Hi,

I was just wondering what other organizations use for managing volunteers within their organizations. My church has been using CERVIS (http://www.cervistech.com) and we really love it, but I was just wondering if anyone has had success with a product and would like to share their experience.

Thanks
Sally

Hi Sally,

I've never heard of Cervistech but I've had a look online and it seems very interesting. How long have you been using the system? Can you customise it to suit the needs of your organisation? We also use Saas technology - Salesforce and we are very happy with it. We use salesforce.com and we have customised it to suit our needs.

Is Cervistech costly?

Eva

Hi Sally, I used to work as a Manager of Volunteers in the U.S. We used Volunteer Works (which apparently is being phased out and will be replaced by Volgistics) but to be honest it wasn't great. I used to hear good things about Raiser's Edge which was originally developed as fundraising management software and later they developed complementary volunteer management software. We use Salesforce at the moment and its a great system. There is a website where someone as listed all the Volunteer Management software in one place. Go to http://www.coyotecommunications.com/tech/volmanage.html and you will find it there. Best of luck with your search. Terrio

Hi Eva,

It's not too expensive...around $120 per month. It is one of the only systems that we came across though that does not base the cost on a tiered system. So for that price we basically get unlimited everything...volunteers, administrators, events, support and emails.

It is totally customizable. You can pick from different preset options for what info you want to collect about and even create your own custom fields if they dont have any preset values that you are looking for. Events are also completely customizable.

I would definately recommend them...

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