Introduction

Animal Shelter Manager is a computer package designed to ease the administrative burden of managing an animal shelter or sanctuary.

It integrates well with existing paper-based systems, and offers a whole host of features, including:

• Adoption history facilities, allowing full animal tracking
• Advanced media facilities for attaching photographs, documents, spreadsheets, videos and sounds.
• Automatic insurance number generation for pet insurer agreements
• Full reporting facilities, including auditing, financials, statistics and graphs.
• Complete double-entry book keeping system for account management.
• Flexible custom reporting allows editing, saving, emailing, embedding in documents, direct uploading to the internet and conversion to many different word processor formats, as well as built in tools to generate your own reports.
• Form creation facilities for instant generation of adoption paperwork, reservation cards etc.
• Web site generation to allow a wider audience to see your animals, including integration to PetFinder.com and other major US adoption websites.
• Lost and found database facilities with intelligent matching system
• Easy-maintenance database with low resource requirements for easy backing up using backup tapes, zip drives and CD writers.
• Owner and donation management, including UK Gift Aid support, homechecking, banned owners, etc.
• Sophisticated animal search facilities allowing staff to locate an animal within the shelter at a glance
• Low specification computers required for both server and clients with the option to use many different operating systems and platforms
• Extensible architecture allows for easy creation of third party plugins
• Bulk mail shotting and email facilities based on filtered criteria