Plus email addresses
Do you have Helpers who don’t have their own email address? With plus email addresses, you can easily register them.
From time to time, you may need to register people in VOLAGIC who don’t have an email address. This might be an honorary member who occasionally volunteers for the club, or the girls from the under-11 team who run the kiosk during the women’s team’s home matches.
There are several ways to add these people to the system. Our recommendation: plus addresses!
What are plus addresses?
If your club has a general email address, you can use it to add additional people.
Example: info@deinverein.ch. If you add a “+” and any text after “info”, you create “new” email addresses.
info+stefan@[youremailaddress].ch
info+susi@[youremailaddress].ch
info+melanie@[youremailaddress].ch
All these emails are delivered to info@[your email address].ch! This means you can create as many addresses as you like from a single email address. This has several advantages. If you register multiple people using the same email address, they will all appear as options when logging in to the portal. With plus addresses, you avoid this problem because each person has their own login details. In the example above, Stefan, Susi and Melanie each have their own login. However, all confirmation and reminder emails are sent to the same address: info@[your email address].ch. You can configure your email account to sort these messages into different folders based on the text after the “+”.
Important
Plus addresses are supported by many email providers, but not all of them. You can easily test whether your provider supports them by sending yourself an email using a plus address. If it arrives, the feature is supported.
Plus addresses are also useful for many other purposes. You can find a detailed article on the subject at Cyon.
