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Count and import past counts

Count who came after each service, and bring in past Sundays from a spreadsheet so Lighthouse AI can forecast.

Lighthouse AI forecasts from your own head counts. Admins and staff count after each service, and can bring in past years from a spreadsheet so the forecast has history to learn from. Lighthouse starts forecasting once eight Sundays are counted.

Count a service

  1. Open Lighthouse AI, press Open Lighthouse, then Count.
  2. Find the service. Each one from the last two weeks that nobody has counted has its own form.
  3. Type the Adults you counted.
  4. Type the First-time guests, or leave it empty.
  5. Press Save count.

A saved count moves down to Counted in the last 2 weeks, which lists each count with its date. When every service has been counted, the page says so.

The services come from Serving's schedule. A church without Serving, or a Sunday with no service on the schedule, gets the Sunday itself.

If your church has Check-in on, a form also says how many children were checked in. That number comes from Check-in. You don't type it.

If your church has campuses, each form has a Campus to pick, or names the one campus it's for, and each campus counts its own.

The top of the page says how many Sundays you've counted. Until you reach eight, it says so.

Import past counts

A year or two of Sundays gives Lighthouse something to learn from. You can bring in as many as you have.

  1. Open Lighthouse AI, press Open Lighthouse, then Count, then Import past counts.
  2. Paste the spreadsheet into Paste the spreadsheet, or choose a file under Or choose the file.
  3. Check what the page says it found.
  4. Press Import counts.

The first row names the columns. You need date and adults. You can also have guests and service, such as 9:00. If your church has campuses, every row needs a campus too. Use commas or tabs between them. With date,adults,guests as the first row, a count reads 2026-10-25,812,14.

Write dates like 2026-10-25 or 10/25/2026, up to today. A count that's already there for the same date and service is changed to the file's.

A file can hold up to 3,000 counts. For more, bring them in in parts.

Fix a count

There's no edit button on a count. To correct one, import it again with the right number. A count for the same date and service is changed to the new one.

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