How check-in feeds your attendance records

The quiet payoff of check-in is what happens in the web office without anyone lifting a pen: every tap at a kiosk fills in the register and updates your attendance records, exactly as if an administrator had ticked each name by hand.

How the two connect

1. When someone is checked in at a kiosk, or ticked on a leader’s phone from the register, the attendance record for that event is written automatically. There’s no separate step, no Monday-morning data entry.
2. Attendance is tracked per group, and any event can be added to any group’s attendance, which matters when the event doesn’t live in the group: your crèche group can track attendance against the main Sunday service events, and check-in fills those registers automatically.
3. When a check-in closes, group members who never registered are marked Absent, so the record is complete both ways: who came, and who didn’t.
4. From then on it’s ordinary attendance data: open the group and run a register or an attendance chart to see the pattern over weeks and months. Recording attendance and seeing attendance over time cover the reporting side.

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Good to know

• This works with zero hardware: a small group leader logging in on their phone and ticking the register is using exactly the same machinery as a four-kiosk Sunday operation, and the attendance records come out identical.
• Complete records are also the safeguarding backbone: the audit trail of who was checked in, out, and by whom is kept alongside the attendance itself.
• The setup guide covers linking groups to events via the event’s Check-in Groups tab, which is what tells check-in which registers to fill.