Keep a local back-up of your volunteer data to re-create volunteer records that are accidentally deleted. Volgistics includes the ability to create a local back-up of your volunteer information by using Excel spreadsheet reports. One reason for making the report is that when these are saved to your local system, they can provide access to
Category: Tips
This will show interesting facts and tips to help you get the most out of Volgistics.
Tip of the Week April 7, 2014
Allow volunteers to see who else is scheduled in VicNet If your organization uses the VicNet or VicTouch modules, you can allow volunteers to see other volunteers who are scheduled by: Select Setup from the menu. Expand the VicNet link. Select Schedule tab. Under Volunteers can…, select one of the options for showing who else
Tip of the Week March 31, 2014
Use the Date of Last Activity field to see when a volunteer served last Volgistics makes it easy to see the last date a volunteer served with the Date of Last Activity field recorded in the Statistics box on the Core tab of the volunteer record. You enable this field to be shown by: Select
Tip of the Week March 24, 2014
Make Assignments inactive to remove them from view while keeping service information There may be times when your organization no longer needs to track an Assignment. In these cases, the Assignment can be deleted—but this will also delete the Assignment details from volunteer service records. The date and hours will remain for the service entry,
Improve Volunteer Retention by Matching Volunteers and Assignments
How to use Volgistics to implement a recruitment strategy outlined in Energize Inc.’s Everyone Ready® online training program. Volgistics provides an excellent tool to manage and track your volunteers, and there are many other first-rate resources available that can help you with the “how-to” aspects of growing and retaining your volunteer base. One of these
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Tip of the Week March 17, 2014
Use the email validity icon to determine if a volunteer’s email is accurate When you send email through Volgistics, the system automatically tracks if the recipient’s email address is valid and uses an email validity icon on the Core tab of the volunteer record to identify its status. By default, a volunteer’s email address is
Tip of the Week March 10, 2014
Turn Information Buttons Off for a System Operator Information buttons in the Volgistics account can now be disabled on an operator-by-operator basis. Learn more in our Blog.
Tip of the Week March 3, 2014
Restore Deleted Volunteers Feature Released Deleted volunteer records can now be restored within 5 days after they are deleted. Learn more in our Blog.
Tip of the Week February 24, 2014
Mark batches of Awards as presented at same time using Tickler feature If your organization uses Awards as a way to recognize your volunteers, you may have certain dates when you present the awards to your volunteers, such as a recognition banquet, or the end of your fiscal year. In this case, you can quickly
Tip of the Week February 17, 2014
Search for a specific item in your account’s Event Log or a volunteer’s Notes tab Each Volgistics account has an Event Log that records key events. Even though every event in your account is not tracked due to size limitations, the Event Log can still become quite long, which makes it hard to find one