> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.rescueconsole.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Reverse an adoption > Records that the animal came back. The placement with the adopter is closed, the animal goes back to the first of your statuses for animals in your care, and the return is recorded as an intake. If the housing it had was retired or taken out of service meanwhile, it is left with no housing. A finalized adoption can be reversed too. Payments are not touched: record money given back as a refund. This cannot be undone. Needs **write** on Animals. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /api/animals/adoptions/{id}/reverse openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: RescueConsole API version: '2026-09-19' description: >- Your own organization's records, from your own software. There is no sandbox: every request goes to your live organization. servers: - url: https://{organization}.rescueconsole.com description: Your own organization's address, the one you sign in at. variables: organization: default: your-rescue description: >- The first part of the address you sign in at. A key only works at the address of the organization it was made in. security: - apiKey: [] tags: - name: Animals description: The animals in your care, and the ones you have placed. - name: Animal notes description: Notes written on an animal's record. - name: Animal weights description: An animal's weight readings, one per weighing. - name: Animal medical records description: >- Vaccines, treatments, procedures, tests, exams and other medical records on one animal. - name: Animal placements description: The people an animal came from or has been placed with, over time. - name: Animal nutrition description: 'What an animal eats: its feeding list and its diet.' - name: Animal relationships description: Siblings, parents, offspring and bonded pairs. - name: Animal tags description: Your own short labels on an animal. - name: Breeds description: The breed or kind lists your intake form offers for each species. - name: Litters description: Litters, and the animals born into them. - name: Locations and housing description: >- The places animals are housed at each of your locations: campuses, buildings, rooms and cages, the tunnels that join cages into one space, and who is in each. - name: Foster homes description: >- The people who foster for you, what each home can take, and the animals offered to and placed with them. - name: Intakes description: >- How each animal arrived: the route in, who brought it, why it was given up and the state it came in. - name: Medical due description: >- Medical work that is outstanding across all your animals, and one medical record added to many animals at once. - name: Transports description: >- Transport runs: a chain of drives, each leg with its own driver, that moves animals from one place to another. - name: Animal calendar description: >- The dated things in animal care on one calendar: medical work due, adoptions, foster placements starting and ending, arrivals, and meet and greets. - name: Animal reports description: >- The operations report: intakes, outcomes, live release rate and the animals in your care, each figure with its own definition. - name: Adoption applications description: >- Applications to adopt or foster, from first draft to a decision, and the adoption contract signed on an approved one. - name: Adoptions description: >- Animals that went home, what each adopter owes and has paid, and closing or reversing the adoption. - name: Signed contracts description: >- Contracts signed on an adoption, a foster placement or an intake, each kept exactly as it read when it was signed. - name: Contract templates description: >- The contracts your organization has people sign, with the merge fields that fill them in. - name: Reconciliations description: >- A payment processor's settlement lines, matched against the adoption payments you recorded. - name: Animal custom fields description: >- The extra fields your organization adds to animals, housing units and adoption applications. - name: Age groups description: >- What counts as a baby, an adult or a senior, per species, which fee rules and discounts read. - name: Animal statuses description: >- Your organization's status vocabulary for animal records, and what kind of status each one is. - name: Application stages description: >- The steps an adoption or foster application moves through before it is decided, in your organization's words. - name: Behaviour attributes description: >- The catalogue of behavioural traits, and where a trait with each name may be shown beyond the record. - name: Cage card templates description: >- The layouts your organization prints for the kennel door: paper, fields, photo and QR code. - name: Adoption fee schedules description: >- The rules that suggest an animal's adoption fee, and the discounts laid over them. - name: Medical catalogue description: >- The diagnoses, tests, vaccines, treatments, procedures, conditions and medications your medical records pick from. - name: People description: >- The people your organization deals with: adopters, donors, volunteers, fosters and everybody else. - name: Person notes description: Notes written on a person's record. - name: Person contacts description: >- A person's phone numbers and email addresses, one of each kind marked primary. - name: Person addresses description: A person's addresses, one of them primary. - name: Person tags description: Free-text labels on a person, added and removed one at a time. - name: People duplicates description: People who look like the same person entered twice, and merging them. - name: People custom fields description: The fields a person's record carries beyond the standard ones. - name: Organizations description: >- The outside organizations your rescue deals with: veterinary practices, partner rescues, shelters, suppliers, employers and agencies. - name: