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.

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. Volgistics now has texting to enhance your ability to communicate with your volunteers. Many volunteers (young and old alike) prefer to receive updates through texts

Procedure Change for Forgotten Passwords

We recently changed the procedure for sending forgotten passwords to enhance security further. As you are probably aware, the security of Internet passwords is in the forefront of the news these days. Volgistics includes excellent procedures for protecting account information through the use of security features like those described here. Volgistics, and your data, were

Turn Information Buttons Off for a System Operator

Information buttons in the Volgistics account can now be disabled on an operator-by-operator basis. To help new System Operators become familiar with the system, Volgistics has information buttons throughout the account that have a brief explanation of the field or feature. Quite often, these will link to help topics that have more information. For example,

New VicTouch Feature for Group Sign-in

Group leaders can enter the number of volunteers serving in VicTouch and have this information automatically added to the service entry for the group. If you use group records in your account and use the VicTouch module, your group leaders can now enter the number of volunteers serving in the group when they sign-in through

New Travel Time Merit Hours Feature

The Travel Time Merit Hours feature allows you to add volunteer service to recognize time spent traveling to volunteer. Volgistics has always had a feature to use Merit Hours to add time to a volunteer’s regular service hours automatically. This is useful in situations where you want to award extra service because the volunteer served