Modules

Everything a shelter actually does, in one record.

Rescuely is not a database with an adoption form bolted on. Intake, care, medical, foster, adoption and reporting are one animal record that every part of the shelter writes to.

Free, for every shelter, on the only plan there is.

Seven modules with no upgrade path attached to them. A rescue with nine foster homes gets the same care log, the same medical record and the same reporting as a county shelter with four hundred kennels, and neither of them is charged for it.

Animals & intake Free

Every animal from the moment it arrives: intake type and source, holds, microchips, weights, movements between kennels and foster homes, status history, and a permanent record of who changed what.

  • Intake and outcome captured to the Shelter Animals Count matrix as first-class data, not a report that guesses afterwards
  • Asilomar category and age bucket recorded at intake and again at outcome
  • Litters, bonded pairs, and returns linked back to the original adoption
  • Kennel board you can drag or drive entirely from the keyboard

QR care log Free

A sticker on the kennel door opens that animal’s care screen. Feeding, water, medication, walk, nail trim, weight, behavior, or an issue - each is one large button and one short form.

  • Works on a volunteer’s own phone with no app to install
  • Entries logged in a dead spot queue on the device and send once, not twice, when signal returns
  • A flagged issue lands on a cross-animal board the medical lead actually watches
  • Weights and medication doses written here flow into the animal’s chart automatically

Medical Free

Exams, vaccinations, tests, surgeries, and treatment protocols that schedule their own follow-ups. Next-due dates come from each vaccine’s own schedule rather than a flat reminder.

  • Rabies certificates generated from the record, with the veterinarian’s license on file
  • Protocols applied to an animal create the individual treatments they imply
  • A due list across every animal, keyed back to the row that created each item
  • Per-animal cost tracking by cost type

People & CRM Free

One person record for adopters, fosters, donors, volunteers, staff, veterinarians and partner agencies - with every phone number, address and role they hold.

  • Duplicate detection and a merge that keeps the history from both records
  • Alerts and do-not-adopt flags surfaced wherever that person appears
  • Households, so the whole home is visible on an application

Adoption & foster Free

Applications through review to a signed contract, and foster placements tracked as real movements of the animal rather than a note in a field.

  • Application forms you define, reviewed on a board by status
  • Contracts signed on a phone, stored as a PDF with signer, time, and IP recorded
  • Foster homes with capacity, preferences and home-check dates

Reporting Free

The reports a board, a funder or a state actually asks for, built from data captured at the moment it happened.

  • Shelter Animals Count monthly matrix
  • Asilomar Accords lines A through W, with live release rate
  • Length of stay, occupancy and capacity, intake and outcome by type and month

Listing feeds Free

Adoptable animals published to the sites adopters already use, on a stable external identifier so a re-listed animal is not a new animal.

  • Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet feeds
  • A public adoptable-pets endpoint and an embeddable widget for your own site

Optional add-ons

Four things that cost us money, priced separately.

Each one is bought on its own rather than as a bundle, none of them is required to run a shelter on Rescuely, and turning them off never takes a feature away from the animals.

Backups & unlimited photos

Nightly backups of your shelter’s data, and as many photos per animal as you want to keep. Three photos per animal stay free, which is what the listing feeds take; past that you are buying disk, and disk costs money every month whether anyone looks at it.

  • Nightly backups, retained and restorable
  • Unlimited photos per animal, resized and served from cache
  • Free tier keeps 3 photos per animal and full data export on demand
  • Nothing is deleted if you stop paying - the extra photos go read-only

API access

Every screen in Rescuely is built on the same REST API, and this add-on opens it to you. Scoped API keys, signed outbound webhooks, and an OpenAPI document you can generate a client from.

  • No product in this market ships webhooks. This one does.
  • Scoped, revocable keys with per-key rate limits
  • Signed deliveries with retry and replay
  • Not needed to run a shelter - the listing feeds and exports are free

AI assistants

Assistants on the animal dashboard: care assistance, early warning on an animal that is going the wrong way, follow-up suggestions, and speech-to-text transcription of encounters and notes. Inference has a per-token cost we cannot absorb, so tokens are metered on top of the monthly fee.

  • Care assistance and follow-up suggestions in context on the animal
  • Early-warning detection across the care log and medical history
  • Speech-to-text transcription of encounters and notes
  • Token usage metered on top, with a hard spend cap you set
  • Off by default, per shelter and per module

Donation processing

Take donations and adoption fees by card. The payment processor charges their own rate on top; our 1.5% covers the integration and keeping the two ledgers agreeing.

  • Recording a cash, check or waived fee is always free
  • Card processing is opt-in, per shelter
  • Receipts and refunds tracked against the adoption or donation

Roadmap

Being built next.

Lost & found, animal control In progress

Lost and found reports with match suggestions, field incidents and dispatch, citations, licensing, and wildlife intake.

Inventory & food In progress

Diet plans and feeding schedules, stock levels with lots and expiry, vendors and purchase orders, in-kind donations landing straight into inventory.

Donors & events In progress

Recurring giving, pledges, sponsorships, campaigns and funds, acknowledgement letters, events and volunteer shifts.

Your shelter can be running this by the end of the day.

Create your account, verify your organization, and start entering animals. No sales call, no quote, no card. The part of Rescuely that runs a shelter is free and stays free.