Once you have scheduled your volunteers onto a service, you can then email them to notify that they have been scheduled on. This email will also ask them to approve or decline their scheduled positions. You can choose to email or SMS volunteers using this feature.
Contacting Scheduled Volunteers
- Log into Elvanto as an Admin.
- Select Services.
- Select the Service you would like to contact your scheduled volunteers.
- Select Contact Volunteers.
- Adjust Contact Volunteers settings in the pop up:
- Choose if you would like to contact Unconfirmed, Confirmed, and/or Declined volunteers.
- Select to Only contact volunteers who have a prepared notification or to Contact all scheduled volunteers.
- Select the Departments you would like to contact.
- Select Filter Volunteers.
- Select if you would like to send Both Email & SMS, Email Only, or SMS Only.
Note: You will need to have SMS Capabilities set up prior to this. - Edit your SMS and/or Email.
Note: Select Send test email/SMS to preview your email or SMS before sending to your volunteers. - Confirm Recipients on the right hand side.
Note: Select the red trash can icon to remove any recipients (This will not remove them as a volunteer.)
Elvanto Tip
The envelope icon indicates the recipient's ability to receive an email, while the phone icon signifies their ability to receive a text message. If you don't see either icon, please adjust the user's profile and add an email and/or phone number to proceed.
- Select Send.
What's the difference between Only contact volunteers who have a prepared notification and Contact all scheduled volunteers.
Selecting to Contact all scheduled volunteers will send and email or SMS to all schuduled volunteers for the service you are viewing.
Selecting Only contact volunteers who have a prepared notification will only send an email or SMS to volunteers you have previously marked to receive a notification.
Prepare and Send a Notification for a Volunteer
- Log into Elvanto as an Admin.
- Select Services.
- Select the Service you would like to contact your scheduled volunteers.
- Select Volunteers.
- Select the individual scheduled volunteer to prepare a notification for.
- Check the box under Notifications, Schedule a notification to be sent to this volunteer.
Note: This prepares a notification, this does not send an immediate notification. -
Select the X to exit viewing the volunteers settings.
- Select Contact Volunteers.
- Adjust Contact Volunteers settings in the pop up:
- Choose if you would like to contact Unconfirmed, Confirmed, and/or Declined volunteers.
- Select to Only contact volunteers who have a prepared notification or to Contact all scheduled volunteers.
- Select the Departments you would like to contact.
- Select Filter Volunteers.
- Select if you would like to send Both Email & SMS, Email Only, or SMS Only.
Note: You will need to have SMS Capabilities set up prior to this. - Edit your SMS and/or Email.
Note: Select Send test email/SMS to preview your email or SMS before sending to your volunteers. - Confirm Recipients on the right hand side.
Note: Select the red trash can icon to remove any recipients (This will not remove them as a volunteer.)
Elvanto Tip
The envelope icon indicates the recipient's ability to receive an email, while the phone icon signifies their ability to receive a text message. If you don't see either icon, please adjust the user's profile and add an email and/or phone number to proceed.
- Select Send.
Sending an email
If you choose to send an email, you can choose from a predefined email template, choose to send from an email address, customize the subject and content of the email, and add in any attachments from the files area.
Sending a SMS Text Message
Ensure that you have the proper SMS settings configured in your system in order to send SMS in your account. Here you’re able to send to people with a mobile number only, scheduled the SMS to send on a predefined date, or add custom placeholders that are assigned to specific Elvanto fields.