Enabling exports to Pet Food Express

First, be sure that you are signed up for the Virtual Pet Fair with Pet Food Express. This event is open to approved California rescues and shelters only. If you have any questions about signup for the event please email the Pet Food Express Community Outreach team at adoptions@petfoodexpress.com.

Pet Food Express displays adoptable animals from approved rescues in California on their website using our API. As with any API user, your organization has complete control about whether to share your animal data with this particular website.

While Pet Food Express uses our API, you should only need to share your Account number to ensure they can list your animals. This number is displayed on the home page of your account, and is the same as the Account number you use to login. We also refer to this number as your Organization ID. You do not need an API key.

To share data with Pet Food Express, make sure you have confirmed the following in your account:

Is your RescueGroups.org account active?

Log into your RescueGroups.org account to ensure that your organization's account is still active. You can read more about our policy for inactive accounts.

Do you have exports enabled?

Before Pet Food Express can access your data, you'll want to make sure your account has enabled API Exports in your account, along with the specific Pet Food Express export.

You must have Site Admin permissions to modify these settings.

1. Log in to your RescueGroups.org account (Browse to https://rescuegroups.org and click the Login button at the top of the page).
2. Click Animals > Exports from the top menu tabs.
3. Make sure API Exports are enabled. This is completed by clicking the API Export icon under the Animal Exports heading. For more information and a tutorial video, read our article about enabling exports.
4. Under the API Export Section, scroll down the alphabetical list to find the listing for Pet Food Express. Make sure it is enabled like below.
  
  If it says Pet Food Express disabled, simply click the link next to that statement to enable it.

Are individual animal records set to Allow export?

Organizations can choose to set the Allow export field to Yes or No for each animal record, and our system only exports animals set to Yes. You can find this field at the bottom of each animal record. Make sure you have this field set to Yes to share this animal data with exports.

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Have you configured your Exports Settings to share with sites like Pet Food Express?

You must have Site Admin permissions to modify these settings.

RescueGroups.org provides you with general export settings to help us understand which exports you want enabled by default. To share with Pet Food Express, you'll want to make sure your settings include sharing data with sites that sell animal related products.

1. Log in to your RescueGroups.org account (Browse to https://rescuegroups.org and click the Login button at the top of the page).
2. Click Animals > Settings from the top menu tabs.
3. Click Exports Settings.
4. Scroll down to the Privacy settings section.
5. Verify that Yes is selected for the two options below:
  - By default, export to services that sell/promote animal related products (food, toys, treats, etc)
  - By default, export to services that sells/promotes animal related services (training, grooming)
6. If Yes is not selected, click the radio button next to the Yes option and then click Save at the bottom of the page.