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The RescueGroups.org Website Service includes built-in features designed with animal welfare organizations needs in mind. If you don't see a group that fits your situation, you can create a custom animal group. See the article, Creating custom animal groups.

In this walk-through, we'll briefly go over some of the features unique to the RescueGroups.org Website Service, and how these features can help your organization.

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This may be one of the biggest benefits for your organization.
 Organizations often find themselves stuck or feeling abandoned when their web savvy volunteer leaves. That person may have been the only one who knew how everything worked. That organization is then faced with questions on how to post the animals, how to pull the animals from the site when adopted, or how to post events. The organization may eventually be able to find a way to do this themselves, or they may not have the software, knowledge or access to do this.
 

Perhaps in your organization, you're the point web person and you're burning out. Maybe you just don't have the time you once did to keep up with everything and you really need a better way to allow volunteers to assist, without giving them access to everything or worrying they will make a mess of the site HTML.

The RescueGroups.org Website Service has many built-in features designed to make maintaining a website easier for animal welfare organizations.

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Automatically Generated Animal Web Pages

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Need another group that isn't there? You can create it using the Custom Animal Group feature.  For information, see the Creating custom animal groups article in this guide.

There’s also an option where you can separate Courtesy Listings from your adoptable pet list.

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To get you started, we provide you with a menu that includes a list of links to built-in pages on your new website. Can you customize it? Of course!

You can continue to use this the default menu, or create your own custom menu where you include any of the built-in pages or custom pages you've created.

Stories Feature

This feature is great for organizations who want to manually add stories for adopted animals.

Memorials Feature

The Rainbow Bridge feature is to memorialize animals who have passed away. You can elect to charge for a page in this section.

Automatically Generated Successful Adoptions Page 

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You can enable this feature to easily allow visitors to sponsor specific animals. They can do a one-time or recurring sponsorship*. When you login log in to your organization's PayPal account, you will see the animal name in the sponsorship.

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The Online Store allows you to sell items on your web sitewebsite. Your customers use a PayPal shopping cart to purchase the items, so you don't have to worry about handling credit card information or online payments.

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This feature allows you to highlight specific animals to display on your homepage. You can select how many animals and how much of their bio appears. You can turn this feature on and off as you need and even use it to rearrange the order of animals on the automatically generated animals web animal web pages.

Featured Animal

Want to showcase a specific animal or cycle through different animals each time a visitor visits your site? There's a snippet for that!

Built-in Website Templates

We give you Builtbuilt-in Layout layout templates you can use to define the look of your site. You can use them as-is, or customize them to make them your own.

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Snippets allow you to easily add HTML and built-in features to your web pages. Some of our built-in snippets make it easy to add PayPal, Facebook and Twitter to your pages using your Affiliates, while others allow you to place your News, Events, or a Featured Pet on your web pages.

You can also create your own snippets. This is an easy way to add any HTML to your web pages. You might use them to add a chip-in widget, embed a video, or even add custom paypal buttons.

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Volunteers can help with the website in so many ways., such as:

• Post and Update Animals
• Highlight / Feature Animals
• Add Events and Animal Event Attendance
• Add News
• Add Success Stories
• Add Memorials

• And More!

With the Website Service’s automatically generated web pages, volunteers can even help maintain the site without editing any HTML.  

Also Included: Free, Unlimited, Online Support!

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If you already have a RescueGroups.org account, you can login log in to into your account at manage.rescuegroups.org, click on Services, then click on the service you would like to add.

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