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Events & trips

A trip is not one number. It is eighteen.

Deposits, payment plans and scholarships, plus a private link each participant hands to the people they are asking. Every deadline is measured against what that person actually owes. A registration fee never creates a contribution record, so January statements stay clean.

Often replaces a separate form builder, and for a mission trip, a missions subscription billed per trip.

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Stewara Events. Calendar, registrations and check-in flow
  1. 1Fee is not a gift A registration fee never creates a contribution.
  2. 2Trip money Deposits, scholarships, sponsors, and statements.
  3. 3The door A lobby kiosk only a staff PIN can leave.
The trip as one workspace: seats, balances, and who still owes.
What is this?

What Events is, and what it isn’t.

Events runs the whole thing from one place. Publish it once and it appears in the app, on your website, on a public calendar and behind a no-login sign-up link. Then take the money: deposit, payment plan, scholarship, fundraiser share, and a private link each participant sends to the people they are asking. Deadlines are measured against what each person owes, and a registration fee never creates a contribution record.

One trip, eighteen promises

Any tool can say 90% funded. This one tells you which three families that leaves behind.

Guatemala · medical and construction teamChichicastenango
90%$35,730.00 of $39,700.003 behind
Micah A.Paid in full
Priya N.Paid in full
Sofia D.Paid in full
Delia M.$1,400.00Paid in full
Marguerite S.$1,400.00Paid in full
Tomas B.Paid in full
Hattie V.Paid in full
Owen K.Paid in full
Sam O.Paid in full
Lena B.Paid in full
Ruthie P.$60.00
Jonah R.$60.00
Elias T.$60.00
Nadia F.Paid in full
Caleb O.$130.00
Jamie R.$1,800.00
Wren H.$900.00$300.00
Abel C.$1,560.00
90%Ninety percent funded, and the bar is amber.Not a rendering bug, and not pessimism. Three families have not crossed the March 1 deadline, and every screen in here refuses to draw a green bar over that.
× 18Because a trip is not one number. It is eighteen.The bar was only ever their average. Two of them are on scholarship and owe less than the sticker price, and their deadlines shrink with it, so a scholarship never makes anyone look late.
JamieThis one is $600 behind, and her passport is short.Her family gets one sentence, not a wall of red. Her forms are in, so what surfaces is her passport. She did exactly what was asked and the answer is still a problem.
LinkSo she sends a link. Not the church's — hers.A grandmother, a car wash, and somebody who asked what was left. Her March deadline clears. The trip stays amber, because two families have still not crossed it and the church knows which two.

Grace Harbor is our demo church, never a testimonial, and the roster is invented. The arithmetic is not: every balance, deadline sentence, passport verdict, fundraiser share and sponsor label on this page is computed in your browser by the same shipped functions the trip workspace runs.

One trip, eighteen promises

Any tool can say 90% funded. This one tells you which three families that leaves behind.

Guatemala · medical and construction teamChichicastenango
90%$35,730.00 of $39,700.003 behind
  1. Micah A.Paid in full
  2. Priya N.Paid in full
  3. Sofia D.Paid in full
  4. Delia M.$1,400.00Paid in full
  5. Marguerite S.$1,400.00Paid in full
  6. Tomas B.Paid in full
  7. Hattie V.Paid in full
  8. Owen K.Paid in full
  9. Sam O.Paid in full
  10. Lena B.Paid in full
  11. Ruthie P.$60.00
  12. Jonah R.$60.00
  13. Elias T.$60.00
  14. Nadia F.Paid in full
  15. Caleb O.$130.00
  16. Jamie R.$1,800.00
  17. Wren H.$900.00$300.00
  18. Abel C.$1,560.00
90%

Ninety percent funded, and the bar is amber.

Not a rendering bug, and not pessimism. Three families have not crossed the March 1 deadline, and every screen in here refuses to draw a green bar over that.

× 18

Because a trip is not one number. It is eighteen.

The bar was only ever their average. Two of them are on scholarship and owe less than the sticker price, and their deadlines shrink with it, so a scholarship never makes anyone look late.

Jamie

This one is $600 behind, and her passport is short.

Her family gets one sentence, not a wall of red. Her forms are in, so what surfaces is her passport. She did exactly what was asked and the answer is still a problem.

Link

So she sends a link. Not the church's — hers.

A grandmother, a car wash, and somebody who asked what was left. Her March deadline clears. The trip stays amber, because two families have still not crossed it and the church knows which two.

Grace Harbor is our demo church, never a testimonial, and the roster is invented. The arithmetic is not: every balance, deadline sentence, passport verdict, fundraiser share and sponsor label on this page is computed in your browser by the same shipped functions the trip workspace runs.

