User Manual
2026-10-23
This manual is for the church staff of World Church of Messiah USA who use the WCMUSA Manager App: to keep member records, record giving and attendance, look after stock, run pilgrimages and retreats, and print reports.
Names and personal details in the screenshots are sample data, or are blurred.
| Chapter | What it covers |
|---|---|
| 1. Getting started | Signing in, the left menu, roles, the Viewing as panel, working with lists, and troubleshooting. |
| 2. Members | Finding, adding and editing members, membership events, family, the membership card and the member page. |
| 3. Follow-up and prayer | Follow-up notes, meetings, All Notes and the prayer list. |
| 4. Attendance | Checking people in with the QR code or by name, the Attendance Kiosk, and attendance reports. |
| 5. Giving | Recording donations, the Hokokusho Date, a member’s giving, Count & Deposit Reports and donation slips. |
| 6. Online donations | Bringing in Zeffy, Stripe and Zelle gifts, and reviewing them before they are approved. |
| 7. Reports | The Reports page: mailing labels, magazine and leaflet distribution, giving totals, membership changes and services. |
| 8. Inventory | Stock at each church and the regional hubs, moving stock, supplier deliveries, and orders. |
| 9. Pilgrimages | Trips, the roster, applications, flights, payments, the schedule and the Japan list. |
| 10. Events and volunteers | Retreats at Headquarters, volunteer applications, the daily board, the kitchen and meal events. |
| 11. Public pages | The pages that need no login: Pilgrimage Registration, Volunteer Application and the Attendance Kiosk. |
| 12. Settings | The list of churches, church access, and your own account. |
Terms of the church and of the app, as they are used in this manual.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Activity Type | The kind of occasion attended: Church Service, Church Visit, Home Service, Home Gathering, Online Meeting and others. Chapter 4. |
| Admin Assistant | A role that sees only the churches in its church access, like Local. It is not a national role. |
| All Notes | The list of every follow-up note from every church. National / Admin only. Chapter 3. |
| Archived pilgrimage | A trip whose end date has passed. It is marked Completed and kept for the record. Chapter 9. |
| Attendance Kiosk | A check-in page for a tablet at the church entrance. Members check themselves in; no login is needed. Chapters 4 and 11. |
| Bulk actions | The button above a list that changes one column on many rows at once. Chapter 1. |
| Category | The kind of money a donation is, shown with a number, for example 1-GRATITUDE or 7-PILGRIMAGE. Categories 1 to 4 count as giving. Chapter 5. |
| Certainty | How sure a pilgrim is to attend: 100%, 50% or 25%. Chapter 9. |
| Church Access | The list of churches an account looks after. It decides whose records the account sees all through the app. Set by your administrator. Chapter 12. |
| Count & Deposit Report | The record of one collection: the count by two counters, the bank deposit, and the amount in each category. Chapter 5. |
| Endorsement | The minister’s or regional leader’s approval of a volunteer, recorded before the volunteer is approved. Chapter 10. |
| Events | The left menu item for retreats, HQ volunteers and meal events. The page path reads HQ Volunteers. Chapter 10. |
| Follow-up note | A short note written after a conversation with a member. Chapter 3. |
| Friend | A person recorded as a friend of the church, not a member. Their statuses read, for example, Friend (Active). |
| Hokokusho Date | The reporting month a donation belongs to, normally the 1st of a month. Printed as “H.S. Date” on donation slips. Chapter 5. |
| Hub | One of the four churches that hold the stock of magazines and leaflets for their region: Orlando, New Jersey, Los Angeles and Hawaii. Chapter 8. |
| Japan list | The Excel workbook for Headquarters in Japan listing who is coming to a service and their flights. Chapter 9. |
| Mailing OK | Whether a person may receive mail. A blue envelope with a thumbs-up means yes. Chapter 2. |
| Meal event | A single meal or short event, such as a picnic or fellowship meal, with a menu, a shopping list and a budget. Chapter 10. |
| Membership event | A recorded change in membership: joining, a transfer, leaving, being reinstated or passing away. Chapter 2. |
| Miracle / Milagre | The church magazine in English (Miracle) and in Portuguese (Milagre). Chapters 2 and 7. |
| National / Admin | The role that sees every church and every page. |
| Pending, Approved, Ignored, Duplicate | The status of a donation. Imported gifts start as Pending until someone reviews them. Chapter 6. |
| Profession of Faith Ceremony Date | The date a member made their profession of faith. A new member’s New Member event is dated on it. Chapter 2. |
| Region | The group of churches a church belongs to: Southeast, Northeast or West Coast. A donation takes its region from its Local Church. |
| Regional | A role that sees the churches of its church access, and can use Follow-up. |
| Registrant Number | A member’s ID number. It is given automatically, printed on the membership card and held in its QR code. On the member page it is shown as Internal Sequence (unused). Chapter 2. |
| Retreat | A training period at Headquarters, with volunteer applications, daily duties, rooms and the kitchen. Chapter 10. |
| Roster | The list of everyone registered for a pilgrimage, on the Pilgrimages page. Chapter 9. |
| Sacred Objects | Items such as Bibles that members order and churches keep in stock. The list of items is Sacred Objects Catalogs. Chapters 5 and 8. |
| Tentative flight | A flight whose ticket is not bought yet. Chapter 9. |
| Viewing as | The panel at the bottom of the left menu showing your name, role, regions and churches. Chapter 1. |
| Who We Are, SDGs | The two leaflets churches hand out. Their distribution is recorded in Leaflet Distribution. Chapter 7. |
| 立場 (position) | A pilgrim’s position, used for the Japan list: 本部長 HQ head, 副本部長 Deputy HQ head, 理事 Director, 教区長 District head, 評議員 Councilor, 教会長 Church minister, 信徒 Member. It sets the order on every pilgrimage list. Chapter 9. |
| フリガナ (furigana) | A pilgrim’s name written in katakana, as Japan should read it. It appears above the name on the roster and on the Japan list. Chapter 9. |
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The WCMUSA Manager App keeps the records of World Church of Messiah USA in one place: members, giving, attendance, stock, pilgrimages, follow-up and reports. This chapter shows you how to sign in, find your way around, understand what your account lets you see, and work with the lists that appear on almost every page.
Who can use this: Everyone with an account. National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant and Local all sign in the same way. What each role can open and see is explained in Roles: what you can see.
You sign in with the email address and password your administrator gave you.
If you forgot your password, click Forgot? next to Password.
Some parts of the app, such as Membership and Follow-up, have their own sign-in box. If you are already signed in, you go straight through and do not have to sign in again.
Tip: The menu on the left only appears after you sign in. If you do not see it, you are not signed in yet.
The Account Settings page lets you change your name, your email address and your password. It is not in the left menu. Open it with the Account Settings link at the top right of every page, next to your name and Log Out.
Important: If you change your email, use the new email the next time you sign in.
The left menu is on every page once you are signed in. The page you are on is highlighted.
At the top is the name of the app, WCMUSA Manager, with “World Church of Messiah USA” under it.
Navigation
| Menu item | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Home | Your dashboard: summary charts and a map. |
| Membership | Lists of members; open, add and edit members. See chapter 2. |
| Giving | Donations, count and deposit reports, and online donations. See chapters 5 and 6. |
| Attendance | Checking people in and the attendance list. See chapter 4. |
| Inventory | Church stock and orders. See chapter 8. |
| Pilgrimages | Pilgrimage trips and applications. See chapter 9. |
| Follow-up | Pastoral follow-up notes and meetings. See chapter 3. |
| Reports | All the reports of the app. See chapter 7. |
Tools
| Menu item | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Attendance Kiosk | The self check-in screen for a tablet at the church entrance. See chapters 4 and 11. |
| Settings | The list of churches. See chapter 12. |
| Prayer List | The prayer list. Only shown if your account may use it. See chapter 3. |
| Events | Retreats, HQ volunteers and meal events. Only shown if your account may use it. See chapter 10. |
At the bottom of the menu is the Viewing as panel (see below), and under it the build number of the app, for example “build 2026-10-20.3”.
Important: If the build number is shown in red with the word “INCOMPLETE”, the app is not set up correctly. Tell your administrator.
The menu shows the same main pages to everyone. Opening a page does not mean you see every record on it: you only see the records of the churches your account can reach.
