ShelterConnection Features


  • Unlimited number of adoptable and adopted animals with up to three photos each
  • Featured pet on your home page
  • Adoption information ties in with your mailing list and stores dates, donations, and contact information for placed animals
  • Success Stories
  • Export of adoptable-animals data to Petfinder and Pets911
  • Unlimited Web pages with your own content — no knowledge of HTML required
  • Up to three adoptable-pet categories (e.g., Cats/Kittens or Dogs/Puppies) and corresponding numeric totals displayed on every screen
  • Color Palettes program lets you make an instant change to the appearance of your Web site by applying color themes
  • User-definable key words, description, and tag line to assist search engines in cataloging your site
  • User-configurable navigation menus and menu items
  • About Us page tells visitors about your group and includes optional directions to your facility
  • Mailing list program and export (for mailing labels)
  • On-line donations using PayPal
  • Donations area with ability to track income by date range
  • Your adoption application on-line
  • Your adoption contract form (to put on-line or have staff members complete)
  • Veterinary visits and services
  • Multiple layout styles for your public Web pages*
  • Printable kennel cards
  • License, rabies tag, and microchip information
  • Multiple featured pets on your home page and/or public pages
  • Ability to add your own color-palette combinations to change the look and feel of your Web site
  • Inclusion of your organization's logo in your public Web pages
  • Ability to include links to external Web sites (such as petco.com or hsus.org) in your navigation menus
  • Organization/staff directory includes names, departments, phone numbers, and e-mails for your employees and/or volunteers; you choose the contacts that are displayed to your site's visitors
  • Additional private "rolodex" contains complete information for volunteers, veterinarians, foster homes, and other contacts
  • Calendar of events (e.g., adoption days or fund-raisers) are displayed in chronological order or in calendar form; you choose which events are displayed to your site's visitors
  • Fully configurable user-access levels
  • Mass e-mailing program lets you broadcast HTML and plain-text e-mail messages to the people and companies in your mailing list
  • Batch-delete of outdated or invalid mailing-list entries
  • Animal Journal: a complete record of everything that happens to the animal while it is with your organization; vet visits, adoption, arrival, status changes, foster placements and returns, applications and contracts received, and deaths are automatically recorded; users can also add their own events, and a selected list can be printed for the new owner when the animal is adopted
  • Key-word animal search: finds animals, whether adopted or adoptable, that match
  • Project/event planner: create projects for fund-raising or other purposes, assign and track tasks, track budget, vendors, costs, and income
  • Form-builder: create, merge, and save/print any form your organization uses
  • Report Designer: design and output custom reports with formatting, sorting, and data-field options; any finished report can be private or available to all users
  • Phone-call log
  • Project/event planner with tasks, vendors, and costs
  • User-definable animal statuses with adoptable/non-adoptable flag
  • Non-adoptable animals area
  • DO NOT ADOPT list (people to whom you do not want to adopt your animals)
  • Deaths and euthanasias
  • Lost and Found animals
  • Automatic e-mailing when a new adoption application is received
  • Automatic calculation of availability dates for adoptable animals
  • Ability to associated completed adoption applications with animals, people, and adoption contracts
  • Animals in Foster Homes (associates your foster homes with your adoptable animals and includes placement and return dates)
  • Tags and Licenses Expiring Report
  • Unaltered Animals Report
  • Applications and Contracts Report
  • Public animal search
  • Animal Match: lets visitors enter what they're looking for (animal type, specific breeds, gender, age, size) and/or add themselves to your mailing list; you can run searches for animals matching their criteria
  • Memberships: visitors to your site can join your organization and pay on-line using PayPal
  • Member attributes
  • Activity log for staff, volunteers, board members, foster homes, and mailing list names
  • Bank accounts, G/L numbers, payment methods, and vendors
  • General ledger with export function and detailed reporting
  • Multiple distribution lists and ability to export names in label format or in a CSV (comma separated values) file
  • Staff/volunteer hours with approvals and totals
  • Staff/volunteer interests and activities
  • On-line manual with index and full-text search