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Capabilities

What it does, grouped by the job.

Publish it once

One switch puts an event in your members' app, on your church website, on a public calendar anyone can open, and behind a sign-up link that needs no login — so it can go in the bulletin or on Facebook. Until you flip it, it is a draft only staff can see. At the door, a lobby kiosk takes walk-ups, and only a staff PIN can leave it.

  • Members' app, website, public calendar
  • Sign-up link with no login
  • Lobby kiosk a staff PIN can leave

Fund the trip person by person

Each participant gets a private link they hand to the people they are actually asking. Money given through it lands on that person's balance, alongside their deposit, their payment plan, a scholarship, and their share of the car wash, split by the hours each of them worked.

  • A private sponsor link per participant
  • Deposits, payment plans, scholarships
  • Fundraiser money split by hours worked

Know who is actually behind

A payment deadline is measured against what each person owes, so a scholarship never makes anyone look late. Anyone behind turns the whole trip amber however well-funded it looks, and the family gets one sentence (not a page of red) naming the single next thing.

  • Deadlines clamped to what each person owes
  • One family behind turns the trip amber
  • One next thing, and it is never a scolding

Keep fees off giving statements

A registration fee never creates a contribution record at all, so no year-end statement can carry one. A sponsor's gift through the public link is credited to the trip and is never a tax receipt; a gift a treasurer decides is deductible is a separate, human decision.

  • Fee never a contribution record
  • Sponsor gifts never a tax receipt
  • Printable trip statement, plainly labeled
Also included

Every Events feature, in one list

  • Public, no-login registration page at a shareable link
  • Capacity limits with an automatic waitlist once an event fills
  • Priced events: set a fee, a minimum deposit, and your refund policy
  • A registration fee never creates a contribution record: it cannot reach a giving statement
  • Payment schedules: milestone installments the balance-due reminders enforce
  • Scholarships: a pastor or treasurer can waive a fee, on the record
  • Fundraiser credit split across participants, evenly or by hours
  • Sponsorships taken at a table, or through one unguessable link per person
  • Printable trip statement showing what's paid and what's still owed
  • Lobby kiosk for walk-up registration: leaving it takes a staff PIN
  • Public calendar showing published events and upcoming worship services
  • Automatic confirmation email on registration
  • One-click reminder emails to registrants and the waitlist
  • CSV export of the full registrant roster
  • Member-facing "My Events" view of what someone's signed up for
For switchers

If you're running trips next to registration

  • UsuallyA form builder for signups, a missions tool for money, and fees that still show up on giving statements.With StewaraSignup, deposit, scholarships, sponsors, and kiosk in one product, and a fee never creates a contribution record.

Full suite vs Planning Center · What actually moves

Next: the people signing up, their kids, and the note that fills the seats.

Questions

The objections, answered here.

Can a camp fee show up as a deductible gift?

No. A registration fee never creates a contribution record at all, so no year-end statement can carry one. A gift someone gives toward another person's trip becomes deductible only when your treasurer reviews it and says so. A payment from the participant's own household never can.

How does someone give toward one kid's trip?

The participant copies their own link and sends it to whoever they are asking. It opens your church's public event page, shows their first name and last initial, the amount still to cover, and a box for any amount. There is no list of participants on it, and no way to walk from one link to another.

What if a family can only pay part of it?

Set a deposit that holds the place and a schedule of dates, each one the total that should be paid by then, not that payment on its own. Someone on a scholarship is only ever measured against what they owe, and someone who is keeping up is told so and given their next date rather than chased.

What if the event is free, or is just a potluck?

Skip the fee. Publishing, capacity, the automatic waitlist, confirmation emails and the reminder sweep all still run. The page does not assume every gathering is a commerce project.

Do we need a separate missions subscription?

Trip money and trip paperwork sit on the same event as the signup: applications with references, waivers signed by name, a passport expiry check against the six-months-past-travel rule, and a leader packet. Often replaces a form builder, and for a mission trip, a missions product billed per trip.

Do you store medical forms?

Not on a trip, and not by accident. A trip requirement can be a waiver, a document, a passport expiry or a checkbox, and there is deliberately no medical kind, because the ruling on how to hold health data safely has not been made. A church that needs the workflow uses a checkbox (“bring your medical form to the parents' meeting”), which records that it was done, not what it said. Children's check-in is the one place health notes do live, on the staff roster, and they never print on a tag.

Included in the Stewara plan, and every plan above it.

Find out who is actually behind.

Publish once, fund it person by person, and let the roster (not the average) say who still needs a phone call. Start your 30-day trial today: every module in the suite except Stewara Assistant, no card required.

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