Should the first campaign site use a contact form or volunteer-interest workflow?
- A simple contact form routed for manual review
- A structured pending volunteer-interest record with protected staff states
Choose: Start with the smallest form the campaign can operate. Use structured interest only when staff has defined categories, authorized reviewers, response states, retention, deletion, and follow-up ownership.
Tradeoff: A simple form launches faster and collects less data but requires more manual sorting. Structured interest can make follow-up clearer while adding data classification, authorization, consent-version, retention, correction, export, and deletion obligations.