Onboarding and Live Mode

How do we set up the website before announcing it to our adorers?

Your site starts in Onboarding Mode, which is helpful while populating your We Adore Him site with adorers and adoration commitments and testing everything out.

In this mode:

• Adorers can sign up and make adoration commitments, but they will not receive commitment reminder notifications.
• Adorers can request substitutes, but these requests are "paused" to prevent sending substitute invitation notifications. However, you can manually "start" a substitute request for testing purposes.
• You can check in on the Adoration Check-In Kiosk, but commitments won't get converted to "visits" to prevent your visit history from filling up with un-checked-in visits.
• When an administrator or captain populates the schedule with adoration commitments, other administrators and captains won't get notified of this activity.

Switching to Live Mode

When you are ready for We Adore Him to perform automated actions (e.g., sending commitment reminders and substitute invitations), switch your site to Live Mode.

Switch your site to Live Mode with the Website status field at Admin » Settings » Account.

Opening Part of the Schedule

Site modes apply to the whole site. If your program is already live and you want to gather sign-ups for hours that are not open yet, use coming-soon hours instead. They let adorers reserve their spot on specific hours while the rest of your schedule runs normally.

Sending the Welcome Email and Text Message

Switching to Live Mode does not send the welcome email and text message. After you go live, send them to any adorers who have not received them yet.