Everything I have written down, in one place. The guides come from running a PTA’s books and learning most of it the slow way. The fixes are the Google problems that came up often enough to be worth writing the answer down.
The parts of a volunteer officer role that nobody hands you a manual for.
What the job actually is, the before-during-after of a meeting, and what to do when you miss something. One page, and it does not ask for your email.
Goes with Secretary Kit
What to prepare, what to write down while the meeting is happening, the five things to record for every motion, and what the finished minutes include.
Goes with Secretary Kit
The handover checklist, taking over the bank account, the five-number monthly report, and what to do if the books arrive a mess. One page, free, no email.
Goes with Treasurer Spreadsheet and Treasurer Binder
The five numbers every report needs, a layout you can copy into Google Sheets™, and the ninety-second version you read at the meeting.
Goes with Treasurer Spreadsheet
The handover checklist, your first month, what the job is not, and what your treasurer wishes you would do. One page, free, no email.
Goes with President Binder
The five things to ask for with every request, and why a receipt showing only the total gets bounced.
Every field, in order, including the receipt-photo catch that nobody warns you about until it has already cost you a week.
Lines 8 through 27b as the IRS prints them, plus where software, bank fees, mileage and the home office actually go.
Goes with Expense Tracker
What Add to Drive does, what it leaves out, and the receipts it cannot touch at all because they sit in the body of the email.
Goes with Receipt Organizer
The naming rule and the folder rule that make a year of receipts searchable, how to match one to the expense it proves, and how long the IRS says to keep them.
Goes with Receipt Organizer
Asking is allowed. Filtering who you ask is not. Where that line sits, in plain English.
Goes with Review Requests
The six steps, what a sign-up sheet actually needs, how families split the driving without keeping score, and why the plan keeps disappearing up the group chat.
Goes with the free Carpool Board
Specific problems, why they happen, and what actually fixes them.
Two people take the same time. It is a timing bug rather than a setting you missed, which is why changing your settings never helps.
Goes with Slot Booking
Forms has exactly one switch, and you flip it by hand. Here is how to cap a form, and what to do when the limit needs to be per time slot.
Goes with Slot Booking
Why Calendar refuses your spreadsheet, and why importing a second time gives you every event twice.
Goes with Calendar Sync
Subscribe if the school offers a feed. That answer comes first. When all you have is a PDF or a newsletter, the free way to land the whole year at once.
Goes with Calendar Sync
Gmail's button turns one email into one event. The free way to move the whole emailed season at once: copy, paste, review, sync. Nothing reads your inbox.
Goes with Calendar Sync
Google's own building block drafts one event at a time. The two free ways to move the whole Doc's schedule at once, reviewed before anything syncs.
Goes with Calendar Sync
The rota on the break-room wall, the recital schedule on the studio door: photograph it, and a free tool does the typing. How to shoot it so it reads well.
Goes with Calendar Sync
A free add-on with a preview, Google's CSV importer, or your own Apps Script. What each way does well, and which one fits your schedule.
Goes with Calendar Sync
There is no undo button. The three ways to clean up a bad import, including removing hundreds of events at once, with a preview first.
Goes with Calendar Sync
Calendar has no multi-select. Pull the events into a sheet, rename, recolor, move, or delete them in bulk, then sync the changes back.
Goes with Calendar Sync
createEvent() always creates, so re-running a Sheets-to-Calendar script duplicates everything. The id you have to store yourself is the fix.
Goes with Calendar Sync
Almost always means you are signed in to more than one Google account. Why it happens, and how to get back out of it.
Goes with Support
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Email support@getmarinette.com and tell me what you are stuck on. Most of these pages exist because somebody asked.
You might also want the spreadsheet templates or the free PDF to Google Calendar converter.