| Key to abbreviations | |
| Lite | RescueConnection Lite |
| RC | RescueConnection |
| SC | ShelterConnection |
| AC | ShelterConnectionAC |
| Plus 7.0 | AC Plus 7.0 |
| Animals | Lite |
RC |
SC |
AC |
Plus 7.0 |
| Import animals data | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Unlimited animals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Petfinder/Pets911 export | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Adoptions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Success stories | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kennel cards | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom kennel card forms | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Veterinary visits and services | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic calculation of availability dates | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animal key-word search | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Foster-home tracking | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animal advertisements and auto-generated flyers | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| User-definable animal statuses with "Show in Adoptables" flag | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Non-adoptable animals area | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lost and found animals | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animal Journals (complete history) | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Intake and returns | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Redemptions and surrenders | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Approvals for adoptions, hold, euthanasias, and medical | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Animal profile and attributes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Vaccinations | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Medications | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited photos for each animal | No (3) | No (3) | No (3) | Yes | Yes |
| Moves and transfers with scheduling | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quarantine | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Euthanasia with selection and scheduling | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Outcomes/dispositions | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Kennel management/inventory by shelter | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Automatic age calculation | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Multiple-animal intake | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Batch-print program for kennel cards | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Check intakes against lost and found list | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Merge duplicate animals | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Clone (copy) animal record | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Daily scheduling (for behavior evaluations, spay/neuter, and so on) | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Vaccination scheduling | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Daily Medications Report | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Associated files of any kind | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Receipt/payment history | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Merge documents for pending vaccinations and spay/neuters | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Vaccination and spay/neuter certificates | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Unlimited user-defined behavioral evaluation forms; multiple forms per animal | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Standard vaccinations, vet visits, and scheduling items that can be applied on intake, return, adoption, redemption, and move/transfer | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Animal IDs, Licenses, and Permits | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| License, rabies tag, and microchip information | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Issuance and renewal of animal IDs, licenses, and permits | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Permit/license compliance-checking | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Merge documents for renewals and reminders | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory and resellers | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| On-line renewals and payments | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| People and Companies | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| Import unlimited people and companies | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Mailing list names | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mailing list export, labels | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mailing list export, CSV | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Distribution lists and merge documents for mailing or e-mailing | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Duplicate-names checker | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-mail address export, CSV | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Organization membership and renewals | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Member attributes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| DO NOT ADOPT list | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Activity log for staff, volunteers, board, fosters, and mailing list names | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| QUESTIONABLE PET OWNERS list | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited AKAs, IDs, addresses, phones, e-mails, roles | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Association with unlimited animals | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Associated animals, cases/enforcements, receipts, donations, permits/licenses | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| History by address (cases, enforcements, receipts/donations, permits, dispatch/calls, IDs, associated people) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Association with unlimited other people and addresses | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Merge duplicate people/companies | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Mapping of address(es) | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Multiple people at same address | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Donor merge documents with optional receipts | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Filtered distribution lists: donors, adopters, employees, more | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Associated files of any kind | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Legal | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| Cases and investigations | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Case-specific violations, enforcements, and calls | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Warnings, citations, other enforcements | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited associated animals and people for cases | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Violation history | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dispatch; calls | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Call history by address | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Time-tracking and statistical reporting for dispatch/calls | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Multiple violations and fines per enforcement | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Directions and map for associated addresses in dispatch/calls, cases, and enforcements | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Associated files of any kind (photos, documents, et al.) | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Financial | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| On-line donations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Income-tracking by date | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| General ledger | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transaction export with user-defined fields | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vendors, bank accounts, G/L numbers, payment methods | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automated insertion of transactions into G/L | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Donations of goods | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Fee receipts with fee items and payments | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Inventory with shrinkage, history, and restock reporting | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Insufficient funds (NSF) notifications | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Chart of Accounts | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Taxable items with automatic calculation of tax in fee receipts | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Batch-printing of donation acknowledgment letters (with receipt if desired) | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom documents that print with receipt | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom receipt forms | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Trap inventory and rentals | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Administration | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| Volunteers, foster homes, board members | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar of events | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Customizable user-level permissions | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Staff/volunteer hours with approvals and totals | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Staff/volunteer interests and activities | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Project/event planner with tasks, vendors, costs | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-day and recurring events for calendar | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Phone-call log | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple user-access levels with customizable permissions structures | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple facilities | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Notifications and reminders | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Number Generator (your own numbering systems) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| User audit: tracks date, time, and user who last added or updated | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Employee timesheets; automatic clock-in, clock-out, and time calculation | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Shelter history and statistics by facility | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| User Favorites | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Documents and Forms | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| "Build your own" adoption application and contract | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic e-mailing when a new adoption application is received | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Associate adoption applications with animals, people, and contracts | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom forms | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom merge documents | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Public and private shelter forms | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic e-mailing of completed shelter forms | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Donor merge documents including receipt if desired | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Animal-specific merge documents | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom forms that automatically print on intake | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Merge documents for case statements | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom forms that automatically print with receipt | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Text-boxes, check-boxes, dropdown lists, and radio buttons in all custom forms | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom kennel cards | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom receipt forms | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Public Web Site | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| Unlimited user-defined Web pages | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| User-defined adoptables categories and totals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Color Palettes program (colors for your public Web site) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| User-defined meta tags for search engines | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Configurable navigation menus and menu items | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your logo in your public Web pages | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| External links (hsus.org, petco.com, etc.) in your navigation menus | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Organization/staff directory | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple layout styles for public Web pages | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animal Search | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lost and Found Animals | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animal Match with instant match results | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Organization membership and renewals | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animals by Location | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| On-line license renewals and payments | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Upload and link to documents and files (like PDFs and Word docs) | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Charts and graphs in public Web pages | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Custom layout styles and fonts | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") HTML editor | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Charting and Graphing Suite; Visual Reporting | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| Hundreds of reports, hundreds of styles, all customizable | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| PDF Creation Tool | Lite | RC | SC | AC | Plus 7.0 |
| Create PDF documents from any screen or report | No | No | No | No | Yes |