Use email codes to personalize email messages. Volgistics has email codes available that allow you to personalize email messages that are sent to volunteers. These allow you to insert specific volunteer information into an email message similar to how the mail merge function works in a word processing program. The codes available allow you 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 September 15, 2014
Include volunteer names on ‘child’ records in Excel reports. In databases, a ‘child’ record is a piece of information that relates back to one particular record. One volunteer record can have multiple service records, just like one parent can have multiple children. Because Excel Spread Sheet reports are designed to be able to contain detailed
Tip of the Week September 8, 2014
Clear your own security blocks for your account. To protect customer accounts from hackers who might try to guess the password or other information to access an account, Volgistics automatically places a security block on accounts where too many invalid login attempts have been made from the same IP address. This sometimes inadvertently is put
Tip of the Week September 1, 2014
Use the Advanced options on the Volunteer’s page to fine tune searches. When you’re locating specific groups of volunteer records, the Basic options on the Volunteers page provide a powerful search tool. For example, to locate just Active Adult volunteers, you select “Active” from the Status dropdown and “Adult” from the Type dropdown, and then
Tip of the Week August 25, 2014
Use Volgistics’ Substitute Tracking feature when volunteers are not able to serve. When volunteers are sick or unable to serve, you can remove them from the schedule for that date and then place a substitute volunteer on the schedule. However, an easier way to do this is to use Volgistics’ Substitute Tracking feature to handle
Tip of the Week August 18, 2014
Delete an entire batch of service. One method of entering volunteer service hours in Volgistics is to use the Post page to enter service for a whole group of volunteers at once. This can be especially handy if you’re posting hours from a schedule. If hours are posted incorrectly with this method, operators must individually
Tip of the Week August 11, 2014
Text Messaging Feature Released We’re pleased to announce a new text messaging feature. You can send custom texts to volunteers, and volunteers can choose to receive automated messages, such as reminders, as text messages. Please read more here.
Tip of the Week August 4, 2014
Check your account’s payment information, service level and space available without signing in to the Volgistics Store.
Tip of the Week July 28, 2014
Update your organization’s name, address or other information. If your organization has changed its name, you may want to update your account so the correct name displays. Or, if you’ve moved to a different address, it’s always a good idea to keep the correct address on file. You can update your organization’s name, address, phone
Tip of the Week July 21, 2014
Use a second monitor to show Who’s Here page at VicTouch sign-in kiosk. Organizations that use the VicTouch module to record volunteer service sometimes want volunteers, or Coordinators, to be able to quickly see which volunteers have arrived. You can do this by connecting a second monitor to the computer that runs your VicTouch station.