Households

Households let you keep track of families or people living in the same house. People can be in multiple households, and each household has one primary contact. When updating the home phone or home address of anyone in a household, you have the option to save it for everyone in the household.

Notice

A household can be initiated in multiple places.

In Services, Registrations, or a People form, it will show as Pending on a person's profile, and the primary contact will receive an email requesting they verify the new household member. A manager can approve or deny the pending member.

In Check-Ins and Church Center, the person will be added to the household without verification.

Who belongs in a household? 

Parents and non-adult children living in the same house should be in one household. Here are some guidelines to help you determine how to manage households for your church:

• If they can legally sign a document, they should be in their own household. This includes, but is not limited to:

  • Children who are 18+ but living at home.

  • Relatives who live in the same house.

• If you want someone to be able to check in people from another household, make them a trusted person in Check-Ins.

Manage a Household

From a person's profile page, you can view household members in the Household section on the right.

Select the pencil to make any changes to the household.

Notice

People marked as Adult on their profile are listed in the top section of the household, regardless of whether or not they are the parent.

The household shows all the members and their contact information. The default household name is the primary contact's last name, but you can change it.

1. Add or remove a household image that shows on the directory.

   Notice

   Use the Image Sizing Guide to upload the right size and file type.

2. The primary contact for the household is labeled. To change the contact, select the gear.

3. When you select the gear, you can remove a person from the household or make that person the primary contact.

   If you remove the person from the household, they still exist in your database. If you need to remove a person from your database, make them inactive. 

4. Add a new person to the household by searching for existing people in your database. If the person doesn't exist in your database, you can add them.

5. Remove the household. When you remove the household, profiles are not deleted, but the household will no longer exist.

Select Save to keep any changes you made, or select Cancel to exit the screen without saving changes. 

Note

If you select Other Households in the top right, you can see other households the person belongs to or add them to another household.

Tip

If a household was created in error or a duplicate household exists, you can remove the unnecessary household.

Add to Other Households

If someone is in multiple households, you can show that on their profile by adding another household.

Notice

You should never place people outside of actual families into households. If you think you want to combine people who aren't in an actual family into a household, check out our Household Tips about using a roster station or a group.

Select Other households to manage other households for a profile.

1. Select an existing household to edit it.

2. Add a new household by searching the database or creating a new one.

Remove From Household

If someone is no longer part of a household, you can remove them.

From the person's profile, select the pencil icon to edit the household.

Select the gear next to the person you want to remove from the household, and then choose Remove.

The household remains active, but the person is removed. If you'd like to delete a household as a whole, you can select Remove household, and the household will be deleted with all members removed.

Duplicate Households

If a person has a duplicate household that was accidentally created by a form, signup, or admin error, you can delete that extra household.

Select the pencil on the person's profile to edit their households.

Select the extra household, and then select Remove household to delete it.

Note

This process only deletes that excess household; no profiles or activity will be deleted!

Update Household Phone and Address

If you edit the primary contact's Home Phone Number or Home Address fields, you can also update it for everyone else in the household. If you don't want to update that information for other household members, uncheck the box.

The type must be Home to prompt you to update it for all household members.