Why We Do This
Social Animal wasn't named by a branding agency. It was named after Jazz, a beagle. Our founder is Jazz's dad. If you run an animal shelter, rescue, wildlife sanctuary, or animal welfare charity — anywhere in the world — we'll build you a website that actually helps you save more lives. For a fraction of what you'd normally pay. Because every animal deserves a shot, and every organization doing this work deserves technology that pulls its weight.
You've seen the template Same WordPress theme, different shelter — rotating slider of sad dogs, a PayPal donate button buried at the bottom, a pet listing page last updated sometime in March. Potential adopters spend about eight seconds on your site, then go find animals on Petfinder instead. Where you have no brand presence whatsoever.
Adoption applications trickle in by email Someone copies them into a spreadsheet. Then a busy week hits, staff get overwhelmed, and good applicants just... don't hear back. They get frustrated, give up, and buy from a breeder. Meanwhile your animals are still in kennels.
Donation pages don't inspire confidence No description of what the money actually does, no recurring giving option, no way to sponsor a specific animal. Donors give once, feel nothing, and never return. Monthly recurring revenue sits at zero while your operating costs keep climbing.
Foster coordinators spend half their day on the phone — calling down a list by hand every time a new intake arrives, trying to figure out who has space Animals wait in overcrowded shelters. Willing foster homes sit empty because nobody got to them in time.
Volunteer management runs on group texts and a paper sign-up sheet on the front desk Nobody tracks hours. Coverage gaps go unnoticed until it's too late. Then grant season arrives and a funder asks for volunteer hour data you simply don't have.
Your website's in English Your rescue pulls dogs from Romania and finds them homes in the UK and the Netherlands. International adopters can't navigate the site. International donors can't donate. You've cut off a huge chunk of your support base without realizing it.
Adoptable Animal Profiles
Each animal gets a real profile: name, six-plus photo gallery, video, breed, age, weight, temperament, compatibility notes, medical status, and adoption fee. Filterable by species, breed, age, size, gender, and location. A shelter with 500 animals gets 500 individual SEO pages, each one targeting searches like "beagle adoption Manchester" or "senior cat rescue near me."
Petfinder / Adopt-a-Pet / RescueGroups Sync
When your staff updates an animal's record, it pushes everywhere. Automatic syndication to the Petfinder API, Adopt-a-Pet API, and RescueGroups means no double-entry, no stale listings. Your team touches one system. The internet handles the rest.
Online Adoption Applications
Structured application forms capture housing situation, current pets, vet references, lifestyle, breed experience — everything you actually need. Submissions go into Supabase. Staff review, approve, deny, and communicate with applicants from one dashboard. No more email chains. No more spreadsheets.
Donation Platform with Sponsorship
Stripe or Razorpay handles one-time and monthly recurring donations. Giving tiers with real impact descriptions: "$25 feeds one dog for a week." Sponsor-an-animal links a monthly donation directly to a specific animal's profile. Year-end tax receipts generate automatically.
Foster Network Management
Foster application forms capture availability, experience, housing, and animal preferences. When a new intake arrives, the system finds matching fosters by capacity and preference automatically. What used to take three hours of phone calls takes minutes.
AI Chatbot — 24/7 Coverage
A Claude-powered RAG chatbot fields questions about available breeds, the adoption process, and visiting hours — pulling from your shelter's FAQ and live animal data. It captures adopter interest at 2am when your staff has been asleep for hours.
Volunteer Portal
Sign-up, orientation scheduling, shift calendar, hour tracking — volunteers see available shifts and their own contribution history, admins see coverage gaps and who's due for a thank-you.
Event Calendar & Ticketing
Adoption events, fundraising galas, spay/neuter clinics, vaccination drives — all with an RSVP system and Stripe-powered ticket sales built in.
Public Impact Dashboard
Live counters on your site: animals rescued, adopted, currently in care, active foster homes, total donations received, volunteers contributing. All pulling from Supabase in real time.
