> ## 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.

# Wish list

> Keeping a list of what the rescue needs, recording what arrives, and closing items you no longer need.

The **Wish list** is what the rescue needs, such as food, medical supplies or a crate for one animal, and a record of what has arrived. How much has arrived is always counted from the deliveries you record, so the figures cannot drift from what actually came in.

The page has no row of its own in the sidebar. Type **Wish list** into the search palette to open it (see [Finding your way](/getting-started/finding-your-way)). Anyone whose role has **See** on Fundraising can open it. Adding a need, recording a delivery, removing one, and closing or reopening an item need **Change** on Fundraising.

The wish list is for your team. It does not appear on your public site.

## Figures

| Figure             | What it means                                                                                                                                                      |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Still needed**   | Items you are still asking for where less has arrived than you asked for.                                                                                          |
| **Estimated cost** | What the outstanding quantity of those items would cost, using each item's **Cost each**. Items with no cost are left out, so the figure covers priced items only. |
| **Urgent**         | How many items in the list are marked **Urgent**.                                                                                                                  |
| **Closed**         | How many items you have stopped asking for.                                                                                                                        |

When anything is still needed, a line above the list says the same in words, for example "4 things still needed, about \$180.00 of it."

## The list

Urgent items come first, then normal, then low. Within each, the oldest request comes first, so something that has waited six weeks is not buried under today's.

Each item shows its name, its priority, its category and any description, then how much has arrived against how much you asked for ("3 of 10 bags") with a bar. Beside that it reads either how much is still needed or **Enough has arrived**. Beneath, where they apply:

* **For** and an animal's name, linking to the animal.
* **Part of** and a campaign's name.
* The cost of one, as "\$12.99 each".
* **Where to buy it**, which opens the link you gave.
* **No longer asking:** and your reason, once an item is closed.

An item can be tied to an animal or a campaign only through the API. The **Add a need** form does not offer either.

<Note>
  **Enough has arrived** does not close an item. People keep bringing food, so an item stays on the list, still asking, until you press **Stop asking**. An item can also be closed without ever being met, for example when the animal it was for is adopted.
</Note>

### Filters

The rail beside the list has three groups, each with a count:

* **Status**: **Still asking** or **Closed**. The list opens on **Still asking**.
* **Category**: Food, Medical, Supplies, Equipment, Enrichment, Other.
* **Priority**: Urgent, Normal, Low.

**Views**, above the filters, keeps filtered lists you come back to. Filter the list, press **+ Save current view**, name it and press **Save**. Your views are your own.

## Adding a need

Press **Add a need**.

| Field               | What it means                                                                                       |
| ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **What is needed**  | Required. What to bring, such as "Puppy formula".                                                   |
| **Category**        | Food, Medical, **Supplies** (the default), Equipment, Enrichment or Other.                          |
| **How many**        | A whole number, 1 or more.                                                                          |
| **Unit**            | What the number counts: cans, bags, cases. Shown after the quantity on the item and its deliveries. |
| **Priority**        | Urgent, **Normal** (the default) or Low.                                                            |
| **Cost each**       | An estimate of one unit's cost, used for **Estimated cost**. Leave it blank if you do not know.     |
| **Where to buy it** | A link to the item at an online shop, if there is one.                                              |
| **Anything else**   | A description: a brand, a size, who it is for.                                                      |

Press **Add it**. The page does not offer a way to change an item's details or delete it once it is added. To stop asking for one, use **Stop asking**.

## Recording a delivery

Press **Open** on an item, then **Something arrived**.

| Field          | What it means                                                |
| -------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **How many**   | A whole number, 1 or more, in the item's unit.               |
| **Arrived on** | The day it came. Today unless you change it.                 |
| **Note**       | Who brought it, if you know, or anything else worth keeping. |

Press **Record it**. Record a delivery only once it has actually arrived: a promise counted as delivered stops the rescue buying something that never came.

Under **Deliveries**, an open item lists every delivery with its quantity, who it was from (**Anonymous** when nobody is named), the day and the note. **Remove** takes a delivery off, and the item's figures are counted again without it.

## Stop asking

When you no longer need an item, press **Open**, then **Stop asking**. You must say why under **Why are you no longer asking for this?**, for example "The animal was adopted" or "A vendor donated a pallet". Press **Stop asking** again to close it.

The item stays on the list, marked closed with your reason, and moves under **Closed** in the **Status** filter. Press **Ask again** on a closed item to reopen it. Its reason is cleared, and every delivery already recorded still counts.
