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Configuration and staff
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Tutorial · Configuration and staff
Change plan or billing interval
Move to a different plan, schedule a downgrade or cancel it, and choose between monthly and yearly billing.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Prepare the summer schedule by duplicating an existing one
Copy a schedule with all its times, adapt it to the new period and activate it when it is ready.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Add the calendar to your device
Copy the community’s public calendar link and use it in your chosen calendar app without exposing it to other people.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Add an extra pack
Raise a single plan limit, such as events or notices, with a recurring or one-time pack, without changing plan.
3 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Cancel or reactivate the subscription
Cancel the paid plan without losing the period already paid, and reactivate it while you still can.
2 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Enable a group module
Review access and confirm activation of Choir or Convocations for an active group.
5 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Switch community in a pastoral unit
Use the Calendar selector in Bulk Operations to review the correct community, and check the destinations for new appointments separately.
6 minGuide · Configuration and staff
Connect calendars and external channels
Open integrations, connect a supported service and verify sync status and scope.
12 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Configure the memorial register
Set visibility, initial consent values and templates used by the memorial register.
8 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Configure event registration fields
Create a reusable question, choose who should answer it and attach it to an event registration form.
12 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Configure custom person fields
Switch on sections such as Residenza, prepare a new field with type, section and visibility and understand what becomes required, also for Excel imports.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Configure an after-school edition
Review the edition identity, period and weekly schedule before saving changes.
6 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Configure the bulletin period
Define which days “this week” covers in bulletin blocks and save the setting for future issues.
5 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Check integration status
Read the summary, filter services and verify Google Calendar details.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Create and set up a pastoral unit
Group the communities you lead into a pastoral unit: choose the mode, include at least two communities and activate the add-on to start working.
5 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Disable an automation
Stop scheduled runs while keeping configuration and history, then verify the saved state before leaving detail.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Disconnect an integration
Stop the Google Calendar connection without confusing it with deletion of imported events.
4 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Distinguish Bulk Operations and Merged mode
Recognize the pastoral-unit mode and verify whether data and new records stay with member communities or belong to the merged identity.
7 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Manage pastoral-unit workspace context
Move between a single-community workspace and a pastoral unit, recognize the current context and verify where a switch takes you.
6 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Add and edit places of worship
Create the page of the community’s churches, chapels and oratories and keep address, photos, accessibility and public visibility up to date.
5 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Manage notification preferences
Enable or disable individual alerts and choose between in-app, push, and email delivery.
6 minGuide · Configuration and staff
Manage communities in a pastoral unit
Separate shared settings from local ones and use the switcher before every change.
12 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Import an iCal calendar
Upload an .ics file or read an iCal URL, select events, and apply place, type and colour before importing.
8 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Subscribe to your personal calendar
Choose the layers of My calendar, generate your personal webcal link and add it to your phone; revoke it if it ends up in the wrong hands.
5 minGuide · Configuration and staff
How the monthly appointment allowance counts
Understand how many places each one-off or recurring appointment takes, when the count resets and what happens with imports and syncs.
8 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Change pastoral-unit communities
Update the name, description and members of a Bulk Operations unit while keeping at least two manageable communities.
8 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Edit the community profile
Update name, description, logo, public address and appearance: everything believers see of the community in the app and on the public page.
5 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Organise after-school groups
Review membership and ratios, then prepare a new group without saving it in the demo.
6 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Set Google Calendar rules for place, type and colour
Have MiaChiesa assign church, type and colour automatically to events imported from Google Calendar, based on words in the title, description or address.
5 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Resolve a Google Calendar conflict
Compare two versions of an appointment, choose the source and verify the result.
6 minGuide · Configuration and staff
Bulk Operations or Merged: what changes
Compare the two pastoral unit modes feature by feature: public page, parishioners, content, collaborators and donations.
6 minTutorial · Configuration and staff
Sync Google Calendar
Start a manual sync and check its summary before treating it as complete.
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