How Offerings Link to Events and Services

Linking an offering to an event

When recording an offering, you can attach it to an Event, giving you a clear picture of how much came in around a specific gathering, whether that's a Sunday service, a fundraiser, or a one-time outreach.

Narrowing it down to a specific service

If the event has multiple services or sessions, a Service field appears once you've chosen the Event, and it only lists that event's own services, so you're never picking from an unrelated list. For a recurring event like a weekly Sunday service, every past and upcoming session shows up here, not just one fixed date, so you can link an offering to the exact session it was collected at.

Event and Service are hierarchical, not separate choices

An offering can be linked to an Event alone, to an Event plus one of its services, or to neither at all, but it can never be linked to a Service without its parent Event, the Service is always a more specific layer inside the Event, not a standalone option.

The Service field stays hidden until you pick an Event, if you don't see it, that's expected, choose the Event first and the matching services will appear.

Best practice

When an offering is tied to a specific gathering, take the extra step to link the exact service or session it was collected at, not just the parent event, it makes it much easier later to compare giving across individual services rather than lumping an entire event together.