On a narrow screen, such as a phone, the menu becomes a strip across the top of the page and the Viewing as panel is hidden.
Every account has one role. Every account also has a list of Regions and Churches it can reach. The role decides which pages you can open. The churches decide which records you see on those pages.
| Role | Pages you can open | Records you see |
|---|---|---|
| National / Admin | Every page, including All Notes. | All churches. |
| Regional | Home, Membership and the other main pages, Follow-up, and the Family and Follow-up tab on a member. | Only the churches your account can reach. |
| Admin Assistant | Home, Membership and the other main pages. Not Follow-up. | Only the churches your account can reach. |
| Local | Home, Membership and the other main pages. Not Follow-up. | Only the churches your account can reach. |
Some things are only for certain accounts:
Tip: The Admin Assistant role works like Local: it sees only its own churches. It is not a national role.
The Viewing as panel at the bottom of the left menu tells you who you are signed in as and what you can reach.
It shows:
If Churches says “None recorded”, your account has no churches yet. Pages that show church records will look empty. Ask your administrator to add your churches.
The panel only shows your access. You cannot change your role or churches here.
Tip: If a list looks shorter than you expected, look at the Viewing as panel first.
Home is the first page you see after signing in. At the top is a menu with Membership, Giving, Attendance, Inventory, Pilgrimages, Follow-up, Reports and All Notes. All Notes is only shown to National / Admin.
Below the menu are summary panels:
Every panel counts only the churches your account can reach. A Local account sees the numbers for its own church. A National / Admin account sees the whole country.
Most pages show records in a list (a table). The lists all work the same way.
Some lists also have Add filters, to show only rows that match a condition. A list may already have a saved filter. It is shown as a grey label next to Add filters, for example “Count Date is during the current month”. Click the small cross on the label to remove it.
Long lists are split into pages, for example of 100 rows. Above the list you see how many rows there are, for example “Showing 1-100 of 464”. Use the page box and the arrows next to it to move to the next page. The per page box changes how many rows each page shows.
Each row has links, for example View, Edit and Delete. On some lists the link that opens the record is an eye icon in the Details column.
Important: Delete cannot be undone. Make sure you have the right row.
Many lists have a Bulk actions button above them. It lets you change one column on many rows at once. National / Admin can also delete many rows at once.
You can only change records of the churches your account can reach. The app checks every row.
If a row is refused, the reason is shown, for example “record belongs to another church”.
Important: Bulk edit and bulk delete cannot be undone. You can change at most 200 rows at a time.
Tip: If the button says Tick some rows first, no rows are ticked yet. If it says Nothing editable here, this list has no columns you can change in bulk.
A page says you are not signed in, or stays empty, after you reload it. If you reload a page in your browser, some pages, such as the Prayer List or the roster on Pilgrimages, may say “not signed in” or show nothing. The page asked for its records before your sign-in was ready. Click another item in the left menu, then come back to the page. You can also wait a moment and click the menu item again. You do not need to sign in again.
A page takes a long time to open. Some pages collect a lot of records. The Prayer List, for example, can take up to about 20 seconds. Wait until the loading message goes away.
A list looks shorter than you expected. Check the Viewing as panel. You only see the records of the churches your account can reach.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Sign in | App link, sign-in box | Everyone |
| Change name, email or password | Account Settings page | Everyone |
| See your role and churches | Viewing as panel, bottom of the left menu | Everyone |
| See the summary charts | Home | Everyone (own churches) |
| Search, sort, export a list | Above and under any list | Everyone |
| Change many rows at once | Bulk actions above a list | Everyone (own churches) |
| Delete many rows at once | Bulk actions above a list | National / Admin |
| Open every follow-up note | Home, All Notes | National / Admin |
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The Membership part of the app is where you keep the record of every member and friend of the church. You can find a person, open their page, add someone new, record a change such as a transfer or a passing, link family members, and print a membership card with a QR code for check-in.
Who can use this: National / Admin — all members. Regional, Admin Assistant and Local — only members of the churches your account can reach. The Family and Follow-up tab on a member is only for National / Admin and Regional.
Click Membership in the left menu. The page has a + Add Member button and three lists. Each list has a search box and an Export button, shows 100 rows per page and is sorted by name.
What the columns mean:
Important: Delete removes the member and cannot be undone. To record that someone left, use + Log Event instead (see below).
Click View on a member’s row to open their page. From top to bottom you see:
Tip: In Contact Details, the Registrant Number is shown under the label Internal Sequence (unused). It is the same number as on the card.
Every new member gets a Registrant Number automatically. It continues the church’s original numbering.
What happens next:
If the person is a member of a World Church of Messiah overseas and is transferring to the USA:
The app then records a Transfer In event instead of a New Member event.
Tip: Gender is not on this form. After saving, open the member and use Edit to set Gender. The app needs it to name family relationships correctly.
Important: The Registrant Number is printed on the membership card and in its QR code. Do not change it once it is given.
When you change Membership Status on this form and fill in Status Change Date, the app adds a matching event to Membership History, for example Withdrawn or Transfer Out.
Tip: To record a change such as a transfer or a withdrawal, + Log Event is the easier way. It sets the status and Mailing OK for you.
A membership event records a change in a person’s membership: joining, transferring, leaving, being reinstated or passing away. Events appear in Membership History on the member page and in Reports, Membership Changes (see chapter 7).
The Reason list only shows reasons that fit the event. For example, for Withdrawn you can choose Joined another group, Moved, no transfer requested, Lost contact, Personal request or Other.
When you save an event, the app updates the person’s Membership Status and Mailing OK for you:
| Event | Status becomes | Mailing OK |
|---|---|---|
| New Member, Transfer In, Reinstated | Active | On |
| Transfer — National, Transfer Out (National) | Active (still a member, at another US church) | On |
| Transfer — International, Transfer Out (International) | Transfered Out | Off |
| Withdrawn | Withdrawn | Off |
| Member Excluded | Other (Member Excluded) | Off |
| Deceased | Deceased | Off |
Important: A transfer to another US church does not move the person to the new church. Use Edit and change Church yourself.
The Family list on the member page shows the person’s family. A relative can be another member in the app, or someone who is not in the app.
What happens next:
Tip: Set Gender on members with Edit so the family words are right.
The top of the member page, and of every tab, shows the membership card: the person’s initials in a circle, their name, their church, “Registrant” with their number, their status and a QR code.
The QR code holds the Registrant Number. The Attendance page and the Attendance Kiosk read it to check the person in.
Tip: If nothing happens when you click Print card, your browser is blocking pop-up windows. Allow pop-ups for this site and try again.
If the person has no Registrant Number, the card shows “Registrant —”.
Under Contact Details is the map Residence & nearest church. It shows where the person lives, other members nearby, and the nearest church.
What you see:
You only see other members of the churches your account can reach. National / Admin sees everyone. The line may say how many members outside your access are not shown.
Distances on the map are in a straight line. The directions links use driving routes.
If the person has no address, the map says “This member has no address on file, so there is nothing to place on a map.”
At the bottom of Contact Details is Magazine received. Use it to record that one person received Miracle or Milagre outside a normal mailing, for example a copy handed to them at church.
The mailing report uses the same records, so a logged issue stops a second label being printed for that person.
What happens to stock:
Important: Always type the issue. Without it the app cannot stop a duplicate label later, and it asks you to confirm.
Important: Deleting an entry cannot be undone, and the person can get a label for that issue again.
There are two ways to record that a member has passed away.
If you correct the Date of Passing later, the app also corrects the date of the Deceased event in Membership History.
Click the Giving tab on a member’s page to see their giving. At the top is the Giving Summary:
Under the summary are the donations list, the chart Donation Trend — This Year and the form Record a Donation for This Member.
You only see donations given at the churches your account can reach. Chapter 5 explains giving in full.
The membership lists have a Bulk actions button. Use it to change one column on many members at once, for example Mailing OK. Chapter 1 explains the steps.
You can only change members of the churches your account can reach. Only National / Admin can delete many members at once.
