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44 articles covering every part of CorpHands, from QR check-in to qualifying charitable donations and social value evidence. Each explains what the feature does, when to use it and exactly how.
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For employees
Joining activities, checking in and seeing your impact.
10 articlesBrowse and join activitiesSee upcoming activities, join with one tap and move up from the waitlist automatically when a place opens.Reminders, WhatsApp and calendar invitesAutomatic reminders the day before and on the morning of each activity, calendar invites with an alert, and optional WhatsApp messages.QR check-inScan the organiser's QR code at the venue and your hours are recorded. Sharing your location is optional.Paid volunteer leaveRequest a full or half paid volunteering day, track your balance and get your line manager's decision by email.My impact, badges and certificateSee your confirmed hours by month, the badges you have earned and print a certificate of your volunteering year.Leaderboards and campaign goalsCompare departments and choose how you appear on the colleagues leaderboard: hidden, by name or by an alias. Hidden is the default.Volunteer perks cardActive volunteers show a live QR card at partner businesses to get discounts. Partners see only a first name and company.Activity feedback and photosRate activities you attended and share your photos from the activity page. The CSR team reviews every photo before it is used.Suggest a causePropose a registered charity or an activity idea to your CSR team and follow its status from the app.Skills profileList your professional skills so your CSR team can find the right people for pro bono and skills-based projects.
For the CSR and HR team
Running activities, partners, requests, budget and media.
12 articlesCampaignsGroup activities under one theme, such as Volunteers' Week or Christmas giving, start from a ready-made template and track approved hours against a goal.Activities and logisticsCreate volunteering activities from a template, set places and hours, track a logistics checklist and verify check-ins by location.Hours approvalsReview volunteer hours with their evidence (QR check-in, self-reported, photo or charity letter) and approve or reject them.Charity partnersKeep a directory of charities and community organisations with their Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI numbers, HMRC charity reference, Companies House number, documents and partner portal users.Sponsorship requestsCharities apply through your public form; each request is scored against your CSR policy and answered with a decision letter.CSR budgetSplit each year's CSR budget into programmes, by country and brand if you need, and see committed, paid and remaining amounts.Donations registerRecord every cash and in-kind donation your company makes to a charity, with the receipt. Money never passes through CorpHands.Photo libraryKeep activity photos in one place, each with a consent status, so nothing showing beneficiaries is published without permission.Surveys and activity feedbackBuild your own employee surveys, anonymous by default, and read the quick 1–5 rating employees give after each activity.AnnouncementsPost news for all employees on their home screen, pin what matters and optionally email it to everyone.Impact storiesTell staff what your volunteering achieved with a short story and a consent-checked photo, shown on everyone's home page.Giving and social value (UK)Qualifying charitable donations for Corporation Tax, community investment in the B4SI shape and social value evidence for public contracts by UK region, from your records.
Reporting and impact
Dashboards, ESG reports, impact metrics and the audit trail.
9 articlesLive dashboardOne page with participation, approved hours, people helped and community investment for the year, plus a breakdown by department.ESG report builderBuilds the community section of your sustainability report from approved records, with GRI references, SDGs, Excel and a printable version.AI report writerDrafts the community paragraph of your report from your totals, ready for you to review and edit.Tamper-evident audit logEvery important change is recorded in a hash chain, so you can prove that past entries were not edited, removed or inserted.Year-on-year and goalsCompare each indicator with the previous year, track campaign hour goals and follow the yearly CSR budget.Impact metricsCount what your activities achieve, such as meals, trees or kilograms of waste, and let charity partners verify the values.Framework mappingShows where your community data can support GRI, ESRS (S1, S3), IFRS S1, B4SI and PPN 002 social value metrics. Indicative only.UK report packOne spreadsheet with your qualifying charitable donations, B4SI inputs, social value evidence by UK region and the GRI and B4SI indicator rows, to help you prepare your tax return, annual report and contract reports.Board summary, exports and certificatesA 4-page printable board summary, Excel and CSV exports, and volunteer certificates that anyone can check online.
Administration, security and integrations
People, roles, single sign-on, HR sync, API, branding and plans.
13 articlesPeople, departments and brandsInvite employees one by one or from a CSV file, and organise them by department, line manager, brand and country.Roles and permissionsSix roles decide who runs the programme, who can only review it, and who simply volunteers. Coordinators can be limited to one scope.Single sign-onLet employees sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta or any OpenID Connect provider, on DNS-verified domains.HR system syncKeep your employee list up to date every day from BambooHR, a CSV file at a URL, or pushes from Workday, SAP and others.REST APIRead employees, activities, approved hours and yearly figures, and create or update employees, with scoped API keys.Charity partner portalCharity staff sign in with an emailed link to confirm attendance, record results, upload photo proof and sign off activities.Branding and web addressShow your logo and colours across CorpHands, and on Enterprise use your own subdomain or a custom domain such as csr.company.com.Country, currency, fiscal year and time zoneFor companies in the UK: amounts in pounds sterling, a fiscal year from January to December that you can set to your accounting period, UK time with British Summer Time, and how VAT works on our invoices.Plans, limits and billingStarter and Business include the same features and differ only in limits. Enterprise adds brands, countries, SSO and the API.Hosting and data locationUse CorpHands' cloud service, or, on Enterprise, run the same software on your own servers or cloud account with private hosting.Data exportDownload all your company's data as JSON, export reports, budgets, sign-ups and the audit log as CSV or Excel, or use the API.Privacy and consentLeaderboards are opt-in, location is asked once at check-in with consent, and every photo carries a consent status.Security overviewHow CorpHands protects sign-ins, secrets, files and the audit trail, and what it deliberately does not record.
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