From 1 September 2026, every business in France must be able to receive its invoices electronically. Son Espace Refuge connects you to a partner e-invoicing platform (PDP) with your SIRET in two minutes. Sending invoices and receiving your supplier invoices are included in your subscription, from €4.99/month.
Tutorials and demos: animal intake, foster families, adoptions and day-to-day follow-up. Dive into the app to see how it can save you time.
Son Espace Refuge is the all-in-one app designed for animal welfare associations, SPCAs, shelters and pounds of all sizes — from the small volunteer-run organisation with a dozen residents to large associations caring for several hundred animals. It replaces paper binders, shared Excel spreadsheets and scattered WhatsApp groups with a single platform, available from every volunteer's smartphone, the vet's tablet or the office computer.
Its unique strength: QR code traceability combined with the ecosystem connected to the adopter. Every animal in the shelter has a QR code fixed to its kennel. Volunteers scan it to instantly record walks, meals, care and behaviour observations. At adoption, the animal's complete record — health, behaviour, journal of life at the shelter — is transferred in one click to the new family's free Son Espace Santé app. No more static PDFs, no more lost binders: a living record that carries on for the animal's whole life.
The app is native on iOS and Android, also available as a web version in any browser, and works offline with automatic synchronisation — invaluable in rural shelters with patchy 4G coverage. Several user profiles coexist with fine-grained rights: association chair, employees, referring vet, volunteer walkers, foster families. Everyone sees what they need to see.
The app is designed for every kind of organisation:
No more double entry, no more Excel spreadsheets. One single source of truth.
Everyone knows what to do thanks to the QR code. Less coordination, more action.
Complete records, a website listed on Google, digital transfer to the new adopter.
Registers, annual statistics, DDPP inspections — everything is ready in one click.
Your data is stored on servers in France, in compliance with the GDPR. You remain the owner of your data and can export it at any time (CSV, PDF). The app is developed by a French team.
Complete profiles including history, photos and particularities for each animal.
Vaccines, treatments, vet visits. Never miss a due date thanks to reminders.
Record behaviour observations and progress in rehabilitation to make adoption easier.
Plan walks, play and meals to ensure the animals' physical and mental balance.
Generate tracking sheets with QR codes to instantly record volunteer check-ins and check-outs, walks and meals.
View pen occupancy and optimise space according to specific needs.
Manage your foster family network, follow each resident's placement and the families' history.
Track your finances precisely: vet and food expenses, as well as donations and adoption fees received. Collect your adoption fees online by card, with no commission from us.
A map of your pens with real-time occupancy. See at a glance the free kennels, the animals housed together and the quarantine areas.
Dashboards for your annual reports: number of intakes and outcomes, adoption rate, average length of stay. Data ready for your grant applications.
Who did what, and when. Automatic time-stamping of check-ins and check-outs, tallying of volunteer hours — ideal for association agreements.
Manage your stock of medicines and vaccines. Automatic expiry alerts, traceability of administration per animal, complete history per batch.
Preparing the adoption profile, generating the contract, digital transfer of the complete record into the adopter's Son Espace Santé app in one click.
An online showcase indexed by Google with your residents up for adoption, optimised to drive traffic to your adoptable animals, with no subscription to a paid directory.
Centralised team communications, discussions with foster families, post-adoption follow-up with adopting families. Shared photos and documents.
Rural shelter, concrete basement, poor 4G? The app works offline and automatically syncs your entries as soon as the network comes back.
"Optimal organisation for greater well-being."
Collaborate with your teams and quickly identify urgent needs.
You enter your animals, their care, their arrivals. The app turns that into adoption applications, legal registers, tax receipts, the volunteer schedule and your annual general meeting report — with nothing more to type.
Arrived, quarantine, adoptable, reserved, in foster care, adopted, returned: one dated status with its full history. Quarantine has an end date you are reminded of the day before, and the home screen flags animals waiting more than 90 days. Your website now shows only the genuinely adoptable ones.
A visitor on your site clicks “Apply” and answers your questionnaire (housing, other pets, children, motivation — you write it, a solid template ships with it). The application arrives email-confirmed in an Adoption tab: contact, reserve, decline with a reason, hand over.
An email in your shelter's name, an account created in one screen, and the animal lands in the family's app with its whole history — its profile reading “Adopted from us”. You keep read access, and the app asks for news after 15 and 90 days.
