Use Cases / Volunteer Hour Tracking
Count every hour
Log volunteer hours with kiosk check-in, keep them audit-ready, and export the totals your board and grant reports need.
Volunteer hours are real value: grants and boards want the total, and the value-of-volunteer-time number belongs in your annual report. DatoVero logs hours as volunteers work, so the total is accurate instead of reconstructed from memory.
Log hours as they happen
Volunteers claim shifts, check in through PIN-protected kiosk mode, and their hours record automatically, so you are not chasing timesheets after the fact.
- Shift-based hour logging
- Kiosk check-in (PIN-protected)
- CSV import and export (Volunteers Starter)
Keep attendance audit-ready
Growth adds event roles, attendance tracking, and reminders, so the record of who served when holds up for a grant report or a board packet.
- Event roles and attendance
- Automated reminders (Volunteers Growth)
Show the value of the hours
Export totals for your annual report and board packet, so the hours your volunteers give become a number funders and directors can see, not an estimate.
- Hour totals by volunteer and event
- CSV export for reports
- Advanced analytics (Volunteers Power)
What powers this
Volunteers
Recruit, schedule, and track volunteers. Event roles, hours, kiosk check-in, permission forms, waitlist management, and public sign-up portal. Note: volunteer records are data rows - not portal user seats.
Starter $18/mo · Growth $32/mo · Power $42/mo · Max $60/mo
Questions
Do volunteer records count as paid user seats?
No. Volunteer records are data rows, not staff logins. Staff seats are unlimited on every plan.
Can I export hours for a grant report?
Yes. CSV export is included from the Volunteers Starter tier, with totals by volunteer and by event.
How do I turn hours into a dollar value?
Export your total logged hours and multiply by the current national value of volunteer time published by Independent Sector, a figure many funders recognize.
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