Notify Meeting Attendees

Meeting Notifications in BoardCloud

A meeting notification is a communication sent from your company secretary to members of a board or a committee, informing them of an upcoming meeting.

In BoardCloud, there are two types of notification email that can be sent from the Meeting screen. These notifications are:

• Meeting Notice emails (sent before meeting is published)
• Meeting Notify emails

The difference between the above notifications are dictated by the state of the meeting.

Notice Email Meeting Notifications

These emails are sent to a meeting's members to serve as notice of a meeting.

They can be sent at any time from the moment a meeting is created. These emails can be sent to one ore more of the meeting attendees as many times as required. 

Below is an image of the Send Notification dialog, which is accessed via the meeting 'Cogs' - Meeting Control icon at the top right of a meeting that is being viewed by an administrator or committee (group) editor.

To emphasise that the email being sent is a notice email, the text Alert: This will send Notice emails is shown as highlighted below.

The above attendee picker allows for all or selected committee members to be send the notice. email. 

Notify Email Meeting Notifications

Refers to notifications sent after a meeting is published. This notification email carries a calendar (.ics) file with a calendar RSVP for the scheduled meeting time as well as a link to the meeting and a link to preview the pack.

Note: Notification emails can only be sent to meeting attendees who have confirmed email addresses.