Sending emails to scouts AND their households with one click

Ideas
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I ran into a situation on a recent outing and wanted to see if any other troops are affected by this issue.

We always send families an ETA email blast when we’re returning from a trip so that parents know when to pick up their scouts at our meeting place. To do that, I go to the event page in TroopTrack and click Email Invitees to send it to those who RSVPed. When I did that on our recent outing, I realize one parent didn’t get the email because his scout’s email address is listed for the scout’s contact info.

I’m suggesting adding a selection/button for the Email Invitees function that includes the entire household, so we can ensure the parents get notifications without spamming the entire troop list. Manually adding each scout family is an imperfect and fallible system as all it takes is neglecting toi add one family to have the emails not get to all the right people.

(I sent this idea to the TroopTrack support desk and they suggested posting it here to see if others would benefit from the idea)

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If you have the setting to copy parents on all Scout messages this is all ready accomplished.

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I would also suggest the Text message subscription for quick announcements like this. There is no way to limit the text messages to just the event participants so it would be “spamming” the entire unit but the immediate nature of Text, in my opinion, outweighs the negative of people without Scouts on a trip getting a message about when arriving back at your meeting spot.

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