Important: Bulk changes cannot be undone. To record a status change for one person, use + Log Event instead.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Find a member | Membership, search box | Everyone (own churches) |
| Open a member’s page | Membership, View | Everyone (own churches) |
| Add a member | Membership, + Add Member | Everyone |
| Edit a member | Membership, Edit | Everyone (own churches) |
| Record a transfer, withdrawal or passing | Member page, + Log Event | Everyone (own churches) |
| Link family members | Member page, + Add Relationship | Everyone (own churches) |
| Print a membership card | Member page, Print card | Everyone (own churches) |
| Log a magazine given by hand | Member page, Magazine received, Log it | Everyone (own churches) |
| See a member’s giving | Member page, Giving tab | Everyone (own churches) |
| See follow-up and meetings | Member page, Family and Follow-up tab | National / Admin, Regional |
| Change many members at once | Membership, Bulk actions | Everyone (own churches); delete: National / Admin |
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Follow-up is the pastoral care side of the app. You write a short note after each conversation with a member, plan the next meeting, and keep a prayer list of the people the church is praying for. This chapter explains follow-up notes, meetings and the prayer list.
Who can use this: National / Admin — all follow-up notes, including All Notes, and the full prayer list. Regional — Follow-up, the Family and Follow-up tab, and the prayer list if the administrator has turned it on for your account. Admin Assistant and Local — follow-up and the prayer list are not available.
Click Follow-up in the left menu. The page has:
Important: This list only shows notes you wrote yourself. Notes written by other people are not shown here.
The app records you as the writer of the note automatically.
You can also work on follow-up directly from a member. Open the member’s page and click the Family and Follow-up tab. This tab is only for National / Admin and Regional.
The tab shows:
The meeting appears in Next Meeting on the tab, and in Upcoming Meetings by Clearance on the Follow-up page.
All Notes shows every follow-up note from every church, whoever wrote it. It is only for National / Admin. Other roles do not see the link and cannot open the page.
The prayer list holds the people the church is praying for, with what the prayer is for. Each prayer request is saved as a follow-up note on the person called “Prayer request”, so it also appears among their follow-up notes.
Who can use it: National / Admin sees and manages the whole list. Regional accounts can use it only if the administrator has turned it on for them, and then only for their own churches. If your account cannot use the prayer list, you do not see the Prayer List menu item, the Prayer list column or the Prayer list card.
You can work with the prayer list in three places:
A person can only have one active prayer request at a time.
Tip: Choosing Health also ticks the Health Update Flag on the note.
The app saves a “Prayer follow-up” note and updates the date of the last follow-up.
The request is not deleted. It stays in the person’s follow-up notes, marked Removed, with the date.
Click Prayer List under Tools in the left menu.
The page shows:
Each person shows their name, their local church, their age and status, the categories, what the prayer is for, who added it and when, the last follow-up and the next follow-up date. Click the name to open the member’s page. Each person has Follow up and Remove buttons.
If nobody is on the list yet, the page says so and tells you how to add someone.
Tip: The Prayer List can take up to about 20 seconds to open. While it loads, the page says “Loading the prayer list…”. Wait for it to finish before you click again.
Tip: If you reload the page in your browser, the Prayer List may say you are not signed in, or stay empty. This happens when the page asks for the list before your sign-in is ready. Click another item in the left menu, then click Prayer List again. You can also wait a moment and click it again.
If you are Regional, a request added by someone else shows the name only, with the words “Added by someone else. The details are private to them.” You do not see what the prayer is for, the categories, who added it or the dates.
The printout is on letter-size paper. It has the title “Prayer List”, the date and the number of people. People are grouped under their church in three columns. Each page has a page number and the date it was printed.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Write a follow-up note | Follow-up, Add Follow-Up Note | National / Admin, Regional |
| Log a conversation with a member | Member page, Family and Follow-up, + Log a Conversation | National / Admin, Regional |
| Book or move a meeting | Member page, Family and Follow-up, Schedule Next Meeting | National / Admin, Regional |
| See your notes about a member | Member page, Family and Follow-up, Follow-Up Notes | National / Admin, Regional |
| See every note from every church | Home, All Notes | National / Admin |
| Add someone to the prayer list | Membership, Prayer list column, or the member page card | National / Admin; Regional if turned on |
| Record a prayer follow-up | Prayer List page or member page card, Follow up | National / Admin; Regional if turned on |
| Take someone off the prayer list | Prayer List page, Remove | Whoever added it; National / Admin |
| Print the prayer list | Prayer List page, Print list | National / Admin; Regional if turned on |
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This part of the app records who came to church and to other activities. Staff can check people in on the Attendance page by scanning their membership card or searching for their name. Members can check themselves in at the door on the Attendance Kiosk, a page that needs no login and is meant for a tablet at the church entrance. Church leaders also file one Attendance Report for each service or activity, with the headcounts.
Who can use this: National / Admin — all churches. Regional, Admin Assistant and Local — only the churches in their account. The Attendance Kiosk is a public page: anyone at the device can check in, without a login.
Open Attendance in the left menu. At the top of the page is the QR Check-In panel. Below it are the Add Attendance form and the Attendances table.
The panel has these fields:
The QR code is printed on the member’s card. You can print a card from the member’s profile (see chapter 2).
Tip: If a member checks in twice for the same activity on the same day, the app plays a low beep and shows Already Checked In. Nothing new is saved.
Every check-in is also counted in that day’s Attendance Report for the church, date and activity. If no report exists yet, the app creates one for you.
Messages you may see:
| Message | What to do |
|---|---|
| Select a Local Church first. | Choose the church at the top of the panel. |
| Select a member first. | Search for the name and pick it in Selected Member. |
| Enter a QR value or member ID. | Type a code or Registrant Number before you click Check In Manually. |
| Member not found for QR | The card code was not found among your churches’ members. Search by name instead. |
| Camera permission was blocked | Allow the camera in your browser settings, then click Start Camera again. |
| No camera was found on this device. | Use the name search or the card number instead. |
The kiosk is a simple screen for a tablet at the church entrance. Members check themselves in. It has no left menu, and it needs no login. It can only look up members by card or by name, and record a check-in.
To open it, click Attendance Kiosk under Tools in the left menu, or open the kiosk link on the tablet.
The kiosk screen shows “World Church of Messiah USA”, “Attendance Form”, the church name, the same date and activity fields as the staff panel, and the status line “Ready. Scan a QR code or search by name.” At the bottom is a Switch Church list. The current church has a star.
Tip: The camera turns off after 30 seconds with no activity. It turns on again as soon as someone taps the screen or types.
Important: If two members share the same card number, the kiosk refuses the card instead of checking in the wrong person. Ask an administrator to correct the duplicate number.
If the kiosk shows “The church list could not be loaded on this device”, tap Try again.
Below the QR Check-In panel, the Add Attendance form lets you type a check-in by hand. It has Check-in Time, Activity Type, Participant Type, Check-in Method, Duplicate Check-in?, Notes, Local Church and Member. For a Church Service, it also asks for Online Participation Total and Number of Machines.
Check-in Method can be QR Scan, Manual Search, Walk-in Friend, First Time Visitor, or Correction / Admin Entry. Use Correction / Admin Entry when you add a check-in after the fact.
The Attendances table below it lists the check-ins for your churches. Click Details to see one, or Edit to change it.
The tab also lists every check-in for that member.
An Attendance Report describes one occasion: a service, a home service, a gathering, an online meeting or another activity, with how many people took part. Local churches file their own reports.
To open it, click Reports in the left menu, then the card Attendance Report.
| Activity Type | Boxes that appear |
|---|---|
| Church Service | In Person - Members, In Person - Friends, In Person - First Time, Online Service Attendance, Number of Machines, Host |
| Home Service | Home Service - Members, Home Service - Friends, Home Service - First Time, Type of Home Service, Host |
| Home Gathering | Home Gathering / Other Activity, Host |
| Online Meeting / Study | Online - Members, Online - Friends, Online - First Time |
| Other Activity | Name, Home Gathering / Other Activity |
| Church Visit | Daily Attendance |
Below the form, the reports are listed in separate tables: Church Service Reports, Home Service Reports, Home Gathering or Other Activities, Online Meetings or Studies and Other Activities. Each table shows the current year. Click Edit to correct a report, or Delete to remove it.
