You can configure your Shelterluv account to upload your adoptable animals to Petfinder, Chewy, and Adopt-a-Pet automatically. You can read How to Set Up Your Aggregator Integrations for details.
Below is a list of information sent to Petfinder, Chewy, and Adopt-a-Pet to help you prepare your animal records accordingly, along with translations for breeds, attributes, and size groups when sent to your aggregators.
Auto-Upload Prerequisites
For an animal record to be included in the automatic upload to your aggregator account, the following conditions must be met:
- The animal record must be in a status that is toggled to Display Online. Please take a look at How to Configure Your Statuses for details.
- The animal record must have a sex value of either Male or Female (not Unknown) on its profile.
- Regarding photos or videos, Publish must be toggled on to be included with the animal record.
Auto-Upload Frequency
Because Adopt-a-Pet's integration is built with Shelterluv's API, changes you make to your animal records should be updated in your Adopt-a-Pet account every 30 minutes.
Petfinder still uses FTP to upload data from Shelterluv to your Petfinder account. Because of this, changes you make to your animal records will update once daily.
Chewy's API integration will update once daily.
Auto-uploaded Information
It is important to note that each integration is independently built, and the same information is not always passed over to each aggregator.
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- The following information is uploaded to your Adopt-a-Pet account:
- Name
- Species
- Primary Breed / Secondary Breed
- Sex
- Size (based on weight, otherwise defaults to small)
- Age Group
- Website/Kennel Card Memo (animal bio/description)
- Attributes (must be toggled to Publish. Please take a look at How to Configure Your Attributes for details). The attribute wording in Shelterluv must match the wording in the table below.
- Animal primary color
- Photos (up to 4, one must be selected as the Cover Photo)
- YouTube video (up to 1)
Note
Adopt-a-Pet only displays sizes for dogs, horses, birds, rabbits, farm animals, and reptiles. - Chewy's integration updates once daily. The following fields are sent to Chewy:
- Name
- Species
- Primary Breed
- Sex
- Altered Status
- Color
- Size Group
- Kennel Card / Website Memo (animal bio/description)
- Photos (one must be selected as the Cover Photo)
- Attributes (only those configured to Publish=Yes)
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Petfinder does not support video uploads. Additionally, you are only able to publish animal records to one Petfinder location.
The following information is uploaded to your Petfinder account:
- Name
- Species
- Primary Breed / Secondary Breed
- Primary Color / Secondary Color (dogs and cats only)
- Sex
- Size (based on weight, otherwise defaults to small)
- Age Group
- Website/Kennel Card Memo (animal bio/description)
- Attributes (must be toggled to Publish. Please take a look at How to Configure Your Attributes for details). In Petfinder, attributes display under the About > Characteristics section.
- Health (displays under the About > Health section like this: "Vaccinations up to date, spayed/neutered.")
- Photos (up to 6)
- Date of Birth (private field in Petfinder, not shown to the public)
- Arrival date (most recent intake date, private field in Petfinder)
Note
The six most recently published photos in an animal's record are uploaded. If a new photo is added and published, it will replace the oldest of the six most recently published photos on Petfinder.
Translations
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The table below defines the Shelterluv attribute names that will trigger these special translations to your aggregator upload.
Ensure that:
- Each attribute is toggled to Publish in your attribute configurations.
- There are no conflicting attributes (e.g. Good with Dogs and Not Good with Dogs) on an animal record. If there are, they will be translated as blank/unknown.
Shelterluv Attribute Name Auto-Upload Translation Good with Dogs Good with Dogs Single Dog Home Not Good with Dogs Not Good with Dogs Not Good with Dogs Good with Cats Good with Cats Not Good with Cats Not Good with Cats Good with Kids Good with Kids Adult-Only Home Preferred Not Good with Kids Not Good with Kids Not Good with Kids Housetrained Housetrained Litter Box Trained Housetrained Not Housetrained Not Housetrained Special Needs Special Needs Special Dietary Needs Special Needs FIV+ Special Needs Shelterluv Breed Name Adopt-a-Pet Translation Petfinder Translation Mixed Breed (Small) Mixed Breed, Small Mixed Breed Mixed Breed (Medium) Mixed Breed, Medium Mixed Breed Mixed Breed (Large) Mixed Breed, Large Mixed Breed - The size group field on dog records is sent to Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet for organizations who prefer to display the dog's size when grown. If that field is blank, the current weight will be used and translated as described below:
Shelterluv Size Group Dog Translation Cat Translation Small Equal to or less than 25 lbs Equal to or less than 4.99 lbs Medium 25 to 60 lbs 5 lbs to 9.98 lbs Large 60 to 100 lbs 9.99 lbs to 14.98 lbs Extra Large Greater than 100 lbs Greater than 14.99 lbs No provided weight Default to small size group Default to small size group