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Settings reference

Reminder emails

The emails before and after each Sunday.

In the app: Settings → Reminder emails

Remind this many days before

Volunteers get a reminder this many days before each Sunday they serve. Each person can change their own on My schedule.

Default
7 and 1
Values
up to 3 numbers, 0 to 14
Example
7 and 1.

At this hour

When the day's reminders go out, in the church's time zone. Other daily emails go then too.

Default
9
Values
0 to 23
Example
9 (9am).

For these services

Which services get reminders.

Default
every service
Values
services
Example
All of them.

A note in every reminder

A sentence added to every reminder.

Default
none
Values
up to 300 characters
Example
"Parking is on the north lot this month."

Ask leaders who didn't come

The morning after each Sunday, team leaders are asked who didn't come, until they tick someone or say everyone came.

Default
on
Values
on or off
Example
On; the answers feed the no-show counts in Stats.

Volunteers check in with Check-Ins

Leaders are shown which scheduled volunteers didn't check in (they still confirm each one).

Default
off
Values
on or off
Example
On, for a church whose volunteers scan in at the kiosk.
Planning Center needs
Viewer in Check-Ins

Weekly email to the serving team's leaders

On this weekday, the coming Sunday, its lesson, gaps and subs. Off if empty.

Default
Monday
Values
a weekday, or off
Example
Tuesday.

Lesson link

A link to the curriculum, included in the leaders' weekly email (each Sunday can also have its own lesson links).

Default
none
Values
an https address
Example
The church's curriculum folder.

Online CM training link

Where volunteers renew their CM training online. It's in the email someone gets when their training is about to run out, and in their leaders' copy.

Default
none
Values
an https address
Example
The church's MinistrySafe course.