Tip of the Week December 22, 2014

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 15, 2014

Use the Travel Time Merit Hour rule to add drive time to volunteer service. Some organizations like to add a volunteer’s drive or travel time into their volunteer service contributed. If you give an average, or estimated, drive time, you can have Volgistics automatically add this onto the volunteer’s service entries by using Merit Hours.

Tip of the Week December 8, 2014

See how many submissions an application has received in a year Many organizations that use the online application forms want to know how many applications they have received in a year, or another time period. This can be useful for internal information, or for completing reports for grants and other external agencies. While you can

Tip of the Week December 1, 2014

Include the Source, Batch or Directive fields for service entries on Service Detail Reports Service Detail reports are designed to provide specific information about service entries that appear on the volunteer’s Service tab. When you create a custom Service Detail report and select to list volunteers on the Options tab, you can include regular volunteer

Tip of the Week November 24, 2014

Create an automatic report that shows volunteers due for a Checklist item Volgistics includes a Checklist item feature to help you track things such orientations, flu shots, and background checks. You can use the Tickler feature in Volgistics to find volunteers who are due for a Checklist item. But you could also create an automatic

Tip of the Week November 17, 2014

Spread holiday cheer with the VicTouch Greeting Cards feature If your organization uses the VicTouch module, you can create holiday cards that will be displayed when volunteers sign-in to serve. The setup options allow you to customize a heading and message, and choose a date range for when the cards will be shown. You can

Tip of the Week November 10, 2014

Non-archived records can now be tagged and deleted in batches Volgistics has added the ability to tag non-archived records and then delete them. This will make the job of managing volunteer records more efficient because it provides a way to delete multiple non-archived records without archiving the records first. You can learn more about this

Delete Multiple Records at the Same Time

Non-archived records can now be tagged and deleted in batches Volgistics was originally designed to only allow one non-archived record to be deleted at a time. This helped prevent situations where multiple records were accidentally deleted and became non-recoverable. In March, we added a new feature that gives you the ability to restore deleted records

Tip of the Week November 3, 2014

How to schedule substitutes for regularly scheduled volunteers who are on vacation or have a prolonged absence. Volgistics comes with a built-in feature to make scheduling substitute volunteers for short term absences easier. If your volunteer will only be gone a couple of days, this way works great because it is easier and your schedule