Family check-in.
From the parking lot.
Parents check kids in from their phone before they walk in. The kids director sees them on the live room dashboard. Room ratios update in real time. Allergy notes, authorized pickups, and parent SMS — all built in. The Sunday-morning chaos has a system now.
For the kids director
Sunday morning, with the kids covered.
You know the moment. 9:50am. Three families just walked in at once. Two kids are crying. A volunteer is hand-writing name tags. The clipboard for the 9am service is buried under bulletins. A parent asks if you have the EpiPen for their daughter — and you genuinely don't know.
TrueConnect+ check-in is the system you've been operating without. The family already checked in from their car. Their kid's name, age, room assignment, allergy note, and authorized-pickup list are all on your dashboard before they reach the desk. Volunteers print labels in seconds. Room counts update live. The fire marshal asks for current capacity, you tell them in two clicks.
Family. Staff. Kiosk.
Three flows for three different Sunday morning realities.
Family mode lets parents check kids in from their phone, before or after they arrive. Staff mode is the volunteer-attended check-in desk for families who walk up. Kiosk mode turns a tablet into a self-service station near the entrance. Use one or all three.
- Family flow: parents check in from their phone
- Staff flow: volunteer-attended quick check-in
- Kiosk flow: self-service tablet at the entrance
- Live dashboard updates as kids arrive — across all three modes
The non-negotiables, automated.
Allergy notes that surface to the volunteer the second a kid is checked into a room. Authorized pickups locked to the family record. Parent SMS at pickup time so no one waits at the desk wondering. Room ratios enforced at check-in.
The things you used to track on three different paper forms — and inevitably miss one — now run themselves.
- Allergy + medical notes surfaced to volunteers
- Authorized pickup verification at the desk
- Parent SMS notification at pickup time
- Room ratios enforced at check-in (kids:adult limits)
The whole kids ministry section.
Five surfaces, all linked: Dashboard / Staff / Kiosk / Settings / Reports.
Live check-in dashboard
Real-time view of every room across every service. Kids checked in, kids out, current capacity, ratio status. Updates the moment a parent taps confirm.
Room settings + ratios
Define rooms with age windows, capacity caps, and adult-to-child ratios. The system enforces them at check-in — no more accidentally putting a 12th kid in an 11-cap room.
Family flow + parent SMS
Parents pre-register their family once. After that, check-in is one tap. Pickup notifications fire via SMS at the time the room ends — no chasing, no waiting.
Staff check-in
Permission-gated — only the people with checkin.run_staff can run the desk. Volunteers see the family's record, allergy notes, authorized pickups, and label printing in one screen.
Kiosk mode
Lock a tablet into kiosk mode at the entrance. Families search by phone or last name, confirm their kids, print labels. No staff required. Kid-proof — locked-down browser, no escape hatch.
Attendance reports
Per-room, per-week, per-quarter trend reports. Identify ratios drifting up. Spot families who stopped showing up. CSV export for the elder-board meeting.