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Initial Set Up

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Develop a familiarity of basic administrative navigation, staff and user permissions and notifications, and begin to compile basic accounting information

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Homework

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  • Determine staff access and create staff users
  • Update Association contact record
  • Enable notifications
  • Add your logo to General Settings
  • Compile the chart of accounts
  • Compile the list of fee items

Financial General Settings

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Develop a familiarity of a basic accounting settings and input necessary financial and accounting elements

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Homework

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  • Compile and enter the chart of accounts
  • Confirm settings for general finance
  • Compile and enter the list of fee items
  • Set up payment gateway (If not Ecommerce)

Membership Types

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Review and set up your membership types, membership application and become more familiar with directories and categories

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  • Review membership types
  • Manage your memberships
  • Create and view membership application
  • Review directory display settings
  • Understanding Directories
  • Understanding Categories

Managing Contacts & Members

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  • Understanding memberships and contacts
  • Adding and editing a contact
  • Adjusting a membership
  • Approving membership application
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Homework

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In your staging database:

  • Modify contacts default search criteria
  • Manually add an organization contact
  • Manually add five individual contacts (including 2 duplicates)
  • Bulk load a set of contacts
  • Merge contacts
  • Adjust a membership
  • Approve an application
  • Review directory display settings

Communication

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  • Create signature
  • Create email template
  • Send email (individual, group, mass)
  • Schedule an email
  • Run invalid email report
  • Review document templates
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Homework

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In your production database:

  • Create email signatures for key staff
  • Create a new email template
  • Review/modify invoice template
  • Send an email (individual, group, mass)
  • Schedule an email
  • Run invalid email report

Lists & Committees

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  • Setting up Lists/Committees
  • How reports tie into lists
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Homework

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  • Create a list
  • Add contacts to the list
  • Add a new committee
  • Add a new email list

Events

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Establish a main calendar, event defaults and categories, create an event, customize the registration page and review managing an event (printing badges, tracking attendance, reports)

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Homework

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  • Set up calendar and assign as default
  • Create an event and registration
  • Copy an event to create a new monthly re-occurring event
  • Run attendees report

Reports

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  • Review report types
  • Run sample reports
  • Data quality reports
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Homework

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In your production database:

  • Create a custom Contacts report
  • Save a report as Favorite
  • Review report links in Billing

Billing

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Become familiar with the billing process within GrowthZone and successfully issue your first batch of invoices

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Homework

Info Hub

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  • Review Info Hub settings
  • Setting member (user) access
  • Determine what should be viewable
  • Using email templates to trigger log ins (introduce info hub, encourage creating logins)
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