Important: Delete removes the report for good.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Check a member in with the camera | Attendance → QR Check-In → Start Camera | All roles |
| Check a member in by name | Attendance → Search Member → Check In Selected Member | All roles |
| Check in by card number | Attendance → Manual QR / Member Value → Check In Manually | All roles |
| Set up a door tablet | Left menu, Tools → Attendance Kiosk → tap your church → bookmark | Anyone; no login |
| Check yourself in at church | Attendance Kiosk on the tablet | Members; no login |
| Add a check-in by hand | Attendance → Add Attendance | All roles |
| Check in from the profile | Member → Attendance tab → Check This Member In | All roles |
| File a service headcount | Reports → Attendance Report → Add Attendance Report | All roles, own churches |
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This part of the app keeps every donation and payment the church receives. You use it to record cash and check gifts by hand, to see each member’s giving, to file the collection count and bank deposit, and to print donation slips. Online gifts from Zeffy, Stripe and Zelle come in through the Import Donations page, described in chapter 6.
Who can use this: National / Admin — all churches. Regional, Admin Assistant and Local — only the donations and reports of the churches in their account. Everyone can record donations and file Count & Deposit Reports for their own churches.
Click Giving in the left menu. At the top are two buttons: Count and Deposits and Import Donations. Below them you see:
The Donations table shows the gifts of the current year. Its saved filter, Date is during the current year, is shown next to Add filters. To see older gifts, click the small cross on the filter, or add a filter of your own.
In the Donations table, click the eye icon in the Details column to see a donation, or Edit to change it.
Important: Delete in the Donations table removes the donation for good.
Every donation has a Category. The number at the start tells you what kind of money it is:
| Category | What it is |
|---|---|
| 1-GRATITUDE, 1a-PROFESSION OF FAITH CEREMONY, 1b-BIBLE (DONATION), 2-ENSHRINEMENTS, 3-SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM, 3a - CHORUS | Giving. Tax deductible. |
| 4-FUNDRAISER | Giving, but not tax deductible. |
| 5-SACRED OBJECTS, 6-REIMBURSEMENTS, 6a-BIBLE (COST), 6b-PIN (COST), 7-PILGRIMAGE, 8-GRAND CEREMONY TO CELEBRATE | Purchases, cost recovery and trip payments. Not counted as giving. |
Use the Add Donation form for cash, checks and anything else that did not come in through the online import.
A donation saved on this form is marked Approved right away.
The Hokokusho Date is the reporting month the gift belongs to. When you enter the Date, the app fills it in:
For example, a cash gift on October 23 gets the Hokokusho Date November 1.
To count a gift in a different month on purpose, type over the date. The app keeps your value. On an Edit Donation form, the app never changes a Hokokusho Date that is already there.
Choose the church where the gift was given, not the member’s home church. For example, a member from Los Angeles who gives in Orlando counts for Orlando.
You never set the region of a donation. The app takes it from the Local Church when you save. If you later change the Local Church, the app corrects the region a moment after you save. If a report shows a gift under the wrong region, check its Local Church.
When a member pays for an order (for example, a sacred object), record the payment as an order payment. The order then shows how much is paid and how much is still owed.
If the box says “No unpaid orders for this member”, the member owes nothing on any order. If it says “Choose the member first”, pick the Registrant first.
A payment for a pilgrimage can be counted toward the member’s trip registration. The app then updates what is paid, what is still owed, and the payment status of the registration.
The payment status moves from Unpaid to Paid Deposit, Paid Deposit & Some and Paid in Full as payments come in.
Tip: If the member has no registration for an upcoming trip, the donation is saved without a link. If something goes wrong, the donation is still saved and the message tells you to link it from the Pilgrimages roster instead (see chapter 9).
A donation can pay toward one registration only. Linking it to a different registration removes it from the first one.
Every member profile has a Giving tab with that member’s history.
At the top, the Giving Summary shows three rows of cards:
The summary counts only categories 1 to 4 as giving. Categories 5 and up appear under Other receipts. Donations marked Ignored or Duplicate are left out.
Below the summary are the chart, the member’s Donations table, and the form Record a Donation for This Member.
Important: On this form you choose the Donation Status yourself. For a gift you have received, choose Approved.
After each collection, two counters count the money and someone takes it to the bank. The Count & Deposit Report records the count, the deposit, and how much went into each category.
Click Giving, then Count and Deposits. The list shows the reports for your churches for the current month, grouped by church. Its saved filter, Count Date is during the current month, is shown next to Add filters. Click the small cross on the filter to see older reports.
You do not add up the total. The app works out the Deposit Total from the category amounts.
After you submit, a box appears: Report Submitted! It shows the Report ID and the date. Click Done, or press Esc, to close it.
Tip: Write the Report ID on the paper count sheet.
Each donation can be linked to a report. Choose the report in the donation’s Count & Deposit Report box when you add or edit the donation.
On the list, click the eye icon in the Details column to open a report. The table Donations in this Deposit lists the donations linked to it. Use Cash Donations, Check Donations or All Donation Types to filter it.
A new report has Reconciled set to Pending Confirmation.
The app can rebuild the paper “Donation Count - Report” form from a report, so you can print it or save it as a PDF.
The sheet shows the report number (and the old paper number, if there is one), one column for each category with Cash, Checks and Totals rows, the Total Deposit, the notes, the date, and lines for the two counters’ names and signatures.
The Totals row is what the counters entered. Cash and Checks come from the linked donations. If they do not agree, the sheet prints a Does not reconcile box with both amounts.
Important: Save PDF to Written Report replaces any scan already saved in Written Report Image. The old file cannot be recovered. To keep a scan, use Print only.
You can print paper donation slips for the gifts you choose. The bar Print donation slips appears above donation tables: on the Giving page, on a member’s Giving tab, on Imported — Pending Review, and on Donations in this Deposit.
Each slip shows “World Church of Messiah USA”, the H.S. Date (the Hokokusho Date), the date, first and last name, the category and amount, the payment method (Cash, Check, Zelle, Online or Other), notes and the total. With four per page, the page prints sideways so you can cut it into four slips.
Tip: If you click Print donation slips with nothing ticked, the app asks you to tick at least one donation first.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Record a cash or check gift | Giving → Add Donation | All roles |
| Record a payment toward an order | Add Donation → Is this a regular donation? = Order Payment | All roles |
| Record a pilgrimage payment | Donation form → Category 7-PILGRIMAGE → Apply to pilgrimage registration | All roles, own churches |
| See one member’s giving | Member → Giving tab | All roles |
| File the collection count | Giving → Count and Deposits → + Add Count & Deposit Report | All roles, own churches |
| Print the count report | Count & Deposit Report details → Print / attach count report | All roles |
| Print donation slips | Any donations table → tick rows → Print donation slips | All roles |
| Bring in online gifts | Giving → Import Donations (chapter 6) | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
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Gifts made online through Zeffy or Stripe, and gifts sent by Zelle, do not need to be typed in by hand. The Import Donations page brings them into the app, matches each gift to a member, and lets you check everything before it is saved. Imported gifts are saved as Pending. A second check, in the table Imported — Pending Review, approves them.
Who can use this: National / Admin — all churches. Regional and Admin Assistant — only the members and donations of their own churches. Local accounts cannot use this page: the app sends them back to the Giving page.
Click Giving in the left menu, then Import Donations.
At the top, a blue strip shows when the last imports ran: Last Zeffy sync, Last Stripe sync and Last Zelle CSV import.
Below it you see:
A sync fetches every gift made since the last sync.
For Stripe, a Bank Payout Groups table also lists each bank deposit: the payout, the arrival date, how many donations, and the total. Gifts not yet paid out are counted below it. This helps you match the gifts to your bank statement.
Zelle gifts arrive in the bank account. You bring them in from the bank’s transaction file.
The review table is titled Review all followed by the number of records. Each row is one gift. The columns are: Status, Possible Duplicate, Email, Name, Amount, Date, Form Title, Category, Member ID and Local Church. Stripe rows also show the payout date and payout.
The Status badge tells you how the gift was matched to a member:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| matched | Matched by email address. |
| matched_name | Matched by an exact name that only one member has (also tried with last name first). |
| ambiguous_name | More than one member has this name. Type the right Registrant Number. |
| unmatched | No member found. Type the Registrant Number if you know who it is. |
| no_email | The gift had no email address. |
| manual | You typed the Registrant Number. |
| invalid_id | The Registrant Number you typed was not found. |
The app only matches members of the churches your account can see.
