Merging People

You can now merge two people, and choose which parts of each you wish to keep. You can choose from all of the available fields, pictures, giving, attendance, interactions, roles, and groups. There is a new permission, "merge members" that allows people to access this feature.

The Merge feature is located under "Utilities".

Grouped Family Giving

A feature many have requested is the ability to say that some/all family members give together and would like one giving statement. Now you can do just that!

As of today, when using the Advanced Search, you can choose to find people who are in one of a list of groups, or in all of them. When you combine this with the existing ability to search for people who are not in a given list of groups, you end up with a powerful feature. For instance, you can determine which visitors haven't gotten plugged into a small group. Or, which small group members don't serve in other capacities.

The filtering of outstanding interactions if also improved. You can now filter them by who they're assigned to, not just by date and type.

Members can Update Their Own Contact Information

As of today, if you allow it, anyone in your SimpleChurch account can login and update their information, and, if he/she is the primary member of their family, they can update their family's information. The permissions page now has a new "Global" section.

Child Check-in

Many churches have asked about other ways to use Child Check-in, besides using RFID cards. We listened. As of today, you can use labels to keep track of which parent goes with which children - No Cards or other hardware is necessary (besides the label printer).

Here is how it works: When you check-in a child, two labels will be printed. One will be for the child, and it will have his/her name, group, notes, and a unique number. The second label is for the parent, and it will have the child's name, group, and the matching number. This number can also be used on broadcast systems while the parent is in the worship service.

Unlike using RFID cards, this mode is less secure, and it does not require the child to be checked-out. A child care worker will have to match up the numbers.

To start using Child Check-in in this mode, go to Settings > Child Check-in > Check-in Mode, and choose the new "Label/Manual" option. You will need a Brother QL-570 Printer too.

Interaction Logging for Mass Contact

You've long been able to send mass email and SMS through SimpleChurch, and now we're making it where you can choose to log these messages as interactions with the people they're sent to. When you're on the Mass Contact page, at the bottom you'll have the option to log the messages as interactions and choose which interaction type is used.

Thank you to the churches that submitted these ideas; You have helped make SimpleChurch better for everyone!

- The SimpleChurch Team -

We've just added some new features to help make everyday tasks with SimpleChurch be even more efficient.

Log interactions from a person's profile on Mobile Web: Now, when you have to look up a person to contact them, you don't have to go anywhere else to log that interaction - you can do it right from that person's profile.

Since the beginning, you've been able to print end-of-year statements for members, and you could print labels for members. But today, we've added the ability to output statements and labels for just the people that need them. And, we'll also show you who doesn't have an address, so that you can update their record and add it, so that no one is left out. Handling end-of-year giving has never been easier!

Also, we recently added the ability to email statements!

We've been working on our native iPhone App, and it's coming together well! We're tentatively planning on having the following features be included in the initial launch:

• Searching for and viewing members.
• Listing groups and member by groups.
• Adding and editing notes on people.
• Viewing, editing, and adding interactions.
• Entering attendance.

If there are some features that you feel are important, we'd love your feedback and input. Feel free to comment below, or email us.

By popular request, we've added the ability to add details to giving entries for check numbers, or whatever you wish. This data also shows up on a members giving page.

Some other improvements we've also pushed out:

• Mobile Device Photo Uploads: Until now, photos uploaded from mobile devices may have displayed in the wrong/undesired orientation. This has been fixed.
• Phone Number on Absent Report: We've added the phone numbers to the table of absent people to make getting in touch with them even easier!

As of today, you can send your end of year giving statements via email. This was a feature suggestion from one of our churches! It will allow you to email pdf statements to people who have email addresses, and print labels and mailable statements for those that don't.

Recently, we released an updated that added the ability to organize your groups into categories and apply properties. You can read more about it here.

Now, you can filter the groups that appear on a person's view page in the same way you filter groups on the groups page. Just use the filter box in the right column!