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title: Volunteer Settings
slug: volunteer-settings
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createdAt: 2024-03-02T15:42:08.045Z
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The Settings page in Volunteer Management contains several options. These included Registration and Access, Messages, and Approval Tracking.

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## Volunteer General Settings

This page allows adjusting the following:

- **Allow Public Registrations: **Adds the Volunteer tab to your public Ludus pages and allows volunteers to sign up for shifts.
- **Require Application & Authentication:** Volunteers must fill out the volunteer Application and sign in to their volunteer account before registering for shifts. When disabled, a new volunteer can select the shift and click to register and sign up for it all at once, rather than going through the sign-up process first.
- **Allow Volunteers to Cancel Shifts: **Allow volunteers to cancel their shift registrations. If this setting is enabled, volunteers will be able to cancel their shift registrations. 
  - *Suggested Article*: [Allow Volunteers to Cancel Shifts](https://support.ludus.com/allow-volunteers-to-cancel-shifts)
- **Require Phone Number: **Requires volunteers to fill out their phone numbers to register.
- **Require Address: **Requires volunteers to fill out their address to register.
- **Require Date of Birth: **Requires volunteers to fill out their date of birth to register.
- **New Volunteer Forms:** Allows you to set a form to collect additional information when a new volunteer registers.
- **Admin Approval Access: **All Full Admins can approve volunteers by default.  Emails are sent to all selected admins in this field whenever a new volunteer signs up. This allows additional admins who are not at the Full Admin level to access the approvals tab.
- **Volunteer Signup CTA Message: **Used to create a Call to Action message on the Signup page.

:::hint{type="warning"}
For this CTA to be visible:

- Users must not be logged in.
- ***Allow Public Registrations*** must be turned on.
- ***Require Application & Authentication*** must be turned on/
:::

- **Unapproved Volunteer Message: **Create a standard reply to volunteers who are not approved.

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## Messages

**Volunteer Signup CTA Message: **This message will appear on the public Volunteers page in the main volunteer signup CTA.

**Unapproved Volunteer Message: **This message will appear below the shift signup form for unapproved volunteers.

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## Approvals & Tracking Settings

Also located on the General settings tab, Approvals and Tracking enable the automation of various aspects of the approval process. 

**Here you can set the following:**

- **Enable Hours Tracking: **Track the hours your volunteers complete. Approved hours will appear in reports and volunteer profiles.
- **Automatically Approve: **
  - New Volunteers
  - Volunteer Roles
  - Hours
- **Automatic Approvals for Shift Signups:**
  - Approve all volunteers
  - Approve only pre-approved volunteers
  - Do not auto-approve (admin review required)

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