Animal Shelter Software Pricing
Plans from $25/month — rescues, shelters & animal control
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Rescue
Everything you need to run adoptions end‑to‑end.
- Animal records, intake & daily care
- Adoptions with e‑signature
- Foster matching & active-foster board
- Online donations & payments to your own Stripe, Square or PayPal
- Free full-data export — no lock‑in
- Two-factor authentication
Shelter
Everything in Rescue, plus:
- Tasks & workflow automation
- Accounting
- People, donor & volunteer management
- Custom fields & application form builder
- File storage
- Scheduled report delivery
Shelter Plus
Everything in Shelter, plus:
- Animal control officer module & licensing
- Analytics dashboard
- AI adoption-bio writer
- Partner API & outbound webhooks
- Audit log & compliance exports
- Shelter Animals Count & compliance exports
14-day free trial · No credit card to try the demo · No setup fee · Cancel anytime
Data storage & data usage
Every plan includes 10 GB of data storage plus monthly data usage (downloads & streaming) — 100 GB on Shelter and Shelter Plus, 50 GB on Rescue — plenty for photos and paperwork. Uploading evidence video or a lot of media? Add capacity only when you need it — data storage and data usage are measured per organization, so you never pay for space you don’t use.
Data storage and monthly data usage (downloads / streaming) are measured per organization from Pet Friend’s S3 & CloudFront media stack. Every plan includes 10 GB of data storage; monthly data usage includes 100 GB on Shelter and Shelter Plus and 50 GB on Rescue. Beyond that, additional data storage is $20/month per 10 GB and additional data usage is $20/month per 100 GB — a full block per started 100 GB over your allowance, whether you’re 1 GB or 99 GB over. Add-ons are prorated, can be changed or cancelled at any time, and any overage is billed automatically to your subscription. 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. All prices in USD.
AI assistance optional · Shelter Plus
Speed up data entry with AI: pull an animal’s details from a photo, a document or scan, or a typed note, and draft adoption bios — every result is a suggestion your staff review before saving. Returning-animal detection (spotting a re-surrender or return) is included free on Shelter Plus.
AI features are an optional add-on for Shelter Plus at $20/month, which includes 100 credits — each AI action (photo intake, document extraction, fill-from-text, adoption bio) uses a credit or two. You’re never charged beyond the monthly price unless you opt in to overage, which adds 100 credits for $20 per block. Returning-animal / duplicate detection is included on Shelter Plus at no extra cost. Add-ons are prorated and can be changed or cancelled at any time. All prices in USD.
Compare every feature across plans
| Feature | Rescue$25/month | Shelter$50/month | Shelter Plus$100/month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core shelter management | |||
| Animal records, intake & care | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exact age from date of birth live, never stale | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cage cards & printable intake records | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Adoptions & e-signatures | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Remote signing by email & text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Foster matching & board | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk / litter intake | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Online donations & payments (your Stripe, Square or PayPal) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Calendar & reminders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 60+ built-in reports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Notifications & alerts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Staff operations | |||
| Tasks & workflow automation | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accounting | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| People / donor / volunteer management | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| File manager module | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom fields intake, adoptions & fosters | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Required & hidden form fields | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom printouts choose what prints per animal | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom form builder | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Document e-signing send PDF/Word to sign | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drag-to-place signature & signed PDF | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduled report delivery | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single sign-on — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Zoho & Okta | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Enterprise, compliance & AI | |||
| Animal control officer module | – | – | ✓ |
| Animal registration / licensing | – | – | ✓ |
| Analytics dashboard | – | – | ✓ |
| Partner API & webhooks | – | – | ✓ |
| Audit log | – | – | ✓ |
| Shelter Animals Count export | – | – | ✓ |
| AI assistance — Shelter Plus add-on ($20/mo) | |||
| Photo-assisted intake fill fields from a photo | – | – | ✓ |
| Document extraction PDF & scans | – | – | ✓ |
| Fill-from-text & field cleanup | – | – | ✓ |
| AI adoption-bio writer | – | – | ✓ |
| Returning-animal detection included free | – | – | ✓ |
| Data storage & data usage — on every plan | |||
| Data storage then $20 / +10 GB mo | 10 GB | 10 GB | 10 GB |
| Data usage (downloads) / mo then $20 / +100 GB mo | 50 GB | 100 GB | 100 GB |
| Included on every plan | |||
| Full data export — no lock-in | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shelterluv / PetPoint migration import | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Two-factor authentication | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Login lockout | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic nightly backups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| iOS & Android apps | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Our pricing promise
The price on this page is the whole price. Specifically:
- No per-adoption fees. Completing an adoption never adds anything to your software bill — adoption #1 and adoption #1,000 cost you the same in software: $0. Your best months aren't your most expensive ones.
- No setup fees, no add-on fees, no support fees. Month to month; cancel anytime.
- We take no cut of your money. Adoption fees and donations go through your own Stripe, Square, or PayPal account at that processor's standard published rate. Pet Friend adds nothing on top, and your money never sits with us.
- You can always leave. One click exports everything — every table, photo, and file. No lock-in, no exit cost.
Plenty of shelter software is priced differently — usage-based models charge per adoption (Shelterluv's published pricing is $2.00 per adoption, for example), and enterprise platforms quote by sales call. Those models aren't wrong, and at low volume usage-based can even cost less — run your own numbers here. We publish a flat price because shelters run on hard budgets, and you shouldn't need a forecast to know next year's software line.
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