Shift Assignment Notifications

When volunteer managers assign shifts, notifications aren’t sent right away. This gives admins more time to review and finalise changes before volunteers are notified.

Introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA)

Be Collective is committed to ensuring the security of our users' data, and with that in mind we're excited to announce the introduction of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to our platform.

MFA provides an added layer of security to your Be Collective account by requesting a secondary method of authentication – the first being your username and password – in the form of a verification code.

This code is generated each time you log in and sent by SMS to your mobile phone. You must then enter this code when prompted during login to verify your identity.

This helps to prevent fraudalent access by requiring you not only to know your username and password, but also have access to your mobile device before you can be logged in.

Activating MFA is optional, but we recommend you do so to secure your account and personal data. If you're a new or existing Be Collective user, MFA is disabled by default and can be enabled at any time through the Settings tab in My dashboard.

To learn more about MFA, please see the Help Centre articles linked below:

What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)?
How do I activate multi-factor authentication (MFA)?

If you have any queries or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact our friendly support team at help@becollective.com

Introducing Be Collective's product plans

Exciting news! Be Collective is now available as three tiered product plans, each designed to address the needs and budgets of different sized organisations across the community, charity, government, education, and private sectors.

Product plans are available now in Australia and New Zealand, and will be released in the United Kingdom soon.

Why has Be Collective introduced new product plans? 

After analysing how Be Collective is used by numerous organisations of all sizes, we recognised the need for an new, more affordable plan with more functionality.

Our new plans are:

  • Be Collective Standard: free access to Be Collective for smaller-sized groups, which only require access to our standard suite of tools.
  • Be Collective Plus: for any group which needs a range of additional features to better manage volunteer programs at an affordable price.
  • Be Collective Pro: for organisations requiring full functionality, customisation, innovative engagement and evidence-based reporting.

All three plans are available now to all new and existing Be Collective groups. Volunteer access to Be Collective remains unaffected by this change.

To learn more about what each of our plans include and how to subscribe, please see the Help Centre article linked below:

Be Collective's product plans and pricing

I'm an existing Be Collective group owner - what happens to my group?

If your group has no paid subscription, you now have an ongoing subscription to our Be Collective Standard plan, which remains free! To learn more about the features available to you as a Standard subscriber, please see the Help Centre article linked below:

What features do Be Collective's plans include?

If your group has an existing subscription to our deprecated Be Collective Plus+ plan, your subscription been migrated automatically to our Be Collective Pro plan at no additional cost. This ensures you experience no loss of functionality or access to data.

For details on how to upgrade or manage your subscription, please see the Help Centre article linked below:

How do I subscribe to a Be Collective plan?

If you have have any questions or feedback on Be Collective's subscription plans, please contact our friendly support team at help@becollective.com.

Exporting your custom fields data (Be Collective Plus+ Only)

We're excited to announce the latest enhancement to our custom fields feature, which now allows you to export your group's custom fields data!

How do I export custom fields data?

As a Be Collective group manager, you can export your group's data through the Reports and Exports tab of your group management page, under Export data.

Simply select the Custom fields export type then click Download data to export your custom fields data in CSV format, which can be opened as a spreadsheet for analysis.

Long-time Be Collective users will notice we've also improved the entire data export interface, making the export process quicker and more intuitive. We've also added links to relevant Help Centre articles for each export type so you can easily learn more about what each export file contains.

More information on how to export your group's data can be found in Be Collective's Help Centre here.

If you have have any questions or feedback on Be Collective's custom fields functionality, please contact our friendly support team at help@becollective.com.

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