Share a signup link, send automatic reminders, and know exactly who's coming, without spreadsheets, group texts, or enterprise pricing built for someone else's budget.
A coordinator creates shifts inside a program — a Saturday pantry, a weekly reading hour, a one-day cleanup event — and shares one link. Volunteers open it on their phone, pick a shift, and enter their name and email. No account, no app, no password.
From there the software does the part that used to eat a coordinator's week: automatic email and SMS reminders before each shift, a live view of who's confirmed, and hour totals that add up on their own instead of living in someone's head or a spreadsheet nobody else can find.
Nothing that requires a training session to figure out.
Share a signup link. Volunteers tap, pick their shift, and they're done. No app to download. No account to create. Friction: zero.
Know exactly who's confirmed for today, tomorrow, and this week, without opening a single spreadsheet or scrolling through message threads.
Automated email and SMS reminders so your volunteers show up prepared, and you stop spending your energy chasing them down.
Volunteer hours are tracked automatically from completed shifts. See totals by month, quarter, or year, with dollar values ready for your 990, grant reports, and board updates.
Running a fundraiser or community event? Create one event with multiple roles and time slots. Volunteers pick what fits and you see the full picture.
Built for nonprofits that count every dollar. The free plan is genuinely useful, and paid plans don't require a grant proposal to justify.
No trial countdown, no credit card, no ads on the pages your volunteers see.
Starter
$0
Engage
$19/mo
Volunteer scheduling software replaces spreadsheets and group texts for coordinating volunteer shifts. Coordinators create shifts and share one signup link; volunteers pick a shift without creating an account. The software then sends automatic reminders and tracks who showed up, so nobody has to chase confirmations by hand.
Yes. Volunteer Shift Manager has a permanent free plan built for small nonprofits — up to 50 volunteers and 30 upcoming shifts, with email and SMS reminders included. There's no credit card, no trial countdown, and no ads on the pages your volunteers see.
A spreadsheet has no signup link, no reminders, and no way to know who actually confirmed. General-purpose signup tools like SignUpGenius weren't built around volunteer coordination specifically and often carry ads on the pages volunteers see. Volunteer scheduling software built for nonprofits — shift capacity, automatic reminders, hour tracking for grant reports — is designed around the one job coordinators actually have.
No. Volunteers tap the signup link, pick a shift, and enter their name and email — no account, no app install, no password. That's deliberate: every extra step between a link and a confirmed signup is a volunteer who gives up partway through.
Yes. Hours are calculated automatically from completed shifts, with totals by month, quarter, or year and a dollar value attached, ready to drop into a 990, a grant report, or a board update — no manual timesheet required.
Most coordinators are live in under ten minutes: create an organization, add your first shifts, and share the signup link. No sales call, no onboarding call required to start on the free plan.