Multi-Language Support
Our 30-language i18n engine built for cross-border rescues. Rescue in Romania, adopt in the UK, fundraise in the Netherlands — one site handles all of it.
Mobile-First, Fast Loading
Over 60% of shelter website traffic comes from phones. Every build is mobile-first, deployed on Vercel's edge network for sub-second load times wherever your visitors are.
You Own Everything
No CMS lock-in, no annual license, no vendor dependency. You own the code, the data, and the domain. Permanently.
01
Tell Us About Your Mission
Email us your charity registration and a short description of your organization. We'll come back within 48 hours with a subsidized quote. No obligation, no sales pitch.
Day 1-2
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Discovery & Animal Data Audit
We start by auditing your current workflow — intake volume, adoption process, donor pipeline, how your team actually operates day-to-day. We map every integration point: Petfinder, Stripe, volunteer systems, all of it.
Week 1
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Build & Integrate
Then we build: animal profiles with full SEO architecture, adoption forms, donation platform, foster matching, volunteer portal. The same tech stack we use for commercial clients who pay $15–50K.
Weeks 2-5
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Staff Training & Launch
We train your team to manage listings, review applications, and read the impact dashboard. Then we launch and stay on for 30 days of post-launch monitoring.
Week 6
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Ongoing Support (Optional)
Ongoing maintenance runs $200–500/month at our cost — updates, hosting management, new features as your rescue grows. No contracts.
Ongoing
Next.jsSupabaseVercelStripeRazorpayPetfinder APIAdopt-a-Pet APIRescueGroups APIClaude AIi18n
FAQ
為什麼你們對動物救援組織的收費低這麼多？
Social Animal 是以我們創辦人的比格犬 Jazz 命名的。動物福利對我們來說不是行銷角度——它是公司存在的理由。我們會為註冊慈善機構補助標準費率的 60–75%，因為我們認為每個救援組織都應該擁有適當的技術。我們吸收差額。這不是虧本買賣。這是我們的使命。
我們需要是註冊慈善機構才能符合資格嗎？
是的。我們確實要求慈善註冊——美國的 501(c)(3)、英國的註冊慈善機構，或你所在國家的同等資格。這樣可以確保補助用於合法組織。如果你是還沒有註冊的非正式救援組織，請無論如何與我們聯繫。我們會逐案評估，通常可以找到幫助的方式。
可領養動物資料真的能在 Google 上排名嗎？
可以的。我們使用目錄架構，為系統中的每隻動物生成各自經過 SEO 優化的頁面。五百隻動物就代表五百個頁面，每個都針對特定搜尋進行優化，例如「奧斯汀金毛尋回犬領養」或「我附近的老年貓領養」。它會從已經在你所在地區尋找領養的人那裡吸引自然搜尋流量——他們只是還不知道你的存在。
網站能自動與 Petfinder 和 Adopt-a-Pet 同步嗎？
我們與 Petfinder API、Adopt-a-Pet API 和 RescueGroups API 整合。當員工更新動物資料——新增照片、狀態變更、標記為已領養——它會自動跨所有平台同步。沒有重複輸入，也不會出現已在三週前找到家的動物的過期清單。
啟動後的主機費用是多少？
主機費用按我們的實際成本計算：Supabase 和 Vercel 每月合計 $25–45。無標記、無年度授權。可選的維護服務每月 $200–500，涵蓋更新、監控和新功能。兩者都完全是可選的——你擁有代碼，如果更適合你的話也可以自行託管。
從開始到啟動需要多長時間？
大多數救援網站在六週內啟動。第一週進行探索和數據審計。第二至五週進行建設——動物資料、領養表單、捐款平台、寄養配對、志工工具。第六週進行員工培訓、啟動和 30 天的啟動後支援。
Registered Animal Charities: $2,000 – $7,000
60-75% below our standard rate. Fixed fee. 30-day post-launch support. You own the code.
See standard packages for comparison → If You Rescue Animals, We Want to Help
Send us your charity registration and a brief description. We'll respond within 48 hours with a subsidized quote. No obligation. No sales pitch.
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