One of the things our clients love the most about PAAM is that it is a highly configurable, modular and flexible software application.
Learn moreYou can create new events in PAAM quickly and easily via the PAAM Events page. To create a new event you just need to enter the basics!
Learn moreOnce you've created your events in PAAM you can then create groups and shifts within your events to organise your staff and volunteers into teams and shift patterns.
Learn moreIf part of your application process requires applicants to pay a security deposit for an event, PAAM can help here too.
Learn morePAAM's versatile email messaging can help you to target your event recruitment, and get information out to those who have already applied.
Learn morePAAM runs on a state of the art cloud infrastructure meaning you will experience no issues with compatibility, performance, security, or resilience.
Learn moreWhen you need to search for specific applicants for an event you can use PAAM's search features to narrow your results.
Learn moreDuring or after your event has taken place you can make notes on the performance of your staff and volunteers; helping to fill the positions for your next event with just the right applicants.
Learn moreWhen you need to get information out to your staff and volunteers the PAAM Event Software App can help here too.
Learn moreStaff and volunteer statistics are provided throughout the PAAM Event Software App.
Learn moreWe designed the PAAM Onsite App to work sided by side with your main PAAM system and eliminate the requirement for and dependency on spreadsheets for onsite staff and volunteer management.
Learn moreWe're continually working with our clients, adding new features to PAAM to help them get more out of the platform. Many of the features in PAAM today started life as a request from a client - if you need something PAAM doesn't do yet, chances are we can build it.
Learn more
One of the things our clients love most about PAAM is that it's highly customisable, modular and scalable. You can tailor PAAM to your requirements and extend the standard feature set, either at setup or later on as your needs change - an extra section on your application form, a new export format for staff and volunteer data, additional options in your application process, and more.
Once your PAAM App is live, you can also make changes yourself. Your settings section lets you update your logo, colour scheme, application terms, and create custom email templates.
You can create new events in PAAM quickly and easily via the PAAM Events page. To create a new event you just need to enter the basics:
You can then open the event for applications straight away, or if you'd like to add one or more events that you'd like to open at a later date you can turn off applications and deposits until you're ready to go.
As soon as a new event is setup and marked as open your staff and volunteers can start applying.
Using PAAM it's easy to keep up to date with your event statistics. PAAM's overview pages provide quick reference graphs that show you the number of staff and volunteer applications received, how many deposits have been paid and the number of positions offered at each event.
Once you've created your events in PAAM you can then create groups and shifts within your events to organise your staff and volunteers into teams and shift patterns.
There is no limit to how you can organise your teams and shifts within your PAAM events. However you prefer to manage your events - perhaps a few large teams or maybe lots of smaller shifts - PAAM can work with you and help to get your staff and volunteers organised quickly and easily in a way which suits you.
As with your events, it's easy to keep up to date with your group and shift statistics via PAAM's quick reference graphs.
PAAM's payment gateway is powered by Stripe, so when we set up your PAAM App, we'll get your Stripe account connected and ready to take online deposits. If you'd prefer, PAAM can also advise your event applicants how to pay their deposit via offline methods such as BACS or cheque.
Once your payment solution is set up, each time you add a new event you can choose whether it requires a deposit and how much. Setting an event to require a deposit automatically activates online payment for that event.
All event deposit payments are tracked in PAAM, making it easy to keep on top of who's paid throughout your event season.
Turning events and deposits on and off in PAAM is instant - handy if you want to quickly reopen an event to fill spots freed up by a cancellation.
PAAM's versatile email messaging can help you to target your event recruitment, and get information out to those who have already applied.
As default when using PAAM you can filter and contact your staff and volunteers by:
As with all of the PAAM Event Software App's features; PAAM's email options are highly customisable. PAAM allows you to send targeted messages throughout the recruitment, planning and post-event stages.
PAAM runs on a state of the art cloud infrastructure, which means you will experience no issues with hardware compatibility, software performance, security, or resilience.
The PAAM web hosting platform is supplied by our parent company Hotbox Studios Ltd.
The PAAM web hosting infrastructure is hosted within a UK data centre offering multiple availability zones; designed and managed in alignment with best security practices and IT security standards; complying to assurance programs including SOC 1/ISAE 3402, SOC 2, SOC 3, FISMA, DIACAP, FedRAMP, PCI DSS Level 1, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 27018.
What all this means is that the PAAM Software App is fast, reliable and secure.
For more about the PAAM Web Application hosting environment please visit Hotbox Studios' Hampshire Web Hosting page.
When you need to search for specific applicants for an event you can use PAAM's search features to narrow your results. For example, a search could be made for:
Searching for applicants in PAAM is quick and easy no matter how large your staff and volunteer database becomes!
During or after your event has taken place you can make notes of performance of your staff and volunteers; helping to fill the positions for your next event with just the right applicants.
You can add further information to your PAAM staff and volunteer accounts as member notes; comments and reminders about applicants can be added for easy future reference.
There may at times be some staff and volunteers you recruit for events that you would rather not see at another event. To help with this the PAAM App includes comprehensive blacklisting functionality; PAAM’s blacklist allows for you to block both current users and potential applicants. Blocking a current user removes them from any events applied for and stops them being able to apply for future events. Blocking a potential applicant stops them from being able to apply in the first place e.g. when we setup your PAAM App if required we can import your existing blacklist.
When you need to get information out to your staff and volunteers the PAAM Event Software App can help here too. You can upload files and documents to your events such as:
Your applicants can then login to PAAM to view and download the files.
If you just need to add a small note e.g. a reminder of which car park or gate to head for when arriving at an event - you can enter this as quickly as an event note rather than a new document.
When you need to export information out of PAAM you have lots of options. As standard PAAM includes a number of default Microsoft Excel export and download options including:
As with all areas of PAAM the event upload and export functions are fully customisable; we can work with you to setup any bespoke export and download options you need.
Staff and volunteer statistics are provided throughout the PAAM Event Software App. An on-going record of event applications, deposit payments including financial breakdowns, staff and volunteers accepted to events, groups, and shifts, user activity and more is all stored by PAAM and can be checked via PAAM's quick reference graphs.
Analytics are provided to allow for in-depth analysis of your applicants and PAAM traffic, for example:
The main PAAM system is designed for the recruitment and management of staff and volunteers before and after an event.
We realised that when working onsite many were still relying on cumbersome spreadsheets - often with complicated and temperamental macro functions - to help with checking in staff and volunteers, allocating their shifts, recording the resources being allocated, tracking shifts and hours worked.
To help with this we designed PAAM Onsite to which works sided by side with your main PAAM system and eliminates the requirement for and dependency on spreadsheets for onsite staff and volunteer management.
We're continually working with our clients, adding new features to PAAM to help them get more out of the platform. Many of the features in PAAM today started life as a request from a client - if you need something PAAM doesn't do yet, chances are we can build it.
Recent examples of features added this way include:
Reference Request
Pre-event Shift Allocation
Meal Ordering
Auto-group on Deposit Payment
Approval Process
External Event Pages