Every feature, in one scannable list.

Service planning

• Drag-to-reorder order of service
• Plan-item kinds: scripture, song, sermon, announcement, countdown, custom block, section divider
• Sermon Planner — write your message in rich-text sections, drop in scripture, turn any section into a slide (notes stay linked both ways), import/export Word docs, then preach from the speaker view
• Reusable templates with title interpolation — {date:short}, etc.
• Copy a whole service — plan only, or with all its slides
• Role-based assignments (worship leader, sound, kids, greeters…)
• Confirm / Can't make it / Find a sub from a phone
• Per-service auto-rostered team chat
• Per-service runtime preview — is Sunday running long?
• iCal feed for Google / Apple / Outlook

Projection

• One advance moves every screen (~100 ms via WebSocket, 1.5 s poll fallback)
• In-browser slide editor with image + text overlays — drag, resize, rotate, layer
• PowerPoint .pptx import (also handles Keynote / Google Slides exports)
• Surfaces: projector, confidence monitor, booth operator, speaker view, podium
• Booth preview mode — look ahead without yanking projection
• Lower thirds (one-tap, auto-dismiss)
• Live captions via Web Speech API
• OBS / vMix browser-source embed with audio + crossfades
• Sermon notes pushed to phones with [___] fill-in-the-blank markers
• ~300 CC0 video backdrops + ~100 stock photos + 15 gradients built in
• Pexels-backed stock photo + video search inside the editor

Audience interactivity

• Five modes: quiz · poll · numeric · word cloud · Q&A wall
• QR + 4-character join code on the projector
• Phones scan and vote; bars race live; correct answer flashes on timer
• Members-only gate on free-text inputs (word cloud + Q&A wall)
• Q&A moderation queue — submissions land pending
• "A game is live" banner across every member's app
• One-click scripture quizzes (Famous verses, Beatitudes, Fruit of the Spirit, …)
• Operator controls: code chip, reveal-now, end-game, moderation modal

Music + worship

• Synchronized PDF sheet music with Bluetooth footswitch (AirTurn / PageFlip / Donner)
• Pinch-zoom, freehand annotation, per-device "sync off"
• Chord-pro song library with audio attachments
• Memory-verse mode for kids

Kids check-in

• Tablet kiosk with parent-name search
• Classroom rosters, capacity tracking
• Browser-print nametags with allergy + medical callouts
• Security-code pickup pair (wrong code = no pickup)
• Works with any OS-installed printer (Brother / Dymo / Zebra) — no custom drivers
• Lockdown mode — no global nav, members can only check in/out

Email & forms

• HTML email broadcasts with audience targeting (all / by role / by small group)
• Send-later scheduling (Saturday 4pm, etc.)
• One-click unsubscribe (RFC 8058) + CAN-SPAM-compliant footer
• Hard-bounce auto-suppression
• Live SPF / DKIM / DMARC readiness check
• Per-church SMTP — your domain, your bounces, your DKIM
• Public forms: multi-page, conditional fields, daily quota, submitter confirmation
• E-signature field type
• Clone-an-existing-form starter
• Connection cards from public QR codes

Online giving

• Stripe Connect — your church is the merchant of record; money lands in your account
• 2.4% all-in for verified nonprofits (we help you prep the paperwork)
• Recurring donations + donor self-serve accounts
• Donation receipts (email + downloadable)
• Anonymous/named giving toggle

Communication

• Persistent team channels (Slack-lite, role-gated) — #worship-team, #greeters, #leadership
• Direct messages
• Anonymous prayer wall with moderation + projection mode
• Real-time hand-raise from /follow during the service
• Push notifications (Web Push + iOS APNs + Android FCM)
• Quiet hours — the app won't bug volunteers at 2am
• Daily digest email

People & care

• People + Households with parent-child relationships
• Promote-to-Person from any connection card
• Photo member directory with three-tier opt-in (none / staff-only / members)
• Discipleship pathways — define steps, track per-person progress
• Pastoral-care notes with per-note ACL + audit-on-read
• Small groups with chat, attendance, leader admin
• Per-role permissions: member / team-leader / staff / church-admin / platform-admin
• Conversation archive + lifecycle controls

Volunteer scheduling

• My-schedule page per volunteer (mobile-first)
• Confirm / Can't make it / Find a sub from one tap
• Sub-request queue — any volunteer can claim
• Blockout dates — schedulers see them when planning
• Push reminders with quiet hours

