Ideas and Suggestions for Track it Forward
Help us grow Track it Forward and make it better! Suggest new ideas, improvements to the current site, and vote on other ideas. We will be reviewing this list constantly and using the suggestions and the amount of votes they have to decide on what to build next! — James
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Style the Embeddable Form
It would be really nice to have access to the CSS to style the embeddable form. On my site, the form font doesn't match the look feel and there is a lot of space after the form, the link color gets lost in my site background color, etc.
8 votesIf you would like this done, you must be on the premium plan and email us at support@ourvolts.com
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In the advanced reports, allow us to sort by hours and activity
Under the "All" view, be able to sort on "Hours" and Activities" as well. Currently, can only sort on first 3 headers. I know that you have the 3 different views set up, but it's good to be able to sort on the header field for all views. For example, under the Activity view, I may want to see which activity has the most volunteered hours.
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hours entered
I am a parent at Our Lady of Guadalupe and my question is below
Why am I unable to enter my own hours instead of using the drop down box? Some volunteer hours are allocated based on the position such as basketball coach or class parent rep etc. versus per hour volunteered.
1 voteYour site manager can input more custom hours or you can have your site manager expand the amount of hours to meet your needs.
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Import E-mail Contacts
It would be great if you could import your e-mail contacts to invite them to sign up all at once instead of having to enter each e-mail, name & number separately.
1 voteYou can now invite volunteers by copying and pasting from excel all at once!
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display vol hour total per school, per school year
parents might need/want to know how they are doing towards required hours for the school year so provide a way to show hour total per school and per school year (not calendar year)
10 votesThis has been done for awhile now, but each parent can see their timesheet and how many hours they have accrued to the overall requirement.
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provide link for entering hours
please provide a link/button for entering hours on the dashboard screen
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Send emails to all volunteers or a subset of them
On OurVolts I can send volunteers individual emails, but I want to send all them emails for reminders or notifications.
7 votesYou can now send email blasts to volunteers or a subset of them!
Details here: https://www.trackitforward.com/content/send-email-blasts-your-volunteers
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5 votes
If you require profile fields, they do this one single step.
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Require student information such as name, homeroom and grade on parent page.
To accurately track parent activity we need to know the name of the student(s), homeroom, and grade with whom the hrs relate to. Also in some cases more volunteer hours are required for multiple enrolled students. i.e. 1 student 20 hrs, 2 or more 30 hours.
9 votesThis was just completed last week and you can actually create an innumerable amount of fields as a basic site owner and require that the volunteers fill them out before tracking hours.
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appending the date to the exported csv file
when downloading the file, have the sever append the date to the end of the file so you can tell them apart and the new file does not overwrite the previous version.
4 votesAll exports now have the date and time tacked on to it. Great suggestion!
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Make full functionality including graphs compatible with iPad.
Make full functionality including graphs compatible with iPad.
7 votesCharts are now fully compatible with iPad.
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Make it clearer that only the coordinator will receive an email "approval" emails for pending users
Right now, its not clear who receives that email. I thought as the owner I would receive it but I did not.
2 votesDocumentation updated.
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Resetting hours each year
Keeping the current hours but starting fresh for a new year without losing information or starting over. As it sits now we would have to erase everyone's volunteer hours from last school year - but we don't want to do that. So unless changes are made we'll have to start all over from scratch creating another login.
43 votesYou can actually start your hours from the beginning by setting the start date in Organizer Dashboard > Settings > More Settings > Other Configurations > Start Date.
The hours won’t be deleted but all reports will be offset from that stat date
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A mobile app where volunteers can log hours with or without internet connection that auto-syncs once it has internet
My volunteers are constantly in the field and they don't have internet all the time. However, it'd be great if they could log hours even without internet access that would sync up once they get back in internet range.
89 votesSo we finally finished the mobile app for android and iphone. Just login to ourvolts.com via your mobile phone or search for us on Google Play or the App Store. Please do add any more features you’d like to see on the app!
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Posting of volunteer opportunities so volunteers can sign up and track hours against them
I schedule all my volunteers and their volunteer work through a separate system ( email & spreadsheet ) and have them log volunteer hours on OurVolts afterwords. I want to make this process more seamless so I can do all of this on OurVolts.
82 votesWe now have “event” sign-ups available for all basic plan sites. We are going to be publishing a blog article, video, and FAQ soon, but know that is ready to go if you already have a basic plan.
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Allow owner, coordinator to merge hours
If someone starts out being logged by an administrator but then signs up to log hours the self the administrator should be able to merge the hours together.
7 votesYou can actually merge hours if you click on the “Admin managed volunteers” and select an existinsting volunteer to merge them with
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Decide which fields during signup are required and/or optional (like first name, last name, phone#)
As a charter school, our charter agreement requires each family volunteer 10 hours during the school year. When people sign up, they will enter their email address, but often skip entering their first and last name. I often can't tell who a person is based just on their email. I'd like to be able to select this as a required field when a person signs up or any other field I might really need.
Since I have a bunch of people already signed up with only their email, I would like to be able to send a batch message to…
30 votesToday we just released a feature for customizable profiles. Basically if you’re on the paid version, you can:
- Decide on what customizable fields you want to collect
- Require the fields be filled out before anyone logs any hours, and all done via the embedded form if you are embedding.
To configure this, just go to the edit page of your site and you will see it. The instructions to configure it are a bit complicated, but I tried to be as descriptive as possible.
If you have any suggestions or if you notice something not working, please email me at james@ourvolts.com and I’ll make sure it gets addressed as soon as possible!
Have a great weekend!
James
Co-founder of OurVolts -
Login via email instead of a username
People often log in via email instead of a username nowadays, can you change it so they can login via email as well?
28 votesGreat news, you can now login via your email address or your username now =)
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Let me invite people to OurVolts
I want to be able to send out an email invite for a project, and have people "accept" - then have them get added automatically, without having to go through the process of creating an account.
17 votesYou can now invite volunteers through your management page whereupon they’ll be added to your site and you can start logging hours for them and they’ll be sent an email to login and create a password
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Have a skills field that you can choose to print a contact list
I have a group of volunteers that everyone has different skills (e.g. some people do mailings, others do maintenance) I would like to be able to input a skill and create a list of those people who have that capability.
14 votesToday we just released a feature for customizable profiles. You’ll be able to make “skill” fields for your volunteers and make sure they fill it out before the enter any hours. Then you can export that user list.
Is that what you were looking for? If so, then its done! If not, let me know and I’ll reopen this issue.
Below are the instructions for the customizable profiles:
Basically if you’re on the paid version, you can:
- Decide on what customizable fields you want to collect
- Require the fields be filled out before anyone logs any hours, and all done via the embedded form if you are embedding.
To configure this, just go to the edit page of your site and you will see it. The instructions to configure it are a bit complicated, but I tried to be as descriptive as possible.
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