When to use it
Use it whenever someone shows interest in joining — at a parish event, a Form 100 lands, or a Brother makes a referral. The Membership Director works the funnel; the FS steps in at the CUF (Charity-Unity-Fraternity) handoff to turn a prospect into a member. Keep prospects moving so warm leads don't go cold and so recruit history follows the man onto the roster.
Step by step
- Open Roster → Prospects. The default Board view groups prospects into Cold / Warm / Hot columns based on stage and how recently they were touched; switch to Table view with the grid/table toggle on the right.
- Click Add Prospect to log a new one. Enter first and last name (required), optional email/phone, an optional "Referred by" member, and a note (e.g. "met at parish event"). Save with Add Prospect.
- Assign an owner using the per-card owner dropdown — the Membership Director or FS who'll work that prospect. Use the My prospects chip to filter to just yours.
- Advance the stage by clicking the stage badge on a card (it cycles Interested → Form 100 → Awaiting CUF → Member). Open a prospect (click the name) to set any stage directly.
- Watch the Needs your attention strip at the top for prospects that have gone cold or are unassigned, and the Nurture Queue link for drafted follow-up emails awaiting your approval.
- When Supreme data surfaces a new member who looks like one of your prospects, a possible-match banner appears. Click Review, then Confirm to link the prospect to the member (carrying recruit history forward), or Not a match to dismiss.
Tips & gotchas
- The prospect↔member link is always FS/MD-confirmed, never automatic — the cron only suggests matches it judged too loose to auto-link. Dismissed candidates age out of the 60-day window on their own.
- Stage temperature is derived: Form 100 / Awaiting CUF / Member are always "hot"; an Interested prospect goes "cold" after ~14 days with no activity.
- Prospects idle 180+ days become dormant and drop off the active board. Use the Show dormant chip to surface them for recovery.
- The Member tab defaults to the current Columbian Year; flip the This CY / All time chip to widen the scope.
- Only roles with prospect-write access (FS and Membership Director) see the Add / advance / assign controls; everyone else gets a read-only view.
- Export CSV exports exactly what your current filters show.
Related
- See also invite-officers
- See also data-sync