A “Donate” block on your site: free or suggested amount, one-off or monthly, with animal sponsorship and monthly news. Numbered tax receipts (French Cerfa 11580), amount spelled out, emailed automatically — plus the annual receipt in January. Membership campaigns, member list, reminders for lapsed members. We take no commission: only the bank's processing fees apply.
Entry and exit register (surrender, pound, seizure, stray, transfer) and health register — quarantines and neutering included — generated as PDFs, with stable sequence numbers and your registration numbers in the header. Adoption contract doubling as a transfer certificate, neutering undertaking, and a reminder to file the national pet ID seven days after handover.
A typical week (walking, feeding, cleaning, front desk, vet transport), slots with capacity that volunteers sign up for themselves, a reminder at 6 pm the day before and a call-out when a slot is short. Hours add up into a PDF timesheet that serves as a certificate. And a QR code on each pen: scan it, tap “out”, “back” or “fed” — without letting go of the leash.
The family is invited by email, finds the fostered animal in their own app with your instructions, keeps its journal and weights, and submits expenses with receipts. You decide: reimbursed, or waived as a donation — with the matching tax receipt. Foster agreement generated, and a “Become a foster family” block on your site to recruit more.
An A4 or A5 poster per animal (photo, temperament, compatibilities, QR code to its page) for the pen, the shop window or the local vet, and a ready-to-post social media card — “Nala has been waiting 120 days…”. At the other end: the real cost per animal and the PDF annual report for your general meeting, compared with the previous year.
“You have no kittens right now, let me know” no longer ends up on a sticky note. Families leave their criteria on your site (species, age, size, good with cats / dogs / children, special needs); when an animal becomes adoptable, the app tells you who is waiting and you notify them in one click.
Optimise your team's management and your residents' well-being with our smart scanning system.
Automatic time-stamping for simple tracking of the shelter's activity.
Scan on departure and return to ensure balanced exercise for every animal.
Confirm meal distribution so no resident is ever forgotten.
"Generate your QR code documents directly from the app and display them on your premises."
Every shelter gets a website, included in the subscription: your animals up for adoption and your presentation, at an address you can share.
Example of a professional website. The menu, pages and banner are edited right on the page itself.
A link to give out, print on your cards and posters, or turn into a QR code. It never changes.
How an adoption works, how to become a foster family, how to help us. You put them together from the app, with text, photos, prices and FAQs — no web skills needed.
Your pages are indexed, and your opening hours and FAQs are passed on to search engines in the format they expect.
Included in the subscription: no hosting to pay for, no domain name to renew, no web agency to call back whenever a price changes.
Charity pricing — our shelter plans are about 60% below professional rates. Your shelter is also featured on the community map.
Your animals are in Excel, on paper or in another software? Send us your file and we will import it for you — free of charge, whatever your plan.
Up to 100 animals, within 5 working days. Tick the box when creating your space, or write to us.
Choose the plan that fits your needs.
To get started
Most popular
49,90 €/ year — 2 months free
The most complete
149,90 €/ year — 2 months free
Unlimited power
299,90 €/ year — 2 months free
You choose your plan from your account area, at account.sonespacesante.com — not in the application.
Each animal has its own QR Code. Volunteers scan it to log outings, meals or care, ensuring perfect paperless tracking.
Yes, you can visualise the distribution of your residents by enclosure or kennel to optimise available space.
Yes, you can add as many users as needed. The history shows exactly who did what and when.
Absolutely. You can prepare adoption files and transfer the digital record to the family in one click.
Yes, the team accesses each animal's digital health record, ensuring perfect continuity of care.
Absolutely. The tool was designed to simplify life for all structures, regardless of their size.
On iPhone, iPad, Android smartphones and tablets, and as a web version on any browser. Volunteers and staff access the tool from any device — data syncs in real time.
Each outing, meal, care session or training is logged in the animal's journal, either manually or by QR Code scan. The history shows the time and author of each action.
The journal is a chronological feed of events: outings, meals, medical care, behavioural observations, photos. It tracks the animal's progress and prepares its adoption file.
Yes: vaccines, treatments, medical history, vet appointments, weight chart, photos and documents. This record is transferred in full to the adopter in one click.
Foster families have their own app access. They can view and update the record of the animal in their care, while the shelter retains visibility over all placed animals.
Yes, a simplified accounting module lets you track expenses, income and donations. Ideal for reporting in non-profit associations.
100% FREE digital health record for all your companions. Ideal for individuals: vaccine, treatment, and expense tracking.
Complete management for breeders. AI contract generation, genealogy, and pro health tracking.
Organization, planning, registers, and simplified invoicing for your facility.
