OverviewVolunteers
Volunteers claim their own shifts.
They open their own day, see what still needs covering, and take it. Nobody texts nine people to find out who is coming.
The whole day, in one strip.
A volunteer opens their portal and sees today as a timeline with a line at the current time. Colour says what each block is, so there is nothing to read before you know what to do.
Checked inCheck in nowSigned up, laterMissedOpen to claimFull
Check-in opens fifteen minutes early and closes when the shift ends. Off-site shifts carry their own address, contact and what to bring, with directions that open in the map app they already use.
Volunteers is an optional add-on, priced on how many volunteers are active.
Write the Saturday shift once.
Set a recurring pattern (Saturday, 9 to 11, dog walking, four spaces) and the next eight weeks fill themselves in. Each one behaves like any other shift for the people signing up.
01
Capacity holds
Four spaces means four. Two people tapping sign-up at the same moment cannot both get the last one, and you cannot cut a shift below the number already booked.
02
Changing the pattern tells people
Reschedule a recurring shift and everyone signed up gets a notification and an email with the time it used to be. No group text.
03
Your own activity types
Dog walking, cat socializing, laundry, adoption events, transport. Name them the way your shelter names them.
Hours you can put in a grant report.
Checking in and out counts the time. Work done off the schedule can be submitted afterwards and waits for a manager to approve it, so the total is a number somebody stood behind rather than a number somebody typed.
CountedMorning dog walk1h 06m
CountedCat socializing1h 30m
Awaiting approvalTransport run, submitted after the factPending
Volunteers see their hours, their upcoming shifts and the animals assigned to them. Managers see the same portal with the shifts, the roster, the activity types and the hour requests on top of it.
Assigned animals, and what the volunteer noticed.
Assign an animal to a volunteer and it appears on their page. They can post an observation straight onto the record: limping on the left hind, ate everything, terrified of the garbage truck. It lands where the next person will read it.
NoteBiscuitSat
NoteMochiSun
SnoutWare is open in early access.
Free to use. Five dollars when an animal is adopted.