Shelter Pro offers automated importing to Adopt a Pet, so your organization's adoptable pets can automatically appear on Adopt a Pet.
Get ready:
- You need an approved Adopt a Pet shelter/rescue account. Sign up here.
Save data
- The first upload will permanently erase all of your available pets, adopted pets, adopters, and microchip info from Adopt a Pet. Only available pets are re-added by your software.
- Optional: Before you setup, use Pet Export and Adopter Export to save your data on your computer. (Your listings can not be restored from these files; just for your reference.)
AutoUpload Contact
- AutoUploading requires at least one Pet Publicist checked as the AutoUpload contact. They will be responsible for monitoring & addressing any errors. Errors may prevent your pets from updating or displaying. As a courtesy, if there are errors our system emails them to you.
- Whoever sets up AutoUploading will be it. If you are not the AutoUpload contact, ask that person to log in using their Pet Publicist login to complete the steps below. If they aren't a publicist yet, add them here checking "I am an AutoUpload contact for this shelter/rescue".
Set up AutoUploading:
If your pets and photos are in ShelterPro then you're ready take these steps:
1. Login to your Adopt a Pet account
2. Go to Shelter/Rescue > AutoUpload/Import Pets
3. Select "Shelter Pro" from the dropdown and click Continue.
4. Leave the default options or your importing will not work.
5. Click
6. Your unique FTP info will be displayed. You will need to enter it in your Shelter Pro software. Follow the setup in your Shelter Pro user guide for setting up web uploads.
7. After you've run your extract and upload, your can use the test upload button to check for value errors, or wait for the error emails which have any value and photo errors.
You may have "mapping" errors during the initial setup, or if you add new breeds, colors, or other values to your Shelter Pro. You can find Adopt a Pet's list of breeds and colors at the end of this article.
Note: To avoid errors that would block a pet from being added successfully, AutoUpload ignores "Mix" if used as the secondary dog breed (Breed2 aka CrossBreed) value. For the word "Mix" to display on a dog's page on Adopt a Pet, uncheck the "PureBred" box in ShelterPro for that dog's profile.
In order to map a primary dog breed (the dog's first breed) value, you can select any of the following values:
Mixed Breed (Large)
Mixed Breed (Medium)
Mixed Breed (Small)
For further help, email Shelter Pro or contact us.