Animal Shelter Manager 2.8.1.1

Animal Shelter Manager 2.8.1.1 supplies you with a comprehensive computer package with the ability to manage all aspects of an animal shelter, including intake, adoptions, internet publishing, medical treatments, diary, reporting, accounts, etc. The system is very flexible and can be configured to match the workflow of any shelter.

It can be installed locally on your computer, or on a webserver for shared use by many people. ASM can generate adoptable animal galleries and automatically publish your animals to PetFinder.com, Pets911.com, AdoptAPet.com and many more (including Facebook) through PetAdoptionPortal.org. Animal Shelter Manager runs on all major computer platforms (Windows, MacOSX, Linux, Unix), utilises other open source components and does not require a modern computer to run.

Animal Shelter Manager has been carefully designed to run under any operating system and computer platform, ensuring that you always have choices and options. Using ASM you will never be locked in to any one particular technology or forced to spend money to get what you need.

The system is completely free in all senses of the word and utilises other free software solutions, ensuring no unpleasant licence costs to users and most importantly ensuring your rights and freedoms to open standards, open file formats/protocols and the ongoing guarantee unfair terms will never be put upon you whilst you use the system. For more information on the Free Software movement in general, visit the Free Software Foundation.

Given the free nature of ASM, it is difficult to ascertain accurate user statistics. A conservative estimate, based on downloads and feedback indicates that the ASM user base is somewhere around 8,000 shelters across the US, UK, Australia, Canada and Europe - although it could be many more. Compared to commercial competitors, this gives ASM one of the largest (if not the largest) installed user base of any computerised shelter management package available. ASM has also been translated by volunteers to many languages. If you would like to help translate ASM to your language, please read the Translation HOWTO.

No! ASM is an industrial strength piece of software that thousands of shelters rely on to operate their organisations every day. It utilises other free software, such as the award-winning HSQLDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL database engines for managing information and it is extremely feature rich and capable of managing almost all aspects of a shelter environment.

Free software packages are often far superior to their commercial counterparts for the simple fact that the people who build free software have no other incentive than the desire to do it, and care very much about what they are doing. Developers of commercial software do it purely for money and are often under tight deadlines, producing mediocre software that lacks the care and attention to detail of free packages. For example, MySQL is one of the most popular relational database engines in the world, most of the internet runs on the Apache webserver and the majority of internet email is exchanged by the SendMail program - all of which are free software. There are countless such examples (eg: PHP, Python and of course Linux.

Major Features:

1. 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
   • Track and calculate costs incurred while the animal is on your shelter
   • 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
   • 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
   • Flexible logging allows extension to store any type of data (bite reports, etc.)
   • Custom field support to allow addition of your own data to animals and owners
2. 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.
3. Accounting
   • Double entry book keeping system
   • Donations are automatically cross referenced to save entry time
   • Track expenses, assets, bank accounts, loans, etc
   • Balance sheet and profit and loss reports
4. 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
   • UK gift aid and donation tracking
   • 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.)
5. Internet
   • Generate and upload full-featured, fully customisable websites publishing animals for adoptions with search engine
   • Fully compatible with free hosted webspace - no expensive servers required
   • Publish straight to PetFinder.com, AdoptAPet.com, RescueGroups.org and Pets911.com for US users - complete with all data mappings
   • Import animal data into ASM from PetFinder.com extracts
   • Non-interactive publishing through a command line interface allows scheduled jobs to automatically handle publishing
   • ASM Online - a version of ASM to run on your web server, easing administration and allowing remote users to get started with no installation.
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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 style sheets.
   • Custom report creation tool allows you to generate your own reports
   • Generate high quality, full colour graphs of management information, financials and adoption figures
9. 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, Operating System security and even webserver security for ASM Online.

Requirements:

• 300Mhz CPU or better, with at least 64Mb of RAM and 20MB disk space free.