care due
14 today
Active treatments
7 patients
Maintenance
3 critical
Staff on site
18 clocked in
Built for everyday use
The same system keeps official records and helps the team run the day from the field.
Medical records without extra complexity
SOAP notes, vitals, diagnostics, treatments, medications, rechecks, and weight trends stay connected to the animal timeline.
Where ZIMS can feel heavy
The best system is the one your staff actually uses every day.
For many teams, the question is not whether the database is powerful. It is whether staff can record the right thing at the right moment without friction.
Questions to ask when comparing systems
What Echidna changes
Large systems can feel complicated for smaller facilities.
Compare daily care, clinical records and facility operations against your team’s needs.
Which daily workflows does your team need to share?
The homepage for the team is care due today: health, husbandry, reminders, maintenance, safety, documents, and reports.
Staff may delay records until they are back at a desk.
Staff can record work where it happens. Care logs, weights, health records, vaccinations, medications and observations save on the device when the signal drops and sync when it returns.
Switching feels risky when years of history are hard to move.
Migration help is included. We review a sample, agree the supported records and timing, and let your team check the import. Anything you keep as an attachment does not travel — scanned permits, vet imaging, a necropsy PDF. Photos come across as one link per animal. Those files stay where they are and you keep that copy; you re-upload what you need afterwards. We tell you that before we start, not after.
ZIMS supports shared institutional records and population-management work. If your facility relies on those networks, confirm what it needs to retain alongside Echidna. Compare current capabilities with each provider. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.
Everyday work
Keep the records serious. Make the workday lighter.
Echidna makes it easy to record work in the field, see what the team needs to do, and keep everyday facility work connected to each animal.
Care logs and weights without a signal
Health records and SOAP notes
Formulary, dose calculator, and lab trends
Controlled-drug register and record locking
Rehab evaluations and release outcomes
Bilingual parasite & diagnosis reference
Volunteer management and hours
English and Spanish are available in selected workflows. Some screens and reference content remain in English; we can demonstrate the workflows your team needs in each language.
Inspection-ready reports
Daily husbandry and care logs
Breeding, reproduction and Egg Lab
Training Lab and behavior plans
Maintenance requests and overdue work
Facility map, equipment, and inspection history
Inspection reports and documents
Library and compliance help
Multiple facilities, listings, and transfers
Change history and appropriate access
Record downloads and approved read-only connections
Protected backups and no lock-in
Migration plan
From the records you keep today to everyday use.
1
Start with what you have.
Spreadsheets and Animal Care Software come across. If your records are in ZIMS, we work through what moves and what does not on the first call, before you have committed to anything.
2
Organize the records
Migration help is included. We review a sample, agree the supported records and timing, and let your team check the import. Anything you keep as an attachment does not travel — scanned permits, vet imaging, a necropsy PDF. Photos come across as one link per animal. Those files stay where they are and you keep that copy; you re-upload what you need afterwards. We tell you that before we start, not after.
3
Train the full staff
Animal care staff, vets, managers, and maintenance teams learn clear steps designed for everyday work.
Switch from ZIMS
See how your team would run a day in Echidna.
Bring your current process, export questions, or switching concerns. We will show how daily care, SOAP notes, documents, staff safety, maintenance, and reports fit together.