Tip of the Week April 01, 2019 If you use online application forms to receive information from prospective volunteers, you may sometimes need to know when a volunteer submitted their application. There is not a field in Volgistics that tracks this exact date because application information is usually routed to the Applications tab of your
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This will show interesting facts and tips to help you get the most out of Volgistics.
Give Access to the Volgistics Store Without Giving Access to Your Volunteer Database.
Tip of the Week March 25, 2019 In many organizations, payment and billing is taken care of by a person in a department outside of volunteer services. In these cases, you can provide them with access to the Volgistics Store for your account without giving access to the volunteer database used to manage your records.
View a Sent Email Message to See Recipients
Tip of the Week March 18, 2019 Volgistics keeps a list of sent email messages on the History tab of each volunteer’s record. While this is useful if you know the names of the volunteers who a message was sent to, there are times when you may not remember this information. In these cases, you
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Receive Self-Scheduling Alerts by Email or Text as a System Operator
Tip of the Week March 11, 2019 Self-scheduling alerts can be setup on the Schedule ‘Rules’ tab of each Assignment record to send notifications whenever a volunteer adds or removes themselves from that Assignment’s Schedule. These notifications can be sent to system operators via the Volgistics Mailbox and/or to coordinators by email or text message.
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Include archived volunteers in Excel spreadsheet reports
Tip of the Week February 25, 2019 Your Volgistics database is divided into archived and non-archived sections. The Archive is designed for long term storage of inactive volunteers. In your account’s service level, archived records cost significantly less because they have more limited functionality than non-archived records. For example, archived volunteers cannot be tagged or
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Tip of the Week February 18, 2019
Make sure volunteers receive your email messages Did you know there’s an easy change you can make in your account that will often dramatically improve email delivery rates for your volunteers? Because Volgistics sends messages to recipients on your behalf, sometimes these messages are viewed as suspect by target email domains. This is especially true
Tip of the Week February 11, 2019
Modify Schedule Statistics reports to cover different time periods One of the stock Schedule Reports available in Volgistics is the Schedule Statistics (Stock) report. This report is useful because it allows you to quickly see how many openings are filled and un-filled for each assignment. Plus you can get an unduplicated volunteer count for how
Tip of the Week February 04, 2019
Learn terminology and definitions in the Volgistics Glossary Volgistics uses specific terminology regarding the different aspects of your account. It can sometimes be confusing if you do not know what a specific term means. For example, there is a distinct difference between an ‘Account’ and a ‘Volunteer record’, or a ‘Coordinator’ and a ‘System Operator’,
How to Recruit College Student Volunteers
Are you ready to reach out to a local university? Engage a new group of college students by using these volunteer recruitment tips, and enjoy the spirit these young people bring to your organization. College students make fantastic volunteers. Their boundless energy and enthusiasm for causes they believe in can bring new urgency to your
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Tip of the Week January 28, 2019
Edit a volunteer’s sign-in time for VicTouch If your organization uses the VicTouch module, there may be times when volunteers arrive for duty and begin serving without remembering to sign-in. If this occurs and you find out before the volunteer leaves, you can easily correct this. First, have the volunteer sign-in through VicTouch. If it