TL;DR: This app's first goal is to accept surrender form info and spit out populated intake information, skipping the paper transcription step between the surrender and intake forms.
The goal of this application is to automate and streamline the paperwork, and digital work processes for cats cared for by Felines and Friends NM (F&FNM).
Felines and Friends NM relies heavily on volunteers for its second chance guaranteed placement mission. Some of the processes are hands-on with cat care. Some are paper and digital work. This app will reduce errors and delays while freeing volunteers for the rest of the operations, allowing F&FNM to reach more cats and save more lives.
A cat comes to F&F via surrender or transfer with an appropriate surrender form. These forms include owner surrender, stray surrender, pregnant/nursing cat surrender, and rescue surrender.
A team member transcribes the surrender form into an intake form, standardizing the fields among all types of surrender. Most crucially, a unique RESCUE ID is assigned to the cat.
Note: pregnant cats and young kittens are sometimes handled in groups.
The app takes the surrender information and converts it into the intake form.
Any and all information can be missing or wrong. This is why it is so essential to get a Rescue ID assigned to each cat. Information is updated for the cat based on its Rescue ID.
This app should be usable on iPhones, iPads and Android devices on and off the Internet.
For ease of use, the app reproduces the surrender forms.
TBD how Rescue ID is generated.