Trellis words
What the words Trellis uses mean, each in a sentence, with where to read more.
These are the words Trellis uses for its own things, in alphabetical order. Each has a sentence and a link to where it's explained.
Ask Silas
The help chat. You ask a question about Trellis, and Silas answers from Trellis help without reading your church's records.
Back again
Someone who gave before, didn't give in the same days last year, and gave this year. Giving reports shows it only when the comparison with last year is on.
Budget
The amount a fund is expected to give in one calendar year. Finance and admins set it on the fund.
Campus
One of the places your church meets. A church with more than one keeps one Trellis, with each campus able to see its own.
Check-on
A weekly nudge for a group's leaders to keep in touch with someone: Trellis suggests a few names, and the leader marks it when they have.
Correction
The way to fix a gift's amount, date or method: Trellis adds a reversing line, and a new line with the right amount if you give one, so the history stays. It isn't offered for online gifts, and Edit changes who gave it, the fund and the note.
Door pass
A pass on a parent's phone that they show at the door to check their own children in.
Family card
A printed label with a QR and a code, for a parent without a phone, that works at any station until it's cancelled.
First-time giver
A person whose first gift ever falls in the dates you're looking at in Giving reports.
Goal
An amount a fund aims to reach over a stretch of time you choose, like a building campaign. Each fund can have one.
Lane
One team's row on the Score, like Band or Sound, set up once under Worship, then Settings.
Lapsed
Someone who gave in the same days last year but not this year. Giving reports shows it only when the comparison with last year is on.
Lighthouse AI
The part for staff that helps plan ahead: Silas reads your Sundays and calendar and suggests series and drafts for the season.
Moment
One step of a service, in order, like welcome, songs, prayer or the message.
Offering
One stack of cash and checks counted together, like Sunday's plates, entered in Giving as a batch.
Pace
For a budget, whether a fund has given more or less than it would have by today if giving followed its usual pattern through the year. It reads ahead of, behind or on pace. A goal is paced only if it has an end date: its pace is worked out evenly from its start date to its end date. Without an end date, there's no pace.
Part
One piece of Trellis that your church turns on, like Groups, Serving or Giving.
Pioneer
Pricing for church plants that apply and are approved: every part, Lighthouse AI included, is free until your first public service, then one price until three years after that service. The free period lasts at least 30 days after approval.
Role
What decides what someone sees and can do in Trellis, like Admin, Staff or Leader. Someone with no role is a member.
Room
A room in your building where children go, like the nursery, which you add in Check-in's settings.
Run sheet
A service plan laid out down the page in order, with a row for each moment and a column for each team.
Score
A service plan laid out across the page in time. On Plan you can switch between the Score, the run sheet and the stage.
Self-serve station
A laptop or iPad left at the door where a parent scans their door pass or family card, ticks who's here, and the tags print.
Silas
Trellis's AI assistant. He reads what a leader writes, or what's already in Trellis, and suggests what follows, and a person checks and decides.
Write-up
A paragraph a leader writes after a meeting about how the night went. Silas reads it into a sheet of who came, who didn't, guests, notes and prayers, and nothing goes on the roll or on anyone's page until you press Done.
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