Organization locations description: An organization's places, one of them the main one. - name: Affiliations description: >- Who works at, volunteers for or otherwise belongs to an organization, now or in the past. - name: Forms description: >- The forms your organization publishes, such as an adoption application or a volunteer sign-up, and the questions on them. - name: Submissions description: >- What people sent through your forms, and what your team does with each one. - name: Tasks description: >- To-dos, on a record or for the whole organization, narrowed to the records your key may read. - name: Calendar description: >- The dated work across your organization in one list, narrowed to the areas your key may read. - name: Activity description: >- What was created, changed and deleted in your organization, narrowed to the areas your key may read. - name: Shift schedules description: >- Schedules: the occasions shifts are grouped under, such as an adoption day or Saturday kennel cover. - name: Shift windows description: >- Shifts: a stretch of time at a place, with the volunteer roles it needs and how many of each (the address calls a shift a window). - name: Shift bookings description: >- Sign-ups: a person taking a role on a shift, giving it up, and the hours they worked. - name: Volunteers description: >- The people who volunteer: where each stands, what they have done, and where they would rather work. - name: Volunteer roles description: >- The jobs a volunteer can sign up for, such as Dog walker or Adoption counselor. - name: Volunteer qualifications description: 'Approvals: who may take which role, and at which location.' - name: Shift policies description: The rules you set for sign-ups and cancellations. - name: Shift calendar description: Schedules and shifts as calendar items for a date range. - name: Shift custom fields description: Your own fields on schedules, shifts and sign-ups. - name: Events description: >- The occasions your rescue hosts: adoption days, fundraisers, clinics and the rest. - name: Events calendar description: Your events between two days, as calendar entries. - name: Campaigns description: >- Appeals you raise money for, each with its goal and what it has raised so far. - name: Donations description: 'Gifts of money: how much, from whom, and what they were given to.' - name: Donors description: The people who have given, with what each has given in all. - name: Wish list description: The things your rescue needs, and the deliveries that met them. - name: Fundraising custom fields description: Your organization's own fields on donations and campaigns. - name: Message templates description: >- Saved wording your organization sends again and again, with merge fields filled from your records. - name: Sending description: >- Everything here sends real email from your organization, and none of it can be unsent. - name: Message log description: >- The email your organization has sent or tried to send, and what became of each message. - name: Conversations description: >- The email conversations in your organization's inboxes, and the records each one is about. - name: Inboxes description: >- The addresses your organization receives email at, and who may read each one. - name: Contact preferences description: >- Whether a person has asked not to be emailed, altogether or about one kind of message. - name: Suppressions description: >- Addresses no email goes to, because mail to them bounced or their owner asked not to be written to. - name: Sender and deliverability description: Who your organization's email goes out as, and how much of it arrives. - name: Registry flags description: >- Safety flags your organization files about a person or an animal, which other organizations using RescueConsole can see once the flag is vetted and shared. - name: Registry reviews description: >- Another organization's vote on a flag it did not file, which decides whether the flag becomes active or disputed. - name: Registry search description: >- The lookup by microchip number that anybody may make, with or without a key. paths: /api/animals/adoptions/{id}/reverse: parameters: - name: id in: path required: true description: The adoption's ID. schema: type: string post: tags: - Adoptions summary: Reverse an adoption description: >- Records that the animal came back. The placement with the adopter is closed, the animal goes back to the first of your statuses for animals in your care, and the return is recorded as an intake. If the housing it had was retired or taken out of service meanwhile, it is left with no housing. A finalized adoption can be reversed too. Payments are not touched: record money given back as a refund. This cannot be undone. Needs **write** on Animals. operationId: reverseAdoption requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - reason properties: reason: type: string description: Why the animal came back. returned_on: type: string format: date description: The day it came back. Today unless you say. example: reason: The adopter is moving to housing that does not allow pets. returned_on: '2026-10-02' responses: '200': description: The adoption, reversed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdoptionEnvelope' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/Problem' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/Problem' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/Problem' '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/Problem' '409': $ref: '#/components/responses/Problem' components: schemas: AdoptionEnvelope: type: object required: - adoption properties: adoption: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Adoption' Adoption: type: object required: - id - animal_id - adopter_person_id - status - fee_cents - adopted_on - amounts properties: id: type: string animal_id: type: string adopter_person_id: type: string application_id: type: - string - 'null' description: The application it came from. Null for a walk-in