Workflows & boards

• Six trigger types: connection card, prayer request, service started, membership added, sub-request claimed, custom webhook
• Eight starter recipes — clone, tweak, run
• Run history with rendered output (debug why a workflow fired or didn't)
• Kanban boards with per-card rich-text conversation threads
• Drag-and-drop image paste into board cards
• Board forms — public form whose submissions become cards

Website builder

• Multi-page sites — Home, About, Watch, Give, Connect, Events, Contact, custom
• 7 design-system presets that re-skin the whole site (typography, palette, spacing, motion)
• 20+ block types — hero, story split, congregation gallery, liturgy strip, sermon-series cover, value cards, staff cards, FAQ accordion, verse of the week, marquee, stat strip, CTA pillar, gallery, quote, …
• Block-picker thumbnails rendered in your active preset (not generic samples)
• "Try as a different block" — swap a block type while keeping shared fields (heading, image, CTA)
• Mobile / tablet / desktop preview toggle
• Curated stock photo + video picker (Pexels, 8 church-keyed search chips)
• Photo coach on upload — flags too-small, wrong-aspect, blurry images
• Copy coach on the hero subtitle — cliché linter + preset-voice rewrite starters
• Section macros — drop in a pre-tuned multi-block pattern
• Page templates — start from "Welcome", "About us", "I'm new", …
• Service times auto-pulled from your planner

Brand & image

• Brand wizard: logo, palette, slide-default background, prayer-wall background, hero image, About content, member-home layout
• Palette extraction from your logo — canvas-based, one click
• Image library with three-mode picker (library / upload / paste URL)
• Image approval queue — staff submit, admins approve before publish
• Photo + video imported from stock saves to your library with photographer credit

Reach & SEO

• Custom domain with auto-SSL (Let's Encrypt, on-demand)
• SSR meta-tag prerender for social crawlers (Facebook / Slack / iMessage / LinkedIn / WhatsApp / Twitter)
• Auto-SEO + JSON-LD church schema
• Per-page meta title + description
• Sitemap.xml auto-generated
• Page-level published / unpublished toggle

Public surfaces

• Public events with RSVP, audience rules, signup forms
• Public bulletin — date-windowed announcements + today's services
• Public About page with "Contact Pastor Mike" relay (no scraped email exposure)
• Anonymous prayer-wall submission
• Connection cards via public QR
• Live audience participation from anywhere (no signup needed for quizzes/polls)

Account security

• Two-factor authentication (SMS or TOTP) for staff+ roles
• Trusted-device cookies — 30-day skip on familiar devices
• Per-role permissions with explicit allow-list (no inherited hidden grants)
• Audit log for every privileged action — "who pushed Send?" is a query, not a guess
• Forced password rotation on suspected compromise
• Soft-delete trash on services, slides, decks, connect cards — 30-day restore
• Open data export on demand — no lock-in

Tenant isolation

• Every database row scoped by church_id; queries enforce it at the call site
• Cross-church access requires explicit church opt-in
• Members-only gate on free-text audience inputs (anything projectable)
• Three-tier directory opt-in (none / staff-only / members)
• Per-note ACL + audit-on-read for pastoral-care entries
• Connection cards behind admin role gate

Email integrity

• Per-church SMTP — your domain reputation goes with you if you leave
• SPF / DKIM / DMARC live readiness check
• Hard-bounce auto-suppression
• One-click RFC-8058 unsubscribe

Mobile

• Progressive Web App — installable on iOS & Android, works offline
• iOS + Android native shells via Capacitor
• Mobile-first signup funnel
• Dark mode
• Phone-friendly operator + speaker + podium surfaces
• Web Push (VAPID) + APNs + FCM unified push pipeline

Realtime

• SignalR WebSocket — sub-100 ms push when the WS is open
• 1.5 s polling fallback when the WS drops
• Auto-reconnect with exponential backoff (0 / 2 / 5 / 10 / 30 s)
• Per-church connection caps by tier

Performance

• Public-site bundle: ~490 KB main / ~135 KB gzipped — admin surfaces lazy-load
• CloudFront edge for marketing site and image library
• Server-side render for crawlers; SPA hydration for humans
• Load-tested: 200 audience VUs + 5 operator VUs sustained 47 RPS, 0 errors, p95 35–39 ms

Operations

• Pre-deploy pg_dump to S3 + weekly restore drill (verified)
• Per-request access log with watchdog alarms (5xx-rate, webhook-signature failures)
• Sentry-wired error tracking (SPA + API)
• Public status page at status.codenc.io
• ntfy.sh push alerts to the on-call phone