{"id":24,"date":"2014-03-11T20:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pay4schoolstuff.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:25:06","slug":"win-votes-and-save-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pay4schoolstuff.com\/blog\/win-votes-and-save-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Votes And Save Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s nearly election season for school-affiliated parent groups! If your parent organization\u00a0is gearing up to hold your annual elections &#8211; and you\u2019re planning to assume a leadership\u00a0role- you will likely be faced with the challenge of how you can make things \u201cbetter\u201d or \u201cmore\u00a0efficient\u201d for your Board. Of course, your membership (especially the outgoing board!) may\u00a0want to hear \u201cWell, if it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.\u201d After all &#8211; do you really want to be the one to\u00a0admit that your group has been spinning its wheels?<\/p>\n<p>Probably not, but \u2026 better you than a\u00a0disgruntled school board member, or school principal, or parents who aren\u2019t active parts of\u00a0the organization who just don\u2019t understand why things are moving so slowly.<\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re trying to convince your organization colleagues that you\u2019re the best person for\u00a0the job, we invite &#8211; no, we encourage! &#8211; you to use Pay4SchoolStuff.com (#P4SS) as a tool\u00a0in your kit.<\/p>\n<p>Here are just a few of the initiatives you might consider, and how #P4SS can help:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Paperwork, be gone!<\/strong> With #P4SS you can easily manage your group\u2019s registration\u00a0forms, sign-up sheets, volunteer schedules, and orders. You can create a form in\u00a0three easy steps for just about anything, and produce reports on virtually any criteria\u00a0to review your information.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Hasta Luego, bank trips!<\/strong> #P4SS will pretty much make taking trips to the bank\u00a0a distant memory. We won\u2019t be able to turn your computer into an ATM (sorry, we tried), but your\u00a0members and parents\/students will be able to make payments online, so there won\u2019t\u00a0be any more cash to handle or checks to deposit. And we\u2019ll transfer the funds from\u00a0your transactions directly to your organization\u2019s bank account, so no more frantic\u00a0trips to the drive-through window for group deposits.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>No More Handouts.<\/strong> Forget sending home flyers with every single child in school,\u00a0or hoping that parents are reading the classroom newsletter. With #P4SS you\u2019ll be\u00a0able to send mass emails to all of the registered parents in your system with the\u00a0Internal Communications Function. And the emails can contain links to send them\u00a0right back into the #P4SS interface so that they can complete their tasks right then\u00a0and there.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how Pay4SchoolStuff.com can help your organization (and you win\u00a0votes!) visit us online, check out our <a href=\"http:\/\/pay4schoolstuff.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>, and follow us\u00a0on Facebook and Twitter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s nearly election season for school-affiliated parent groups! If your parent organization\u00a0is gearing up to hold your annual elections &#8211; and you\u2019re planning to assume a leadership\u00a0role- you will likely be faced with the challenge of how you can make things \u201cbetter\u201d or \u201cmore\u00a0efficient\u201d for your Board. 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