Adding a New Member
Required fields, duplicate checking, and what happens right after a member is added.
Where to start
From Membership, choose Add Member and fill in the required fields, name, phone, and any additional details your church tracks, gender, member type, branch, and so on.
Duplicate checking
Sermfy checks for an existing member with the same phone number before saving, to help catch accidental duplicate records, if you believe a flagged duplicate is actually a data error, double-check the exact phone number as typed versus what's on file.
Add a profile photo at creation time if you have one on hand, it saves a step later and means the member shows correctly everywhere from the very first search result.
After adding
A newly added member is immediately searchable across the app, in Groups, Life Events, Follow-Up, and anywhere else a member picker appears.
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