Tip of the Week June 27, 2022 The volunteer-facing parts of Volgistics have been going through some big changes recently. These projects have resulted in a few new Volgistics features in a beta period, and we wanted to give you an overview of the updates and the status of each one. During these beta periods
Collecting Information from Fillable Forms
Tip of the Week June 20, 2022 Now that volunteers are able to upload documents, you can collect documents that require digital signatures (such as waivers, release forms, or authorization forms) through VicNet. This feature can only be used in the new version of VicNet in accounts that also use VicDocs. Keep in mind that in order
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Clean up your report list
Tip of the Week June 13, 2022 As you or other system operators use Volgistics’ reporting features, your Print page may accumulate a large number of custom reports. Some of these may be automatic reports or other useful reports that will be used again in the future, while others may have been created just for
Customize the Volunteers Page
Tip of the Week June 6, 2022 By default, the Volunteer List page shows the Name, Tag, Group name, Street, City and Status fields in new trial accounts. However, you can customize the fields that are shown here to make this page more usable for your organization. To do this, you will need access to
Fiscal, Calendar, and YTD Statistics
Tip of the Week May 30, 2022 Your organization may have a Fiscal Year (also sometimes called a Budgetary or Financial Year) that differs from a standard Calendar Year. While a Calendar Year is measured from January 1st to December 31st each year, a Fiscal Year may begin on the first day of any specific
New VicTouch Beta Now Open!
Over the last year or so, we’ve been working on overhauls to the various parts of Volgistics that your volunteers interact with. These updates are aimed at improving the volunteer experience, making it easier for them to interact with the system no matter what type of device they use. This improves volunteer engagement, and ultimately
Helpful hints for using Tags
Tip of the Week May 23, 2022 The Tags feature in Volgistics provides a useful way to temporarily mark multiple volunteer records so you can perform tasks for all of these records at once. Help topic 2137 explains more about what tasks you can perform for tagged records. Here are some helpful things to keep
New Feature: File Upload in VicNet
With our latest update, your volunteers will be able to upload files to their own record through VicNet! This means that you can easily collect needed documents and forms from them electronically without having to save or scan them, find their volunteer record in Volgistics, and then upload them yourself. This is only available for
Update Your Opportunity Directory
Tip of the Week May 16, 2022 The Opportunity Directory allows you to easily share information about your assignments with current and potential volunteers. The new version of the Opportunity Directory is out of beta, and the legacy version will be retired on June 15. Starting that day, anyone trying to access it will be
Finding and recording volunteer absences
Tip of the Week May 09, 2022 If your organization needs to keep track of when volunteers do not show up for scheduled assignments, Volgistics can help. The first step is to make sure all volunteer service for the date in question has been entered into the system. When this is done, you can create