Important: Only rows with a member are written. A row with no member, or with no Local Church, is left out. Check Local Church on every row before you click Write to Knack.
The Possible Duplicate column shows No, Possible duplicate or Not checked (when there is no member yet).
Possible duplicate, in yellow, means the same member already has a donation with the same date and amount, for example because someone typed it in by hand. That row is skipped when you write. If it really is a second gift, enter it by hand on the Giving page.
The row is not written. Nothing already saved in the app is changed.
To empty the whole review list, click Clear results. Nothing already saved is changed.
When every row looks right, click Write to Knack. The app saves each gift as a donation with:
The app protects you from saving the same gift twice:
So it is safe to run a sync again.
When a sync finishes cleanly, the last-sync time moves to now, and the next sync fetches only newer gifts. If any row had an error, the log says the last-sync date was not moved. Fix the problem and sync again.
Each imported gift keeps its Campaign: the name of the campaign page in Zeffy, the description in Stripe, or “Zelle Bank CSV”.
The Notes are filled in for you:
A sync also fills in the Campaign on older Zeffy and Stripe gifts that do not have one yet. Notes that a person typed are never changed.
Use this box to fetch an earlier period again, for example all gifts since October 1.
Gifts already in the app, and possible duplicates, are still skipped. Nothing is counted twice.
The Zelle CSV import marker is only a reminder of when you last uploaded a bank file. Click Save Zelle marker to set it, or Clear marker to clear it. It does not limit what you can upload, and it is kept on this computer only. Another computer shows “Never”.
Imported gifts stay Pending until someone reviews them. The table Imported — Pending Review lists the pending gifts for your churches, newest first.
The columns are Date, Donor, Email, Matched Member, Amount, Campaign, Category, Local Church, Source, Batch, Payout, Status, Notes, Fix and Review.
Important: You cannot approve a gift that has no Matched Member. Click Fix and choose the member first. Ignore and Duplicate work either way.
Nothing on this table deletes a donation. Ignored and duplicate gifts stay in the app with that status, and they are left out of the member’s giving summary.
This approves only the rows shown on the current table page. Rows with no matched member are skipped.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Bring in Zeffy gifts | Giving → Import Donations → Sync from Zeffy | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Bring in Stripe gifts | Import Donations → Sync from Stripe | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Bring in Zelle gifts | Import Donations → Upload Zelle Bank CSV | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Match a gift by hand | Review table → Member ID | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Save the checked gifts | Write to Knack | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Fetch an earlier period again | Reset Last Sync Date and Time | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Approve, ignore or mark a duplicate | Imported — Pending Review → Review column | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
| Approve a whole page | Approve visible pending donations | National / Admin, Regional, Admin Assistant |
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The Reports page is the starting point for every report in the app. From here you can build a mailing list and print address labels, see how many magazines and leaflets went out, follow giving totals, review membership changes, plan services and check stock. This chapter walks through each report in turn.
Who can use this: Everyone who signs in can open the Reports page and every report on it. What you see inside each report depends on your account. National / Admin sees every church. Regional, Admin Assistant and Local see only the churches listed in their account’s church access. If your account has no churches set, most reports show a short message instead of figures. Ask an administrator to add the churches you are responsible for.
Click Reports in the left menu. The reports are shown as cards, grouped by topic. Each card has its name and a one-line description of what is behind it.
| Group | Cards |
|---|---|
| Membership | Membership Changes, Pilgrimage Applications |
| Attendance | Attendance Report, Scheduled Services |
| Events | Retreats and meal events (only for National / Admin and Regional) |
| Distribution & Mailing | Glory Magazine Distribution, Leaflet Distribution, Mailing Reports & Labels |
| Inventory & Orders | Regional Inventory, Order Report |
| Finance | Financial Reports |
Tip: To keep the Reports page open, hold Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Windows) while you click a card. The report opens in a new browser tab.
The Glory Magazine Distribution card opens a page titled Miracle Magazine Distribution. They are the same report.
The Retreats and meal events card opens the HQ Volunteers page on its reports tab, described in chapter 10. The Pilgrimage Applications card is covered in chapter 9.
This report builds the list of members who can receive the magazine by post: Miracle in English or Milagre in Portuguese. From that list you can export a spreadsheet, print address labels, and record who was sent which issue, so that nobody gets the same issue twice.
National / Admin sees members of every church. Everyone else sees members of their own churches only.
The page has these parts, from top to bottom:
Important: Always type the Issue before you print or log. The app uses the issue name to know who has already received it. With no issue typed, nobody is held back as already received.
Tip: If the label window does not open, your browser blocked it. Allow pop-ups for this site and click the label button again.
Sometimes a person who is normally left out, such as a transferred member, has asked to keep receiving the magazine.
This lasts only until you reload the page. It does not change the member’s record.
When you log a send, the copies come off the regional hub’s stock for each member, not off the member’s own church. To take them from one particular church instead, choose it in the from list in the logging bar. Stock never goes below zero. If a church is short, the confirmation warns you before anything is saved. See chapter 8 for the regional hubs.
If the stock line looks wrong, click recount from purchases. The app works out the count from what was received and sent, and corrects the hub’s number.
You can also record a single copy for one person, for example a magazine handed over at church. Open the member, and use the Magazine received box under the contact details.
The entry goes into the same record the Mailing list uses, so this person will not get a label for that issue. The history below the box shows each entry with Edit and Delete buttons. Logging takes the copies off stock, editing moves only the difference, and deleting puts the copies back.
Open it with the Glory Magazine Distribution card. This report shows how many Miracle and Milagre copies went out each month, by hand or by post, and to whom.
The report counts copies, not entries. One hand-out of five magazines counts as five.
This page records how many Who We Are and SDGs leaflets each church handed out. It has a form and a table for each leaflet.
The Who We Are Distributions table shows the current calendar year only. Both tables have a search box and filters.
Saving a distribution takes the leaflets off stock. They come off your church’s own shelf if it holds any, otherwise off your regional hub. If there were not enough, the message is red and says how many were short. Editing a quantity moves only the difference, and deleting a record puts the leaflets back.
Important: Change leaflet quantities only with the Edit and Delete links in these tables, not with Bulk actions. Only the forms and links on this page update the stock.
Open it with the Financial Reports card. This page brings together the giving totals for your churches.
The two tables have the filter buttons National, WC, NE and SE, for the whole country or one region.
Local accounts do not see the Global Giving Summary or the Giving by Region chart on this page.
How the numbers are counted: The giving reports total every donation record for the churches in scope. This includes donations still waiting in Imported — Pending Review, as well as purchase and trip payments such as sacred objects and pilgrimage. Use the Category filter to look at one kind of giving.
A donation is counted for the church where it was given, not the giver’s home church. If a gift appears under the wrong church or region, check its Local Church. Chapter 5 explains donations and deposits in full.
The grey Scope line tells you which churches are included. Each card has a coloured edge: green when giving went up, red when it went down, grey when it stayed the same. Amounts are rounded to whole dollars.
The YTD vs Prior Year tab compares this year so far with the same months of last year, and shows a month-by-month breakdown.
This report lists every join, transfer, withdrawal, exclusion and passing.
The change types include New Member, Transfer In, Transfer Out, Withdrawn, Member Excluded, Deceased and Reinstated.
Tip: When a member is saved as deceased with a Date of Passing, the app corrects the date of the matching Deceased change to match.
This page holds the attendance reports for church services, home services, home gatherings, online meetings and other activities. Each table shows the current calendar year. Chapter 4 explains how to fill in an attendance report.
The tables on this page are Church Service Reports, Home Service Reports, Home Gathering or Other Activities, Online Meetings or Studies, Other Activities and Scheduled Service Reports.
Online Meetings or Studies lists the online meetings and study groups your churches reported, with the counts of members, friends and first-time visitors who joined online.
This page lists services planned ahead, with the officiant, language and expected numbers.
The Scheduled Services table lists the newest services first. You can search it, filter it and export it. The chart Scheduled Service Reports shows the projected participants.
Regional Inventory is a read-only summary of the stock held at each church and the purchases behind those counts. Order Report lists members’ orders for sacred objects in three tables: Pending Orders, Concluded Orders and Cancelled Orders. Both are explained in chapter 8.
