Free for your first year

then $1 per adoption

The whole app, every account, your own site and domain. Nothing to choose and nothing to outgrow.

Your first year free: the whole product, not a trial of it
Then $1 for each adoption you complete, yours to carry or to pass to the adopter
A month with no adoptions costs nothing
The same $1 however you take payment: card, cash, check or an app we never see
The whole app, and no limit on staff or volunteer accounts
Your own domain, for your site and for email
Import your spreadsheets, export everything, whenever

However you take the money

A dollar an adoption, whether it arrives through us, through a card reader, in cash at an adoption day, or through an app we never see. We do not charge more for payments we do not handle.

And whoever pays it

Carry the dollar yourself, or add it to the adoption fee so the adopter covers it, shown as its own line at checkout, never as a surprise. One setting, either way.

What that comes to

Twelve adoptions in a year: $12, and nothing at all in the first year.
Forty a month: $40 that month. A quieter month costs less, not the same.
A month with none: nothing.

We record what is owed each month and close the month when it ends. Nothing is taken from a card automatically.

Your numbers

What you keep, worked out.

Put in the animals you place, your fee, how adopters pay you and what you use now. The figures below it follow.

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Animals you place in a year Average adoption fee

Paid by the adopter, by card, through one processor60% The rest by cash, check, Zelle, Cash App or Venmo. Add our $1 to the adoption fee when the adopter pays by card through Stripe Have adopters cover Stripe’s card fee too, 2.9% + 30¢ a payment

What you use now Other tools it replaces, a year

A phone system, a website, volunteer scheduling, a newsletter tool.

RescueConsole, this year: $0
RescueConsole, from the second year: $96 a year
ShelterLuv, with the tools it replaces: $2,064 a year
Its card fees over Stripe’s, 3.4% against 2.9%: $108

You keep, this year

$2,064

and $1,968 a year after that

Your adopters also cover $670 a year of card fees, so each fee reaches you whole.

that’s vet care, not software

Start free and keep $2,064

See all of them, side by side · prices as of October 15, 2026

Transparent pricing

A year of 240 adoptions, priced every way.

Each figure is the company’s published price, or the one in a contract it signed, read on October 15, 2026 and applied to your numbers. Where a flat fee comes out lower than ours at your size, it says so.

dated, sourced, no fine print ↓

RescueConsole

$1 an adoption, the first year free; your adopters cover it when they pay by card through Stripe

This year free. From the second year, $96 a year at your size, after your card adopters cover theirs.

$0, then $96
ShelterLuv

$2 an adoption, plus $18 for each of 82 adoptions short of 94% paid through its checkout; card fees 3.4% + 30¢

With us you keep $2,064 this year and $1,968 a year after.

$2,064 a year
Pawdango

$2.50 a completed adoption

With us you keep $600 this year and $504 a year after.

$600 a year
Animal Shelter Manager

$395 a year

With us you keep $395 this year and $299 a year after.

$395 a year
Pet Friend

$25 a month for a rescue

With us you keep $300 this year and $204 a year after.

$300 a year
RescueGroups.org

By service: website $100 a year (with data management and online forms), local voicemail $150 a year

With us you keep $250 this year and $154 a year after.

$250 a year
Free tools

$0. Ask the five questions below.

Nothing up front. Ask who pays for it.

$0 a year

ask these out loud

Free is a price, too. Ask a free tool:

Who pays you, and will you be here in two years?
Do you sell, share or study our data, or our adopters’?
Must our payments run through your merchant account, and at what fee?
Do you ask our adopters for a tip, or a fee, for yourselves?
Do you show our adopters anybody’s offers?

Our answers to the same questions

Sources, read on October 15, 2026

ShelterLuv’s threshold is counted by the month; the year here assumes your adoptions are spread evenly across it. Its card fees and ours are compared on the same card adoptions, whose 30¢ is the same.

Send these numbers to your board.

Your figures, the arithmetic and today’s prices with their sources, emailed to you and to whoever else should see them: the treasurer, the director, the board. We keep a copy so a person can answer their questions, and each address you add gets that one email.

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Questions people ask

What counts as an adoption?: An adoption you complete and do not reverse. If a placement comes back to you and you record the reversal, it is not billed, and if it was already on an invoice the next invoice credits it back. A month is invoiced on the 5th of the month after it, so an adoption you enter a few days late still lands in the month it happened. Fosters, transfers and returns are not adoptions and are never counted.
Can the adopter pay the dollar instead of us?: Yes, and it is a setting rather than a conversation. Turn it on and the dollar is added to the adoption fee at checkout as its own line, so the adopter sees exactly what it is, and that adoption comes off your invoice. Turn it off and it stays with you. It is the same dollar either way.
Does it cost more if we take payments somewhere else?: No. A dollar an adoption is a dollar an adoption whether the money came through us, through a card reader, in cash at an adoption day, by check, or through an app we never see. We do not charge more for payments we do not process, and we never will. You should be free to take money the way that suits you and your adopters.
What if we place no animals in a month?: You owe nothing that month. There is no minimum, no monthly fee and nothing to cancel. A quiet month costs what it should.
Is the free year really the whole product?: Yes, and that is why we do not call it a trial. The whole app, your own domain, your public site, unlimited staff and volunteer accounts, for the rest of the month you sign up in and the twelve full months after it, so joining on the 30th costs you nothing. Nothing switches off at the end of it. The first bill simply arrives.
Is all of it really included?: Yes. Every hub (Today, Inbox, Animals, People, Adoptions, Giving, Volunteering, Reports and Settings), plus transports, forms, workflows, documents, your public website and every integration. There is one plan, so there is no feature somebody else has paid more for.
Do volunteers count as accounts?: No. A volunteer who signs in to take shifts is not a staff account, and there is no limit on how many you have.
Can I bring my existing data?: Animals, people, donations and events import from a spreadsheet with column mapping, in your free year and after it. Every list exports to CSV whenever you want it back.
What happens when the free year ends?: Nothing changes and nothing is deleted. You carry on, and the adoptions you complete from then on are billed at a dollar each.
Is there a term we are locked into?: No. There is no minimum term and no notice period: cancel any time, and you pay only for adoptions completed before the account closes. If your organization needs to sign something, we sign a one-page order form that names a dated version of our terms, which stays as it was.
How long do we have to get our data back if we leave?: Ninety days after the account closes, however it closes, and the copy includes your files and photos. You can also export any list yourself, whenever you like, before you go.
What do you do with our data?: Run the service for you and keep it secure, and nothing else. We do not sell it, we share it only with the providers that run the service, and we never use your name or logo in our marketing without asking you first.
And if we ever disagree?: Our terms are under Florida law, and there is no clause making the side that loses pay the other side’s lawyers. A county, a city or another government body gets its own state’s law and courts instead.