Over the past couple of months, the PTA at my daughter's school has been sending emails asking us to sign up to help with one event or another. Today, I finally decided to investigate SignUpGenius, the program the PTA is using to recruit parent volunteers.
SignUpGenius is indeed free, making its money off of advertisements on your SignUp pages. For a small fee of about $15 per sign up page per year, you can have SignUpGenius ad-free. SignUpGenius even walks you through how to maximize your investment by turning on and off licenses for your pages. Beyond saving paper, other perks for SignUpGenius include RSVPs, email reminders, password-protection, integration with Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, and calendar integration with Outlook, iCal, and Google Calendar. You can even print a paper copy of the signups to take to your event.
As I explored the program, I found it has many potential uses for education beyond just PTA signups. A parent-teacher conference template is provided. Having a staff Christmas party? Create a food signup. Have a class project you need parent help with? Create a classroom signup. Leading a professional development? Create an attendance signup.
The tool isn't just for education either. Templates exist for Business, Sports teams, Scouting, Churches, and the list goes on. The possibilities are endless, but like all free tools, the question has to be asked. For how long will it be free?
Check it out, and let the rest of us know how your're using SignUpGenius.
Hey there!
ReplyDeleteI just came across this review of SignUpGenius and wanted to write to say thank you for sharing our site with your readers! And, to answer your question, the product and service you have come to know and love at SignUpGenius will remain FREE!
As you mentioned, we are supported by Google advertising and we do offer No-Ads Sign Ups for a small fee. We also have a higher level SignUpGenius PRO plan that includes additional features for power users. Our premium services are outlined here: http://www.signupgenius.com/index.cfm?go=o.DisplayProducts.
We will continue to offer more amazing features and upgrades to all of our users both free and paid! Thanks for using SignUpGenius and look for more updates late summer/early fall! :)
Kate at SignUpGenius