Chat
Chat is conversation inside your church app. It covers direct messages between two people and group messages for everyone in a group, and it runs on the groups you already have in Hubb. Your church switches it on group by group, so you decide where conversations happen.
| Why we built chat into your church app rather than leaving churches on WhatsApp, and the one thing we were most careful about. |
| Switching it on is the easy part. Here is how to introduce chat to your congregation, which group to start with, and the questions people will ask. |
| The quickest route from nothing to a group of people chatting in your church app, in six steps, with a link to the detailed guide for each. |
| Chat is conversation inside your own church app, built on the groups you already have. Here is what it does and what your church controls. |
| Chat is enabled group by group, so you choose exactly where conversations happen. You can allow one-to-one messages, a group conversation, or both. |
| Chat lives inside your church app. Here is how to get the app, allow notifications, and find your conversations. |
| Your Chat list shows everyone you can message, so there is no address book to search through and nothing to set up. Here is how to start a conversation and post in a group. |
| Messaging works through your Hubb groups, so group membership decides who can reach whom. Here is how it works out in practice. |
| A poll settles a date or a preference in a group without twenty separate replies. Here is how to create one, who can see the votes, and how to end it. |
| Conversations between adults are private to the people in them. Messages to and from children are different, and are permanently recorded for your Safeguarding Lead. Here is exactly who can see what. |
| A busy group does not have to mean a busy phone. You can mute a group chat for eight hours or permanently, without leaving the group, and unmute it the same way. |
| In a group chat you can see exactly who has read a message and who has not, which is useful for a rota, an event team or anything with a deadline. |
| Chat can be switched off at any time, either straight away or on a date you set. Nothing is deleted when you do. |
| Almost always one of a handful of things: the app, your login, the app version, whether chat is switched on for a group you are in, or whether you are really in that group. |