Using Crew manager for volunteer crew on commercial tallship
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:21 am
Hi
I am looking for a volunteer crewing registration solution for our Tallship Lady Nelson (http://www.ladynelson.org.au/ managed by the Tasmanian Sail Training Association based in Hobart Tasmania and would like to ask more questions about the customisation options for Crew Manager.
We have a calendar of sailing events from 90 minute tourist harbour sails to multi day trips with paying passengers that all require a minimum crew with essential key positions (Master, engineer, bosun, purser) plus crew which is usually a mix of positions (Senior Deckhand, Deckhand, Trainee). The office upload the events, the crewing officer ensures each trip has the required crew competency.
Things that are different about how we operate that would need customisation include:
The plan I am exploring is to redevelop our Website using Wordpress with a members area that links to a crewing registration site
I look forward to discussing options
Phil
I am looking for a volunteer crewing registration solution for our Tallship Lady Nelson (http://www.ladynelson.org.au/ managed by the Tasmanian Sail Training Association based in Hobart Tasmania and would like to ask more questions about the customisation options for Crew Manager.
We have a calendar of sailing events from 90 minute tourist harbour sails to multi day trips with paying passengers that all require a minimum crew with essential key positions (Master, engineer, bosun, purser) plus crew which is usually a mix of positions (Senior Deckhand, Deckhand, Trainee). The office upload the events, the crewing officer ensures each trip has the required crew competency.
Things that are different about how we operate that would need customisation include:
- Different profile fields - can these be fully customised to our training requirements fields (e.g. MSR (Marine Safety Refresher) completion date, FirstAid completion date, dates levels of training completed) - Can we add fields as needed via the admin menu?
- Crewing requests are done as an expression of interest - the crew member views the calendar of events and if available updates to 'EOI' Expression of interest), crewing officer then updates to 'Accepted' or 'Not required' . Can the options for availability be customised?
- Can different confirmation email/sms messages be sent depending on whether a crewing EOI is accepted or not?
- Crewing is managed by the crewing officer (we have several Masters who are scheduled on rotation). The crewing officer needs to provide a list of the confirmed crew and their training status (e.g. Deckhand, Trainee) plus positions for senior crew (Bosun, Engineer) and any training comments - is there a feature to print off a crew list including this information to both send by email to the Master in advance and to be printed and as an attendance sheet for tracking sailing hours?
- Can customisable reports be generated such as how many trips crew have been on (e.g. for identifying crew who have not been accepted and need to be given a rotation).
- Can terms like Skipper be replaced with Master?
- Can the full crewing membership with all fields be downloaded as a csv/excel file
- We have technically competent people familiar with Wordpress - would we be able to make modifications through the WP admin options or are do all customisations need to be requested?
- We would also be after the dd/mm/yyyy date format customisations I noted have been done for another Australian based site
The plan I am exploring is to redevelop our Website using Wordpress with a members area that links to a crewing registration site
I look forward to discussing options
Phil