Administrators can now choose how the sync handles data conflicts between records to automatically resolve conflicts. You can choose to prioritize the record with the most recent updated date or prioritize by system.

Administrators now receive email and bell notifications when the system resolves a data conflict. You can change this in administrator notification settings.

Constituents are now automatically added to the Volunteer Group in Bloomerang when a constituent email and a volunteer email match.

Volunteers are now automatically added to the connected organization when a volunteer email and a constituent email match.

If a volunteer becomes disconnected from their matching constituent record, administrators can now remap the volunteer and reset the sync.

Access an opportunity's schedule or volunteer list directly from the organization's opportunity list.

Control whether system notifications are sent to volunteers when an administrator enters hours that a volunteer worked.

Admins can now get notified when volunteers sign up for shifts or join shift waitlists. Turn on email notifications, in-app bell notifications, or both.

Create shift series or add one-time shifts to an existing series with bulk actions or when copying a shift.

Give unique names to a shift series to help differentiate between or search for series by title. Titles are visible to administrators only.

Show or hide the series information in calendar views.

Modify a recurring shift occurrence and choose to apply those changes to one or more additional shifts in the series.

When viewing Scheduled Shifts, Scheduled Roles, and Scheduled Volunteers:

Sign up for a single shift, all series shifts that have open spots, or a subset of series shifts in a single workflow.

Remove themselves from all shifts in a series or a subset of shifts.

Remove all entries in the signup cart to clear cart before completing registration.

Start and monitor background checks directly in Bloomerang Volunteer. A Verified First button appears in the Profile Details for each volunteer account.

Verified First helps you with billing and technical questions.

The Attendance Kiosk URL is now kiosk.bloomerang.com

Managers and volunteers can now use a QR code to open the Attendance Kiosk.

You can now add the QR code and URL to emails in Bloomerang Volunteer. When you create or edit an email, select Special Links > Attendance Kiosk.

In the Attendance Settings for an opportunity (or in the Organization Settings for an organization):

Choose to notify organization administrators when a volunteer signs up for or applies to an organization.

Restrict volunteers from entering hours worked on an opportunity.

When you create or edit a shift and select Action > Copy Shift, the To a Recurring Frequency option now appears. After you specify the frequency and duration, Bloomerang Volunteer bulk creates the individual shifts for you.

On the Schedules page, indicators appear that tell you the number of recurring shifts being created and the estimated time remaining.

After Bloomerang Volunteer creates all of your shifts shifts, you see a bell notification and receive an email. A message also appears above the shift list that tells you the number of shifts created.

When you create new opportunities, you can now select a date in the past so you can build historical opportunities and templates.

Volunteers now see an Are You Sure? message if they try to advance in the signup process with an empty shift cart.

Newly-created shifts now default to today's date instead of the opportunity's start date.

Password entry is now removed on the Attendance Kiosk to help streamline onsite check-in workflows.

Bloomerang Volunteer now notifies Organization Managers by email and in Bloomerang Volunteer if there is a problem with the API key that connects Bloomerang Volunteer to Bloomerang.

Replaced terms "People", "Person", "Member", "User", and "Staff" with "Volunteer", "Volunteers", or "Volunteer(s)" throughout all of Bloomerang Volunteer (including mobile apps) to improve clarity and consistency.

Bloomerang / Bloomerang Volunteer integration setup is now completely self-serve. Previously, there was a step where Bloomerang Support had to enable access to integration setup.

Download a DKIM key, which you must add to your domain account settings outside of Bloomerang Volunteer.

Monitor the domain authentication status. When the status is Authenticated, you can verify and use a From Sender email address from that domain.

Fully Verified — Email addresses from authenticated domains

Partially Verified — Email addresses from a mailbox provider (Google, Yahoo, or others), email addresses from unauthenticated domains, or email addresses from authenticated domains if you haven't yet clicked the email verification link

From Sender must now be a Fully Verified email address.

Reply-To can be a Partially Verified or Fully Verified email address.

You can now select a Reply-To address different from the From Sender address.

From Sender now changes automatically to [email protected] in these cases:

All non-transactional emails include a one-click unsubscribe. This helps ensure your emails meet new industry email compliance requirements.