adoption. status: type: string enum: - active - finalized - reversed description: >- active: the animal went home, and the paperwork or the money may still be open. finalized: closed, with a receipt number. reversed: the animal came back. fee_cents: type: integer description: >- What the adopter owes, fixed when the adoption was recorded. Changing the animal's fee later does not change it. list_fee_cents: type: - integer - 'null' description: The fee before discounts, when discounts were taken off. discounts: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdoptionAppliedDiscount' description: The discounts taken off, as they were at the time. adopted_on: type: string format: date contract_signed_at: type: - string - 'null' contract_signed_by: type: - string - 'null' description: The name the contract was signed with. contract_version: type: - string - 'null' receipt_number: type: - string - 'null' description: Issued once, when the adoption is finalized, such as R-00042. finalized_at: type: - string - 'null' format: date-time donation_id: type: - string - 'null' description: The donation added on top of the fee. reversed_at: type: - string - 'null' format: date-time reversal_reason: type: - string - 'null' notes: type: - string - 'null' is_open: type: boolean description: Whether it is active. is_finalized: type: boolean is_reversed: type: boolean amounts: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdoptionAmounts' animal_name: type: - string - 'null' description: In the list. animal_species: type: string description: In the list. adopter_first_name: type: - string - 'null' description: In the list. adopter_last_name: type: - string - 'null' description: In the list. adopter_name: type: - string - 'null' description: The adopter's display name. In the list. payments: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdoptionPayment' description: >- Every line of the ledger, the most recently received first. On one adoption. animal: type: object properties: id: type: string name: type: - string - 'null' species: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Species' breed: type: - string - 'null' status: type: string pet_id: type: - string - 'null' description: On one adoption. adopter: type: object properties: id: type: string first_name: type: - string - 'null' last_name: type: - string - 'null' display_name: type: - string - 'null' email: type: - string - 'null' phone: type: - string - 'null' description: On one adoption. created_at: type: string format: date-time updated_at: type: string format: date-time additionalProperties: true AdoptionAppliedDiscount: type: object required: - id - label - kind - value - amount_off_cents properties: id: type: string description: The discount's ID. label: type: string kind: type: string enum: - percent - amount - set description: A percentage off, an amount off, or a set fee. value: type: integer description: The percentage, or the amount or set fee in cents. amount_off_cents: type: integer reason: type: string description: Why it applied, in words. description: A discount taken off the fee, as it was when the adoption was recorded. AdoptionAmounts: type: object required: - fee_cents - paid_cents - pending_cents - balance_cents - donation_cents properties: fee_cents: type: integer description: What the adopter owes. paid_cents: type: integer description: >- Verified payments less verified refunds, leaving out anything voided. pending_cents: type: integer description: >- Payments recorded and not yet verified. Shown, and not counted as paid. balance_cents: type: integer description: >- The fee less what is paid. Negative when the adopter has paid more than the fee. donation_cents: type: integer description: A gift on top of the fee. Never part of the balance. description: >- The money on an adoption, in whole cents, worked out from the ledger each time it is read. AdoptionPayment: type: object required: - id - adoption_id - kind - amount_cents - method - received_on properties: id: type: string adoption_id: type: string kind: type: string enum: - payment - refund amount_cents: type: integer minimum: 1 description: >- Always positive: money going back is a refund, not a negative payment. method: type: string enum: - cash - check - card - ach - online - other reference: type: - string - 'null' description: >- What a person wrote down to find it again: a check number, the last four digits of a card. received_on: type: string format: date verified_at: type: - string - 'null' description: >- When somebody said the money arrived. Null until then, and only verified payments count as paid. format: date-time verified_by_person_id: type: - string - 'null' voided_at: type: - string - 'null' description: When it was voided. A voided payment counts for nothing. format: date-time voided_by_person_id: type: - string - 'null' void_reason: type: - string - 'null' recorded_by_person_id: type: - string - 'null' notes: type: - string - 'null' gateway: type: - string - 'null' enum: - stripe - square - zeffy - paypal - venmo - cashapp - other - null description: The payment processor it came through. gateway_reference: type: - string - 'null' description: >- The processor's own ID for the payment, which a reconciliation matches on. created_at: type: string format: date-time updated_at: type: string format: date-time additionalProperties: true description: >- One line of an adoption's ledger. A payment is never deleted: a mistake is voided, with a reason, and stays. Species: type: string enum: - dog - cat - rabbit - equine - small_mammal - large_mammal - bird - barnyard - fish - reptile - exotic responses: Problem: description: What is wrong, in one sentence you can show to a person. content: application/json: schema: type: object required: - error properties: error: type: string example: error: house_trained must be 1, 0 or null (not assessed) securitySchemes: apiKey: type: http scheme: bearer description: An API key from Settings, API keys. It starts with rc_live_. ````