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Understanding Branch Codes and Numbers

How Sermfy auto-generates identifiers for every branch, and why you can't set them manually.

How a branch code is built

A branch code combines the first letter of your church's member prefix with "B" and a 4-digit number, for example DB0001. Branch number is a separate 2-digit sequential value.

Why this is automatic

Auto-generating these avoids collisions and keeps every branch's identifier consistent with your church's own member-numbering convention, rather than staff needing to invent and remember a unique code for each new location.

You can rename a branch's display name freely, that never changes its underlying code or number, so any reports or member codes already referencing that branch stay stable even after a rename.

Best practice

Don't try to make branch codes "meaningful" by renaming branches to force a particular code, the generated code isn't meant to be read as an abbreviation, your branch's actual name is what staff and reports should rely on for recognition.