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RescueConsole sends your animals to Adopt-a-Pet as their AutoUpload feed: a file of your pets, in their own words for breed, colour, age and size, delivered to their FTP server. There is nothing to match by hand.

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Set it up

You need AutoUpload turned on for your Adopt-a-Pet account. In their Shelter Zone, open Manage My AutoUpload Account. It shows three things: the FTP Server, your FTP Username and your FTP Password.
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Add the integration

In RescueConsole, open Settings → Advanced & security → Integrations, find Adopt-a-Pet under Adoption listing sites, and add it. Its settings open in their own window.
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Enter what the Shelter Zone shows

FTP Server starts as autoupload.adoptapet.com; change it only if theirs is different. Type the FTP Username and FTP Password and press Save it. The password is stored and never shown again.
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Test the connection

Test the connection signs in to their server and out again, and answers Connection successful or Connection failed with their server’s own words.
4

Turn animals on, going out

Under Which way choose Out, tick Animals under What to sync, choose How often, and Save.
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Send the listing once by hand

Press Send the listing now. Nothing goes on its own until a first send has worked. After that it goes on the schedule.
In the Shelter Zone, tell AutoUpload that your file has a header line. RescueConsole always sends one.

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How often

Hourly at most: every hour, every 6 hours, every 12 hours, or once a day. Each send replaces your whole listing, their site reads the file within a few hours, and they email you a processing log for every send, so anything more often buys nothing.

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Which animals go, and as what

Nothing here is chosen by hand. Your own statuses decide: An animal you take off your public site therefore leaves their listing on the next send.

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What stays off, and why

After each send, the window says how many animals went as Available, Adopted and Deleted, and lists two things:
  • Stayed off the listing: an animal they have no way to list, with the reason. For example an exotic whose kind is none of theirs.
  • Sent under their nearest breed name: a breed they do not know, sent as their closest, such as Mixed Breed (Medium) or Domestic Shorthair.

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What they are sent for each animal

Every field is matched from the animal record for you. A question your team has not answered is sent blank, never as a no.
The FIV result is kept on a cat’s medical summary and is not sent: their importer does not take the column.

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Their processing log

Adopt-a-Pet emails you a log for every file they process, with a link to the file they received. A NOTICE is a field they ignored; an ERROR stops the whole upload. If you ever see an error, send it to us through Feedback: the file is ours to fix, not yours.