Calendar Builder
Viewing Tasks and Interactions Alongside the Altru Organization Calendar
The event coordinator opens the organization calendar on Monday morning, sees the gala on Saturday, and wants to know what’s still open: the caterer confirmation, the sponsor follow-up call, the walkthrough with facilities. None of it is there. The event shows up, but the work behind it doesn’t. That gap catches a lot of Altru
Selling Special Event Add-ons in Altru Without Using Up Capacity
Your gala holds 300 people. You also want to sell valet parking, a commemorative wine glass, and a pre-dinner VIP tour for 40. Set those up the obvious way in Altru, as extra options on the event, and every parking pass can count as a seat. Sell 150 parking spots and the event shows half
How to Change Group Reservation Times in Altru Without Double-Booking
A school calls the week before its field trip: the buses can’t arrive until 10:30, not 9:30. Every piece of that reservation in Altru was built around 9:30. The arrival, the gallery tour, the lunchroom slot, the planetarium show. Pushing it all back an hour sounds like a single edit. In practice it usually means
How to Set Volunteer Availability in Altru (and Handle Odd Schedules)
Volunteer availability sounds simple until you try to record it. One docent can do Tuesday mornings. Another can do “most Saturdays, but not in August.” A retired teacher is free any weekday during the school year and not at all in summer. A college student can only commit to the first weekend of each month.
How to Get Event Registrant Contact Info in Altru
It’s the morning of a members-only lecture. The speaker is stuck in traffic and you need to email or call everyone registered. You open the event in Altru, and the registrant list shows names and registration status, but no email addresses or phone numbers. Now you’re clicking into constituent records one at a time while
How to Sort Event Guests Alphabetically Under Their Host in Altru
Two days before a donor dinner, someone prints the registrant list to check names at the door. The hosts are in order, but under each one the guests come out in whatever order they were entered. Under one host you get “Zimmerman, Abbott, Lee.” Under another you get two rows that just say “Guest of
Can You Authorize a Card Instead of Charging It in Altru?
Hotels and rental counters do it all the time: swipe the card, place a hold, and settle the real amount later. So it’s reasonable to ask the same of Altru. You might want to hold a card for a school group that hasn’t confirmed its final headcount, a facility rental with a damage deposit, a
How to Track Who Attended vs. Who Only Bought Tickets in Altru
A ticket sale and a visit are two different facts. Altru is very good at recording the first one: who bought, what they bought, for which date, and how they paid. The second one, whether that person actually walked through the door, is much harder to see when you open a constituent record. A patron
Can Altru Members Sign In Online With Their Membership ID?
The membership ID is the one thing almost every member has on hand. It’s on the card in their wallet, on the renewal letter, on the welcome email. So when a member tries to renew or check their benefits online and gets asked for a username and password they never set up, the natural question
How to Book a Multi-Day Group Reservation in Altru
A school district books a two-day field trip: fourth graders on Tuesday, fifth graders on Wednesday, one contact, one invoice. A tour operator wants the same 40-person package on three consecutive Saturdays. In both cases the group thinks of it as a single booking. Altru group sales usually doesn’t. Each visit date tends to end
