features & pricing



Pricing is all-in and includes a private database with unlimited users, data, training, and support.
We never harvest your data, charge transaction fees, require you to purchase products from us, or contact your adopters.
Shelter Boss LITE
$29/month   try it free
  • Intake and outcome
  • Import data (animals, people)
  • Hourly exports to Petfinder, RescueGroups.org, and Adopt-A-Pet
  • Animal Journal
  • Location and guardianship history
  • Data download (animals, people, contact info, many more)
  • Foster homes and history
  • Licenses, rabies tags, and microchips
  • Chip registrations with Petlink and Found Animals
  • Data feeds for your public website
  • Adoption application and contract with your choice of controls and data
  • Automatic e-mailing of new forms received
  • Success stories
  • Online donations
  • Shelter Calendar and scheduling
  • Visual reporting (charts and graphs)
  • Mapping and directions for addresses
  • DO NOT ADOPT list
  • Vaccinations and medications
  • Vet appointments, visits, and services
  • Contact information export
Shelter Boss BASIC  
$99/month   try it free
This package can be customized using the optional ADD-ON MODULES shown below.
  • Intake and outcome
  • Foster and volunteer management
  • Import data (animals, people, licenses and chips)
  • Multiple-animal intake
  • Custom kennel/cage cards
  • Adoption/redemption requirements and compliance
  • Transfers to other organizations
  • Hourly exports to Petfinder, RescueGroups.org, and Adopt-A-Pet
  • Animal Journal
  • Location and guardianship history
  • Public Animal Match with instant results
  • Data download (animals, people, contact info, many more)
  • Standard medications, vaccinations, veterinary services, medical tests, and scheduling items auto-added on intake or outcome
  • Foster homes and history
  • Basic licensing, rabies tags, and microchips
  • Chip registrations with Petlink and Found Animals
  • Data feeds for your public website
  • Form-builder with your choice of controls and data
  • Automatic e-mailing of new forms received
  • Signature capture
  • Online donations and custom acknowledgments
  • Custom printable/e-mailable receipt forms
  • Shelter Calendar and scheduling
  • Visual reporting (charts and graphs)
  • Co-owners/co-guardians
  • Mapping and directions for addresses
  • DO NOT ADOPT and QUESTIONABLE lists
  • Vaccinations with expiration tracking
  • Medications, dosages, and dose history
  • Medical tests and results
  • Vet appointments, visits, and services
  • Drug-usage logging
  • Vaccination and spay/neuter certificates
  • Security classes with configurable permissions
  • Tasks, notifications, and reminders

The following add-on modules provide additional functionality for Shelter Boss BASIC but are not required and can be added to or removed from your software at any time. To calculate your potential monthly fee, add the module cost to the $99 monthly BASIC fee. For example, if you add LOST AND FOUND (a standard add-on module), your monthly fee will be $119 ($99 for BASIC and $20 for the add-on module).
Please call or e-mail for current pricing.
  Premium Add-On Modules
$50/mo. ea.
Additional monthly fee
Advanced Shelter Management
$50
  • Approvals (adoption, euthanasia, hold)
  • Document upload and storage
  • Custom intake templates
  • Automatic calculation of availability dates
  • Auto-assignment of new status when animal becomes available
  • In-shelter moves and transfers
  • Configurable behavioral evals
  • Courtesy listings
  • Intake wait list
  • Length of Stay reporting
  • Form-processing fees
  • Animal sponsorship
  • Donations Manager and statistics
  • Chart of accounts and general ledger
  • Unpaid items log
  • Milestone-based checklists
  • Multiple shelters/facilities
  • Report designers
  • Phone call log
  • "By the numbers" report suite
Legal and Law Enforcement
$50
  • Dispatch
  • Cases and investigations
  • Enforcements and warnings
  • Unknown violators
  • Actions
  • Multi-level report designer
  • Custom merge documents
  • Form-builder
  • Print/e-mail call summaries
  • Average response times
  • Statistical reporting
Inventory, Controlled Substances, and Trap Rentals/Loans
$50
  • Ordering and receiving
  • Invoicing and receipts
  • Multiple inventory locations
  • Control, lot, serial, part, and unit numbering
  • SKUs
  • Shrinkage and loss
  • Restock reporting
  • Payable and receivable invoicing
  • Detailed controlled-substance usage logging
  • Container open/completion dates, wastage
  • Trap types and serial numbers
  • One-click trap check-in/return
Advanced Licensing
$50
  • Online license purchase and renewal
  • Automatic nightly renewal e-mail reminders
  • Calculated rates and fees
  • Annual and biannual licenses
  • Rabies vaccination expiration restrictions
  • Senior/disabled and service-dog rates
  • Mail and e-mail correspondence and tracking
  • Public upload of vaccination and spay/neuter proof
  Standard Add-On Modules
$20/mo. ea.
Additional monthly fee
Custom Fields and Data
$20
Design and collect custom searchable data for animals, people, licenses, and more. Use your choice of controls and data types. Make custom values required or optional.
Lost and Found Animals
$20
Administrative and optional public entry of lost and found animals with photos. Ability to add animals to FOUND listings on intake, and to send found animals to Petfinder and/or RescueGroups. Configurable listing expiration period. Instant matches from current animal inventory for all lost and found animals.
Clinic
$20
Appointments and appointment conflict resolution. Hourly appointment calendar. Veterinarians and veterinary staff. Scheduling and calendaring. Detailed printable and e-mailable medical history reports with attachments. Medical Center with scheduling and due/overdue items.
Time-Tracking
$20
Configurable work categories. Pay periods and timesheets. Clock in and clock out. Supervisor views. Employee scheduling including absences. One-time and recurring scheduling. Supervisor approvals.
Kennel Management
$20
Unlimited kennels with buildings, rooms, rows, capacity, and dimensions. Complete occupancy history. Intake kennel selection with under/at/over capacity info.
Membership
$20
Organization membership and renewals. Configurable membership categories and fees. Online purchase and renewal.
Moderated Events and Classes
$20
Classes, training, or other moderated events. Leader and co-leader. Registration, attendance tracking, and e-mailing.
Vouchers, Coupons, and Gift Certificates
$20
Vouchers for any purpose (e.g., spay/neuter). Coupons that discount a purchase or fees. Gift certificates can be sold and redeemed.
Shelter Boss ULTIMATE
$349/month  Try it free
For full-service animal control organizations. Includes everything in BASIC, all PREMIUM and STANDARD add-on modules, plus:
  • Seizure, protective custody, and owner-requested euthanasia
  • Quarantine
  • Staff and volunteer reviews
  • Boarding
  • Owner/guardian contact attempts (on or after intake)
  • Intake Report Designer
  • Address/GIS import and validation, legal data import (cases, calls, enforcements)
  • Permits/facility licenses
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Shelter Boss by RescueConnection Software, Carmel Valley, CA
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