Your RescueGroups.org service can export your adoptable animals to our partner adoption sites automatically when you have enabled the exports feature.
The exports feature offered by RescueGroups.org can save your organization time and help you to promote your animals. You can enable or disable this export at any time. There are some things you should know before you enable the exports feature:
It's extremely important that your RescueGroups.org account database has all of your animal information, pictures, and videos (including adopted pets) before you enable exporting to the adoption listing websites. If not, you could lose your pet information. |
To enable the export process:
Go to Animals > Exports and click the button API Exports are disabled. Click here to enable.
Once you've enabled the automatic exports, you can select the adoption sites to which you want your animal information exported.
To enable exports to Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet.com, please set up accounts with them directly. These sites are listed as FTP Exports on the Animal Exports page. |
We will request accounts on your behalf for all the other partner adoption sites automatically. All you need to do is to go to Animals > Exports and then enable any of the API Export partner adoption sites for your animal adoption exports. The red icons with exclamation points are not enabled; the green icons with check marks are enabled. You can change these selections at any time.
We've prepared a video for you to help you understand and to enable the animal exports feature. If you would like to view in full screen please visit our YouTube link HERE.
It can take as long as three hours to update your pet information on the other sites.
After we enable your uploads:
Some fields are mapped to their closest values on the partner adoption website (like breed, species, etc). The following are changes that are made to your pet data when sent to the adoption listing websites:
Adoption application information (if public and the link enabled)
You can enable and disable the adoption information link for all animals or just for courtesy listings. Go to Animals > Settings > Website Service Related Settings. |
Each of the adoption listing websites supports different fields. The following are cases where the data is handled differently:
A link to your homepage as well as to the animal's web page is added to the animal's description (applies to Website Service only and only on adoption listing sites that allow the link) and can be disabled in Animals > Exports > Settings
If the foster's contact information is public, it will be added at the top of the animal's description.
You can control which adoption websites list a specific animal by selecting the appropriate accounts under the Accounts section of the animal’s information.
We've prepared a video for you to help you understand and to disable the animal exports feature. You can also view the video in fullscreen on our Youtube channel HERE.
You can disable the animal exports function at any time, should you need or want to stop exporting your adoptable animals to a particular or to all national pet adoption websites.
To disable the animal export feature: