How do I customize the impact value metric on Vome?

Overview

You set the hourly impact value rate per opportunity, from Actions and then Manage impact value. Vome then calculates impact value for you, and it appears in your reports.

1. How do I change the rate for an opportunity?

Go to Opportunities.
Open the Actions menu.
Choose Manage impact value.
Your opportunities are listed with their current hourly rate. Change any of them.
Save your changes.

The same Manage impact value screen is also reachable from the Actions menu on your People page, if that is where you happen to be.

2. Can I change every rate at once?

Yes. Use Update all to apply a single rate across every opportunity, instead of editing them one at a time.

This is the fastest way to start. Set everything to one sensible figure with Update all, then go back and raise the few opportunities that genuinely deserve more.

3. What rate should I use?

The default is 30.00 per hour. That is a starting point, not a recommendation.

Rates are per opportunity precisely because the work is not all equivalent. A registered nurse at a clinic day, a qualified electrician and a general event helper are not worth the same hourly figure, and averaging them understates your skilled roles.

Most organizations pick a rate per opportunity based on what it would cost to hire someone for that work locally.

4. What about hours worked outside Vome?

Those have their own rate, Impact Value Rate for Hours Logged (Off-Vome), on the same screen.

It applies to hours added manually to profiles in your database, so historical hours from before you joined Vome are not forced onto today's rates.

5. Who can see the impact value?

Two separate toggles, both on the Manage impact value screen:

Show impact value to admins. This applies to all admins across your portal, not just to you. If the Impact value card is missing from a dashboard, this is almost always why.
Users can see their impact value from their homepage. Controls whether the people who volunteer see the value of their own hours.

6. How do I report on impact value?

Use the Shifts & hours by profile report. It shows each profile, the hours logged and the resulting impact value, applying each opportunity's own rate automatically.

The report exports to Excel, which is what most people want for a board pack or a grant application.

Summary

Rates are set per opportunity under Actions and then Manage impact value.
Update all applies one rate everywhere at once.
30.00 per hour is only the default.
Off-Vome hours have a separate rate for manually added history.
Two toggles control admin visibility and user visibility, and the admin one affects every admin.
Report on it through Shifts & hours by profile, which exports to Excel.

Set a custom hourly impact value rate for each opportunity