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Continuous Deployment
We ship at least once per day, sometimes more. Zero downtime deployments mean your organization never misses a beat. This list is far from exhaustive. It only focuses on the most impactful changes and only when we think to add them. We release unlogged performance improvements, bug fixes, and new tweaks every day. The dates you see are the weeks during which we released these changes; not the day we released them.
July 28, 2026
Fundraising Campaigns and Donor Receipts
3 new features
Give each fundraising appeal its own goal and page, follow its progress, and prepare giving documents from the donations already in PawPlacer. Campaigns, receipts, and annual statements bring more of your supporter follow-up into one workspace.
New Features
- Campaigns with Goals and Progress: Create fundraising campaigns with a goal, dates, and an image. Share public campaigns on your organization’s page, link donations to the appeal, and follow progress toward the goal.
- Download or Email Donation Receipts: Prepare numbered donation receipts with your organization’s details, download them as PDFs, or email them to donors from the donation record.
- Annual Giving Statements: Create a PDF summary of a donor’s issued, non-voided receipts for a selected year, making it easier to prepare their year-end giving statement.
July 26, 2026
Public Forms with More Room for Your Wording
2 new features
2 improvements
Give applicants clearer instructions and prepare application PDFs with signature layouts suited to the form. Surrender notifications keep incoming requests in view.
New Features
- Application PDFs and Signature Layouts: Application PDFs can be previewed, downloaded, printed, and opened from related profiles, with more flexible signature and pet layout options.
- More Flexible Public Forms: Surrender and donor forms now offer ready-to-copy embed snippets, per-form public display controls, longer field labels, and more flexible signature and pet layout options.
Improvements
- Surrender Requests in Notifications: New surrender submissions appear in the notification center so intake review sits alongside other team activity.
- Room for Clearer Form Instructions: Longer field labels give organizations more space to explain what applicants should enter in public forms.
July 24 - 25, 2026
A Refreshed Workspace and More Ways to Give
3 new features
Explore an updated workspace, review matching tools, and offer supporters a donation path through Zeffy.
New Features
- Refreshed Workspace Experience: Navigation, settings, profiles, boards, calendars, documents, dialogs, and mobile workflows now share a cleaner and more consistent visual system.
- Built-In Zeffy Support: Organizations can connect Zeffy directly, choose a hosted campaign for public donations, and automatically sync campaigns, donors, completed payments, and refunds into PawPlacer.
- More Helpful Matching Tools: A new side-by-side Match Lab makes recommendations easier to understand, while duplicate review can compare pet photos and distinguish returning animals from truly duplicate records.
July 18 - 23, 2026
More Species, Public Profile Polish, and Better Applications
3 new features
2 improvements
Manage a wider range of species and introduce them through refreshed public profiles. Applications retain interest in particular animals, helping staff keep the applicant’s choices in view.
New Features
- Dedicated Records for More Species: Create and manage horses, small and furry pets, birds, barnyard animals, fish, reptiles, and invertebrates with their own species choices.
- Redesigned Public Profiles: Public shelter and pet pages have a cleaner presentation that makes organization details, available animals, and pet information easier for visitors to browse.
- Pet Interests in Applications: Capture interest in one or more animals and carry those choices into application review, with a pet picker designed for mobile use.
Improvements
- Petfinder Compatibility Preserved: Fish and reptiles remain distinct inside PawPlacer while both continue syncing through Petfinder's expected Scales, Fins & Other category.
- Simpler Organization Onboarding: Organization setup collects more useful context with fewer confusing steps, helping new teams reach a ready-to-use workspace more quickly.