ICF Church

Some information behind the scenes:
We migrated our Check-in Church server to our new infrastructure. This allows us to more easily manage the check-in service with our standard tools and provide a stable and secure environment.

We also tackled some minor bugs and upgraded the application to PHP 7.4. This leads to some performance improvements.

If you miss any features or have any ideas to improve the service please let us know! :-)

This release is about bug fixing and small improvements.

This release finalises the new person/group structure. We also added some nice and helpful new features. Some highlights:

• Password reset is finally here!! ;-)
• On a closed station you now see when it opens next.

We also made a lot of improvements in the background to make Check-in Church more robust.

In this beta release we made some preparations for the next release. We are changing the way persons are organised. Until now, a person could only have ONE age group (in Elvanto it's called "demography"). But a person could also exist in multiple categories (see here: https://checkin.church/app/import/group/). So the problem was, that if you have multiple categories or so called data sources (e.g. a category for the Sunday service and one for a special event) that person had the same age group within both categories. For many events, thats a limitation. An organiser what's to have different "age groups" for special events (e.g. based on number of registrations etc.). Hope you understand the problem... :-)

The new structure is like this:

• A person is always part of at least one (or multiple) group/s (within Elvanto this is the family)
• A person can have different age groups (within Elvanto this is the demography) in each group.

Example: Group: Family Miller Category: Sunday Service Person 1: John - Age Group: Little Stars Person 2: Ben - Age Group: Baby World

Group: Family Miller Category: Kids Conference Person 1: John - Age Group: Little Rockers Person 2: Ben - Age Group: Baby World

This release includes some improvements in the gateway registration process. After registering a new gateway all available printers are automatically linked to this gateway (only if only one is available...). There is another new feature to download a CSV file with an overview of all checked-in people. And some more improvements and bug fixing has been done in the background to make the whole check-in a little bit better... ;-) Please be aware, that we are going to introduce a simple pricing model from January 2020 to cover our costs for support, infrastructure and futher development. We are going to announce the prices very soon.

This release brings a few bugfixes in different areas and two brand new settings! 🚀 The "Note" button on the check-in view is now disabled by default. You can enable it again via settings. The other new setting allows you to disable the "Print Extra Label" button.

As always feedbacks and ideas are always welcomed!

This release contains some nice improvements. Check out the new stats on the start page or the separate stats page. This gives you some interesting insights about your church and kids ministry. There were also some bug fixes going on in the background and we are working hard to make the cloud solution as stable as possible!

A small bugfix release at the beginning of the new week. This release fixes some annoying things coming from the local to cloud migration. Have a great week! And let us know if there is anything which doesn't work as expected!

We are very happy to announce, that we can now provide our kids check-in solution as a service in the cloud! The days of local installations are gone... Our check-in solution has been in production since we moved into our new building, the Samsung Hall in Zurich. Since then many thousand kids have been checked-in and have been provided a safe environment.