Clean up your report list by deleting multiple reports at a time As you or other system operators use Volgistics’ reporting features, your ‘Print’ page may accumulate a large number of custom reports. Some of these may be automatic reports or other useful reports that will be used again in the future, while others may
Tag: volunteer management software
Tip of the Week June 04, 2018
Customize which fields show on the Volunteers Page By default, the Volunteer List page shows the Name, Tag, Group name, Street, City and Status fields in new trial accounts. However, you can customize the fields that are shown here to make this page more usable for your organization. To do this, you will need access
Tip of the Week May 28, 2018
Use VicTouch Greeting Cards as Event Reminders If your organization uses the VicTouch module and you have an event coming up that you want volunteers to remember, consider using a VicTouch Greeting Card. Volunteers will see the reminder each time they login during the time period you select. Sending a reminder message through Vic Mail
Tip of the Week May 21, 2018
Fiscal Year, Calendar Year, and YTD Statistics Your organization may have a Fiscal Year (also sometimes called a Budgetary or Financial Year) that differs from a standard Calendar Year. While a Calendar Year is measured from January 1st to December 31st each year, a Fiscal Year may begin on the first day of any specific
Tip of the Week May 14, 2018
Helpful hints for using Tags The Tags feature in Volgistics provides a useful way to temporarily mark multiple volunteer records so you can perform tasks for all of these records at once. Help topic 2137 explains more about what tasks you can perform for tagged records. Here are some helpful things to keep in mind
Tip of the Week May 07, 2018
Create clickable links to your Application Form from the Opportunity Directory To create an HTML link that visitors to your Opportunity Directory can click on to navigate directly to a particular Application Form, you can enter your application form’s URL as the ‘Web site’ for the Assignment records you advertise (so long as you’re not
Tip of the Week April 30, 2018
Protect your account with strong passwords Data security is often at the forefront of the news today. We strive to make your Volgistics account secure behind the scenes, and prevent unauthorized users from gaining access by using three-factor authentication for login, and security blocks to prevent repeated login attempts. However, security experts feel that the
Tip of the Week April 23, 2018
Finding and recording volunteer absences If your organization needs to keep track of when volunteers do not show up for scheduled assignments, Volgistics can help. The first step is to make sure all volunteer service for the date in question has been entered into the system. When this is done, you can create a Set
Tip of the Week April 16, 2018
National Volunteer Week (U.S. & Canada) National Volunteer Week has arrived! National Volunteer Week was established to inspire people to volunteer to make their communities a better place, to recognize your current volunteers, and to encourage volunteerism in general. This week the U.S. and Canada are celebrating National Volunteer Week from April 15-21, 2018. Australia’s
Tip of the Week April 09, 2018
Volunteer & Assignment Matching Volgistics’ matching features for volunteers and assignments were recently revamped to make them more user-friendly and practical for regular use. Now, in lieu of categories or ‘levels’ of matching, volunteers are now considered as matching – or not matching – an assignment based on the criteria selected for that assignment record.