Petlaria / How it works

How Petlaria works

Three steps to turn small help into real change, at no extra cost to you, with every project verified before it goes live.

Choose your causes

Explore nearby pro-animal projects: shelters, cat colonies, foster homes and specific medical cases, like a diabetic cat or a dog that needs surgery. Follow the ones you care about and you will get their updates.

Donate what you want

Choose a one-time gift or a monthly recurring one, starting from small amounts. You can also add funds to your wallet and split them across several projects whenever you like. You decide the amount and frequency, and you can change them anytime.

Follow their story

Every project posts updates with photos and explains where each euro received was spent. It is not a blind donation: you see the concrete result of your help, from a spay-and-neuter to a month of food.

How we verify every project

No project gets published without a review first. Before it appears on Petlaria, we check:

  • Who is asking: full name and a verified contact phone, so there is always a real, reachable person behind every project.
  • That the cause is real: for associations and shelters, their registration number; for individual cases, photos or video of the animal and, for medical cases, the vet's receipt.
  • That the money reaches the right person: we verify that the payout account belongs to the person or entity already identified, never a third party.

Only once these three points are clear does the Petlaria team approve the project and publish it with its poster and QR code. After that, we require periodic updates, and any donor can report a project that does not add up from its own page.

Transparency with every euro

Petlaria charges a small service fee, always shown before you confirm the donation. The rest goes to the project in full. Every donation and withdrawal is recorded in your history, with no surprises or hidden charges.

Where we're headed: brand cashback

Our future plan is for pet product brands to fund part of these donations from their own marketing budgets: you would buy what you already buy, and the discount would turn into balance to donate, at no added cost to you. This feature is not active yet. We will turn it on once the community is large enough to bring brands on board.

Ready to help?

Discover projects near you or join the waitlist to be among the first to try it.