Administrators and captains can now close a substitute request in two new ways:

• Hour is covered, when the adorers already scheduled provide enough coverage. The search stops and the adorer is removed from the schedule for that one date.
• Adorer will attend, when they turn out to be able to keep their commitment after all.

To help you decide, an open substitute request now shows an Other Scheduled Adorers section listing who else is scheduled for that hour, when each of them arrives, and how often they've kept their recent commitments.

It works beautifully alongside the substitute request approval workflow. With that enabled, every substitute request waits for your review before sending any substitute invitations.

Learn more about closing substitute requests.

Today, we added three more keywords.

SIGNUP

New adorers who text SIGNUP receive a welcome message and a link to the sign up form, where they can choose an hour and create their adorer account.

Your adoration number is now something to print in the bulletin or post on a sign near the chapel.

LOGIN

Existing adorers who text LOGIN receive a passwordless login link.

DONATE

At parishes collecting donations, an adorer who texts DONATE receives a link that logs them in and opens the donation form.

Adorers can text these keywords in their own language.

Learn more about everything your adoration phone number can do. Enjoy! 📱

Now, when an adorer requests a substitute too close to their hour, a real last-minute substitute request is created. No invitations go out, since there isn't time for a search, but the substitute request exists and everyone can act on it:

• It appears at Admin » Substitute Requests marked Needs manual help, so you can assign a substitute.
• Eligible adorers can claim it like any other substitute request.

Administrators and captains are alerted as soon as one of these substitute requests comes in, and again when it's claimed or assigned, so nobody keeps working on a substitute request that's already filled.

Set how much time the automated system needs with the Threshold for last-minute substitute requests setting at Admin » Settings » Substitutes.

Adorers are told that their substitute request was created, the automated system can't search this time, their adoration coordinator has been asked to step in, and they remain responsible for the hour until a substitute is found.

Learn more about last-minute substitute requests.

To help better identify these adorers, we added an "inactive" adorer status. An adorer is inactive when they have no upcoming commitment, are not on your substitute list, and have neither attended adoration nor logged in during the past year.

Inactive is not a true status. Every account remains either Active or Blocked. Inactive simply describes what your records show, so an adorer can be Active (status) and "inactive" (behavior) at the same time.

You'll find the Inactive adorers list on Admin » Billing, and the count on Admin » Insights » Statistics, alongside your Active and Blocked counts.

See adorer statuses for more details.

Hours can now be marked as coming soon. A coming-soon hour appears on your schedule in pale blue with a dashed border, and adorers can sign up for it just like an open hour, reserving their spot. Nothing else happens in the meantime: no reminders go out, and the hour stays off the Adoration Check-In Kiosk.

Hover over an hour on the Schedule or Calendar page and click Edit, then choose Coming soon under Availability. The schedule shows how many adorers each coming-soon hour still needs, so you can watch your recruiting progress toward opening it. These hours appear in the embed widget on your parish website, too.

When you're ready, edit the hour and set it to Open weekly or Open monthly. Every reservation becomes a live commitment right away, with reminders and the kiosk working as they do on any open hour, and a Message These Adorers button lets you share the good news with everyone who has been waiting.

Three New Buttons on the Login Form

The login form looks the same as before, but has three new buttons:

• Text me a code
• Email me a code
• Call me with a code

An adorer enters their name, email address, or phone number, taps a button, and a one-time code is sent to them, including a real phone call that reads the code aloud for adorers who don't use text or email.

The email and text message carry a link, too. One tap and the adorer is logged in, with nothing to type at all.

No More Password Prompts

• Signing up is faster. The registration form no longer asks a new adorer to create a password.
• Welcome messages just work. The link in the welcome email or text message now logs an adorer straight in, rather than stopping to ask them to choose a password.
• Goodbye, Forgot Password. The Forgot Password page is gone. There is nothing to reset when a password is not required anymore. They can simply log in with the one-time code (see above).

Adorers who like logging in with a password can still do so. The login form still accepts a password, and adorers can set or change their password by selecting Edit My Account on their dashboard.

Learn more about how adorers log in.

Mark a group as a rotation group and arrange its members in the order they take their turns. Every upcoming date is assigned to a member, in turn, as far out as your schedule goes.

• Everyone can see whose week it is. The assigned adorer's name appears next to each upcoming date on the group's page, on every member's dashboard, and on the Calendar page.
• Only the assigned person is reminded. The commitment reminder goes to the adorer whose turn it is, rather than to the whole group.
• Substitute requests start with the group. When the assigned adorer requests a substitute, the other members are invited before the rest of your eligible substitutes.
• Check-in works as usual. The Adoration Check-In Kiosk lists the assigned adorer by name for their date, just like any other committed adorer.

Toggle the Is a rotation group field on the group form at Admin » Groups. Then open the group and drag its members into order in the Group Rotation card.

Learn more about group rotations.

Thank you to the many coordinators who asked for this. God bless! 🙏

Deleting an account cannot be undone, and it takes the adorer's commitments and substitute invitations with it, so it now sits alongside administrator-only actions like changing the schedule and assigning roles.

When an adorer stops coming, the better move is usually to block their account. A blocked adorer cannot sign in, is not sent substitute invitations, and is not included in bulk messages, but all of their history stays intact. Captains can still do that, and an administrator can delete the account if it truly needs to go.

It now includes open substitute requests, too. While the Substitute Finder is still looking for someone to cover an hour, that substitute request appears on your parish website under a new Substitute Requests tab, each one with its own Sign Up button.

Every parish using the widget gets this automatically. And when nobody needs a substitute, the tabs don't appear at all.

Clicking Sign Up opens your calendar to that week and asks the visitor to confirm. Anyone who isn't signed in is invited to sign in or create an account first.

Enjoy! 🎉

Admins and captains can now resend a substitute request, sending one more nudge to everyone at once. Open an active substitute request at Admin » Substitute Requests and click Resend. You'll see exactly who will be contacted before you confirm, including any eligible substitutes the Substitute Finder hasn't reached yet.

It's meant to be a nudge, not a nuisance, so substitutes who already declined are left alone, and each substitute request can only be resent once.

We encourage you to use it sparingly. Adorers who are asked twice for every substitute request learn to tune out the first ask, which is exactly what makes the Substitute Finder effective. Save the resend for the hours that truly need it. 🙏