StewaraPlain answers to the questions churches actually ask.
Practical writing for the people who keep a church running: the volunteer treasurer, the safety team lead, the administrator who inherited the books. Each one explains the subject first and our software second, and none of them expire.
Comms“Send to all” is a number nobody checks.Three unrelated things stop a message reaching a member, and most tools report all three as one number. Why email and text obey opposite rules, and what to ask before you trust a system with two hundred people.About 10 min
PublishingNobody should have to find their own church in a list.Why a member should never be asked to identify their own church, what “branded app” means in the two places it means different things, and why a published church site should be frozen pages rather than a live query.About 11 min
WorshipYour set list is not evidence.Reporting is how the songwriter gets paid, and a set list records what you intended rather than what you sang. What makes a record you could defend, and what to ask before software reports for you.About 11 min