Openherd Membership

Over 2900 alpaca breeders in the U.S. and Canada use Openherd to sell their animals, products, and services online with the most powerful and easy-to-use sales tools available.

Welcome to Openherd!

...alpaca marketing made easy


Easily Create a Stunning Farm Profile
My Account Manager
Farm Websites by Openherd!
Easily Create and Edit Web Pages
Online Farm Store
Appealing Online Auctions
Featured Auctions Email

Membership Features

Openherd Profile

Farm Home Page
Personalized Farm Page URL
(i.e. myfarm.openherd.com)
Unlimited Alpaca Listings
Inclusion in all standard searches
My Pages - Unlimited Blogs, Web Pages, & Articles
Free ListMirrorTM Sales List Sync
My Account Manager:
   • My Messages
   • Click Statistics
   • Purchase Advertising
   • and more...
Bid on Openherd Auctions
List events on Openherd
Participate in Openherd Forum
Friendly, responsive support

Complete Farm Website

More than just a farm profile among many, every paid membership plan includes a complete farm website that includes hosting, email, and support. Choose your design, enter your website address, and you're live! You'll chuckle at how easy we've made it. Now you can have all the benefits of your own business website without all the hassle and costs. Edit your own web pages and navigation, blog about your farm, and sell products through your own store with Paypal checkout. Most of all, send customers to YOUR website! Learn more >

My Pages

Blog about your latest farm happenings and publish your own web pages and articles with a few clicks. You'll be looking great in no time with beautiful page templates and start drawing in more visitors and potential customers. Plus, any new pages or updates are automatically applied to your included farm website!

My Store

Sell your products and services through your own storefront on Openherd with PayPal checkout. Draw customers in from search engines and the Openherd Store where your products and services are automatically included. Your store and items will also automatically sync over to your included farm website!

Online Auctions

With just a few clicks you'll be running online auctions and boosting exposure to your animals with site ads, inclusion in Openherd's weekly auctions email (Professional only), and the ability to contact bidders after your auctions end. It's a complete advertising and sales package you'll find nowhere else. Learn more >

Featured Auctions Weekly Email

Sales is all about exposure. For the greatest targeted exposure, which includes Openherd's exclusive member list, your featured auction listing will be included in Openherd's weekly Featured Auctions email to over 7000 recipients (Professional only). Openherd's highly respected quality and relevance mean high open and click-through rates for auction consignors, which means you're maximizing your potential for sales. Learn more >

My Account Manager

See your latest page view statistics, most popular listings, new message alerts, inventory breakdown, and sales lists alerts. You'll get a complete picture of your marketing activity in one central place.

My Herd

Easily create appealing, rich sales lists and manage them with ease and helpful alerts. Add award ribbon graphics with a few keystrokes and link dam and sire information by simply typing their name. You'll spend less time and hassle staying on top of your sales lists.

ListMirrorTM Sync

With the addition of a simple code snippet to your own website, your Openherd sales lists will be automatically displayed and updated when you make edits on Openherd. You'll have professional sales lists, the benefit of single-point edits, and best of all, it's free!

Openherd message alert icon My Messages

Quickly view your messages with a single click from any page and never miss an important inquiry with instant email notifications when a message arrives.

My Statistics

As soon as you sign in, you'll see your page view performance for a whole year plus your top 3 alpacas, products, and services. Complete, customizable, visual statistics are only a click away, giving you the ability to track your progress and plan your next moves.

Search Page Classified AutoAdsTM

Your entire herd will be compared with every search conducted on Openherd and similar animals will be automatically advertised in a classified ad style next to the main search results. AutoAdsTM cover all your animals all of the time, so you never have to worry about not actively advertising (Professional only). Learn more >

Featured Items

A prospect is initially looking for alpaca socks. You have some listed. You also have utilized Featured Items to promote some of your alpacas. As the prospect browses your products they will also see your alpacas featured. It's an ideal way to draw prospects to your alpacas through other offerings that appeal to a larger audience.


"I just want to take time to thank everyone at Openherd for making an amazing site that allows you to create a website of your own, that is easy to manage and looks great! I have seen so many farm websites powered by Openherd and they all look very professional and unique."

— Katy Holland
Alpacas of Holland Acres
Olivia, MN

"Participating in Openherd and the auction feature has brought a lot of prospective buyers to our farm page. This in turn has resulted in the sale of quite a few alpacas and breedings. We are very pleased with Openherd."

— Sharon Miller
Redwood Ranch Alpacas
Bethel, OH

"What an impressive upgrade [new home page]. Just wonderful. I am proud to be a part of such a professional environment to promote my business. Thank you for all of the personal support to these new innovative ways of helping all of your customers. Outstanding."

— Norm Johnson
Chimera Ranch
Glendale, AZ




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