Trellis

More than one campus

Add a campus, pick which campus you're working on, put people and groups at a campus, and limit someone's roles to their campus.

A church that meets in more than one place keeps one Trellis: one set of people, one team and one bill, with each campus able to see its own. Admins add campuses. With only one campus, Trellis doesn't mention campuses anywhere.

Add a campus

  1. Open Church settings, then Campuses.
  2. Press Add a campus.
  3. The first time, name Where you meet now too, so Trellis knows what to call the campus you already have.
  4. Give the new campus a Name and a Short name of up to 12 letters. The short name goes on chips and printed name tags.
  5. Add an Address and Time zone if you like. Leave the address blank for an online campus.
  6. Press Add the campus.

When you add your second campus, everyone and everything you already have stays at the first one: people, households, groups, serving teams, services, and check-in rooms and times. Move any of them to the new campus afterwards.

Campuses cost nothing extra. See Pricing.

Pick a campus

With two campuses, a campus picker sits under your church's name in the menu (at the top of the Menu sheet on a phone). It reads All campuses or one campus's name. Staff, Finance, Communications and Serving see it. Your pick stays for this church on this device.

Pick a campus and these narrow to it, with an "At Cypress" chip by the title:

  • People: that campus's people, and anyone with no campus yet.
  • Groups: that campus's groups, and those for every campus. A leader's own list of groups is never narrowed.
  • Serving: the overview, the calendar and the areas.
  • Worship planning: the services.
  • Check-in: settings and Today.
  • Giving: the year's total and recent gifts are that campus's gifts only.
  • Registration: the events.

On All campuses, each list says which campus every row is at. Something new starts at the campus you've picked.

Every campus

Groups, serving areas and days, events and funds can be for Every campus: a group the whole church is invited to, a team that serves at all of them, a church-wide event or fund. They show at every campus.

A person can't be at every campus. They have one home campus, or none yet.

Move a person or a group

  • A person: open them, press Edit, pick their Campus, and save. Staff can do this.
  • A group: open it, then Profile, pick its Campus, and save. Staff can do this.

A group's members don't all have to be at its campus. Someone can belong to a group at another campus and keep their own home campus.

What each part does with campuses

  • Find a group: members get a Campus filter, starting at their own campus. It shows that campus's groups and those for every campus.
  • Check-in: every room and time is at a campus, and a child checks in to rooms at that campus. A staffed station asks Which campus is this station at? the first time, and shows Change campus after that. Name tags print the campus's short name before the time, for example "CYP 10:30". See The check-in station.
  • Giving: the give page asks Which campus?. Left blank, the gift goes to the giver's home campus. A fund can be for one campus. On All campuses, a By campus card splits the year. See Gifts and funds.
  • Communications: a list can be narrowed by Campus, so you can write to one campus's people.
  • Lighthouse AI: each count is for a campus, so Count asks which one. Forecast is for every campus together. See Count and import past counts.

Limit someone to their campus

An admin can limit someone's roles to one campus, or to a few. They then see those campuses' people, groups, teams, services, check-in and gifts, and anything shared by every campus. Someone limited to one campus doesn't get a campus picker. Their campus is always picked.

  1. Open Church settings, then Team.
  2. Press Change by the person.
  3. Under Campuses, pick Only these campuses and tick theirs.
  4. Press Save roles.

Their row then shows a chip, such as "Cypress only". To lift the limit, pick Every campus.

Gifts with no campus, such as ones from before you added campuses, count toward the whole church, so only someone who sees every campus sees them.

Archive a campus

On Campuses, press Archive by a campus you no longer meet at. Its people, groups and records keep their campus, and Bring back undoes it. You can archive a campus only while at least two are in use.

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