For anyone considering getting a database for Volunteers, you MUST consider after purchase and after implementation, customer service. How quickly is support responding? Does support understand the issue? Does support manage accounts with the proper repair? At VolunteerHub I promise you they do! Somehow we made a mistake with our User Groups and their order of them which affected the background checks and stuff. We didn't notice but during a routine check, Support caught this and knew it wasn't right and fixed it, and notified us. We didn't realize this happened either and Support took it upon themselves to correct. No ticket was submitted, no emails were sent to support, etc. That is how good Support is. I highly recommend VolunteerHub. We were able to turn our investment into $25K+ through donations. Corporations give money to the places their employees volunteer at.

Best features:Landing Pages (Use for companies so they don't have to scroll through event pages to find options)User Contact (User Groups allow for better communication and easier access to Volunteers needed for specific jobs)Waiver Forms (Digital waiver forms are great for fast and easy liability forms to be signed)VolunteerHub allowed us to be able to recruit more than 1,400 volunteers in 10 months. We were also able to leverage that into fundraising, raising more than $25K. One person was able to manage all this because of how easy this system is to use and manage.

The cons to VolunteerHub are really the layouts of landing pages, main pages, etc. There is no customization to these pages and it's really because the source code is bland. Hopefully, they will update to allow widgets, more integrations, etc. so each organization can better serve their volunteers. This doesn't affect users because they don't know anything different but it does need to change and become more modern.

Everything! Definitely the calendar view is helpful on the main page.

I feel like I am not using VolunteerHub to the best of it's ability. I need to take time to learn more and grow my expertise.

The person who helped me set up was nice but the program didn't work well for us. We couldn't easily copy big events that are the same each year.

We didn't have any pros. This product didn't work for us. We gave it a year but in the end we needed something different.

It seemed difficult to use and not end user friendly. Our users complained that it was much more difficult.

ease of use, simple design, report functionality

some of the most useful functions are prohibitively expensive, especially for nonprofits--but you can still use the software to great effect without those features, so this is minor.

Overall I am very pleased with my VolunteerHub experience. When I joined the organization 1.5 years ago, we had been using its most basic functionality for a few years. Since then, I have learned from webinars, help docs and extremely responsive support team emails how to use nearly every feature. We've implemented each feature successfully, which has saved time and allowed us to rely on a huge pool of volunteers in new ways. Although I think the price increases have been a bit disproportionate to the increase in the number of active users we can have, VolunteerHub is meeting all of our major needs at the moment, and most of our minor ones, too.

Perfect for empowering thousands of individuals and group leaders to claim space in our twice-daily, year-round meal service opportunities with minimal initial interaction from our very small staff Volunteers can join groups (skills, interests, corporate, etc.), on their own or automatically through a customized link, and we can email those groups to recruit in a way more targeted than emailing all volunteers at once Easy to record volunteer hours automatically, and print useful nametags, with minimal interaction from a staff member, for opportunities with set start and end times (regular shifts, one-off opportunities, etc.) and to report basic attendance for those opportunities Automatic confirmation, reminder and thank-you emails Modify events, reservations, user groups, etc. in large batches and pull useful general participation reports Make notes about individual volunteers in their accounts

Volunteer Hub shines with scheduling volunteers for opportunities with set start and end times. Much more attention is needed for creating irregular opportunities and scheduling volunteers/recording attendance for them. For example, opportunities with flexible start and end times, just gauging interest in internships, and volunteers who don't stick to a regular schedule but are welcome any time, can be a bit complex in Volunteer Hub. Unfortunately, there is no dashboard or easy view of major trends Some of the text that administrators have no control over provides constant confusion for volunteers. For example, the sign in button(s) in the Kiosk feature say "new" and "existing users," which often causes first-time volunteers - who have created accounts at home - to create a duplicate account on-site (and we need volunteers to be able to create accounts on-site for other reasons). Very basic email generator