Tasks & ApprovalsIn both editions

The tasks that keep an organization in good standing, assigned for you

Connect creates each year's required tasks on a schedule, hands them to the right people, and routes what they submit up to whoever has to approve it.

One task, from the schedule in spring to the approval in November

The office sets the schedule once. After that, Connect creates, assigns, routes and chases.
  1. You define the task once

    A trigger says what the task asks for: an uploaded financial report, the bylaws questionnaire, an updated board roster. It says which units or councils owe it, when it is created each year, and when it is due.

  2. Every morning, Connect creates what is due to start

    At 8am a job reads every trigger. A fixed date, an offset from July 1, or an anniversary of the last approval: whichever the trigger says, today's tasks are created.

  3. The task lands on the unit that owes it

    The person responsible at Meadowlark gets an email. The task appears in their My Tasks list beside anything they hold at other organizations.

  4. The treasurer submits in September

    They upload the report or fill in the form and submit. If they spot a mistake an hour later, they withdraw it and submit again.

  5. It moves up to the council

    The task lands on the council's approver. They approve it or reject it with a comment, and a rejection goes straight back to the unit.

  6. Then the district, then the state

    Each approval route with a person assigned gets its turn. An out-of-council unit skips the council and goes to the district. A route with nobody on it is passed automatically.

  7. Monday morning, the past-due list goes out

    Every Monday at 8am Pacific, each person holding past-due tasks gets one email listing all of them. Your office sees the same thing as a report, by council, district or state.

  8. Approved, and written down

    The task is done and everyone watching it is told. The log holds every action and every comment, and an approver can reopen it if something turns out to be wrong.

The annual filings are a calendar in someone's head

And a mail merge in October.
Nobody was assigned it, so nobody owns it

The state sends one email to a thousand units in August. Whether the treasurer at Clover Hill saw it is anyone's guess until the deadline passes.

Approval by forwarding

The unit emails the council, the council forwards to the district, the district to the state. By November nobody can say where a given report is.

Past due means a phone call

Chasing what is late is a job for someone with a spreadsheet and an afternoon, and the list is only right on the day it is made.

How a task knows who owes it, when, and who has to say yes

A task in Connect is not a to-do somebody typed. It is created by a trigger the office defined, so it already knows its organization, its due date and its route.

What the unit sends back travels that route one approver at a time, and comes back down if anyone says no.
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What every unit gets

My Tasks

Every task assigned to them, across every organization they belong to, with its due date and status.

An email when it lands

The person responsible is told the day the task is created, not the week it is due.

Start Task

For triggers that allow it, a unit starts a mid-year update or a Change of Status itself.

Withdraw and resubmit

A submission can be pulled back until the moment it is approved.

The approver's comments

A rejection says why, in the task itself, so the fix is the right one the first time.

A watch on any task

Anyone can watch a task and hear when it completes, whether or not it is theirs.

And so much more
Four-level hierarchy
One login, every level
Scheduled tasks
Multi-level approvals
Weekly past-due reminders
Document types you define
Document review and approval
Filing by fiscal year
Missing document report
Compliance report
IRS filing status
Charity registry status
Board rosters by year
Roster copy-forward
Roster CSV import
Whole-organization export
Bylaws generator
Bylaws in Spanish
Saved recipient groups
Scheduled messages
Delivery and bounce tracking
In-app message center
Directory with export
Search across every level
Favorites
Membership sync
Dues payouts
Membership API
Read-only viewer access
Spanish interface

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