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Welcome to an introduction to many of the fabulous features
available through ChurchKatalyst. Take a look. We think that you'll be
very pleased with what our system can offer your church.
Content Management Features
These Content Management Features are included with each of our plans.
Easy-To-Use Content Editor:
Dynamically publish content to your site using a very easy-to-use
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) content editor. If you can use MS
Word, then you can use our system. You type in your text and format the
text by highlighting and pressing the desired effect, such as B for Bold or U for Underline. You can also easily insert links to other webpages, insert pictures, and much more through this system.
Media Manager:
Using the Media Manager, you can upload your photos, images, and
documents (such as PDF files, Word documents, etc.) and then have them
available to insert into webpages.
Menu Manager:
Dynamically manage your navigation menus. You can add both main menu items as well as sub-menu items.
Dated Content:
You can set up your content so that it is not displayed until the date
you set. You can also set up your content pages so that they no longer
display on the public site after a predetermined date. One example of
how this would be useful is if you want to post your Pastor's sermon
notes before he preaches the sermon but not make them available until
that particular date.
Special Tools
These Special Tools are included with each of our plans.
Dynamic Events Calendar:
Provide a multi-view calendar for your site visitors and members. Your
site visitors can view the events by day, by year, by month, and even
by event category. You can also have your next set of upcoming events
automatically show up on each of your web pages.
Newsflash Announcements:
This is a great tool for adding multiple text messages to dynamically
display on your website. You can set dates for when the text message(s)
starts and stops running and the system will automatically create a
"Read More" link if you have additional information to be displayed.
This is a great tool for announcing an upcoming event, making emergency
announcements such as cancellation of services due to bad weather, or
even displaying Bible verses that you have selected.
Banner Ad Manager:
If you create graphical banner ads and upload them to the system, you
can have the system automatically display those images and have them
click through to another website or a specific page within your own
website. You can even track how many times the banner has been
displayed and how many times a visitor has clicked on a specific banner.
Prayer Request Form:
Allow your visitors to submit prayer requests. Then, once you approve
the prayer request item, you can distribute the prayer request to a
preselected prayer chain via email and even display it online for
others to access and pray about.
Bible Search:
Allow your site visitors to enter a Bible verse and have that verse automatically pulled up on www.BibleGateway.com.
Poll Manager:
The Poll Manager is a great way to interact with your visitors and keep
them coming back. With the Poll Manager, you can easily create online,
realtime polls which allow people to answer a question and then see the
poll results right away.
Verse of the Day:
Displays a daily verse from the Bible, listing from
www.BibleGateway.com. This module supports 32 different Bible
versions/translations in various languages which the admin can control.
Blogging:
This is a great tool for keeping fresh content on your site. A Blog (or
weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic
articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Sometimes they may
be a diary or may relate to specific topics. This is a great tool for
your pastor to communicate with your congregation and the community and
keep visitors coming back to your site.
Site Search:
Allow your visitors to search your site based on keywords that they
enter. This feature will search all of your content pages and provide a
list back to your visitor of those pages. Visitors can use this to help
them find specific events, sermons on specific topics, specific
documents, etc.
Advanced Tools
These Advanced Tools are available with our higher level plans.
Online Newsletter:
This is a great timesaver. This feature allows your visitors to self
subscribe and unscribe to your newsletter. That greatly reduces your
effort in maintaining and updating a large email database. You just
create your newsletter online and then send it out to everyone
subscribed to the newsletter list.
Online Events Registration:
Do you have events that you want people to register for? Then this is
the tool for you. Using this tool, people can register for your events
online and you can easily manage who is registered and even send out
emails to all of the attendees who have registered online.
Discussion Board:
This is a great way to build community. You can set up discussions /
forums on different topics such as the pastor's sermons, current
events, or whatever you dream up!
Photo Gallery:
Display photos from your events online. This feature allows you to
create categories for different events and then upload photos and
include a name for each photo along with a description and keywords.
This system automatically creates a thumbnail version of the photo and
then presents the photos to your visitor with the ability to scroll
through the photos.
Additional Options
eCommerce:
This feature allows you to sell items online, such as books, sermon
audios, and music from your worship team. If you would like to explore
this option, please give us a call and we can help out.
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