Shelters
Kennels, register, care, volunteer rota: everything that happens within your walls, tracked without a binder or a spreadsheet.
Management software for animal shelters and rescues
Your whole shelter in one tool.
Animal records, health care, the entry and exit register, adoptions signed online, foster homes, volunteers, donations and tax receipts: Calidis brings together what your team currently keeps in binders, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups.
No card details needed. On a computer or a phone, with nothing to install.
RTRefuge des Tilleuls
Animals
Animals
Health
Housing
Entry/exit register
People
Directory
Volunteer rota
Shelter activity
Adoptions
Donations
Animals38 present
NNalaFemale dog · Shepherd cross · 3 years · Kennel 4Adoptable
OOsloDog · Beagle · 6 years · Kennel 7Reserved
PPixelCat · Domestic shorthair · approx. 8 months · CatteryIn care
MMokaFemale cat · Domestic shorthair · 2 yearsFoster home
Capacity76%
38 animals · 50 spaces
Care reminders3this week
Entered in the register, no retypingExit · Tango adopted
Care reminder · in 7 daysNala’s annual vaccine
7 languages
French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian.
Several shelters
One account switches between sites, each with its own data.
Your rules
Adoption steps, votes, roles, documents: each shelter sets its own.
Nothing to install
A browser is all you need, in the office or in the kennels, phone in hand.
Features
Organised like your day: animals, people, shelter activity.
Each module works on its own, and they all talk to each other: a completed adoption updates the animal’s record, frees its kennel and is entered in the register.
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Animals
From arrival to departure, everything about an animal is on its record.
Animal records
Identity, photos, behaviour, compatibility, documents and a daily journal. Age is recalculated automatically from the date of birth.
Health and reminders
Vet procedures, vaccines, quarantines, weigh-ins with their curve. A care reminder alerts you a week before the due date.
Housing
Sections, kennels and spaces. Move an animal by drag and drop, and its kennel is freed as soon as it leaves the shelter.
Entry and exit register
Every arrival and every departure is entered with no retyping. One tab per type of movement, ready to print.
Rescue transports
Convoys with their route, stops and spaces in the van. Each animal booked on has its stop and its destination.
Partner catalogues
Records kept by a partner rescue arrive automatically, photos included, without overwriting what you enter.
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People
Adopters, volunteers, foster carers, donors, vets: one person, one record.
Directory
One record per person, even if they are a volunteer, a foster carer and a donor all at once. Organisations have their own.
Foster homes
Free spaces calculated, profiles accepted, who is fostering which animal and since when. The placement history stays on the record.
Volunteer rota
The week at a glance: shifts by day, unfilled ones highlighted, volunteers who are usually available.
Map
Adopters, volunteers and foster carers placed on the map, so you can find who lives near a town, within the radius you choose.
Team chat
Channels for the whole team instead of WhatsApp groups: @ mentions a member, # tags an animal and opens its record.
Emails and documents
Write to a contact from their record and attach the contract or the certificate in one click. Every email sent is logged.
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Shelter activity
Adoptions, donations, sponsorships: what keeps your organisation going, tracked from start to finish.
Adoptions
A step-by-step process that you define, a departure checklist, and post-adoption follow-up that opens by itself.
Team vote
Simple majority, qualified majority or unanimity, with a quorum: you set the rule, each member votes and comments.
Online signing
Certificate of commitment, adoption contract, volunteer charter: signed with a finger on a phone, with their audit trail.
Donations and tax receipts
PDF receipt with the wording of the French Cerfa no. 11580 form, numbered with no gaps and sent by email. HelloAsso payments are imported.
Sponsorships
A sponsor linked to an animal, with amount and frequency. The history stays on the animal’s record and on the sponsor’s.
Public adoption page
Your adoptable animals published on a page in your name, kept up to date from their status, with your contact details.
04
Management
Who has access to what, who did what, how the shelter is doing, and what connects to it.
Roles and permissions
Set page by page and action by action. Create your own roles (vet, accountant…) and exceptions for individual accounts.
Activity log
Records edited, adoption steps, votes, accounts: every action is logged, with its author and its date.
Statistics
Adoption rate, occupancy, entries and exits over six months, where animals come from: calculated from your records, without a spreadsheet.
Integrations
HelloAsso for donations, Ohme for contacts, partner rescue catalogues for animals. And your own tool, on request.
Adoptions
From application to one-year follow-up, with nothing forgotten.
Each file moves forward step by step, along the process your shelter has defined. The team vote locks the steps you choose, and the statutory waiting period that follows the certificate of commitment is shown on the file.
- Configurable process: steps added, renamed or reordered without touching files in progress.
- Certificate of commitment and contract signed online, through a personal link sent to the adopter.
- 7-day statutory waiting period (French law) flagged on a dog’s or cat’s file.
- Post-adoption follow-up opened automatically: a call after 7 days, a visit at one month, news at one year.
Adoption fileOslo · Camille Marchand
Step 4 of 5
- Application24 February
- File27 February
- Interview1 March
- Visitplanned for 8 March
- Contract and departureupcoming
Departure checklist
Application file approved
Phone interview done
Adoption contract signed
Microchip transfer (I-CAD)
Entry and exit register
The register keeps itself.
Creating a record enters the arrival. Completing an adoption, placing an animal in a foster home or transferring it to another rescue enters the exit. You retype nothing.
- One tab per type of movement, on screen and in print.
- “Complete the register” finds the missing lines and shows them to you before writing them.
- An animal that has left without an exit line is flagged, never made up.
Entry / exit registerMarch 2026
Entries / exitsEntriesExitsPresentMortality
| No. | Entry | Animal | Origin | Exit | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 3 March | Nala | Surrender | Present | |
| 42 | 5 March | Tango | Found / stray | 10 March | Adoption |
| 43 | 8 March | Moka | Transfer | 12 March | Foster home |
| 44 | 19 March | Pixel | Found / stray | Present |
Print the register
Donations and tax receipts
From donation to tax receipt, with no retyping.
Each donation has its own page, linked to the donor’s record. The receipt carries the wording of the French Cerfa no. 11580 form and goes out by email, as an attachment.
- Continuous numbering per year: a cancelled receipt never frees up its number.
- Amount in words, article 200 or 238 bis of the French tax code depending on the donor.
- Advanced search and CSV export of the selection.
- HelloAsso payments imported, Ohme contacts brought into the directory.
March donations
Hélène RouxBank transfer · 6 March€50.00Receipt issued
Marc AubryHelloAsso · 9 March€20.00To issue
Tax receiptno. 2026-0042
Sent by email
- Donor
- Hélène Roux
- Donation date
- 6 March 2026
- Amount
- €50.00
- In words
- Fifty euros
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Who it’s for
One tool for every way of protecting animals
A shelter with its kennels, a rescue that works without premises, a team that coordinates foster homes: the day-to-day is not the same. Here is what Calidis changes in each case.
Rescues without a shelter
No premises, but animals, adopters, donors and a scattered team: it all fits in one shared tool.
Foster home networks
Who can take an animal, who is fostering which one, and since when: foster homes coordinated without a spreadsheet to keep up by hand.
Security and confidentiality
Your shelter’s data stays yours.
Separated by shelter
Each site sees only its own animals, contacts and donations.
Precise permissions
A volunteer views and adds notes, a manager edits, the administrator handles accounts. Adjust as you see fit.
Everything is logged
The activity log keeps the author and date of every sensitive action, from a vote to a change to an account.
Protected login
Passwords never stored in plain text, lockout after several failed attempts, traffic over HTTPS.