Addressing addresses

 

As we reported in the Next Gen webinar this week, Release One of the Next Gen software will focus on Constituent themes.  We have already asked about Constituent Search and Constituent Relationships.  Today’s question surrounds Postal Addresses (we will ask about email, webpages, phones etc. in a separate thread).

 

Thinking about Postal Addresses in your business, some very BROAD questions:  

 

What are some challenges that you have surrounding addresses today?

Are there trends you are seeing that could impact postal address functionality in the future?

What do you like about Postal Address functionality in existing Tessitura? 

What would you like to see changed/improved about Postal Address functionality?

Any other thoughts about addresses, your business, and Tessitura?

 

(For extra credit: We ultimately take user requirements and express them as “stories”. Feel free to answer this thread however you’d like, but for fun, you could answer in the form of  a “story”.  An example of a story might be: “As a Special Events Director, I need to be able to send Gala Invitations that include very formal addressing (Street rather than St., Boulevard rather than Blvd), even if this isn’t the mailing convention for other aspects of our business.”)

Thanks!

Andrew

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  • Former Member
    Former Member $organization
    We have an issue with constant address duplication when constituents are
    linked.


    eg Mr Brown is a subscriber. He is also the CEO of Sponsor Company. He
    has his own constituent record, but is associated to Sponsor Company as an
    employee. In order to record Mr Brown's business address and phone number
    on his constituent record we have to re-type it. It would be great if you
    could hit a button that copied the details from one account into a second,
    linked account.


    Rebecca Cuschieri
    Opera Australia
  • We have come across a similar problem: when an address changes for a corporation/Sponsor company, we need to roll that change down to all its affiliates, employees etc. who have the same original address. For some corporations we have up to 20 affiliates so re-entering the address for all of them is a fair job.

    That button you suggest Rebecca would really help. Unless anyone else has found a good work-around?

    Vanessa

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  • We have come across a similar problem: when an address changes for a corporation/Sponsor company, we need to roll that change down to all its affiliates, employees etc. who have the same original address. For some corporations we have up to 20 affiliates so re-entering the address for all of them is a fair job.

    That button you suggest Rebecca would really help. Unless anyone else has found a good work-around?

    Vanessa

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