Opportunity
In this article, we will discuss how to sync a new volunteer over to your Virtuous CRM platform to receive automated emails when they join an opportunity in VOMO. Yes, a 100% automated process from one platform to the next! Let's dive in.
Create and Launch an Opportunity
Activate the Virtuous CRM Integration
Build Out Your Automated Emails
Turn On a Workflow
Encourage Volunteers to Join the Opportunity
Create and Launch an Opportunity
First step is to create and launch a VOMO Opportunity. Joining an Opportunity is the action volunteers take to kick start the entire automated process. If you haven't created and launched an Opportunity before, you can learn all about that in this help article. Whether it has dates and times or is an Anytime for volunteers to log their own hours, both will trigger the integration to sync the volunteer over to your Virtuous CRM.
Activate the Virtuous CRM Integration
Next, you need to activate your Virtuous CRM integration in the VOMO Integrations section. This step assumes you are an Admin in both Virtuous CRM and VOMO. If not, contact an Admin in your organization who is. Setting up the Virtuous CRM integration is very simple only requiring you to click a button and log in with your Virtuous CRM credentials. That's it! But just in case, here's an article that walks through that process for you.
Build Out Your Automated Emails
Now let's switch over to your Virtuous CRM platform and build out automated emails. You've probably done this already hundreds of times already! BUT it doesn't have to be automated emails. Maybe you want to trigger some other automation in your Virtuous CRM system. That's great! If so, then skip this step and move on to the next one to set up your own custom automations.
Turn On a Workflow
Now let's talk about Automations in your Virtuous CRM experience. The KEY to remember here is that whatever automation you want to build, make sure it's triggered by the Reference Source with a value of VOMO. This is what the integration uses to flag users coming over from VOMO into your Virtuous CRM. From there, get creative with whatever automations you want to see! This article will help you out with the basics of Automations in Virtuous CRM.
Encourage Volunteers to Join the Opportunity
Finally, get volunteers to start joining your Opportunities! Now that you have the pieces put together to sync new volunteers from VOMO Opportunities over to your Virtuous CRM platform, start recruiting volunteers to get involved. You probably already do this really well because you're awesome, but this article will give you some tips on steering volunteers to your opportunities to create user accounts and start serving.