Crediting Volunteer Hours

Volunteer hours are the credited hours which show that a volunteer performed a job at a specific date and time and duration. These let you track your volunteers by what they've done, filter and recognize your best volunteers, and see, over someone's lifetime, their involvement with your organization and what they've done.

Volunteer hours are different from job assignments. Job assignments are made before the work is done, and indicate that the volunteer was supposed to show up and complete a task. Volunteer hours say that the person did come, and did complete a task.

There are three primary ways to enter credit for volunteer hours:

• Based their on assignments
• By entering the job, start, duration and location individually in the hours crediting tools
• Manually from the Profile Editor or from lists of people

Volunteers can also be credited with hours by checking in and out via the touchscreen/kiosk - these hours post immediately and automatically to their account. You can also allow your volunteers to self-credit themselves with hours via the VSys Web or VSys Live interfaces (online). Hours entered through the web interface do require that someone on your staff approve the hours as they're posted.