Church Settings & Locations

Church Settings

The global configuration for your church: name, default timezone, default currency, minor age cutoff, and your church logo.

Minor age cutoff — the age below which a member is treated as a minor throughout the app (Guardians on their Members record, Kids Check-in eligibility). Leave it blank to use the default of 18.
Default currency — used across Giving & Finance when a transaction doesn’t specify its own. Search-as-you-type over the full list of world currencies; leave it blank if you don’t need currency formatting yet.
Logo — upload an image here to have it available as a one-click insert in the Announcements composer, and to personalize your church’s identity in the app.
Public prayer request form — turns on a public page where anyone can send your church a prayer request. See Prayer Requests.
Public giving page — turns on a public page with your church’s ways to give (bank details, PIX, alias, payment links). See Online Giving Page.
Count who opens Announcements emails — adds a tiny invisible image to each announcement email so Recent sends can show how many were opened. Off by default; the number is approximate.
Theme colour — also shown as a thin bar on top of your announcement emails.
Phone country code — your country’s dialling code, numbers only (54 Argentina, 55 Brazil, 52 Mexico, 44 UK…). HolyCRM adds it to phone numbers saved without one when it opens a WhatsApp chat, for example when asking volunteers to confirm.

Only Administrators and Coordinators can change these settings.

The Share the app card at the top of Church Settings has a link and a QR code that anyone in your church can use to install HolyCRM on their phone. Show the QR code on screen during a service, print it in your bulletin, or send the link in your church’s group chat. People scan it, follow the steps for their phone, and then log in as usual. Use Download QR for a print-quality image.

Locations

If your church meets in more than one place — multiple campuses, an outdoor venue, a rented hall for a special event — set each one up as a Location with its own timezone. This matters most if your locations are in different timezones: every event, ministry activity and rota anchors its actual time to its location’s timezone, so schedules stay correct no matter what timezone you personally view the calendar in (see Calendar).

A location can also have its own default currency, overriding the church-wide default for transactions entered there — useful if, say, one campus collects offerings in a different currency than your main church account uses.

Fill in a location’s Address, Phone and Email and it appears automatically on your Church Website’s Visit Us section — with its own card once your church has more than one location with an address set.

Locations don’t limit who sees what. Permissions are set per church and role (see Users, Roles & Permissions), so Administrators and Coordinators see every location. To keep a campus leader to their own people, give them a Volunteer or Member login linked to their member record and make them the leader of that campus’s small groups or ministries: they see only the teams they lead, in My Teams.