We’ve added a new company to our SMS list called SMSGlobal. Pop over to your Account Settings -> People settings to get started.
We’ve provided a quick guide on that page to help get you started! Oh, almost forgot! They also offer 2-way SMS which means your volunteers can confirm their roster via text message. So cool!
We’ve had a few requests on how to create a report or a people view that just lists parents. Well, we’ve now added a nifty little option when creating your reports and people views called Parent with Children.
When specifying your Filter Criteria, select the option and you’re away!
Hope that makes life easier!
Ben
UPDATE 3rd May: We’ve added an ‘Add Family’ button so you can add family members in once click and also a ‘Mass Add Individuals’ section that allows you to mass add people based on their location, people category and when they last attended a service. So much faster!
A big feature request lately has been the ability to report on individuals and whether they attended a service. Well now you can.
It’s as simple as editing a service, clicking on the Reporting tab and typing in people’s names. You can then click the ‘Add’ button next to their name to quickly add them to the service.
You can then create reports on attendance on the Reports page and clicking on the Services tab. Brilliant!
This is the first version so we plan to expand on this in the future. At present it’s only in the Web version but we’d love to add it to the Mobile version soon.
Hope you enjoy it!
We’ve been keeping an eye on emails being sent out from elvanto accounts and there have been a few spam reports arising. So we now give your church members, new people and volunteers a chance to opt-out of your general and scheduling emails.
The last thing you want to do is tick your people off. This new feature will definitely help those who are no longer interested in your newsletters and mail outs.
How does it work? In any email that you send out to a large amount of people from the People page or the Services page (volunteers), at the bottom of each email it gives them the opportunity for them to unsubscribe. Simple as that! As interesting as we all think our emails are, not everyone feels the same 
Please note that this does not unsubscribe them from your MailChimp lists if you use this feature. This only applies to emails sent from within elvanto.
Enjoy!
Ben
We’ve been testing the child check-in system in BETA for a couple of weeks now and have had great feedback! Thanks everybody who’s tested and given feedback. It really helps!
Lots of tweaks have been made over the past couple of weeks so I thought I’d give an update on where we’re at…
It’s coming along nicely. And never fear, we still have printing from tablets and smart phones on our list to do. At the moment we are focused on getting the check-in system fully functional on desktop computers.
Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for more updates!
Talk soon!
Ben
