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Our organization is exploring new software options, and we're currently looking into Shelterluv. We're interested in hearing how other organizations are managing volunteers and donors using this platform. Do you have any tips or best practices for utilizing Shelterluv for these areas? Or, do you use a different software solution that you would recommend for handling volunteers and donor management? Any insights would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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We use shelterluv, for adoptions and for fosters it's a great use case. Allows you to store all of an animals info on a page, from its history, medical, any documents you may want to attach, auto uploads to pet finder, adoptapet, and our website. For adopters you can store anything you want to about them there, as well as handle applications through it. For Volunteers same way, you can create their profiles and upload their info there, as well as attach any documents to their profile. Shelterluv does have a payment processor for adoptions, and can be used to collect donations. The only thing is you have to keep an above 80% of your adoptions as credit card or they will increase their fees per dog as they do make money off of credit card processing. 

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roy forster
Director
Happy Life Animal Rescue
NY
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For shelters and rescues exploring software options, it's worth considering AnimalsFirst among the options. The software has all of the features related to multi-faceted organizations including animal care, field services, foster, medical, behavior, lost & found, community support, direct rehoming, transports/transfers, and all of the people and partners involved with your efforts. Plus the adopter portal gives adopters access to their receipt, contract, rabies certificate, spay-neuter certificate, and other photos and files tied to their adopted pets. The foster portal provides foster parents with access to their foster pets' profiles and you can customize their permissions to enable them to view and/or edit information, write bios, add photos and links to videos, and even approve adoption requests in conjunction with the mobile checkout process. Visit https://animalsfirst.com to learn more and request a demo.

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Chris Fitzgerald
Chief Product Officer
AnimalsFirst
Rochester NY
cfitzgerald@animalsfirst.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 10/16/2024 8:58:00 AM
From: Chris Fitzgerald
Subject: RE: Shelterluv & Other Software Solutions?

For shelters and rescues exploring software options, it's worth considering AnimalsFirst among the options. The software has all of the features related to multi-faceted organizations including animal care, field services, foster, medical, behavior, lost & found, community support, direct rehoming, transports/transfers, and all of the people and partners involved with your efforts. Plus the adopter portal gives adopters access to their receipt, contract, rabies certificate, spay-neuter certificate, and other photos and files tied to their adopted pets. The foster portal provides foster parents with access to their foster pets' profiles and you can customize their permissions to enable them to view and/or edit information, write bios, add photos and links to videos, and even approve adoption requests in conjunction with the mobile checkout process. Visit https://animalsfirst.com to learn more and request a demo.

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Chris Fitzgerald
Chief Product Officer
AnimalsFirst
Rochester NY
cfitzgerald@animalsfirst.com
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When we started in 2020 we used Trello to keep up with all the things, but we outgrew it pretty quickly. Trello was great for a lot of reasons, the main one was that I was able to categorize everything in one column per category and color code each one as it pertained to that particular Column. Donors - Blue, Grants -Red, Fosters-Green, Events- Purple etc. We moved a little over a year ago into Pawlytics, and while it's not perfect by any means, We love it.

If you're looking for actual rescue/shelter data, like Animal/Adopter/Volunteers/Foster/Veterinarian  information that pertains to something specific ... Pawlytics is great and it's super affordable, 100% recommend. If you're looking for something that is more geared to Donor Management, I'm all ears and would love to see what everyone else is using as well.

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Samantha Anderson
President
North Texas Australian Shepherd Rescue
TX
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