Getting started

Welcome to Sanctumel. In about fifteen minutes, your church is ready: account created, team invited, first members recorded. This guide walks you through it step by step.

1. Create your church

When you sign up, you enter your church's name, its country and its logo. The country matters: it sets the currency used everywhere (giving, receipts, statistics) and the available payment methods.

1. Create your account with your email.
2. Name your church and choose the country.
3. Add the logo (it appears on documents, receipts and public pages).

2. Invite your team

You're not alone in running the church. Invite your leaders and give each the right role: administrator, treasurer, members manager, and so on. Each role only sees what concerns it.

1. Open Settings, then Users and roles.
2. Invite a leader by email.
3. Choose their role: they'll get a link to join the workspace.

3. Record your first members

The Members module is the foundation for everything else. Start with a few records, then import the rest.

1. Open Members, then Add a member.
2. Enter at least the first and last name.
3. Add a photo and the date of birth to activate the birthday calendar.

To go faster, you can also import a full list from an Excel file.

What's next?

Once these three steps are done, you can turn on the features that matter to your church:

• Receive donations online (QR code, public link, automatic receipts).
• Plan your events and publish your program.
• Communicate with your members by email and WhatsApp.

Each module has its own guide in this documentation. If you get stuck, the help center and our team reply in your language.