What has changed

Feature requests

• Your RescueGroups.org records come across whole: animals with their photos, fosters and surrendering owners, people with their notes and employers, journal entries as medical records, events, and adoption and foster applications.
• Choose where each RescueGroups.org field lands, your own custom fields included, and say what their statuses and contact types mean in your rescue.
• New animal fields: energy level, indoor or outdoor, available date, special needs, distinguishing marks, good with seniors, adults and farm animals, sponsorship, and a previous ID.
• New person fields: referred by, availability and transportation.
• A checklist can start when an adoption, foster, volunteer or donor form is received, and a checklist step can create a task.
• Follow up a form submission from the submission itself: email the person, start a workflow, or delete it.

Enhancements

• The app works on a phone: the sidebar becomes a menu you open from the header.
• Settings is arranged in eight categories that fold away.
• A form submission joins the person on file with the same email, or becomes a new person, without anybody pressing a button.
• Donors and volunteers are people: a checklist message to the donor or the volunteer reaches the person the checklist is about.
• Task titles are links to the record the task is about.

Bug fixes

• What’s new fits on a phone screen instead of running off its left edge.
• Contract template text takes typing again.
• Testing a RescueGroups.org login no longer fails with an invalid filter.
• A person brought in from RescueGroups.org keeps their email when a phone number is added to their record.

Feature requests

• The dollar an adoption costs can be the adopter’s: a setting in Settings → Payments adds it to the fee as its own line.
• Show an adopter a code to scan and pay you directly, then record it in the ledger the way you record cash.
• Connect RescueGroups.org in Settings → Integrations, choose what to take in, and once a run has worked it keeps going every hour.

Enhancements

• One plan: your first year free, then a dollar for each adoption you complete, with no monthly fee.

Bug fixes

• Forms on your public site submit again: volunteer sign-ups, applications, donations and payments.

Feature requests

• See what other rescues have asked for, and vote for it.
• Something to start from on your first day: starting forms, checklists and replies.
• Arrange the form that adds a record separately from the record itself.
• Print an animal’s record on your own letterhead.
• Take in a litter one at a time, with what littermates share kept on the form.
• A working name inside, and a plain public name outside.

Enhancements

• The roadmap is what you asked for, not what we wrote down.
• Write your public pages with bold, links and lists, not just plain text.
• Your forms can ask what your role sections hold.
• Describe an animal on a registry flag in the same words as a record.
• A donor’s last gift and their average gift, on their record.
• Your medication list is in Settings with the rest of the medical lists.
• Finishing a vet visit asks what happened.
• File the paperwork you actually have: Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more.

Bug fixes

• Deleting a volunteer role tells you what is holding it, instead of showing an error.
• Your public site shows your logo once, not your name twice.
• A kennel card can point at your own website again.
• Shifts and volunteer rules can find your locations again.