Return and Report.org vs LDSRemindercalls.com ?

[prockwell]

Attn: Brethren EQ and HPG Leadership Callings

I realize there are differences and that returnandreport.org is free whereas LDSRemindercalls.com is a paid service.

My question is has anyone used both? Which works better?

Appreciate peoples thoughts but looking for feedback from actual users.

Thanks!

[miztrniceguy]

uhhhh....never heard of them

[skippy740]

I've never heard of them nor ever used them.

I hope that the moderators keep this thread and the references as I wouldn't consider this to be SPAM.

[john doe]

never heard of them

[jgraham]

I don't think asking about a free service constitutes SPAM.

I've been using returnandreport.org for quite some time. I can best describe it as "totally awesome." My only complaint is that we used to be able to upload data from MLS to save us a lot of data-entry time, however the Church apparently has a policy against exporting and uploading data to websites, so we now have to manually enter it. Either way, it still helps us significantly with our Home Teaching duties. Our Relief Society has been using it also with overwhelming success.

John

[prockwell]

jgraham,

Found some more info about the "perceived" data issue. Church policy states that Memership data cannot leave the meeting house.

To the less informed this is perceived as all data. In fact, it is limited to "senstive" data which is only available via the MLS export function. This function is password protected and only available to administrators.

This was not intended to mean non-export function data. This non-export function data is limited to public record information (such as head of household names.)

So the concern about using the non-export function data for this application is a non-issue.

[jgraham]

Awesome... thanks for the info. That makes a lot of sense.

prockwell: Have you tried returnandreport.org yet? I'm just wondering if your results were as amazing as ours. Our Home Teaching actually increased by 20% - 30%.

[prockwell]

jgraham,

Yes, just started with the reminder only capability alone and it accounted for a 40% increase.

:)

[jgraham]

I found this preview for returnandreport.org if anyone is interested:

Home Teaching Reporting - ReturnAndReport.org (EQ Idea Exchange)

[Ragnar]

The Official Church tech forum - tech.lds.org has a long thread with a bunch of info about returnandreport.org.

HT/VT Reporting Website Overview - LDS Technology Forums