Latest updates.
Meaningful product improvements for shelters, rescues, and foster networks.
November 19 - December 2, 2024
Public Pet Pages and Foster Coordination
Give visitors a place to discover your organization and available animals. Expanded foster tools, placement statuses, and reporting support the team work behind those public pages.
- A Public Pet Directory: Let visitors browse available animals and narrow their search with filters before opening a profile.
- Your Organization’s Public Page: Share a customizable page that introduces the shelter or rescue and connects visitors to its animals.
- Individual Pet Profiles: Give adoptable animals their own public pages so supporters can share a direct link to a particular pet.
- An Expanded Foster Directory: Manage foster records through a redesigned system built around the relationships your team coordinates.
- Statuses Connected to Placements: Adoption and foster activity update the pet’s status to keep directory views connected to placement work.
- Financial and Population Reports: Review giving and population activity through reporting tools that support organization planning.
- Clearer Foster Placement Screens: Updated foster views and assignment controls bring the person, animal, and placement details together.
October 17, 2023 - November 18, 2024
Shared Records and Workspace Navigation
The early workspace brought pets, people, and placements together, with navigation designed to grow alongside the organization. Sign-in options and invitations support a shared team experience.
- Connected Pet and People Records: Keep animal details, people, and adoption records together so a placement can be followed across the related profiles.
- A Collapsible Workspace Sidebar: Expand the navigation when browsing and collapse it when you want more room for the record in view.
- Optional Multi-Factor Sign-In: Add another verification step to sign-in and manage the associated factors from account settings.
- Invite Teammates into the Workspace: Team invitations let colleagues join the shared organization and begin working with its records.
- Account Settings for Daily Use: Manage account and password preferences alongside the rest of the workspace settings.
- Connected Payment Tools: Connect Stripe to support payment workflows alongside your organization’s records.
October 2 - 16, 2023
Preparing the First Pilot
The first pilot brought daily coordination into focus. Task due dates, adoption notes, and conversations with partner rescues shaped how the early workspace supported real team routines.
- Task Due Dates: Set a due date on a task so upcoming responsibilities have a clear place in the team’s plan.
- Upcoming Work on the Dashboard: See dated tasks from the dashboard and review what needs attention alongside the rest of the daily overview.
- Adoption Follow-Up Notes: Keep notes with an adoption to retain useful context for the next conversation with the adopter.
- Guided by Partner Rescues: Regular conversations with two pilot rescues shaped the early workflows around the way their teams handled everyday work.
Late 2022 - September 2023
Planning and Building the First Workspace
Early planning and development focused on the everyday records a shelter needs: animals, adopters, and placements. The first workspace connected those essentials and established the direction for PawPlacer.
- A Workspace for Shelter Records: Early work centered on bringing the core information for one shelter together in a shared application.
- The First Pet Records: The initial pet records established a place for the animal information used throughout placement work.
- Adopters and Their Placements: Connected adopter and adoption records provided a starting point for following an animal’s placement alongside the person involved.