A big request (especially now that the child check-in has been released) is to have the ability to upload pictures of church members. Before we were pulling profile pics from Gravatar, now you can upload your own.
That’s right. You can either upload photos for church members via their profile or church members can upload their own from their ‘My Account’ page.
From the admin, it’s as simple as editing the person and clicking on their profile picture on the left.
This will take you to a page where you can upload a new pic or edit the thumbnail of the current pic. We’ve got a cool little thumbnail picker you can use. I like it a lot.
Your church members have a similar sort of interface for editing their profile pictures too.
That’s all for now! Hope you enjoy the cool new features we are rolling out!
Ben
Today’s the day! After months of hard work we’re finally releasing the BETA version of the child check-in system we’ve been talking about for so long!
And it’s ready to go now! But before you fall off your chair before logging into your account to give it a try, I’d highly recommend reading our help file article which will guide you on getting set-up. Should only take 5 or so minutes.
The reason it’s still in BETA is we still have some testing to do with touch screens, label printers, barcode scanning and some other features. We’ve still got some extra reporting to add in. But other than that it’s fully functional and can start being rolled out in your services.
Love to hear any feedback you have. We want this to be the best child check-in system for churches known to man.
Enjoy it!
Ben
A lot of churches have people who spread across different roles in church life. To assign them one Access Permission can really make things tough meaning you have to create Access Permissions for specific people who need access to multiple areas. That’s why we have now introduced the ability to give people multiple Access Permissions!
So how does it work? Let’s say you have a person called Sarah who is a Group Leader but also runs the Women’s Ministry.
You might have an Access Permission for Group Leaders and one for Women’s Ministry leaders.
Assigning Sarah to either of these limits her access. So in the past what you’d have to do is create a special Access Permission just for her so she can access both areas of the database.
With the new set-up, you can assign her both the Group Leader and a Women’s Ministry Access Permission so you don’t have to create a special Access Permission just for her.
Pretty simple but mighty powerful.
Enjoy!
elvanto, say hello to your new friend MailChimp!
What/who is MailChimp?
Glad you asked. If you have not been lucky enough to come across MailChimp, then today’s your day. MailChimp is online software that allows you to send email marketing campaigns for free (up to a certain amount of sends per month) to people in your church. They give you all sorts features and statistics to help make your email campaigns a success. You can set-up different lists and groups within those lists. You can find out all the details and sign up on their website.
Getting set-up
You will need to go into Account Settings -> People Settings and configure the Email Marketing Integration section. You’ll need to select MailChimp as your provider, grab a copy of your API Key and paste it into the API Key field.
It will then load all of your lists and groups from your account. Select the lists and groups you’d like to be able to subscribe your people to.
Once you save your changes you can then edit people and assign to them what lists and groups they fit into.
Hope you enjoy this new feature!
Ben
Quick one today. You can now print out a list of family members, the primary and spouse’s name and also their full address.
When editing a report or people view, you now have the ability to display as individuals or families.
You can also add family related fields and addresses to your reports making it super easy to do mail merges and to discover the families in your church. Easy!
Child check-in is in the final stages and we hope to release it in the next couple of weeks!
Talk soon!
Ben
