Improve your workflow: The best digital management platforms for charities

 

Monday

 

An increased number of teams are working remotely, with charities restricting numbers of people in offices and staff working at home instead. This can create an organisational and internal communications headache at times, which digital workflow tools like Monday can solve.

This software is created with remote working in mind to help managers and project leads create rosters, set deadlines and communicate day-to-day to ensure work is carried out efficiently, wherever workers are.

 

Monday’s integration with Zoom is neat and provides a simple way for staff to communicate and watch recordings of meetings they may miss. Monday also has a strong focus on bonding and staff sharing tips, particularly about home working.

 

Pricing starts at £7 a month, depending on the functions needed. More advanced functions include adding more dashboards, interactions and tracking times, as well as using more visual aids such as timeline and calendar views.

 

 

Miro

 

Highly visual workflow and collaboration tools are more likely to enthuse and engage staff. This is where an online whiteboard platform like Miro can help.

 

It enables remote workers to link up digitally to collaborate on ideas, research, planning and design as they manage both their working day and longer-term projects. A range of customisable templates are made available to suit individual charity needs. The whiteboard system offers a range of communication functions, from video conferencing to document, spreadsheet and data sharing.

 

A free plan with limited functions is available, with paid-for plans starting at $8 a month. Advanced functions include access to unlimited whiteboards, number of editors as well as access to Miro’s customisable templates. It is worth noting that Miro offers a discount to charities.

 

 

Integrify

 

Integrify boasts intuitive forms, workflow progress and reporting tools.

 

Clear and concise reporting is critical for ensuring that your automated business processes and workflows are performing to the standards you expect. This includes offering charities a historical audit trail of work, with time and date stamps, details of actions carried out, as well as comments and discussions.

 

Ease of use is also key to effective workflow tools and Integrify’s self-service portal ensures staff and volunteers with limited technical expertise can be involved.

Integrify also offers customers the chance to customise dashboards with the information that is most relevant to them. A pricing guide is available by contacting the platform.

 

 

Pipefy

 

The availability of templates and customisable templates is common among digital workflow tools. A tool like Pipefy lists some of its most well-used templates for a raft of work functions. This includes accounting, recruitment, marketing requests and data required by managers to ensure charities are working efficiently. For example,

Pipefy offers a work management template to organise, centralise all requests around work in one place.

 

Pricing starts at $18 a month, with the cheapest package offering functions including security features and data recovery for 90 days.