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WebLink Overview

Fellowship One WebLink extends the functionality of Fellowship One to your community through your church website. It allows your church to provide self-service to the following:

• Contacting the church (initiating a contact item in Fellowship One),
• Finding activities/small groups,
• Managing groups,
• Registering for events and completing surveys,
• Volunteering for activities, and giving.
• By utilizing WebLink, you enable people to interact directly with Fellowship One through your church website. All information submitted through WebLink is captured in a person's Fellowship One records.

Online Features

The following is a high-level description of the available online features:.

Before a user can access most of the online tools, Login appears if the user has not already logged in. Once logged in, the user can access the following:

• Event Registration—allows people to register and pay any associated fees for events through the church website.
  • In Fellowship One, you can create a registration for any activity. You can also create custom questions to “upsell” related materials or solicit donations.
  • Online, a person can see and register all members of his or her household.
  • A person can add a new household member if he or she is not listed in the initial household view.
  • Each household member registration is held in a queue and all registrations can be submitted together simultaneously.
  • After registering all desired household members, the web user need only submit payment information one time for all registrations.

• Online Giving—allows people to make donations through the church website.
  • Recurring tithe schedules can be configured and are fulfilled through a credit or debit card transaction.
  • Each schedule is tied to a fund created in Fellowship One and consists of amount, frequency, fund name to apply contribution to, and credit card data.
  • Multiple schedules can be created for each available fund.
• Volunteer Application—allows online users to apply for volunteer positions.
  • Allows selection of one or more available volunteer opportunities.
  • Personal information is displayed and can be verified by the volunteer.
  • Consents to background checks must be completed if required by the selected volunteer opportunities.
  • Personal references and consents to reference checks must be completed if required by the selected volunteer opportunities.
• Relationship Manager—allows web users to write notes within the context of a counseling/mentoring relationship. Typically used by the counselor/mentor to record notes on the relationship and its progress.
• Profile Editor—allows a user to change all aspects of his or her profile including address, phone number, email address, WebLink user ID and password.
• Sign out—deletes the cookie created after a successful login. If the user tries to launch any of the modules that require login, he will be prompted to re-login.

The following two module does not require the web user to be logged in before accessing:

• Contact Form—allows online users to contact the church by selecting from a list of pre-configured interest or request items.
  • Does not require a user to be logged in. If he or she is not logged in, an interface to input contact information is provided. If logged in, this interface is pre-populated with the information stored for the web user in Fellowship One. (The user has the ability to change these values if any need to be updated.)
  • Interest or request items can be selected from a drop-down list, which is generated from the contact items created for the contact form. All items are completely customizeable by your church.
  • The submission of a contact form notifies the responsible ministry leader of an open contact in his or her My Tasks area on the Home page of the portal.