How do I open adoration for a monthly schedule (like First Fridays)?

By default, your adoration schedule assumes open hours are open every week (e.g., "Every Friday at 9-10am").

However, if you need to adjust your schedule to open certain hours on a monthly basis, you can do that, too! Here's how.

Change a Single Hour

Edit the hour, change the general availability of this hour to Monthly, select a monthly option, and click Save.

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Choose "Monthly" and select a monthly option

For example, if you choose Every 1st Friday at 9-10pm, this hour will be open on First Fridays and closed the remaining Fridays of the month.

Don't fret—you can easily override a specific date if you must close adoration due to circumstances.

Change Multiple Hours

Select the hours you want to edit and start bulk-editing them, choose All weeks, enable the Availability setting, select Open monthly, and select a frequency option. Preview which dates will be affected, and then click Save.

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Configuring monthly adoration for multiple hours

These hours will be open monthly (e.g., every 1st Friday).

Monthly Commitments

Typically, when adorers make a new adoration commitment, their commitment frequency defaults to Weekly.

However, when an adorer clicks on a monthly hour on your schedule, their commitment frequency will default to Monthlyeven if the "Monthly" commitment frequency is disabled.

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Making a new monthly adoration commitment

Considerations for Monthly + Overnight

Suppose you open adoration on First Fridays overflowing into the following Saturday. Be aware that not all First Fridays are followed by a First Saturday.

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First Saturday doesn't always follow First Friday

We have a built-in solution for this. It requires two steps:

  1. Edit your Friday hours with monthly availability configured to Every 1st week of the month, as described above.
  2. Edit your Saturday hours with monthly availability configured to Every {day} following 1st {previous day}.
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Configuring monthly adoration for "Saturday following 1st Friday" hours

Your schedule will display adoration as available on First Fridays and the following Saturdays!

And when an adorer creates a commitment on one of these Saturday hours, they will have a matching monthly option. Easy!

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Making a new monthly adoration commitment on a Saturday following 1st Friday
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