Creating your church
How to create a church in Psalmly, what each setup field means, and how to invite your first members.
Creating a church makes you its first admin. It takes a couple of minutes, and you can refine everything afterwards from the church's profile.
Start the wizard
Choose Create a church from your dashboard. The wizard walks you through the basics and saves your progress as you go.
What you'll set up
- Name and handle — your church's name and its web handle (for example
psalmly.app/your-church). The handle must be unique; Psalmly checks availability as you type. - Details — denomination, a short tagline, and an "about" description. These help members recognise the church and, later, help the assistant answer questions about you.
- Contact and location — email, phone, website, social links, and address.
- Time zone — used so service times and (later) events show correctly.
- Service times — your regular gatherings. A single service can list more than one start time (for example 9:30 AM & 11:00 AM).
Inviting your first members
Every church has one shareable member join code that anyone can use to join as a member — share it however you like. For specific people (including other admins), send a targeted email invitation instead; those are tied to the person's email and can carry an admin role. You can do both during setup or any time afterwards.
Publishing
A new church starts unpublished, so you can get it right before anyone sees it. Members you invite can still join; publishing controls public visibility of the church profile.
After creating
You become the church's lead (its founding admin). From the admin area you can edit the church profile, manage your people and their roles in the Directory, and run announcements, bulletins, events, groups, prayer, giving, and your public page.