Sharing your join code

Your join code is the simplest way for a whole congregation to get into Psalmly. It looks like HILLSIDE-7Q2K, it's the same for everyone, and anyone who has it joins as a member. Where an email invitation reaches one person, the join code reaches everyone at once — on a poster in the foyer, an insert in the bulletin, or a word from the front.

You'll find it on the Directory page in the admin sidebar: the code sits at the top with a Copy button, next to Print welcome sheet, which opens the full page.

The welcome sheet

The welcome sheet is the thing to print. It carries your church's name, logo and color, a big QR code, your code and web address, and three short steps — so someone can point their phone's camera at it and be in within a minute.

There are two formats:

• Full-page poster — for a bulletin board or the foyer wall. Sized so the church name and code are readable from across a room.
• Half-page insert — two to a sheet, so one page cut in half gives you two handouts for the bulletin.

If your congregation isn't likely to scan anything, the insert has a No QR — code only option that swaps the QR for the code in large type and rewrites the first step to match.

The sheets are designed to survive a normal office printer: they're readable in black and white, so you don't need color, and there's no light-gray text to disappear on a photocopy.

You can also Download QR on its own if you'd rather put it in your own slides, a newsletter, or the church's Facebook page.

What happens when someone scans it

The QR opens a page showing your church — its name, photo, and where you are — and one button. If they're new to Psalmly they create an account and then tap once to join. If they're already signed in, it's a single tap. Nobody has to type the code, and nobody has to find your church in a list.

Once they've joined, that same page offers them the Psalmly app for their phone, which is where they'll get prayer requests and the bulletin during the week.

The code is public on purpose

Anyone with your join code can join your church. That's the point of it — treat it the way you treat your church's phone number. You put it where you want people to find it, and you don't put it where you don't.

Two things worth knowing:

• Publishing is the gate. The scannable page only works once your church's public page is published. Until then the code still works inside Psalmly, so you can bring your first few people in before you're ready to go public.
• Joining doesn't make anyone an admin. People who join with the code come in as members. Admin roles are granted deliberately, by a lead admin, from the Directory — see Managing your church directory.

If you'd rather bring someone in individually — or grant them an admin role as they join — use Invite by email instead.

Changing your code

If a code has gone somewhere you didn't intend, you can replace it. On the Join code & welcome sheet page, choose Change code. You'll get a new one straight away.

Anything already printed with the old code stops working, so it's worth doing deliberately rather than casually. But it isn't a dead end for anyone: someone who scans an old poster months later is told your join code has changed and is pointed at your church's page, so they can still find you and ask for the current one.

After changing it, print a fresh welcome sheet and swap out what's on the wall.

If someone can't get in

• "That code doesn't match a church." Almost always a typo. The last four characters never use the letters I, L or O, or the numbers 0 or 1 — those are the usual mix-ups. Check what they typed against what's printed.
• They're signed in as the wrong account. The join page shows which account they're using, with a Not you? link to switch.
• Nothing happens when they scan. Check your public page is published, and that the poster carries your current code.