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Deactivating or Removing a User's Access

Why removing access deactivates rather than deletes, and what happens if you re-add the same person later.

Deactivating vs. deleting

Removing someone's access (as an admin, a group leader, or any assigned role) deactivates the relevant assignment rather than deleting the underlying user account, this preserves an audit trail of who had what access and when.

Re-adding the same person later

Reactivating a previously removed assignment for the same person and role picks back up rather than creating a duplicate record, Sermfy checks for an existing (even if inactive) assignment first.

If someone is leaving a specific responsibility but staying at the church in another capacity (a departing Branch Admin who remains a regular member), only remove the specific role assignment, don't deactivate their overall member record.

What happens immediately

Access changes take effect on their next request, permission checks run fresh on the server each time rather than relying on a cached session that could take a while to catch up.