People
One record of a person, from first visit onwards
A guest fills in a card on Sunday, appears in follow-up on Monday, joins a group in March and is a member by Easter — without anybody retyping their name into a second system.
Adult check-in, connection and follow-up work today. Children's check-in does not: there are no child, guardian, authorised-pickup or room records, and the directory must not be used as a children's register or relied on for any safeguarding process.
What it does
Households, not just individuals
Churches deal in families. Relationships are first-class, so a household is one record that knows who belongs to it rather than four rows that happen to share a surname.
Pastoral notes stay pastoral
A note written in confidence is readable by the people a church chose and by nobody else — administrators included. Access is recorded.
Attendance that is observed, not guessed
Membership is granted by a church, never inferred from a threshold. First visits are computed from history when the record is written.
Follow-up that names who owes what
Every open request has an owner and a date. The dashboard leads with whoever has been waiting longest.
Why it matters that this is one system
Attendance comes from check-in, groups from groups, follow-up from connection cards — all on the same person. There is no nightly export, and no two systems disagreeing about whether somebody is a member.