Foster coordination that doesn't live in a group chat.
For small rescues getting organized. Everything you need to run a foster program without the group text chaos.
- ✓ Up to 30 animal intakes/mo
- ✓ Unlimited foster volunteers
- ✓ 1 coordinator seat
- ✓ Foster onboarding (3-step signup flow)
- ✓ Animal profiles with photos, medical flags, and notes
- ✓ Broadcast pleas — send foster needs to your entire network
- ✓ Foster interest submission and status tracking
- ✓ Foster assignment workflow — assign → confirm → pickup → complete
- ✓ In-app messaging between coordinators and fosters
- ✓ Community announcements
- ✓ Basic foster directory (search by name and status)
- ✓ Self-service booking — fosters book pickups from your available slots
- ✓ Foster care updates — fosters log daily photos, weight, behavior, and feeding notes
- ✓ Health notes timeline — medical tracking on every animal profile
- ✓ Email and push notifications
- ✓ Mobile app access for fosters
For programs with more than one person running the show. Add your full coordination team, give fosters self-service booking, and stop managing pickups over text. When your program grows past one coordinator and a group chat, Pro is where the back-and-forth ends.
- ✓Unlimited active animals— never hit a wall as your program grows
- ✓Up to 5 coordinator seats— your whole team, shared visibility
- ✓Targeted pleas— filter fosters by availability, experience, and preferences before sending
- ✓✦AI plea creation— drafts compelling pleas from animal profiles so you send faster, not harder
- ✓Response dashboard— every response to every plea in one view, with match indicators
- ✓Self-service booking with calendar sync— fosters book pickups, synced to your Google or Outlook calendar
- ✓Coordinator activity feed— see what your team has done at a glance
- ✓Priority in-app support
- ✓SMS notifications— urgent pleas, pickup reminders, and time-sensitive messages (prepaid bundles)
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For large rescues, shelters, and multi-location orgs with 200+ fosters. Your foster program is an operation. Enterprise gives you the intelligence layer to run it like one: multiple appointment types, analytics, API access, and dedicated support.
- ✓Unlimited coordinator seats with role-based permissions— define custom roles and workflow rules for your team
- ✓Multiple appointment types— vet visits, returns, meet-and-greets, orientations, supply pickups, and custom types
- ✓Coordinator calendar view— all appointment types, all locations, one view
- ✓Appointment analytics— no-show rates, time-to-pickup, busiest days, capacity planning
- ✓Response analytics and reporting— foster retention rates, response time trends, program health
- ✓✦AI foster assistant (24/7)— trained on your org's protocols, answers foster questions and triages emergencies around the clock
- ✓✦AI agents— autonomous intake processing, plea targeting, animal record updates, and triage routing
- ✓Custom foster applications— build your own intake forms, screening questions, and approval workflows
- ✓SMS included— first 100 messages/month included, then prepaid bundles
- ✓API access and webhook integrations— connect to your existing shelter management system
- ✓Location-based scheduling— multi-site orgs assign appointment types per location
- ✓Sandbox environment— test workflows, train staff, and validate compliance before going live
- ✓Dedicated onboarding support— we set it up with you
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Everything your foster program needs, on the plan that fits.
| Feature | Starter | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team seats | 1 | Up to 5 | Unlimited + custom roles |
| Animal intakes | 30/mo | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Foster onboarding | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Animal profiles | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Broadcast pleas | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Foster interest & tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Foster assignment workflow | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-app messaging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Community announcements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Foster directory | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-service booking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Foster care updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Health notes timeline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email and push notifications | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Targeted pleas | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| ✦ AI plea creation | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Coordinator activity feed | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Priority in-app support | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| SMS notifications | — | Prepaid bundles | 100/mo included |
| Custom booking & calendar types | — | — | ✓ |
| Appointment analytics | — | — | ✓ |
| Response analytics & reporting | — | — | ✓ |
| ✦ AI foster assistant (24/7) | — | — | ✓ |
| ✦ AI agents (intake, triage, records) | — | — | ✓ |
| Custom foster applications | — | — | ✓ |
| API access & webhooks | — | — | ✓ |
| Location-based scheduling | — | — | ✓ |
| Sandbox environment | — | — | ✓ |
| Dedicated onboarding support | — | — | ✓ |
Reach fosters instantly, anywhere.
Add SMS to your Pro or Enterprise plan for urgent pleas, pickup reminders, and time-sensitive messages. Choose a prepaid bundle that fits your program. Enterprise includes 100 texts/month at no extra cost.
Prepaid bundles for predictable costs:
Built for foster coordinators, not IT departments.
Every feature in Pawsitive exists because a foster coordinator needed it. The plea system came from watching a foster program coordinator send 47 individual texts about one kitten litter. The matching engine came from coordinators who kept foster capabilities in their heads, or on sticky notes.
Most shelter software treats fostering as a line item. We built an entire platform around it, because the people running foster programs deserve software that was actually built for them.
Questions & answers
We verify every organization before letting them in — not because we're suspicious, but because the network is only as trustworthy as the people in it. It takes a minute, we review it fast (usually within a day), and it's what protects the animals, the foster volunteers, and the orgs doing great work.
Fast. Submit the verification form, get approved within a day, then download the app on iOS or Android — or sign in from any device, desktop or mobile. Invite your coordinators and foster volunteers, intake your animals, and you're live. Don't want to DIY it? We'll import your current animals and your whole network for you. The app is built to be intuitive, so nobody needs a training manual or a 47-video YouTube playlist to figure out how to, you know, use the software. (This ain't your grandma's legacy software — no offense to granny.)
Yes. Starter isn't a trial, and it isn't a bait-and-switch — it's a real, fully functional plan for small rescues. If your program has fewer than 20 active foster volunteers and one coordinator, you may genuinely never need to upgrade. We built it that way on purpose.
Never. They're literally taking unhoused animals into their homes — the least we can do is not charge them. Every foster-facing feature is free, on every plan. They download the app, join your organization, and they're in.
It doesn't have to — and honestly, no matter what you're using now, you should be using Pawsitive Foster too. We handle the foster coordination piece that your current system doesn't: the pleas, the matching, the response tracking, the scheduling. Most organizations run us alongside their existing tools, and the relief is immediate. (Especially if you're on Chameleon. Come to the light. Godspeed.)
Your card on file is charged $79/month (or $67/month if you chose annual). You can cancel anytime during the trial from your account settings — if you cancel before the trial ends, you're never charged. Your account moves to Starter, you keep all your data, your foster volunteers stay connected, and you can still send broadcast pleas. You only lose Pro features like targeted pleas, the response dashboard, and self-service booking.
SMS is available on Pro and Enterprise as prepaid bundles (500 for $20, 2,000 for $65, 10,000 for $250). On Enterprise, the first 100 messages per month are included at no extra cost. SMS is optional — in-app notifications and push notifications are included on every plan.
Yes. Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel anytime from your account settings. If you downgrade, you keep access to your current plan through the end of your billing period.
Start with Pro. If you find yourself needing multiple appointment types, cross-location scheduling, or detailed analytics, those are natural signals that Enterprise would help. Book a call and we'll figure it out together — no pressure.
Our pricing is already built with nonprofits in mind. If budget is a real barrier, reach out — we'd rather work something out than lose an organization doing great foster work.
Your foster program deserves its own platform.
Not a module inside someone else's software.
Features, pricing, and plan availability may evolve as we grow alongside our partners. We're building this with you, not ahead of you.