The Home page shows charts for your churches. Those that belong to this chapter are:
The giving figures on the Home page are counted in the same way as on Financial Reports.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Open any report | Reports in the left menu, then a card | Everyone |
| Print magazine address labels | Mailing Reports & Labels, Labels — Avery 5160 or 5162 | Everyone, for their churches |
| Record an issue as sent | Mailing Reports & Labels, Log send for these N | Everyone, for their churches |
| Record one copy for one member | Member page, Magazine received | Everyone, for their churches |
| See copies sent per month | Glory Magazine Distribution | Everyone, for their churches |
| Record leaflets handed out | Leaflet Distribution | Everyone, for their churches |
| See giving totals | Financial Reports | Everyone, for their churches; the summary and region chart are not shown to Local |
| Record a membership change | Membership Changes | Everyone, for their churches |
| Schedule a service | Scheduled Services | Everyone, for their churches |
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The Inventory part of the app keeps count of the magazines, leaflets, Prayer Books, Bibles and other items each church holds. Here you record deliveries from the supplier, move stock from one church to another, check counts against the records, and keep the list of items up to date. Two reports, Regional Inventory and Order Report, give you a summary of stock and of members’ orders.
Who can use this: Everyone who signs in can open the Inventory page. National / Admin sees the stock of every church. Regional, Admin Assistant and Local see the stock, purchases and orders of their own churches only. The list of items, Sacred Objects Catalogs, is the same for everyone.
Magazines and leaflets are not kept at every church. They are kept at four regional hubs, and the churches nearby are served from there:
| Hub | Also serves |
|---|---|
| Orlando (Southeast) | Atlanta, Dania Beach, Hispanic America - Peru |
| New Jersey (Northeast) | New England, Washington D.C. |
| Los Angeles (West Coast) | Chicago, Northern California, HQ |
| Hawaii | Hawaii keeps and uses its own stock |
When copies are handed out or posted, the app takes them from the church’s own shelf if it holds any. If it does not, the app takes them from the church in the same region that holds the most, which is normally the hub.
Each church has one On-Hand count for each item. These actions change it for you:
Stock never goes below zero.
Click Inventory in the left menu. The page has these parts:
Use this panel to move items from one church to another, for example from the Los Angeles hub to Chicago. Both counts change at once, and the move is recorded.
The From list shows only the churches you look after. The To list shows every church. If no church holds the item, the list reads “nobody holds any” in red.
Below the controls, a line shows the total on hand and the count at each church. Transfers of [item] lists the last 10 moves of the selected item.
Important: Always move stock with the Move button. Changing or deleting a move in a stock transfer table does not move the stock back.
“not tracked” means the church only has a starting count that someone typed in, with no purchases, moves or hand-outs on record. A red note lists any church that handed out more than it was recorded as receiving. To fix it, record the move that brought the stock there.
Hand-outs are counted only for the two magazines and the three leaflets.
Items below their reorder level are highlighted and marked “low”. The Total shown row at the bottom adds up the list.
The Sacred Objects Catalogs table lists every item the app keeps count of. You add and change items in the Move stock between churches panel.
An item can be deleted with Delete this item only if nothing has ever used it. If it has purchases, moves, mailings or stock, the app refuses. Rename it instead.
Record each delivery from the supplier as a purchase. When a purchase is saved as received, the app adds it to the church’s count for you.
The Status choices Pending and Submitted mean the order has not arrived yet. A purchase saved with one of these does not change the count. The Inventory Purchases table lists every purchase with its status.
Tip: Choose Received only when the goods are physically there. The stock is added the moment you save.
If a red message says the purchase was saved but the stock count was not updated, set the count by hand in the stock list.
When you record Who We Are or SDGs leaflets handed out on the Leaflet Distribution report, the app takes them off stock. They come off your church’s own shelf if it holds any, otherwise off your regional hub. Chapter 7 explains the forms.
Open it from Reports with the Regional Inventory card. It is a read-only summary:
To correct a number, use the Inventory page, not this report.
Open it from Reports with the Order Report card. It lists members’ orders for sacred objects in three tables, newest first:
Each order shows the date, member, item, quantity, unit price, order total, amount paid, balance, Payment Status (Unpaid, Partial or Paid in Full) and church.
Orders are created on the member’s Purchases tab. Payments are recorded on the donation form, as explained in chapter 5.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Move stock to another church | Inventory, Move stock between churches | Everyone, from their own churches |
| Check counts against the records | Inventory, Show the count for every church | Everyone, for their churches |
| Correct a count | Inventory, Show the whole stock list | Everyone, for their churches |
| Add or rename an item | Inventory, + Add an item to the list or edit | Everyone |
| Record a supplier purchase | Inventory, Add Inventory Purchase For Churches | Everyone, for their churches |
| See a stock summary | Reports, Regional Inventory | Everyone, for their churches |
| Mark an order delivered | Reports, Order Report, Edit | Everyone, for their churches |
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The Pilgrimages page is the one place to run a pilgrimage. Here you see every trip, who is going, who has paid, their flights and hotel rooms, the day-by-day schedule, and the printouts and lists that Headquarters in Japan asks for. Pilgrims register themselves on a public form (see chapter 11); everything they send arrives here.
Who can use this: National / Admin — everything, for every church. Regional — the pilgrims of their own churches only: change status, payment, certainty and hotel room, link pilgrims to members and payments, view and print. Regional never sees passports, medical details, emergency contacts or birth dates. Local and Admin Assistant — the roster is not available to these accounts.
Open Pilgrimages in the left menu (or the Pilgrimages tile on the Home page). At the top you see:
A trip is created with the form Add Pilgrimage Trip further down the Pilgrimages page. You give it a Trip Title, Country, Start Date, End Date, Status, Cost, Deposit Amount, Capacity and an optional Poster (shown on the public registration page). Existing trips are listed in the Manage trips table, where each trip has Edit, a details button (the eye) and Delete.
What each setting does:
When a trip’s End Date has passed, the app marks it Completed by itself. Completed trips move under Archived pilgrimages. Opening one shows the note “This pilgrimage is completed. Its registrations are archived and kept for the record.” You can still view, print and export everything on an archived trip.
The Roster tab shows everyone registered for the selected trip. It opens by default.
Summary cards across the top show the trip dates, the number of pilgrims and seats left, how many are confirmed and pending, how many have paid in full, the money collected so far, and how many have flights on file.
Filters. Click one of the chips to narrow the list: Everyone, Not confirmed, Unpaid, No flights or Not linked to a member. Use the search box to find a pilgrim by name, church, email or phone.
How the list is arranged. Pilgrims are grouped by church, with the number of pilgrims beside each church name. Pilgrims who are not yet placed in a church are listed under “Not placed in a church yet”. Inside each church, pilgrims are in order of their 立場 position (HQ head first, members last), then the oldest first.
Each row shows:
On a narrow screen, the Certainty, Flights and Hotel room columns are hidden.
Tip: If you reload the page in your browser, the roster may say you are not signed in, or stay empty. This happens when the page asks for the roster before your sign-in is ready. Click another item in the left menu, then click Pilgrimages again. You can also wait a moment and click it again.
Tip: When you change Payment to anything other than Unpaid, the app fills in today’s date as the payment date, if there was none.
If a connecting flight leaves before the previous flight lands, the app warns: “Connection leaves before the previous flight lands – check the times”.
Important: Passports, medical details, emergency contacts and birth dates are for National / Admin only. Regional accounts never receive them; they see the pilgrim’s age instead of the birth date.
You can set the status, payment or certainty of many pilgrims in one go.
Hotel rooms and member links cannot be changed this way. You can change up to 200 pilgrims at a time. If some ticked pilgrims are hidden by the filter, the bar tells you.
Every registration can be opened as a complete, printable application.
The printout is Letter size, upright. Each page shows the applicant’s name, the page number and the trip title at the bottom, and a section is never split across two pages. It ends with a signature line and an “Office use” box.
National / Admin also see and print the sections Passport and travel, Health, Emergency contact and Acknowledgements, marked “National office only”. Regional see a note that these details are held by the National office.
Who can use this: National / Admin only.
You can change every answer on a registration, add the name in katakana, set the pilgrim’s position, and enter or correct flights.
