Features
Animals
- Track animals through the shelter and outside world with ease throughout their lifetime
- Manage and remind for vaccinations, surgery and medical treatments
- Manage animal diets
- Move, induct, adopt, transfer and foster animals with donation tracking
- Keep track of animals not part of your shelter for independent clinics
- Manage agreements with insurers for automatic number ranges and generation of insurance paperwork automatically
- Advanced media facilities allow attachment of full multimedia and documentation to animals - ditch reams of paperwork!
- Generate paperwork automatically - interfaces to a wide range of word processors, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Works, AbiWord, OpenOffice, StarOffice and any wordprocessor supporting XML, HTML and Rich Text.
- Waiting list facilities including urgency updating/tracking
- Animal litter management, automatically watches litter members leaving the shelter and completes them on correct days. Removes headaches generating accurate litter figures
- Full medical tracking and management
- Flexible logging allows extension to store any type of data (bite reports, etc.)
Diary
- Full management diary system
- Create ranges of diary tasks for common functions and execute them against animals
- Output individual diary reports for everyone
- Diary integrates into all record types
- Vet management diaries
- Complete medical diary system, including scheduling, multiple treatments, etc.
Owners
- Track owners and suitability for ownership
- Full entity management, track other shelters, pet stores, etc.
- Warning messages for unsuitable owners
- Store owners desired criteria and automatically be notified when suitable animals arrive
- Track volunteers
- Store criteria for suitable animals for owners and auto generate suitability reports
- Track animal movement histories to owners
- Owner media
- Bulk mailshotting of owners through printed documents or email
- Full donation management, including regular commitments
- Flexible logging allows extension to store any type of data (complaints, etc.)
Internet
- Generate full-featured, fully customisable websites publishing animals for adoptions - widen your audience. One site successfully rehomed six of their longest-term animals in just two months to owners from all over the country and receive many enquiries from the internet site.
- Automatic search engine generation
- Publishing and uploading to the internet can be done completely by ASM without the need for FTP clients - just answer a few simple questions and your site will be uploaded for you.
- Fully compatible with free hosted webspace - no expensive servers required
- Publish straight to PetFinder.com, 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com and Pets911.com for US users - complete with all data mappings
- Non-interactive publishing through a command line interface allows scheduled jobs to automatically generate and upload your website every day.
Mail Merge
- Create filtered data sources for mailshots, eg. Locating animals off shelter who require vaccinations
- Create bulk data sources, filter and email automatically
- Generate printed letters for mailshots, convert to HTML/RTF and send via email or generate individual document files
Lost and Found
- Track and store lost and found animals
- Find potential lost and found matches with an intelligent matching engine
- Include shelter animal database as potential found matches
- Lost and found media
- Publish lost and found to the internet
Reports
- Full ranges of management reports
- Shelter Inventories
- Movement analysis
- Long Term Animals
- Animal auditing
- Automatic RSPCA Head Office figures generation for UK RSPCA shelters
- Flexible report generation - all reports are handled as HTML to integrate with the web browser of your choice, and to allow editing with many popular office products and direct emailling.
- All reports are fully customisable, using templates and cascading style sheets.
- Custom report creation tool allows you to generate your own reports - much more advanced than commercial tools (eg: Crystal Reports, ReportSmith), allowing SQL preprocessor instructions, group tags, ability to request criteria from users, etc.
- Animal Shelter Manager has its own built in web browser with advanced scaling/printing facilities to ensure that what you get on paper is exactly what you wanted. In addition, all reports are compliant to the HTML 3.2 standard and compatible with any web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, etc.)
- Generate high quality, full colour graphs of management information, financials and adoption figures
Security
- Create many users and control exactly what each can do
- Audit user actions to find out who did what
- Highly configurable - most areas of the system can be customised, including warning behaviour, report visuals - even database locking.
- Integrate with your site's LDAP server or Operating System security.
Requirements
| Platform: | Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista, MacOS X, Linux, BSD, UNIX |
| Requirements: | 300Mhz CPU or better, with at least 64Mb of RAM |
| Hard disk Requirements: | Variable based on data size. As a rule of thumb, allow at least 2Mb per 1,000 animals (not including multimedia) |
Animal Shelter Manager is Copyright(c)2000-2008, R. Rawson-Tetley