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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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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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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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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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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Import legacy hours
I would love the ability to import legacy hours, synching through email address identification. Many of us are dealing with time entry in old systems and spreadsheets, but can use this information for grants and other uses. I am entering manually, and it has been a long drawn out process
6 votesYou can now do this with the “Import Hours” tab in your management interface
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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
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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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Allow Adminstrators to create test users
Provide adminsitrators a dummy test user setup so they can SEE how the different options will work for different users. These should be easy to delete afterwards so that start-up data is not muddied with test data.
4 votesYou can create test users by using a fake email address or by creating admin managed volunteers
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The capability to create a widget for my organizations website
I want my volunteers to be able to log their hours right on our own website. You could have a widget builder that uses HTML code to embed the widget on any of our own personal organizations websites.
14 votesWe actually have a widget that you can embed on your site right now. Just go to your management page and click “Embed Code”.
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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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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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Make reporting easier, more robust, and printable
I appreciate being able to export all our data, but I'd prefer to sort and manipulate the data on OurVolts so I don't have to do it in a spreadsheet
8 votesWe just made the reports easier to manipulate and is available in the manage site volunteers page by clicking on “Go to Advanced Search & Export”
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Customize the graph
I want to create custom graphs and adjust the date ranges
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I want to control if my volunteer site should be publicly listed
I don't want my site listed on the searchable volunteer directory, I will share the link by myself
7 votesYou can actually already do this if you upgrade to the Basic Plan and set the setting so its not publicly listed
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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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I want to approve every hour that my volunteer submits because I need to keep them accountable
Right now I only receive an email when volunteers volunteer, but I want to go in an literally approve all of them
13 votesToday we just allowed all basic plan owners to approve hours individually as they come in. Site coordinators receive an email and can easily go through them and click “Approved” for ones they approve.
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Create user accounts for volunteers on my volunteer site
After creating a site, I need to onboard over 100 volunteers. I have all their email addresses and I would like to automatically create accounts for them so they can login and so that I can log hours for them.
18 votes
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