Good to know:
Each flight leg is a card with Direction (Going or Returning), From (airport), To (airport), Airline, Flight no., Departs (date and time), Arrives (date and time), a Ticket bought tick, and the buttons Look up times and Remove.
If the flight is not found, a red note explains why and offers Search Google instead. Click it to look the flight up on Google and type the times yourself. If a flight number makes several stops that day, the note asks you to check it is the right one.
Tip: Typing the airline code with the number, such as LA 801, always works.
Registrations from the public form are not linked to a member record. Linking a pilgrim files them under the member’s church and region, lets you attach their payments, and fills their empty answers from the member record.
Regional can only link to members of their own churches.
Who can use this: National / Admin only.
Pilgrimage payments are recorded first as donations on the Giving page, with a pilgrimage category. You then link them to the registration. The amount paid is the total of the linked donations, and the payment status is worked out from the trip’s cost and deposit:
To remove a link, click Unlink. The donation itself is kept.
Tip: You can also link a payment from the Giving page: when a donation has a pilgrimage category, choose the registration under Apply to pilgrimage registration. See chapter 5.
Who can use this: National / Admin only.
The roster prints on Letter paper, sideways (landscape), as one list of all pilgrims — not split by church — in order of position, then the oldest first. Each pilgrim shows the name in katakana and letters, position and church, age and phone, language, status and payment, how sure they are to attend, every flight leg with local times (tickets not bought are marked in red), and where they stay. Passports and medical details are never printed on the roster.
The Schedule tab is the trip’s day-by-day itinerary. Activities are grouped by day, each with its time, type, details, address, transportation, phone, notes and link. Everyone who can open the roster can read and print it; only National / Admin can add, change or delete activities.
To change an activity, click Edit beside it. To remove it, click Edit, then Delete, and confirm.
The Flights tab shows every flight leg of every pilgrim on the trip. Flights are entered on the public form or in the application editor; you cannot change them on this tab.
Tip: The filter chip you chose on the Roster tab also applies here. If the Flights tab looks short, go back to the Roster tab and click Everyone.
It prints sideways on Letter paper, as one list of all pilgrims in order of position then age, one line per leg, with tentative tickets marked. Then come the flights shared by several pilgrims (To Japan and Home from Japan), and, when showing all flights, the pilgrims with no flights yet.
The file has one line per flight leg, with church, pilgrim, phone, email, direction, airline, flight, airports, dates and times, ticket, status, attendance and stay. With All flights, pilgrims without flights are added at the end.
Important: The exported file contains email addresses and phone numbers. Keep it private and delete it when you no longer need it.
Who can use this: National / Admin only. The list contains allergies and health conditions.
Before a service, Headquarters in Japan asks for a list of who is coming, in Japanese and in their own layout. The Japan list (Excel) button builds it for you. It is on the Roster tab and on the Flights tab.
The workbook has two sheets:
Pilgrims are in the order 本部長, 副本部長, 理事, 教区長, 評議員, 教会長, 信徒, and members by age, oldest first. Three blank rows are added at the end of each sheet. The list always includes everyone on the trip, whatever filter is chosen on the roster.
Tip: The first time, the button needs an internet connection to prepare Excel.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Create or edit a trip | Pilgrimages → Add Pilgrimage Trip / Manage trips | National / Admin |
| Open a completed trip | Pilgrimages → Archived pilgrimages | National / Admin, Regional |
| Change status, payment, certainty, room | Roster tab, drop-downs on the row | National / Admin, Regional |
| Change several pilgrims at once | Roster tab, tick rows → Apply to | National / Admin, Regional |
| View or print an application | View → Print / Save as PDF | National / Admin, Regional |
| Edit an application, katakana, position, flights | View → Edit → Save changes | National / Admin |
| Link a pilgrim to a member | Link to member | National / Admin, Regional |
| Fill empty answers from member records | Fill blanks from member records | National / Admin |
| Link a payment | Open the row → + Link a payment | National / Admin, Regional |
| Delete a registration | Delete | National / Admin |
| Print the roster | Print roster | National / Admin, Regional |
| Add or change the itinerary | Schedule → + Add an activity | National / Admin |
| Print flights or export them | Flights → Print flights / Export to Excel | National / Admin, Regional |
| List for Headquarters in Japan | Japan list (Excel) | National / Admin |
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The Events page runs two kinds of events. A retreat is a training period at Headquarters: people apply to serve as volunteers, you approve them, and the app plans who does which duty each day, where everyone sleeps, and what the kitchen cooks and buys. A meal event is a single meal or a short event — a picnic, a lunch, a fellowship meal — with only the kitchen and a report.
Who can use this: National / Admin — everything. Regional — the applicants from their own churches (read, record the endorsement, write notes), the daily board to read, and meal events for their own churches. Health notes and emergency contacts are never shown to Regional. Local and Admin Assistant — Events is not available to these accounts.
Click Events in the left menu, under Tools. The path at the top of the page reads HQ Volunteers. The first screen asks “What would you like to open?” and shows two boxes:
Current and coming events are listed first, marked “now” or “coming”. Past events are folded away; click the line with the number of past events to see them. Use + Meal event to create a meal event. National / Admin create retreats in Setup (the button + Retreat (in Setup) takes you there). Back to Home returns to the Home page.
Inside an event you see ← All events to go back, a drop-down to switch to another retreat or meal event, + Meal event, and the tabs:
The Applications tab lists everyone who has applied to serve during the retreat. Most applications come from the public volunteer form (see chapter 11); staff can also enter one.
At the top, three counts show the applications waiting for a decision, the number approved out of the places available, and those waitlisted or declined. Below them:
The list on the left shows each applicant with their dates, member match, status and church. Approved people show their team. Click a row to open the application on the right: church, contact, the dates on site, the areas they would like to serve in, experience, lodging, endorsement, when and how it was sent, who decided, and Notes. National / Admin also see health, diet and the emergency contact.
When someone applies on the public form, the app looks for them among the members:
Before a volunteer is approved, their minister or regional leader endorses them. While none is recorded, the application shows “Waiting” under Endorsement.
Both National / Admin and Regional can record endorsements and write Notes.
Who can use this: National / Admin only.
Instead of approving, you can click Waitlist or Decline. After any decision, Reopen puts the application back in review. Delete removes it. If the retreat is full, the app refuses the approval and asks you to waitlist the person or raise the capacity in Setup.
National / Admin can also change the person’s dates on site.
Tip: If your email program does not open, click Copy the text and paste it into a new email.
A person can have only one application for the same training period.
The Daily board shows who does what on each day of the retreat. Duties are worked out by the app from the teams; you never type them in. Each day the teams rotate to a different duty area, so the work is shared fairly. Kitchen and Household Cleaning are always covered first. When fewer than four people are on site, the day is a “Reduced crew” day: one person in each always-covered area, and everyone takes a second duty.
Choose By day or By person.
By day shows:
By person — choose a volunteer to see their area and tasks for every day of their stay.
The Coverage tab is a calendar of the whole retreat. Each day is coloured: fine, reduced crew, or red when no one is on site. Each day also shows how many people are in the Kitchen and Household Cleaning. A headline at the top sums it up, for example “Kitchen and Household Cleaning are covered all 7 days”. Click a day to open it on the Daily board.
The Kitchen tab plans the meals and the shopping. It has seven parts: Menu, Shopping list, Recipes, In season, Pantry & fridge, Budget and Prices. Everyone who can open Events can read the kitchen. National / Admin change it for retreats; Regional change it only for their own churches’ meal events.
Important: Headquarters buys no dairy. Dairy items are left off the shopping list and flagged in recipes.
Menu. One row per day with the number of people eating (volunteers on site plus staff, or the guests of a meal event) and a recipe for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. You can type a different number of servings to override the head count.
Shopping list. Built from the menu for the dates in From and To (a week by default). For each item you see whether to buy, buy more or whether it is in stock, how much the meals use, how much you have, how many packages to buy, and the price at each store. Totals per store and the cheapest store for each item are shown. Choose the view Everything, By recipe or Restocking. The list also shows items left off because they are dairy, and items to check in the pantry.
National / Admin can click Clear the list to remove items added by hand or from recipe cards that are not yet bought.
Recipes. The list of recipes, how many each serves, whether it is on the menu and whether it is in season. Open a recipe to read it, Print it, Edit it, see what it costs, or Add to the shopping list for a number of people.