Administrators now have visibility into who is unsubscribed from email communications, making it easier for administrators to manage how they communicate with Staff:

Staff can now manage their email preferences from their profile.

Active Status deep-level logs — Which volunteers became re-engaged, lapsed, or retained during the period defined in the Active Status setting. Download from the Organization settings.

Active Status History log — Complete history of each time a certain volunteer became active and inactive. Download from the volunteer's profile.

Hours Worked Across Organization report — Hours worked for an organization during the selected period. Download in the Organization settings.

Value of Hours Across Organization report — Monetary value of hours during the selected period. Download from the Organization settings.

Value of Hours Worked by Opportunity report — Monetary value of hours for each opportunity during the selected period. Download from the Organization settings.

Value of Hours Worked within Opportunity report — Monetary value of hours worked by each volunteer in an opportunity during the selected period. Download from the Opportunity settings.

Total Number of Contributions report — Number of contributions (number of times a volunteer donated time) for an organization or opportunity during the selected period. Download from the Organization or Opportunity settings.

Total Number of First-Time Contributions report — Number of first-time contributions for an organization or opportunity during the selected period. Download from the Organization or Opportunity settings.

Average Contribution Time report — Average contribution time for an organization or opportunity during the selected period. Download from the Organization or Opportunity settings.

You can now see the number of times a volunteer contributed time to an organization or opportunity, how many hours they gave (total and average), and when they first and last gave.

See Time Contributions data in the Staff List (columns, filters, and .CSV exports), dashboard analytics, and volunteer profiles.

Bloomerang Volunteer now automatically assigns an Active or Inactive status to volunteers based on a time period that you enter. At the Organization level, you can see this status in the Staff List (columns, filters, and .CSV exports), reports, dashboard analytics, and volunteer profiles.

You can now set the monetary value of one volunteer hour.

Add historical values, and values for special dates like holidays, to understand how the monetary value of one volunteer hour changes over time.

See Value of Hours data in the Staff List (columns, filters, and .CSV exports), reports, dashboard analytics, and volunteer profiles.

In each volunteer profile, the new Giving Summary page shows you a contribution history. See how many contributions and hours this volunteer gave to an organization or opportunity, and see the monetary value of that time.

In volunteer profiles, the Details tab is renamed to Profile Details and appears after the new Giving Summary tab. The Profile Details page is newly redesigned.

In the Organization settings:

You can now create an automation to email volunteers when they sign up or complete a specific signup step.

The template library now includes new signup workflow templates: Opportunity Signup Complete, Organization Signup Complete, and Shift Selection Summary.

You can now create venues without locations.

You can now create shifts without venues.

If you create a shift without a venue or location, staff do not see a venue or location when they view the opportunity.

The Venues & Locations shift-based filter now includes the No Venue and No Location options.

In the Signup Workflow Settings, you can now select an Availability option. With this setting on, staff and volunteers are asked to enter their availability when they sign up for an opportunity.

You can now select whether to collect general (day of the week) or date-based availability information. Date-based availability is available for opportunities that span fourteen days or fewer.

In the Shift & Schedule Settings, turn on the new Consider Availability When Rostering option to identify staff who are available to work. With this setting on, staff with availability conflicts are not labeled as Best Matches in Roster Mode.

General Weekly Availability filters are now available on the Staff List page.

You can now customize the agreement text.

You can now select an e-signature option.

The new name appears in apps, automated system emails, communication to staff, and email templates.

The new logo includes a green clover and the name Bloomerang Volunteer.

Some app pages and elements have updated colors.

All email addresses now use the bloomerang.com domain.

There are new profiles in the Apple Store, Google Play Store, and Salesforce AppExchange.

Staff and volunteers can now permanently delete their own accounts.

Bloomerang donor management integration:

Salesforce integration:

You can now select whether to sync all new staff to Bloomerang donor management as constituents. Bloomerang Volunteer no longer syncs new staff to Bloomerang donor management by default.

You can now include or exclude individual staff in syncs.

On the staff list, you can now view sync-related information for staff, such as sync statuses and dates. You can select additional sync-related filters.

On staff profiles, you can now view the sync status.

When you export a staff list, you can now include sync information for staff in the exported file.

For staff who are no longer mapped to syncs because of certain account changes, you can now remap staff to syncs in most cases.