Getting Started

What do I set up first?

Thank you for choosing We Adore Him for your adoration program!

Work through these steps in order.

1. Set up billing. You can pay automatically with credit card or ACH direct debit, or you can mail checks each month. Once you have your payment details ready, please contact us. If you have any questions about how our billing works, learn more here.
2. Gather your list of adorers and commitments. You may already have a spreadsheet with your list of adorers, their contact information, and their existing adoration commitments. Organize that data now so you can later import your adorers and commitments.
3. Review your settings. After you sign in, visit Admin » Settings and review the many available customizations.
4. Set up the schedule. Out of the box, your schedule is open 24 hours, 7 days a week. If you need to close some hours (or days), visit your Schedule page and start editing your hours.
5. Import your adorers. Now that your spreadsheet of adorers is ready, it's time to import them. Follow our step-by-step guide.
6. Add adorers to the schedule. Now that your schedule is accurate and you've imported your adorers, it's time to create adoration commitments for them. You have three options:
   • Import them all at once. Like the adorer import process, you can import your existing adoration commitments from a spreadsheet template.
   • Create them one by one. You can manually create each adorer's commitment by clicking on an hour to make a new commitment and selecting the appropriate adorer to assign to that particular hour.
   • Let your adorers do it. Your adorers can visit the Schedule page, sign up, and create commitments.
7. Set up the chapel kiosk. Make attendance tracking a breeze with the Adoration Check-In Kiosk. See these instructions.
8. Establish a substitute policy. Modify ours, or write your own to help the scheduled adorers know what to do when they cannot attend adoration.
9. Go live. Your website may still be in Onboarding Mode. Switch it to Live Mode.
10. Send the welcome email and text message. If you haven't already done this, it's time to let your adorers know they have an adoration account. Each one includes a one-time login link, like what you first used to sign in. Learn how to send them.
11. Spread the word. Promoting your new We Adore Him website as widely as possible is a great idea. Here are some ideas:
    • Share your phone number. Encourage your adorers to add your unique We Adore Him phone number to their address book so they'll recognize it when the system sends them automated text messages and phone calls. Learn what that phone number can do and how to add it as a contact on your phone.
    • Link from your parish website. Add a link to your We Adore Him website so folks can sign up for adoration online. You can also embed the schedule to display the hours most in need of adorers.
    • Post it in the bulletin. We have two editable Word documents you can customize, each with a spot to paste your Signup QR Code. Both open in Word, Google Docs, Pages, and LibreOffice.
      • The launch announcement is a one-time bulletin insert for the week you go live.
      • The chapel flyer may be posted on a bulletin board or on the wall outside the adoration chapel.
    • Tell surrounding parishes. We recommend that you notify surrounding parishes so they can also link to your We Adore Him website on their respective parish websites and create an announcement in their bulletins.
    • Broadcast on social media. You can easily share the link to your We Adore Him website on social media, where many adorers (and their friends) spend way too much time. 😉 This generates buzz and will be shared with everyone.
12. Follow along with new features. We are constantly improving We Adore Him. Everything new is announced on our blog, which you can follow in a news reader by subscribing to its RSS feed.

All done! Now, please sit back and watch your chapel run itself. Almost. 😇