In season. The crops that grow in the garden in the chosen month. Click a crop to add it to the shopping list.
Pantry & fridge. What is on hand in the pantry, fridge and freezer, with the minimum to keep, what was used in the last 30 days, and whether each item is OK, low or out. National / Admin record Count, Bought, Used and Thrown out. Meals take their ingredients out of the pantry automatically on their day. A meal event at a church uses that church’s own pantry, never Headquarters’.
Budget. The budget (by default $30 a person a day for a retreat, $10 a guest for a meal event), the estimated cost, the actual amount spent from receipts, and what is left. Click Add receipt to record a receipt with its date, store, total and a note.
Prices. The price list, with a column per store. Ralphs prices and US averages fill in automatically; prices for other stores are typed by hand with + price in that store’s column. Look up at Ralphs searches Ralphs for an item, and Refresh all Ralphs prices updates them all.
Who can use this: National / Admin — at Headquarters or any church. Regional — at their own churches only.
To change it later, open the event and click Edit event. The same form has Delete event.
A meal event has only Kitchen and Reports. It has no applications or duties and never appears on the public volunteer form.
The Reports tab sums up an event. Regional see their own churches only.
Who can use this: National / Admin only.
Setup holds everything the rest of Events is built on.
The retreat now appears on the public volunteer form.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Open a retreat or meal event | Events → chooser | National / Admin, Regional |
| Record an endorsement | Applications → Record endorsement | National / Admin, Regional |
| Approve, waitlist or decline | Applications → checklist → Approve | National / Admin |
| Send the approval email | Write the approval email → Mark as sent | National / Admin |
| Enter an application for someone | Applications → + New application | National / Admin |
| See or print today’s duties | Daily board → Print this day | National / Admin, Regional |
| Check the whole period is covered | Coverage | National / Admin, Regional |
| Plan meals and shopping | Kitchen → Menu, Shopping list | National / Admin; Regional for own meal events |
| Create a meal event | + Meal event → Create the event | National / Admin, Regional (own churches) |
| Print an event report | Reports → Print report | National / Admin, Regional |
| Open a new retreat | Setup → Training periods | National / Admin |
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Three pages of the app are open to everyone, with no login: Pilgrimage Registration, Volunteer Application and the Attendance Kiosk. You share their links with members and friends, or open them on a tablet at a church table. These pages show no member records, so they are safe to leave open in public. The two registration forms also hide the app’s menu. What people send arrives in the app, where staff take it from there.
Who can use this: Anyone can fill in the public pages; no account is needed. The results are handled by staff: pilgrimage registrations by National / Admin and Regional (chapter 9), volunteer applications by National / Admin and Regional (chapter 10), and check-ins as described in chapter 4.
| Page | Link |
|---|---|
| Pilgrimage Registration | https://wcmusa.knack.com/manager-v2-app#pilgrimage-registration |
| Volunteer Application | https://wcmusa.knack.com/manager-v2-app#volunteer-application |
| Attendance Kiosk | https://wcmusa.knack.com/manager-v2-app#attendance-kiosk |
Tip: The address of the volunteer form is also shown on the Applications tab in Events, ready to copy.
This is the form pilgrims use to register for a pilgrimage. It lists every trip whose status is Open. If no trip is open, the page says “There is no pilgrimage open for registration right now.”
The page has the heading Pilgrimage Registration. It explains that each person travelling fills in their own form, and that passport and medical details are seen only by the National office.
The poster. If the trip has a poster, it is shown whole beside the form, or above the form on a phone. To add or change the poster, edit the trip on the Pilgrimages page and use Poster (shown on the public registration page) (see chapter 9).
The form has numbered sections:
First name, last name, a valid email, date of birth, the trip and all four acknowledgements are required. The form says what is missing.
Flights as a journey. The flights section has two parts, “Going to the pilgrimage” and “Returning home”, each starting with one flight. + Add a connecting flight adds the next leg, starting where the last one landed. As the person types, the layover time appears, with a warning if a flight leaves before the previous one lands. Someone who has not bought tickets yet ticks I haven’t bought my flights yet and sends them to the church office later.
Because the page hides the app’s menu, you can leave it open on a tablet or laptop at a church table and let people register one after another.
Important: Each email address can register only once for the same trip. If family members share one email, only the first can register online; ask the others to use their own email, or contact the National office.
Every registration appears at once on the Roster tab of the Pilgrimages page, as Pending, Unpaid and “not linked”. Then staff:
See chapter 9 for each step.
This is the form people use to apply to serve at Headquarters during a training period (a retreat). It lists the periods that are accepting applications. If none is open, the page says “No training period is open for applications right now.”
The page has the heading Serve at Headquarters. The sections are:
A person can apply only once for the same period. The page never shows which member record the person was matched with.
The application appears on the Applications tab in Events. The app matches it to a member by email or phone, asks staff to confirm when only the name matches, or makes a new member record as a Friend. Staff then record the endorsement, approve the volunteer and send the approval email. See chapter 10.
The Attendance Kiosk lets members check themselves in at a service, usually on an iPad at the church entrance. A member scans their card’s QR code or searches for their name, and the check-in is recorded for that church. Chapter 4 explains how to set it up and use it.
To open the kiosk straight on one church, add the church to the link,
for example
https://wcmusa.knack.com/manager-v2-app#attendance-kiosk?church=ORLANDO.
Without it, the kiosk finds the nearest church from the device’s
location, or asks which church to use.
Check-ins appear in the church’s attendance like any other.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Share the pilgrimage form | #pilgrimage-registration link |
Anyone |
| Register several people at one table | Register another person | Anyone |
| Change the poster on the form | Pilgrimages → edit the trip → Poster | National / Admin |
| Handle new registrations | Pilgrimages → Roster | National / Admin, Regional |
| Share the volunteer form | #volunteer-application link |
Anyone |
| Handle volunteer applications | Events → Applications | National / Admin, Regional |
| Open the kiosk for one church | #attendance-kiosk?church= link |
Anyone |
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The Settings page keeps the list of churches up to date: each church’s name, region and address. The address also places the church on the map, so the app can find each member’s nearest church. This chapter also explains how church access decides what each account sees, and where to change your own name, email and password.
Who can use this: Only National / Admin can open the Settings page and change the church list. Regional, Admin Assistant and Local see the message “Only administrators may change the church list.” Everyone can change their own name, email and password.
Click Settings in the left menu. If the app asks you to sign in, sign in with your own account. Only National / Admin accounts are let in.
The page shows the heading Churches, with a line telling you how many churches are on file and how many have no location. A church without a location cannot be anyone’s nearest church on the map.
The table has these columns:
Each row has an Edit button.
If the app cannot find the address, the message reads “Saved, but that address could not be found, so it will not appear on the map.” The church is saved, but shows not located.
If the address is right but still not found, for example a rural address, you can place the church yourself:
Coordinates you type yourself always take priority over the address lookup.
Tip: To find a church’s coordinates, look up the address in an online map and copy the latitude and longitude it shows.
Churches cannot be deleted. Members, donations, reports and deposits are all linked to them, and removing a church would leave those records without a church. When a church closes, leave it in the list.
The Region list offers the regions that already exist. There is no screen in the app to add a new region. Ask your app administrator if a region is needed.
Each account has a list of churches it looks after, called its church access. This decides what the account sees all through the app:
Every page in the left menu opens for every signed-in user. What changes from one account to another is the information inside.
Accounts and their church access are set up by your app administrator. There is no screen for them in the app. If you see the message that your account has no church access, or you are missing a church you look after, ask your administrator.
Everyone can change their own details on the Account Settings page.
Click Account Settings at the top right of any page, next to your name and Log Out. Chapter 1 explains the steps.
The settings for importing online donations, such as the last Zeffy and Stripe sync times, are on the Import Donations page. They are explained in chapter 6.
| Task | Where | Who |
|---|---|---|
| See the list of churches | Settings | National / Admin |
| Add a church | Settings, Add a church | National / Admin |
| Change a church’s name, region or address | Settings, Edit | National / Admin |
| Place a church on the map by hand | Settings, Edit, coordinates column | National / Admin |
| Add a region, or change an account’s church access | Ask your app administrator | Administrator |
| Change your own name, email or password | Account Settings | Everyone |