Volunteers sign themselves up for empty positions by clicking on them where they appear in the schedule.

• Control which volunteers can sign up for which jobs.
• Post the full schedule directly on your web site.
• Choose between several schedule layouts, including a user friendly interactive calendar view.

Setup fixed, recurring assignments for volunteers, like "every other week" or "the second Monday of the month".

• Easily view and edit recurring assignments within the full schedule.
• Setup rotating teams of volunteers.
• Quickly view, filter, sort, and export lists of your recurring assignments.

The auto-scheduler quickly fills shifts with the needed number of volunteers while respecting:

• Shift preferences and unavailable times
• Different skill levels or types of positions
• Preferred or maximum serving frequencies
• Family considerations (together or apart, as needed)

Easily produce schedules for multiple locations. Flag each volunteer for the locations at which he or she is able to serve.

Keep your database organized by grouping your jobs by type, department, or however you see fit. Once your jobs are grouped into folders, you can view schedules and create emails and rosters just for particular folders. Job folders make it easy to manage hundreds of jobs with VSP and focus your attention on just one part of the overall picture.

A powerful Rosterizer to quickly generate lists of volunteers.

• List any volunteer information in any order
• Include just volunteers matching given criteria
• Group volunteers by jobs or shift preferences
• Indicate which volunteers match given criteria
• Generate MS Word, Web Page, or Excel rosters

A mailing label generator for postal mailings.

• Generate one label per volunteer or one per family
• Exclude volunteers that have email access
• Sort labels by zip code for bulk mailings

• Print sign-in sheets
• Track no-shows and substitutions
• Generate historical attendance reports
• Customize emails or rosters based on attendance

An integrated Emailer that operates through our high-powered mail servers.

• Instantly send emails to all volunteers or just those matching certain criteria
• Choose your own fonts, styles, and colors
• Send full schedules or other large attachments to hundreds of volunteers in seconds
• Send weekly reminders
• Send emails based on attendance records

Use "tokens" to easily personalize emails with information about each recipient:

• The recipient volunteer's name, address, phone, job qualifications, shift preferences, unavailable times, or attendance statistics
• The dates on which the volunteer is scheduled
• Unfilled or "sub requested" positions in which the volunteer could serve
• Links that allow the volunteer to quickly fill positions or request subs via the Web Terminal

Make sure volunteers always know when they are scheduled with customizable automatic email reminders. Optionally allow volunteers to choose how many days before their shifts their reminders are sent.

Reduce no shows with automatic text message (SMS) reminders sent hours before shifts.

Also, the revolutionary PhoneHuddle technology enables scheduled volunteers to use their cell phones as text based walkie-talkies! When PhoneHuddle is enabled and volunteers reply to their SMS reminders, the reply is sent to all other volunteers scheduled at that time. Using PhoneHuddle, volunteers can quickly alert each other if they are running late or require assistance.

Please note that SMS reminders and PhoneHuddle are billed at $0.02 per SMS message sent or received.

• Enable volunteers to find subs and make trades online.
• When a sub is requested, notify volunteers eligible to fill that position with an automatic sub request email.
• Choose between manual or automatic, instantaneous processing of changes.

Enlist more volunteers effortlessly with a user-friendly, customizable online form.

• Clarify job descriptions and requirements with custom descriptions.
• Link to the enrollment form from your website.

Grant shift leaders access to manage particular shifts or jobs, all through an easy to use web based interface, with no need to install the full administrator's client. Shift leaders can schedule volunteers, send emails, and request subs on behalf of their managed volunteers. Also, shift leaders are automatically kept up to date on any changes made by their managed volunteers through the Web Terminal. For more information on shift leaders, you can watch this video tutorial.

Maintain the look and feel of your organization when your volunteers access their schedules online and use full, customizable HTML content in the Web Terminal including your organization's logo and other images.

The maximum number of volunteers that can be scheduled with each edition. For both editions, pricing depends on the number of volunteers being scheduled.

The number of computers on which the VSP administrator's client may be installed for each edition. Additional computers can also be purchased.