Capacity, species preferences, and current placements on every foster record, so you know who can take the dog standing in front of you.

A foster is not placeable until all three are done, and the system holds the order rather than trusting anybody to remember it.
One link, in a post, an email, or a QR code on the kennel door. It asks about their housing, their other pets, and how many animals they can take at once. Fosters looking for a shelter can find yours on our public list and start there.
Review it with the same notes thread and the same decision trail as an adoption application. Approving it creates the foster record in the same step.
Schedule the visit and record how it went. An approved application on its own is not enough: no animal is placed until the visit is on file and passing.
The placement window opens already filtered to the fosters who fit: the species they said they would take, and the ones who still have room. Age is there too if you want it. One click clears every filter, so a willing foster is never hidden by a preference they left blank.
Somebody already at capacity is shown as full rather than left for you to work out. How many animals each foster can take is on their record, not in your head.
They see the animals in their care and can message your staff about them on the animal’s own record, so the conversation about the puppy with the cough is attached to the puppy with the cough.
When a foster asks to keep the animal, the adoption starts pre-filled from what you already know about them. Foster to adopt is a conversion, not a fresh application from a blank page.
Free to use. Five dollars when an animal is adopted.