Pet shops and groomers
A pet shop or groomer books appointments and sells food and supplies.
Animal rescues and shelters
Adopters apply on one form, and each application moves across a board to a new home. Sponsors give every month, and volunteers see their shifts.
The staff and regular volunteers work in one Magpie team. Adopters, fosterers and sponsors use the forms and pages you publish.
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This combination of six Magpie areas fits an animal rescue or shelter.
- Social Media
- Social Media posts each animal looking for a home.
- Forms
- Forms takes adoption and fostering applications.
- Kanban Boards
- Kanban Boards follows each adoption, from application to home.
- Daily Operations
- Daily Operations schedules feeding, cleaning and the medicine round.
- Staff Scheduling
- Staff Scheduling plans the volunteers' shifts.
- Supporters
- Supporters takes monthly sponsorship, with posts about the animals.
Each animal needing a home is posted where people will see it.
Social Media publishes to Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn at the time you choose. Posts for Instagram and X are prepared, with a reminder when it is time.
A campaign groups the posts for one appeal, such as a litter of kittens.
Adopters apply for a dog or a cat on one form.
Forms builds an adoption application with your questions, such as the home and other pets. A File question can take a photo of the garden.
Every application comes into one list, and you get an email for each one. A second form can take fostering applications.
Each adoption moves across the board, from application to home.
Kanban Boards holds each application as a card, in columns such as home check. Each card has an assignee, a due date and To-dos.
Comments and photos stay on the card. A link lets a foster carer see the board without signing in.
Feeding, cleaning and medicines are ticked off on time.
Daily Operations gives the kennels their routines, such as morning feeds, cleaning and the medicine round. A step can ask for a yes or no, a number or a photo.
Notes for the next shift stay on the day's page, such as a dog not eating. A broken kennel latch is reported with what to do.
Volunteers see their own shifts, from dog walking to the kennels.
Staff Scheduling plans the week, with positions such as kennels, dog walking and reception. Each volunteer you invite sees their own shifts.
An open shift waits for someone to take it. Volunteers can swap a shift or ask for time off.
Sponsors give every month, and follow the animals they help.
Supporters gives the rescue a public page, with a free tier and monthly paid tiers. Payments go to your own Stripe account.
Posts can go to everyone or to paying sponsors, with photos, a video or a poll.
Six more areas cover agreements, people, news, the website, supplies and the books.
- E-Signatures
- E-Signatures sends each adopter the adoption agreement to sign.
- Contacts
- Contacts keeps adopters, fosterers and vets, with follow-ups.
- Newsletter
- Newsletter tells supporters who has found a home.
- Websites
- Websites builds your site, with the animals and how to adopt.
- Inventory
- Inventory counts food, litter and bedding, and lists what is running low.
- Accounting
- Accounting keeps the books, with sponsors' payments posted automatically.
An adoption goes from a post to a dog in its new home.
The post
Biscuit's photos go out on social media.
The application
A family applies on the form.
The checks
The card moves to home check, then meet and greet.
The agreement
The family signs the adoption agreement.
The update
Sponsors see Biscuit settled in, in a post.
Setting up takes four steps.
Build the adoption form
You choose its questions. Help: Build, publish, and share a form.
Make the adoptions board
You set its columns once. Help: Track work with Kanban boards.
Invite the regular volunteers
They then see their shifts. Help: Add staff and invite them to see their shifts.
Connect Stripe
Sponsors can then give monthly by card. Help: Connect Stripe to receive money.
Plans
A rescue fits the Team plan, with each person who sees their shifts a member. Adopters, fosterers and sponsors are not added to it.
Magpie's fee on supporters' payments is 3%. Stripe's processing fee is taken from each card payment. Prices are on the Pricing page.
Other people who look after animals have pages of their own.
Dog walkers and pet sitters
A dog walker books walks and bills each owner.
Small nonprofits and charities
A nonprofit takes monthly support and runs its programmes.
Questions animal rescues ask
Can people apply to adopt online?
Yes. An adoption form asks your questions. A File question can take a photo of the garden. You get an email for each application.
Can we follow each adoption from application to home?
Yes. Each application is a card on the adoptions board. It moves through your columns, with an assignee, a due date and To-dos.
Can adopters sign the adoption agreement online?
Yes. E-Signatures emails the agreement to sign. The signed copy comes with a certificate of completion.
Can people sponsor a kennel every month?
Yes. Supporters gives you monthly paid tiers, paid by card through Stripe. Sponsors change their card or cancel themselves.
Can volunteers see their shifts?
Yes. Each volunteer you invite sees their own shifts once the rota is published. They can swap a shift or take an open one.
Can we record feeding and medicines?
Yes. A routine's steps can ask for a yes or no, a number or a photo. Each finished checklist keeps who did it and when.
Can we post our animals to Instagram?
Yes. Social Media prepares the Instagram post and reminds you when it is time. Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn posts go out on their own.
Can we keep track of food and litter?
Yes. Inventory counts them, and lists what is below the level you set. An order to your supplier starts from that list.
Set up your rescue in Magpie.
Create a Magpie account and make a team for the rescue.