Hi All, Over the last few months, churchscheduling.com has experienced a good problem; our user base has expanded immensely. For an organization with no budget to advertise and limited resources, this growth has been very significant for us. Unfortunately, as a result of the growth, our servers became overloaded and caused a few error page results and general slowness. Earlier […]

A few new features have been added to the churchscheduling.com application. Advertise Sign-Up only Workgroups dates  – we have added the ability to automatically advertise openings to users with the same skill as the Workgroup. Users will have the ability to control how often they receive the consolidated email of open assignments (via the profile notifications tab). Users will have the option to sign up […]

 iCal feed for Workgroups  – we have added the ability to get scheduled users lists on external calendars. This option allows admins to synchronize any external calendars with churchscheduling.com to get the list of scheduled users for each activity date. We are hoping this will give admins more options on how to present/display schedules/rotas. Remove decline records from user assignment […]

Confirm/Decline directly from email  – we have added the ability to confirm or decline assignments directly from the email reminder messages. This option allows users to respond to assignments without having to log into the application. We are hoping this will lead to increased responses from users. On average, we are seeing about 45-50% response rate so we hope that […]

Below are the latest features added to the volunteer scheduling app at churchscheduling.com:    Workgroup rule to consider skill level when scheduling  – we have added the ability to consider a volunteer’s skill level when scheduling. This option is available in Workgroup rules/preferences. This rule was created to allow admins the flexibility to schedule volunteers based on their skill level. With […]

 Workgroup rule to consider gender when scheduling  – we have added the ability to consider a volunteer’s gender when scheduling. This option is available in Workgroup rules/preferences. This rule was created to accommodate Church Nurseries that are required to have a female present when males are assigned. Skill summary page – The skill summary page was created to allow admins to have […]

Notification of auto-scheduler completion – we have added the ability to get notified whenever the auto-scheduler adds an instance date and assigns users to the created instance workgroups. This option is available at the Location, Activity and Workgroup levels. Location Admins will get a summary of all Activity Instances that have been created. (found on ‘Manage Location’ page) Activity Admins […]

View Assignment Swaps – currently, volunteers are able to swap assignments with each other using this app. We have now added more visibility for admins to view swap events at a glance on the ‘Manage Schedules’ page.. This option now allows admins to gain more visibility into swap requests Schedule Consolidated View – locations that have enabled the feature to […]

Church scheduling updates Calendar Sync – we have added the ability to view assignments from external calendars (i.e. google, yahoo, etc.) via iCal feed. With this new feature, users are now able to view upcoming assignments from other calendar applications, smart phones, tablets that support iCal feeds. Instructions on how to setup external calendars to sync with the churchscheduling app […]

2013 sees the launch of the volunteer scheduling application. It has been a long time coming, but we are excited to finally present the release of churchscheduling.com.The application has been designed to make the scheduling process almost seamless. Using this application, team admins will no longer have to spend hours each month trying to put together a fair and balanced […]