Joining a church
The ways to join a church in Psalmly — scanning your church's QR code or opening its link, typing a join code, or accepting an emailed invitation.
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Here’s how to join your church on Psalmly.
Your church gives you a way in: a welcome sheet, a join link, or an email invitation. Don’t have one? Ask the church office for your church’s join link.
Tap the link, or scan the square on the sheet with your phone’s camera. Your church’s page opens.
Tap “Create your account.” Type your name, your email and a password, then tap “Create account.”
We’ll email you a six-digit code. Find it in your email, and type it in.
Then tap the button that says “Ask to join” and your church’s name. Your request is in. An admin at your church will let you in.
While you wait, get the free Psalmly app, and sign in with the same email and password. Or, to skip the app, tap “Go to your home.” Either way, your church is there, marked “Waiting for approval.”
As soon as an admin lets you in, we’ll let you know. Then tap your church, then “Open.”
Invited by email? Tap the button in the email, then “Create an account,” and tap “Join.” Only have a code? Get the app, create your account, and type it in “Your join code.” Already on Psalmly? Tap “I already have an account.”
Welcome to your church on Psalmly.
However you join, the church appears under Your churches on your dashboard once you're in as a member. (If your church approves new members, that's once an admin approves you.)
Scan your church's code
The easiest way. Many churches put a welcome sheet on a bulletin board or in the bulletin — your church's name, a square QR code, and a short web address.
Point your phone's camera at the square (you don't need a special app — the normal camera does it) and tap the link that appears. You'll see your church's page with one button. If you're new to Psalmly, create an account first, then tap once to join.
If you'd rather type than scan, the same sheet prints a short address like
psalmly.app/j/HILLSIDE-7Q2K. Type it into any browser and you'll land in the same place.
Type a join code
If someone gave you just the code — it looks like HILLSIDE-7Q2KMP — sign in and type it into
the Your join code box on your dashboard, then tap Join. If you're already in a church,
use Add a church → Join with a code instead. A church's code is the same for everyone in
that church.
If your church approves new members
Many churches approve each new member before they're in. If yours does, the button says Ask to join, and after you tap it you'll see Your request is in. Your church shows up on your home as Waiting for approval until an admin at the church approves you.
We'll let you know as soon as you're in: a notification on your phone (if you have the app), a note in your Updates, and a welcome email. Then your church appears under Your churches.
While you're waiting you can't see anything inside the church yet. If you asked by mistake, choose Cancel request. If your request isn't approved, you'll get a note in your Updates saying so.
Accept an email invitation
If an admin invited you directly, you'll get an email with a link. Opening it shows you the church — its name, its logo, and the role you're being given — with one button to accept. Nothing happens until you press it. Targeted invitations can also grant an admin role, and they're tied to the email address they were sent to.
A few things to know about invitations:
- They're personal to the invited email address.
- They expire after a couple of weeks — ask the admin to resend if yours has lapsed.
- Once you've accepted, the invitation is used up; the church simply appears on your dashboard.
If your code doesn't work
- "That code doesn't match a church." Usually a typo. The characters after the hyphen never use the letters I, L or O, or the numbers 0 or 1 — those are the easiest to mistake. Check again against what's printed.
- "This church's join code has changed." The poster you scanned is out of date. The page will point you at your church's own page so you can still find them — ask at the welcome desk for the current code.
- It says you're signed in as someone else. Tap Not you? on the join page to switch accounts.
After joining
Open the church from your dashboard to step into its member space — the prayer board, events to RSVP to, groups to join, announcements and bulletins to read, the directory to get to know people, and giving if your church has it turned on.
It's worth getting the Psalmly app on your phone too — it puts the prayer board, the bulletin, and this week's events in your pocket. (The bulletin lands quietly in your Updates inbox and by email rather than as a phone alert.)
If you ever want to leave a church, open your dashboard, tap the … menu on that church's
card, and choose Leave church.