Usage

Build reports

Reports summarize completed activity. Use them when you need totals for a period, want to see where your time went, or need to open the exact activities behind a total.

Choose a period

Reports opens on This Year, broken down by Organization + Activity Type. Pick This Month, Last Month, This Year, Last Year, All Time, or Custom for the period. Custom date ranges include the whole selected end date.

Volunteer Buddy Reports controls on iPhone showing the Period and Breakdown selectors and the current totals — Reports controls: Period and Breakdown.

Choose a breakdown

Break reports down by organization, organization plus activity type, activity type, location, or month. Each row shows total duration and matching activity count.

Volunteer Buddy Reports screen on iPad with controls and results visible side by side — Reports on iPad, with controls and results side by side.

Read the result rows

Bars and percentages show relative share within the current report. The exact duration and activity count are the source of truth.

Volunteer Buddy Organization + Activity Type report with nested activity type rows, bars, percentages, durations, and counts — An Organization + Activity Type breakdown, with nested rows.

Drill into a total

Tap a report row to see the matching activities for that period and breakdown. Open any activity from the drill-down list to edit it.

Volunteer Buddy report detail list opened from a report row, showing matching activities and the report period context — Drilling from a report row into its matching activities.

Use reports with History

Reports answer "how much?" and History answers "which entries?" Use drill-down when you need to move from a summary total to the records behind it.

Volunteer Buddy History filtered to the same Riverside Food Pantry organization — The same organization's entries, found through History instead.