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Guides & how-tos
Step-by-step guides to using your parish site.
Home Page
Your parish website — what visitors see, and how staff make it yours.
Announcements
Posting timely parish notices on the home page — written once, shown in every language.
Gallery
A parish photo gallery — the grotto, chapel, bell tower, feast days and ministry life. Add photos in a tap; the page shows once there's something to see.
Welcome & Registration
How new families register and join — and how staff work the welcome queue and household census.
Ministries & Serving
How parishioners get involved, plus the liturgical serving roster.
Watch Live
Your parish’s own Watch page says “Live now” by itself while Mass is streaming, and one button takes parishioners straight to it on YouTube — the app on a phone. Save your YouTube channel once and let OBS say when you start.
Parish Leadership
The public page that answers "who do I ask?" — clergy and office staff drawn from your org chart, and the councils you choose to publish, one body at a time.
Liturgical Serving
The Mass-serving roster — each minister says which Masses they serve at, you set what each Mass needs, and one press builds a fair rota that reminds everyone, finds its own substitutes, and prints for the sacristy.
Sacraments
Mass intentions, plus every sacrament from a parishioner’s request to the certificate — in plain language.
Safe Environment
Getting certified to serve — VIRTUS training, background check, and certificate.
Calendar & Appointments
The unified parish calendar, subscriptions, and booking time.
Ask the Parish
Instant answers from your parish's own pages — and how questions reach the office when a page can't answer.
Online Offertory
Give to a Mass's collections from your phone — both collections, one QR per Mass, tallied automatically.
Matrimonials
Catholics meeting Catholics — anonymous, parishioners-only listings with a private, double-blind introduction.
Job Board
Help Wanted & Seeking Work — neighbors helping neighbors find honest work, anonymously and members-only.
Access
Who can open what in the back office — set per person, one feature at a time, with no roles to decode. What you tick is exactly what they get, and the panel shows what they will see before you save.
Notifications & Preferences
How the parish reaches you — email, text, and your in-app notification bell — and how you control what reaches you, per topic and in your language.
My Inbox
Parishioners can finally write back. Every message the parish sends has a home they can read, reply to and file — and replies land in a shared parish inbox, not one staffer's personal email.
Broadcast
One rich, formatted message — with attachments — to all parishioners, a group, or one person, delivered to each in their own language. Review and test before a single email goes out.
Emergency Alerts
Urgent notices to every parishioner — a banner on every page, plus email and text when you choose. Staff draft; someone holding Send decides.
Translations
English is written once and Spanish is generated on every save. How to review, correct and pin a translation, and how a visitor picks a language.
Groups
Councils, commissions and committees — members and the chair, the meeting workspace from agenda to archive, and putting a body's names on the website one group at a time.
Activity Log
The append-only trail of who changed what in the back office — what is recorded, what is masked, who can read it, and how long it is kept.
Reports & Parish Pulse
The read-only heartbeat — every count drawn live from the parish's own records, and Parish Pulse's Active, Cooling and Dormant read on who you have not heard from.
Finance
The contribution ledger, year-end statements, campaigns and pledges, the operating ledger, bank import and the annual budget — a tier Nave grants and the parish then turns on.
Parish Settings
Parish info, your web address and Design — every field on the three settings screens, the two-step custom-domain setup, and the colour, typeface and home-page pickers.
Request Access
How a parish comes online with Nave — request access, and your multilingual website and back office are live in about a day, built from your current site.