Track the total number of shifts or visits volunteers serve Organizations may want to track how many times their volunteers have served, rather than just how many hours they’ve served. Volgistics makes this possible with Service Measures. These are an ideal feature for recording special types of service performed, and can be easily configured to
Category: Tip of the Week
This is part of our Tip of the Week series. These weekly quick tips will help you utilize features in Volgistics you may not have known about. Check back often for new tips!
Tip of the Week January 09, 2017
Find Volgistics W-9 form online Many organizations are required to have an up-to-date W-9 form from companies that they do business with. For convenience, we update our W-9 form regularly and you can access it online. This allows you to save the W-9 form as a PDF document, or print a copy of the form
Tip of the Week January 2, 2017
Review the basics in the Volgistics Getting Started Guide For new or prospective Volgistics users, or for experienced users who would like to freshen up on the core settings and features of their account, Volgistics offers a comprehensive Getting Started Guide. This guide provides an easy-to-navigate tour of the system and covers numerous introductory topics
Tip of the Week December 26, 2016
Message history is available on History tab of volunteer record When you use Volgistics’ features to send email, Vic mail, or text messages to volunteers, a record of the messages sent to each volunteer is kept on his or her History tab. You can view this record to see if the message shows as being
Tip of the Week December 19, 2016
Find a volunteer’s last access to VicNet If you use the VicNet module to allow volunteers to login to the secure portal to do things such as update their contact information, download forms, receive messages, view or record service, and more, you may sometimes need to see when a volunteer signed into the module last.
Tip of the Week December 12, 2016
Send email to other System Operators without exiting Volgistics There are times you may want to send an email message to another System Operator for your account without exiting from Volgistics. For example, if you’re a Site Level Operator and you need to attach a report from your Site to an operator assigned to a
Tip of the Week December 5, 2016
Track multiple addresses and phone numbers for volunteers on their Contacts tab Volunteer addresses and phone numbers are stored on the Core tab of the volunteer record. In most cases this is sufficient to track the volunteer’s information. But sometimes a volunteer record may have more than one address or phone number you want to
Tip of the Week November 28, 2016
Go to the Schedule tab of an Assignment from the Schedule page There are different ways to view the schedule in Volgistics to match the rendering that fits your needs the best. For example, if you want to view the schedule for your entire organization, you can select Schedule from the menu. Or, if you
Tip of the Week November 21, 2016
Use floating subtotals for recording service in a specific period of time. In addition to regular service hour entries, Volgistics automatically keeps a total for month-to-date (MTD), fiscal year-to-date (YTD), and life hours for volunteers. There are also two floating subtotal fields that you can use to keep track of service performed during time periods
Tip of the Week November 14, 2016
Create a Set to find small or large service entries. At times you may get abnormal service entries that have been created. For example, if you use the VicTouch module, sometimes a volunteer will sign-in for an assignment, re- enter their PIN number to check the schedule, and then click the “Sign-out” button out of