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A public record of capabilities available in SorrelSites, and the everyday work they support.
Reply to any email your organization sends, and something happens
August 19, 2026
Every message goes out from Sprout, your organization's assistant — receipts, renewal notices, agendas, announcements — and a member can simply reply. “Did you get my payment?” is answered from the ledger. “Stop emailing me” is honored. Anything Sprout can't answer itself reaches whoever currently holds the position responsible for it, with the original message attached.
Organization email normally arrives from no-reply@, so a member who answers it is talking to a wall — and the answer becomes a phone call to the treasurer on a Sunday. Here the reply itself does the job, and the treasurer is found by what their position covers, not by someone remembering their name.
The agenda goes out to the right people, with no mailing list to keep
August 17, 2026
Approve a meeting's agenda and SorrelSites works out who it is for — the committee holding the meeting, plus the people behind whatever it is about — shows you each group by name and size, and sends the agenda itself with a calendar file attached.
A distribution list for a board that rotates every year is somebody's unpaid job, and it goes stale the week it is made. This one is derived from what the meeting is for, so it is right the day the board changes — and the agenda arrives as text in the email, not as a link to a login screen.
The fields your organization tracks, filled in by the people they describe
August 16, 2026
Define what you need to know — T-shirt size, emergency contact, chapter, dietary needs — and it is asked on the join form, editable by members in their own profile, and each member is told what of theirs is still missing.
Custom fields elsewhere are an admin's data-entry job: the field exists, and someone has to chase three hundred people and type in the answers. Asked at the moment someone joins, the record is complete before anyone has to chase anything.
Tickets that say “pick one of these, not both”
August 14, 2026
Group your tickets and tell the group how it behaves — “choose just one,” or “exactly one.” Someone adding both the Racer ticket and the Non-Racer ticket is told while they are still choosing, not after they have paid.
Every event has combinations that make no sense together. The usual answer is a sentence in the description and a hope, and then the coordinator spends the week before the race issuing refunds.
Every field you define is an email variable
August 9, 2026
Anything you have defined — on members, events, registrations, sessions, locations — shows up as a variable you can drop into any email template.
The fields an organization invents are usually the ones worth mentioning in an email: the size you ordered, the chapter you belong to, the answer you gave at registration. Most systems let custom fields stop at the database, so the emails still only know a name and a renewal date.
Announce an event early, open registration later
August 3, 2026
Publication and registration are separate settings. Put the annual dinner on the calendar in March, open registration in May, and close it the Friday before.
An event is normally either published — and therefore buyable — or invisible. That forces a choice no organization wants to make between filling the calendar early and taking money before the price, the menu or the venue is settled.
The “Board of Directors” page that updates itself
August 1, 2026
Publish a committee to your website as a grid, carousel or spotlight of its people — photo, position, a short biography — drawn from the roster itself. Elect a new secretary and the page re-renders.
Every membership website has this page and most of them are out of date, because the website editor knows nothing about who holds which position and someone has to retype the names each time the board rotates.
Last year's budget spreadsheet becomes this year's budget
July 30, 2026
Attach the spreadsheet to the event's Budget and Sprout reads it into line items for you to review. Upload a corrected version later and it updates what is there instead of duplicating it.
Every treasurer already has the working budget in a spreadsheet, and every system asks them to retype it — which is why the budget usually stays in the spreadsheet and the software never learns what the event was supposed to cost.
Sign-ups at the door
July 16, 2026
Add a walk-in on the spot, record the cash or check they handed you, and their registration is confirmed exactly like someone who paid online — same roster, same check-in, same ledger.
Money taken at the door is the money most systems never see. It lands on a clipboard next to a laptop and gets reconciled from memory, or not at all.
Your organization's own Sprout address
July 13, 2026
Every organization gets sprout@yourname.sorrelsites.com. Forward it the meeting recap and it drafts the minutes; ask for something in plain words and it writes back with what it proposes to do — you approve by replying.
The volunteers who do the work are not sitting in an admin console; they are in their inbox on a Tuesday night. Anything that requires signing in first is work that quietly does not get done.