Include archived volunteer records on Excel spreadsheet reports. Your Volgistics database is divided into non-archived and archived sections. The service hours for records in the archive will still appear on Service Summary and Service Details reports, and in your cumulative hours total. However, records in the archive cost less on a record-by-record basis because they
Tip of the Week February 16, 2015
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 9, 2015
Create a date field to track when contact information was updated last, or other date records. Volgistics does not automatically keep a date record of when a volunteer’s contact information was updated last. However, you can use the spare fields on the Profile tab of volunteer records to customize a field for doing this. System
Tip of the Week February 2, 2015
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 one volunteer record may have more than one address or phone number you want to
Tip of the Week January 26, 2015
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, here is what you can do to have the volunteer’s time recorded correctly. First,
Tip of the Week January 19, 2015
New Clone an Application Form Feature We’re pleased to announce that you can now clone an existing application form to make a new one with similar settings. This allows you to quickly create a form that is similar to a form you have. You can learn more about this new feature in the blog.
New Clone an Application Form Feature
Organizations can quickly create a new application form with the same settings as an existing form. There may be times when you want to create an application form that is very similar to one you have already created. For example, you may have a form for adult volunteers and now you want to create a
Tip of the Week January 12, 2015
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
Tip of the Week January 5, 2015
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 December 29, 2014
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