MercyA Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I'm going to be scheduling volunteers for a resale event. I'm looking for a free website we can use for sign ups. I've taken a brief look at www.volunteersignup.org and signup.com. Does anyone have any experience using these, or are there others you'd recommend? I'm also likely going to be planning some church potlucks. I *think* I might use the "Potluck" section of mealtrain.com, but haven't made a decision yet. If you know of a great site for group meal organization, I'd love to hear about that, too. Thanks so much, my peeps! 🐣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in AZ Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Many of my kids’ groups use this. Not sure if it’s free. https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storygirl Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 (edited) My kids' schools use Sign Up Genius. I haven't created an event, but signing up for a slot has been easy whenever I've had to do it. Schools use it to sign up for a parent -teacher conference, so you can set up time slots. My SIL has used it for a family potluck at her house, as well. She was able to designate how many spots for main dishes, desserts, and so on, and people can say specifically what they will bring (ex: they can sign up for a dessert spot and say they are bringing brownies). Edited March 4, 2019 by Storygirl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plagefille Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Sign Up Genius is what I see used most often. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto6inIN Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 Sign up genius is free and easy. I used it when a friend from church had a house fire and needed meals for a month and our drama troupe used it for signing up for meals or the kids during tech week. They send a reminder email to everybody who signs up, which is nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Thanks, all! I think I'm going to try signupgenius for both the volunteer sign ups and the potlucks. Their most basic plan is free. 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bambam Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I use Signupgenius for volunteer activities and sometimes potlucks. It works. I've only used the free options! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 11 hours ago, MercyA said: I'm going to be scheduling volunteers for a resale event. I'm looking for a free website we can use for sign ups. I've taken a brief look at www.volunteersignup.org and signup.com. Does anyone have any experience using these, or are there others you'd recommend? I'm also likely going to be planning some church potlucks. I *think* I might use the "Potluck" section of mealtrain.com, but haven't made a decision yet. If you know of a great site for group meal organization, I'd love to hear about that, too. Thanks so much, my peeps! 🐣 I've used Signup Genius several times. It is *NOT* intuitive or user friendly, and I usually swear and complain when I have to use it, but it does get the job done, so ther's that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 1 minute ago, Ellie said: I've used Signup Genius several times. It is *NOT* intuitive or user friendly, and I usually swear and complain when I have to use it, but it does get the job done, so ther's that. Do you mean it's not intuitive for the organizer or for the people signing up or both? I'm willing to deal with less-than-stellar design myself, but would like it to be easy for volunteers to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 sign-up genuis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 2 hours ago, MercyA said: Do you mean it's not intuitive for the organizer or for the people signing up or both? I'm willing to deal with less-than-stellar design myself, but would like it to be easy for volunteers to use. It's not intuitive for the person putting it together. It seems to be ok for the people signing up. One year, people didn't click the final "submit" button because it didn't show up on their hand-held devices without scrolling down, and they didn't all think to scroll down. So we had multiple donations of some things. o_0 The next time I added that instruction. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 13 hours ago, MercyA said: I'm going to be scheduling volunteers for a resale event. I'm looking for a free website we can use for sign ups. I've taken a brief look at www.volunteersignup.org and signup.com. Does anyone have any experience using these, or are there others you'd recommend? I'm also likely going to be planning some church potlucks. I *think* I might use the "Potluck" section of mealtrain.com, but haven't made a decision yet. If you know of a great site for group meal organization, I'd love to hear about that, too. Thanks so much, my peeps! 🐣 Also, I don't use it for potlucks, because that's what they are: pot *luck.* 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 Thanks so much, @Ellie! That's all very helpful. I tend to agree with you about potlucks, but this is a chili supper and we need to make sure to have enough chili, at least, for all. 😉 I think I'm going to go with mealtrain.com for the potluck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tree Frog Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 5 hours ago, MercyA said: Do you mean it's not intuitive for the organizer or for the people signing up or both? I'm willing to deal with less-than-stellar design myself, but would like it to be easy for volunteers to use. I totally agree with this! Once you've used it a few times, you get the hang of it. It took me about 6 weeks, sending SignUpGenius out about 2 times/week, to figure everything out. I think it's pretty easy for those signing up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercyA Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 Thank you all so much! I ended up using Potluck by Meal Train for the meal. It was super easy to use. I used signupgenius to create the volunteer schedule. I agree that it's not especially intuitive, especially for a first-time user, but it wasn't too bad and I think it'll work well for our purposes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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