Managing Account Turnover
Categorized as: Election Tips, Time Savers
The following scenario happens too frequently. An organization creates an account at Skypunch Technology; the point of contact for that account leaves; that person’s replacement comes on board and is assigned the responsibility of managing an election and creates a new account instead of using that organization’s existing account. The system does not permit two accounts with the same organization name, so there is that safeguard in place to discourage this from happening, but it’s possible to modify the name of an organization by just one character (perhaps by using an abbreviation) to create what is essentially a duplicate account. There are several reasons why this careless approach is bad for an organization, such as:
- Skypunch archives your election results. These results are accessible in your account, but when a client creates duplicate accounts, they have no central place to retrieve results from previous elections.
- Elections may be copied from previous elections. This can be a huge time saver especially for more complex ballot configurations, but previous elections are obviously not shared across duplicate accounts.
- Skypunch offers some very generous ways to save. The repeat usage and group account discounts are only available to a single account.
- It’s not possible for two accounts to share the same organization name. This means that in order to create duplicate accounts, the organization name has to somehow be altered. There are only so many modifications that can be made to an organization’s name before it’s no longer recognizable, so it’s much easier to maintain a single account with the true character-for-character name of the organization.
Skypunch provides detailed instructions on how to transfer an account from one individual to another. Access these instruction by logging in to your account; click the My Info tab on the welcome screen; click the Account transfer documentation link. The document provides information on what an existing point of contact must do to transfer ownership of the account to someone new, so by all means take advantage of it.
