Stevie Wonders: Signed, Sealed and Delivered (V 7.3)
Breathing a sigh of relief following the successful release of the latest update for TeamKinetic, I wondered just how many changes and tweaks we had made to the system since our last update. Although tempted to create a song about them, our initial pre-production proved more challenging than expected. We decided a list would have to suffice (for now at least).
We acknowledge as a tech-based company there is a certain expectation that we release regular updates, debugging our system, improving functions and performing general maintenance. But I would argue that TeamKinetic take customer feedback to a whole new level in terms of integrating it into our updates, where the vast majority of new functions come directly from customer requests and workshops.
Our first method is our annual TeamKinetic Conference, hosted in Manchester, where we spend the whole day listening to our clients and industry leaders t0 construct a roadmap for the development of our system.
The second is through speaking and listening to our clients through regular phone calls, emails, conversations and training sessions.
Knowing we take the time to listen and deliver to our customers gives us great satisfaction, and I believe sets us above the rest.
Having gone through the extensive testing process to get our latest version of VolunteerKinetic signed off. I re-examined the list of updates and thought a few of our customers would appreciate the shear number of changes that have been made, and would probably identify many updates in relation to conversations they have had with us.
We understand that for many, just knowing that the functions work is satisfactory, but for those who express a greater interest in our system we thought we would share a complete list of version 7.2 updates.
| Volunteer Registration |
| New address lookup and controls for provider, Volunteers, Opportunities, System Profiles, TryVolunteering registration |
| The ability for Admins to HIDE emergency contact from volunteer registration pages. |
| Ability for Super Admin to change REGISTER AS PROVIDER button colour |
| Make Vol and Prov registrations optional via admin switch so the functions are hidden from the homepages |
| Volunteer Opportunities |
| Move Opportunity Categories to the SUPER ADMIN menu, under OPTIONS |
| Create more help videos for creating opportunities |
| Create one-way sharing limiter on the search, so linked organisations can opt to share opportunities one way with other systems |
| Remove Add Event section from CREATE OPPS page as this can be confusing to users |
| Allow providers to convert opps from regular to flexible. |
| Allow admin to action MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES at the same time (including authorising opportunities) |
| Update: Ability for OPPS to be filtered by ACTIVITY (providers & admin) |
| Time stamp when volunteers join an opp (this will be used for reporting and export functions) |
| Set character limits on the PERKS and SKILLS boxes? |
| Allow Documents to be uploaded to opportunities, which are visible to volunteers |
| Volunteer Manager Reports |
| Change provider reports so they reflect only their volunteers (YOUR VOLS and LINKED VOLS) not a global report on ALL vols on system |
| Move reports to 2 columns with a SIDE MENU |
| Volunteer HourTrades |
| Ability to download hourtrade data |
| Add toggle for HourTrade, remove from menu when off |
| Move HOUR TRADE VOUCHERS page to menu |
| Volunteer Surveys |
| Change hover over tip to Survey field – Volunteer ID Parameter Name |
| Add Survey links to opportunities |
| Add Survey link Unique Parameters (so each volunteer gets sent a unique survey which can be traced back to them) |
| Events |
| When a volunteer is not on any events, a notice should reflect this on their EVENTS page |
| Improve the layout of the EVENTS PROFILE edit box |
| When an admin or provider adds an EVENT there should be a default banner image |
| Address Lookup |
| EDIT address lookup and controls for ADMINS, PROVIDERS, and VOLUNTEERS in 17 pages |
| Add select COUNTRY to all address pages |
| make ADDRESS LOOKUP field RED (so it is highlighted) on the Volunteer EDIT page |
| Volunteer Achievement Badges |
| Improve achievements page and added a download format |
| Allow download of achievement badges and who has attained each badge level |
| User Guides |
| Create PROVIDERS online user guide page |
| populate PROVIDERS guide with relevant information on every function |
| Volunteer Timelines |
| Add timeline and stats to volunteers achievements page |
| Allow admin to view volunteers timelines |
| Courses |
| Ability to DELETE an application form from a course |
| Other |
| Download Volunteer or Provider DATA should show ACTIVE or REMOVED fields |
| Auto Refresh page after a group is added or removed. |
| Change provider link to only show currently linked and then have a search bar/auto suggest adding new links. Only include active providers. |
| Ability to sort feedback on provider or volunteer by thumbs up or thumbs down |
| Remove the CLUB tab from providers page, if the org hasn’t purchased the module |
| Put Clients T&Cs above our T&Cs |
