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Attendance

Record service attendance and track trends

• Adding a First-Time Visitor During Check-In

  Capture a new guest's details, including where they live and who invited them, right at the point of check-in.

• Checking In a Returning Visitor

  How Sermfy finds a visitor who's been to your church before, so you're not re-entering their details every time.

• Checking People In: QR, Camera Scan, and Kiosk Mode

  The three ways to check members and visitors into a service, and when to use each one.

• Ending a Service Session

  Why formally closing a session matters, beyond just walking away from the check-in screen.

• Filtering People, Groups, Events, and Communication by Date

  Use the same Year, Month, date-range, and Category filters across every overview page in Sermfy.

• Headcount vs Individual Check-In: Which to Use

  The trade-off between a quick single number and full per-person accuracy.

• Recording Headcount Without Double-Counting Visitors

  Learn how headcount recording got faster and stopped tallying visitors more than once.

• Speeding Through Check-In and Headcount Setup

  See why Check-In and Headcount setup now load instantly with a skeleton view instead of a blank screen.

• Understanding Attendance Rate for Registration-Required Events

  Learn how attendance rate is now calculated against actual registrants so the figure never shows above 100%.

• Understanding the Check-In Screen: Unchecked, Checked, and History

  What each of the three Check-In tabs shows, and how the floating Save bar works.

• Why a Member's Attendance Eligibility Starts at Their Record Creation Date

  Understand why a backdated Date Joined value no longer skews a new member's attendance-rate calculations.