Contribute

How You Can Help

  • Make a donation: Your donation will help cover the costs of maintaining and improving ShelterPartner. Scroll down to see all the costs associated with keeping ShelterPartner running.

  • Contribute on GitHub: Most of our code is open source. This means that anybody can submit code to fix bugs, *add new features, create tutorials, etc.

  • Provide Feedback: If you have any feedback on ways ShelterPartner can be improved or work better with your shelter, please don’t hesitate to send me an email!

Costs

  • Labor: Subjective - I currently spend roughly 20 hours per week working on ShelterPartner. This involves, responding to emails, creating new features, and making general improvements.

  • Website/Domain/Email: $35.50/month - This is the cost of this website and my email.

  • Zapier: $19.99/month - Zapier is used for automation including account creation.

  • Jotform: $39/month - Jotform allows users to add notes and photos from their personal devices as well as provide feedback and report problems.

  • Cloud Database: $32/month - This varies but includes the cost of Firestore Database, Firebase Storage, Cloud Functions, Cloud Scheduler, etc. This cost is roughly proportionate to the number of shelters using the app.

  • HubSpot CRM: $189.90/year - This is software that helps organize the information of all of the animal shelters using the app.

  • Apple Developer Account: $99/year - The Apple Developer account allows the app to be listed on the app store

Contributions

  • Donations - One Time $1050

  • Donations - Monthly

  • Donations - Yearly

  • Donations - Github Contributions

  • Active Shelters - 15

  • Demo Shelters - 150

Contributors

  • Lisa Leiterman - Donation

  • Renee Jones - Github

  • Ben and Renee Jones - Donation

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