For those organizations using Time Sheets - - we're weighing the pros and cons of entering time sheets for each individual occurence of volunteers' working vs. one total numer of hours for a month for each volunteer.  For Volunteer A who comes every 3rd Tuesdady, it's not a big deal; for Volunteer B who helps deliver meals as many lunch hours as he can manage, I may have 12-15 entries of 1 hour each, vs. one monthly entry of 12 or 15 hours.

Which method do you use?  Share the good and the bad, please.  Thanks!

 Jeanne 

We normally just enter totals for the month for each volunteer. We have a lot of volunteers and that is more efficient. At the end of the year, we're just interested in the total hours, we are not really needing to know which specific days someone volunteered. And to be honest, if we did enter individual days for some people it might imply that we were able to track to that level of detail for all our volunteers - which just isn't true due to under-reporting of volunteer hours (especially those that occur outside the building).

Carol

We have thousands of volunteers; their daily hours are input using a Volunteer batch every week or so. The batch entry makes it go pretty quickly.