We had 47 teens show up Wednesday and our paper sign-in turned into a traffic jam — anyone have a simple QR-style check-in with instant parent contact capture, then auto text reminders for small groups? I’m eyeing Planning Center with Church Center, but if you’ve got a cheaper setup that teens use at the door from 6:30–8:30, talk me through it.
Did this with a QR to a Google Form capturing student + parent cell; Zapier drops them into Textedly lists by small group and fires scheduled reminders, about $25/mo, and it moves 50+ kids through by 6:40. “Planning Center with Church Center, but if you’ve got a cheaper setup that teens use” — this is cheaper and takes about 30 minutes to set up; add a text-consent checkbox. Want the Zap and field list?
, paper sign-in traffic jams drive me nuts too. We moved to one QR that opens a Jotform capturing student + parent cell and small group, pushes to Airtable, and Clearstream (https://clearstream.io) auto-tags and fires the small group texts right at “8:30” — ended up about $35/mo all-in and teens breeze through the door. If you don’t need label printing, this is simpler than Planning Center; do you want returners scanning each week or just first-time capture?