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How Sera Flags an Attendance Decline

Explains how Sera detects and surfaces an overall attendance decline across your church.

Spotting a decline

Beyond individual absences, Sera also watches your overall attendance trend and surfaces a card when it sees a decline across your church rather than just one person, this is a broader signal than the consecutive-absence alerts, which are about specific members.

From insight to action

The card comes with a View Attendance button so you can look at the underlying numbers yourself, and a "Why am I seeing this?" panel explaining what data drove the finding, so you're not just told there's a decline, you can see it.

Best practice

When this card appears, look at the numbers behind it before deciding what to do, a decline across a few weeks around a holiday reads differently than a steady multi-month slide, and the underlying data will tell you which one you're looking at.