Sharing and your impact

As a member of an organization you can invite people to it with your own links. Each link opens one of the organization's public pages, such as an event or a sign-up form, and it counts for you when someone who arrives through it signs up, comes to an event or volunteers. You then see who came in because of you.

Getting your links

Open your organization's member space and choose Share and invite in the left rail, below Donate. It is also among the Quick Actions on the member home. The page opens on Your links, grouped as:

• Home page: the organization's home page.
• Events: its public events that have not ended yet, soonest first.
• Sign-up forms: its published sign-up forms.
• Donation pages: its published donation pages.

Each group shows up to 20 pages. Select Get my link beside a page to make your link for it. Your link for a page never changes, so you can share it as often as you like, and the page keeps it for you next time. Under each link:

• Copy link copies it.
• Share opens a choice of X, Facebook, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Email. Each opens that network's own page, or your email app, with the link filled in; you finish sharing there.
• QR code shows a code to print or show on your phone. Anyone who scans it opens your link.

Nothing is sent from this page: you choose who gets your links, and where. A link carries a short random code, never your name or anything about you. If you make a lot of links in a short time, the page asks you to try again later; if a page was unpublished, it says it can't be shared right now.

Sharing is for members. If you can see an organization only as an administrator of a parent organization, the page says Sharing is for members and offers to join instead.

What counts

A link counts for what the person does during the visit that started with your link, on any page of that organization: someone who opens your event link and then signs up on the organization's sign-up form still counts for you. If they leave and come back later without your link, that visit does not count. Nothing is stored in their browser to remember your link.

• Sign-ups. Someone new to the organization signs up through one of its forms or joins it. It counts once they confirm their email address, when the form asks them to, or three days after they sign up. People who were already in the organization's records do not count as sign-ups.
• Events. Someone registers for an event through your link and is checked in at the event.
• Shifts. Someone signs up for a volunteer shift through your link and the organizer marks that they worked it.
• Gifts. Someone gives through your link. Only the first payment of a recurring gift counts, and a gift that is refunded in full stops counting.

Signing up, registering or giving yourself through your own link never counts. If one member's links bring in more than 20 sign-ups in a single day, the extra sign-ups wait for the organization's team to review them before they count.

Your impact

Your impact, below your links, shows what your links have done for this organization:

• People brought in: how many people new to the organization signed up, came to an event or worked a shift through your links. Gifts never count toward it.
• Sign-ups, Came to events and Shifts worked: how many of each have counted.
• Gifts: Fewer than 3 gifts until your links have brought in three, then the number of gifts. You never see who gave, how much, or when.
• People you brought in: the first names of the people who came through your links, newest first, with what they did, such as Signed up, not yet confirmed, Registered for an event, Came to an event or Volunteered for a shift.

The figures are updated once a day, and the card says when they were last updated. Until the first update after someone uses one of your links, it reads Nothing to show yet.

A few rules keep the people you invite private:

• Someone whose first step through your links was a gift is never named, so a name never tells you who gave. Once someone is named, a later gift does not remove their name.
• Someone with an OrganizeOS account who turned off Show me on leaderboards appears as Someone. To appear as Someone to whoever shared a link with you, open the Preferences tab of your Profile and turn off Show me on leaderboards (see profile and account settings). The same setting keeps you off volunteer leaderboards.
• A name disappears if the organization removes that person's record.

The organization's own team sees more than you do: whose links brought in each person and gift, and, for people allowed to view donations, the amounts.

Badges

Your badge for an organization sits next to your people-brought-in figure: Brought in 1 person, Brought in 5 people and Brought in 10 people, with how many more people it takes to reach the next one. Badges count people only, never gifts or money. Each organization's badge is separate and shows only on its Share and invite page and to that organization's team, not on your profile.

Notices in your Inbox

At most once a day, when your links have brought someone new in or someone has moved on, such as from registering to coming to the event, you get one notice in your Inbox (the button beside your name at the bottom of the sidebar), for example "Sam signed up through your link" or "Sam and 2 others came in through your links", with the organization's name. Once, when your links in an organization reach three gifts, you get a notice saying how many gifts your links have brought in to that organization. There is never a notice about a single gift. These notices stay in your Inbox: they are not emailed or sent to the OrganizeOS app on your phone. Selecting one opens Share and invite.

Sharing from the organization's public pages

The organization's home page, its sign-up form pages, its donation pages and its upcoming event pages carry a sharing button:

• Share with your link if you are a member. It opens your Share and invite page.
• Join to share if you are signed in but not a member. It opens the organization's join page.
• Sign in to share if you are not signed in. After you sign in, it takes you to Share and invite, or to the join page if you are not a member.

On an organization's own web address you may see Share with your link even before you sign in; it asks you to sign in first when it needs to. None of these buttons sends anything to anyone.

After a volunteer shift, the thank-you email also carries your own link; see volunteer shifts.

Why this matters

Most people come to an organization because someone they know asked them. Your own links let the organization see that, and let you see the difference your asking makes, without turning your friends' gifts into a scoreboard.