Workflow - noun - a series of emails, texts, personal notifications, or data or group changes scheduled to occur over a selected time period.  Used to track a follow-up process.

Reports - noun - Information gathered or actions to take related to families or individuals based on their group involvement, member attributes, or giving data.

Tags: New Release, Automation

For centuries Israel lived in darkness.  Oppressed by foreign armies.  God seemed to be silent. Hope was in a long ago message that a messiah would come. The Christ-child brought light to the world that we celebrate today, thousands of years later. Merry Christmas, friends. Christ has come.

 

Like you, we do what we do, because of Jesus. He came for us and we live for Him. Churchteams is His.  So, to cap off 2020, we are excited to give you, His church, a gift.  The best we have.  Our top release of the year.  A new Digital Assistant - Scheduled Reports.

Tags: New Release, Reports

Like sparks from kindling wood promising warmth and light against the darkness, Advent starts with prophetic voices announcing hope for a coming messiah in the midst of a dark time. 

Tags: New Release

Like you, we love people.  If you haven't seen it, watch our short video, People Are Your Priority. 

 

For you that means focusing less on tasks and more on people.  For us that means helping you focus less on tasks. We do that by listening.

 

We listen to your questions, your suggestions, and your heart.  These four upgrades in the past couple of months are examples of how we respond to what you say.  The people who suggested each of these already know about the upgrade.  This is for everyone else.

Tags: New Release

Kids returning to school in the midst of this Covid pandemic is a headline every day and will be for the next month or two.  It raises big concerns for churches as well as they think about restarting Sunday morning children's programming.

 

A few weeks ago, I offered an idea and process for getting a " Medical Affirmation Before Check-in."  In response to a large client's request, last night we released another helpful kid's ministry re-start safety feature that you need to know about.  We call it Room Check-in Count and Close.

 

Tags: Check-in, New Release

If you're reading this, you've been there.  In the middle of putting together a stellar email.  The layout was mostly done.  The content was clean and crisp.  Then you get a phone call. Without thinking you look up information in the database or look at a Churchteams registration on your website.  As soon as your done you try to go back to the email and it's gone.

Tags: New Release, Communication

One of our advantages in the church management market is our agile culture.  There is just one degree of separation between clients and our development team.  As soon as a need or even a suggestion is vetted by a support team member, it is shared with development. 

Development keeps a running evaluation of these suggestions.  Some are as simple as a software edit and are immediately addressed.  They don't even make it to the list.  Others need affirmation, thought and evaluation.  As they come up again and are mulled over, they make their way to the investment of a few hours or days.  Others are much more involved and may take months or years to rise to the level of investment of weeks or even months of coding.  This set of releases fit into the first two categories.

Tags: New Release

We have an incredible team.  For a number of months now, in addition to all the Covid 19 upgrades we've done, we've been working on upgrading our Navigation Bar buttons to make them more user-friendly.

If you are a long-time Churchteams user, you know what the software does, so you will be able to very quickly re-route from older paths to these new ones that we hope are more direct and more intuitive especially for new users.

Tags: Church Management Software, New Release

After months of social-distancing and live-streaming-only worship, it is exciting to hear the conversations about safely re-opening.  Two weeks ago we started getting calls about using our registration system for reservations to help manage re-opening at 25% to start.

Tags: New Release, Registration, Communication

Our development team has been busy the past few months, before and during the Covid 19 shutdown.  I've already blogged on 4 upgrades.

1. Check Scanning & Image Archive.
2. Automated Check-in Printer Start Schedule.  
3. Office number for Text-to-Church.
4. Email lists upgrade.  Last week's blog.

But, in addition there have been a number of other nice additions.  You may have already noticed some of them.  I'm featuring the Org Chart and Growthfinder language update in the title of this post.  But, there is more.  Here is a quick overview. Click or scroll to read more.  Look them up in your account to help you remember and use them.

Tags: New Release

Communication coordinators are sometimes concerned about using hyperlinks that move people away from the website to other applications. 

 

Link Builder (under Communication tab) creates links or code to display a set of groups; like a small group groupfinder, list of mission opportunities, or upcoming youth events.  You pick the set of groups / events using the group profile questions and it builds both a link and iframe embed code for that set of groups.   See arrow below.

 

Tags: New Release, Groups

We recently released an upgrade to our contributions system that includes the ability to archive the image of a check that is scanned into Churchteams.  We now offer this service to our clients for an additional $15 / month for up to 7 years of check storage.  The video below shows you how this service works.  But, let's start with some context.

Tags: Giving, New Release