Who did what

Settings → Audit log records what changed in your club: who edited a member, who deleted something, who sent what, and when.

When you will want it

Rarely, and then urgently. The three real cases:

• “This member’s address is wrong and nobody admits changing it.” The log says who and when
• At a handover, when the new committee wants to know what the old one did
• After a mistake, to see exactly what was affected before you try to fix it

What it is not

It is not a surveillance tool, and treating it as one is a good way to make a committee uncomfortable about using the software at all. It exists so that mistakes can be traced, not so that people can be.

Why it matters that logins are not shared

Every line in the log names an account. If three committee members share one login, every line names the same person, and the log is worthless on the one day you need it.

That is the practical reason behind the advice in Handing over to your successor: everyone gets their own login, always.

The books are different

Entries in Finances are not covered by this log — they do not need to be, because the journal itself can never be edited or deleted. The record is the books.