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Kids check-in for parents

Your church's kids check-in page is one address you use every week: churchday.com/ followed by your church's custom web address and /kids. Scan the QR code at the kids desk or open the link from your church.

Set up your family (once)

  1. Enter your phone number. The first time, the page goes straight to Set up your family with your number filled in. If you mistyped it and your family is already on file, correcting the number there takes you to your family instead.
  2. Fill in About you. Your name, phone number, and email. Your pickup code and pickup requests are texted to that number (or emailed if it can't be texted); there is nothing to opt into, and you can reply STOP to any text.
  3. Add another parent or guardian (optional). Add their name and phone so either of you can drop off, pick up, or pull up the pickup code with your own number.
  4. Add your kids. For each child: first name, birthday, grade, and whether they have allergies. Choose None or Yes and describe them.
  5. Tap Save family. If a service is open right now, the page goes straight to drop-off. Otherwise it shows your family and what's up next. Each child has an optional Anything the teacher should know? box for things like "shy on the first day" or "grandma picks up on Sundays".

Drop off on Sunday

  1. Enter your phone number at the kids desk or on your own phone.
  2. Tick who you are dropping off. Everyone starts ticked. Untick a child staying with you.
  3. Tap Check in. The pickup code is texted to your number (or emailed if it can't be texted) and shown on screen.
  4. Keep the code. It appears on screen, for example 7K3R, and arrives by text. Show it, or say it, to the teacher at pickup.

Pickup

Tell the teacher your code or show them the text. They see your kids' names and mark them picked up.

Good to know

  • Lost the code? Enter your phone number again on the kids page. It shows today's code with a Text me the code button. Any parent on file in your household can do this.
  • Need to fix a name, birthday, grade, or allergy? Enter your phone number, tap Edit next to the child, change what you need, and tap Save. The kids desk sees the change right away.
  • Wrong family showing? Tap Not you? Try another number at the bottom.
  • "Closed for today"? A volunteer closed check-in for that service. Ask at the kids desk and they can still check your kids in.
  • Someone else dropping off? A grandparent or babysitter can use your phone number, or ask at the kids desk. The desk can send the code to a different number.
  • Adding a child later. Enter your phone number and tap Add a child. To change a child's details, tap Edit next to their name.
  • Changing details. Enter your phone number, tap Edit next to the child, and save. For anything the page won't let you change, ask at the kids desk.

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