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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 15 - 17, 2026

Matching and Adoption Checkout in Focus

Review placement matches in a refreshed workspace, guide adopters through checkout, and keep contract wording together while editing.

New Features

Redesigned Matching Workspace: Matching now has a clearer review experience and improved recommendations so teams can compare candidates and understand promising connections more quickly.
A Clearer Adoption Checkout: Follow adoption checkout through clearer filters and payment steps, helping staff review the selected animal and the next action.

Improvements

Contract Editing across Tabs: Move between contract editor tabs while keeping the saved wording together for review.

July 11 - 14, 2026

Free Access and a Dashboard for Your Day

Use PawPlacer for free, shape the dashboard around daily work, and find integration settings for the tools connected to your organization.

New Features

PawPlacer Is Free for Every Account: Organizations can use the complete PawPlacer workspace without feature barriers, making it easier for teams of different sizes to get started.

Improvements

A Customizable Daily Dashboard: Arrange the current dashboard around the widgets and summaries your team wants in its daily overview.
Clearer Integration Settings: Petfinder and related services now live under a dedicated Integrations area, making connected tools easier to find and manage.
Public Pet Data for Connected Tools: Use consistent public pet responses when connecting PawPlacer to external directories and services.

July 4 - 10, 2026

Forms, Applications, and Operational Notifications

Keep interested pets visible through application review and use notifications with fuller animal and document context. Form previews and mobile schedules make shared information easier to work with.

New Features

More Consistent Form Workflows: Public and internal forms now share more of the same submission and review behavior, reducing unexpected differences between form types.
Pet Context in Applications: Applications can include the pets a person is interested in and keep those selections available as the submission moves into review.
More Informative Operational Alerts: Adoption and pet listing sync notifications now include more useful pet details and application documents for faster follow-up.

Improvements

Preview the Full Form Context: Review tag fields and other useful details in the form preview before working through a submission.
Faster Public Pages: Public and marketing pages delay nonessential background activity so useful content becomes available sooner.
Schedules on Mobile: Read schedule pages in layouts that fit smaller screens while keeping important dates and actions in view.

July 1 - 3, 2026

Applications with the Next Step Close By

Review application details, follow adoption notifications, and use schedules and pet selectors on a smaller screen.

New Features

Richer Application Reviews: Application workflows surface related pets and supporting documents more consistently, giving reviewers a more complete picture without jumping between pages.
Connected Adoption Notifications: Adoption and sync events can notify the right operational channels with useful pet details and attached application PDFs.

Improvements

Schedules and Pet Pickers on Mobile: Use schedule pages and application pet pickers in layouts designed to keep the available choices readable on a phone.