New Application Forms Beta Now Open!

We’ve been hard at work making improvements to the volunteer-facing portions of Volgistics. As you know, we made new versions of the VicNet volunteer portal and the Opportunity Directory available last year, and today we’re excited to announce a new version of the online application forms feature! The new application forms are available to all

Feature Update: Schedule Page

We just released an update that makes significant changes to scheduling inside Volgistics. You can still schedule volunteers like you’ve always done, but we’ve made it much easier to use schedule openings, since they are usually a better way to manage the schedule in Volgistics. Here are just a few of the advantages of using

New Features: Updated Email Editor and More Rich Text

We recently overhauled the editor we use for email messages, making formatting apply more consistently and making it easier to include images and placeholders. Along with this, we added the editor to many other places in Volgistics that were previously limited to just plain-text, like volunteer notes, instruction fields for your application forms, and Assignment

New Data Export Feature

Volgistics is a cloud-based system so there may be times you’d like to move information to your local system. This can be handy if you lose internet service, need to reference information that has changed in your account, or import Volgistics information into another program or application. We’ve added a new feature to make exporting

New Volgistics Feature: Applications Tab Improvements

Volgistics Mailbox Update The latest Volgistics release made a significant visual change to the Volgistics mailbox. When you open the mailbox you will no doubt notice the width has increased significantly. This width increase is a result of functionality we added to the Applications tab of the mailbox for accounts that use our Site Level

New Volgistics Feature: Text Message Opt-In on Application Forms

We are excited to announce that you can now allow prospective volunteers to opt-in for text messaging when they fill out an application form. If you already have VicNet then text messaging is included in your account at no additional cost. The Volgistics text-messaging feature provides an additional option beyond email for you to communicate

Volgistics Update: Automatic Height for Embedded Forms

Embedding an application form into one of your webpages makes the form appear as part of your own website. The downside to this approach has always been that the form often includes a scrollbar, or it requires you to manually figure out and set the height in your HTML code. But the height can change

New: Restore Deleted App Forms

We’ve released an update to allow deleted application forms to be recovered for up to 5 days from the date they were deleted. The Volgistics’ application form feature allows you to receive information from potential volunteers that will automatically populate a volunteer record in your account. You can audit forms you receive before a record