Adoption Fees defines the calculated fee shown on public pet listings, applications, and adoption checkout.
Choose a Species
The species selector includes the animal types enabled in Settings > Organization. Choose a species to edit its four rule groups.
Fee Rules
Age-Based Fees
Set the starting fee for each age group: the youngest group, Young, Adult, and Senior. The youngest group is named for the species, such as Puppy for dogs, Kitten for cats, Kit for rabbits, or Baby for species without a specific name.
A pet with a birthday or a recorded age gets the fee for the age it has reached, so a pet entered as a puppy moves to the Young fee on the day it turns one, counted in your organization's time zone. A pet with neither keeps the age category it was saved with.
Discounts
Set percentage reductions in three groups:
- Health Discounts: Sick or Healthy
- Sex Discounts: Male or Female
- Size Discounts: Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, or Extra Large
PawPlacer starts with the matching age fee and applies each matching discount to the remaining amount. Discounts therefore compound rather than add.
For example, a 10% discount followed by another 10% discount reduces a 200 fee to 162, not 160.
A fee saved directly on an individual pet takes precedence over these calculated rules.
Entering and Saving Values
Base fees must be non-negative. Discounts accept values from 0 through 100.
Edits save when you leave a field. The status chip reads Saves when you leave a field, Saving..., Saved, Unsaved changes, or Not saved. Use Save now when you want to commit a group of changes immediately; after a failed save the same button reads Retry.
Permissions
Administrators can edit adoption fees. Other users with page access see the current structure in view-only mode.