The Website Service combines the features of the free Pet Adoption Portal with the Data Management Service to bring you one of the most exciting values of all. Your professional looking website can easily be customized by anyone - no knowledge of HTML is needed. And you get built-in pages and templates to help you start designing immediately.

The Website Service isn't just another website hosting service. It's so much more. 

The Website Service integrates The Pet Adoption Portal, the Data Management Service, and the Online Forms Service with an easy-to-maintain website with built-in features designed for animal welfare organizations.

The Website Service is designed with those who do not have any experience with HTML or web page design in mind.  We offer some built-in layouts, and built-in pages to get you started. You can customize this further and can also customize the look and feel using CSS and Javascript. If you want to customize the look and feel, but aren't sure where to start, we can discuss this with you.

You might want to view this video about the Website Service before continuing.

Let's start by getting you familiar with what your new service can do for you.

Benefits

A few of the benefits of using the Website Service: 

• Built-in pages to get you started

• Automatically generated Animal Web Pages that highlight each animal and can include pictures and video

• Automatically generated Successful Adoptions page

• Stories feature (Success Stories) which you can use to tell the happiest adoption stories

• Memorials feature

• Animal Sponsorships using PayPal integration to help you raise funds for a particular animal

• News feature

• Events feature with integrated Animal Event Attendance to promote events and track which animals were in attendance

• Highlighted Animals feature to promote those animals most needing adoption

• Featured Animal

• Add Custom Javascript or HTML

• Role-Restricted volunteer access so that you can choose which functions each volunteer can access

• Free 3-month trial

Where to Start

We recommend these steps before you begin setting up your service:

1. We highly recommend you start by reading these guides.

   Get Started with RescueGroups.org

   Pet Adoption Portal
   Data Management Service

2. Review your About your Organization Contact Information for accuracy

3. Add your animals - see Add, Update, and Delete Animal Information
   

4. Enable Animal Exports
   

5. Add Volunteers
   

Do you need help?

If at any time you don't understand the instructions or you're stumped, just send us a support ticket and we'll be glad to help you - either to get started or to continue managing your account.  

Open a support ticket by using the fields on the left navigation bar at https://rescuegroups.org/support/. You can also update your existing support ticket with new information or questions.