Calendar, Attendance, and Chapter Events
OurHouse brings chapter schedules into a customizable calendar where members can review upcoming events, sign up, and keep attendance-related details together. Event entries can support points, excuses, and appeals, so recurring meetings and activities are easier to follow than a chain of messages or separate spreadsheets.
For organizations that use location-based attendance, the app can connect event check-ins with geolocation and chapter-defined rules. Officers gain a clearer record of participation, while members can see the context around an event before responding. This workflow is useful for Greek chapters, student groups, and associations that need one shared place for calendars, attendance, and participation goals.
Direct Messages, Group Chats, and News
Communication is organized around real-time direct messages, group chats, and chapter-wide updates. Members can keep conversations tied to their organization, while officers can distribute announcements without relying on scattered text threads, email chains, or unrelated social apps.
News can be sent immediately or scheduled as a reminder, helping chapters prepare members for meetings, deadlines, recruitment activities, or last-minute changes. Member lists and group conversations give users a consistent place to identify the right contact and continue a discussion. For active organizations, this combination reduces missed updates and keeps daily communication close to the calendar and management tools people already use.
Documents, Polls, and Shared Resources
OurHouse gives organizations a central area for documents and folders, which can hold chapter programming, policies, forms, and other member resources. Instead of asking people to search old messages or multiple storage services, officers can place recurring files where the same membership group can reach them.
Polling adds another practical layer for elections, recruitment decisions, apparel orders, and other chapter questions. Photo galleries can also help groups collect images around events and shared activities. Together, these tools support the small but frequent tasks that keep an organization moving: distributing materials, gathering responses, and giving members a dependable reference point between meetings.
Hours, Meals, and Member Operations
Beyond communication, OurHouse supports the operational details that vary from one chapter to another. Study or service hours can be tracked against goals and locations, with officer review and appeals available for organizations that use those workflows. Some chapters can also publish weekly meal menus and handle late-plate requests.
News, polls, photo albums, attendance, and emergency check-ins can be combined around the same member community rather than managed as isolated systems. That makes the app especially useful for officers balancing several responsibilities and for members who want one place to check what is due. The exact modules available may depend on how an organization configures its OurHouse account.
