Run a pet shop owners association of retail shops from one place: member shops, joining papers, annual fees, receipts, compliance circulars and owners’ meeting attendance, without a shop WhatsApp group as your membership system. Clinic systems stay elsewhere; Associan keeps the shop owners’ council organised.

Owners are at the counter. The association still tracks dues in a chat that mixes stock questions with committee notes.
One body mixes formats. Fees differ, but the register is flat. Food, accessories and livestock formats need clear categories.
UPI arrives from staff phones. Matching the shop takes Monday morning. Weekend staff UPI for dues creates Monday reconciliation work.
Licence and GST go missing when a letter is needed. Licence copies sit in drawers that open only during inspections.
A circular about shop practice is forwarded until half the owners never opened it. Compliance forwards lose the attachment by the third share.
Attendance is a sheet while shops are still busy. Weekend rush is when owners cannot leave for a hall meeting.
A member needs a wholesale partner and has to ask around. Wholesale lines are discovered by asking neighbouring shops.
Retail-council membership; clinic and inventory systems stay outside Associan.
An owner applies with shop name, GST, city and category from the counter phone, so the committee is not rebuilding the same list every month.
The documents your committee asks for stay with the shop, so the committee is not rebuilding the same list every month.
Business categories keep food, accessories and livestock shops distinct, so the committee is not rebuilding the same list every month.
Owners pay online. Cash at the desk is recorded against the same member, so the committee is not rebuilding the same list every month.
Post a compliance or meeting note once. Owners read it in the app, so the committee is not rebuilding the same list every month.
Members search other pet shop owners by city and category, so the committee is not rebuilding the same list every month.
Monday after weekend rush the secretary mails due shops; owners who pay from the counter get a PDF receipt for their file.
An accessories-only shop joins with format tags so food and livestock shops stay distinct in search.
Compliance circulars stay readable after the weekend rush, so Monday is not spent hunting the right forward. Owners’ meet: pass scans, unpaid filtered, compliance circular on the board. Compliance circulars stay readable after the weekend rush, so Monday is not spent hunting the right forward.
Association money is clear.
Directory by city and format.
One board.
The note is still where owners expect it.
The same simple flow for every pet shop owner, set up for your association in about a day.
Post it in your group or on your letterhead. Each pet shop owner fills the form on their phone.
Firm details, GST and the documents your committee needs are uploaded with the application.
The committee approves and the fee is paid online, or recorded if paid by cash or cheque.
Membership number, PDF receipt, certificate and QR member pass are issued automatically.
AICR moved operator joining, fee collection, certificates and chapter-meet check-in onto one white-label app with its own name, logo and CIN on every PDF. Applications, document checks and payments that used to live in WhatsApp groups and spreadsheets now sit in one place the committee can see.
Read the case study →Pet retail council demo. Setup about a day.