Events
Run events, manage bookings, and take payments — all in one place
From time slots to paid tickets, Church Loop helps you run modern church events without the admin chaos.
Church events shouldn't be stressful to manage — and they shouldn't stop at sign-up.
With Church Loop, you can create structured events, control capacity, take payments directly, and automatically follow up with every attendee.
No spreadsheets. No manual tracking. No disconnected tools. Everything lives in one system — built for real church use.
Core capabilities
Time Slot Booking
Run structured events with full control.
- Create multiple time slots within a single event
- Set capacity per time slot — overbooking is blocked automatically
- Let people choose their preferred time
- See exactly who is attending each slot
- Ideal for kids groups, sensory sessions, small group sign-ups, one-to-one bookings, and family events
Choose a session
Capacity is enforced per slot — no overcrowding, no paper lists.
Early bird · Adult ticket
Paid status saved on the person — your team sees it instantly.
Built-in Payments
Take payments directly through Church Loop — no third-party hop.
- Create paid events or tickets, with pricing per event or ticket type
- People sign up and pay in one flow; funds route to your church
- Track who has paid and who has not
- Payments link to the person record automatically
- Great for conferences, courses, ticketed events, and workshops — stronger commitment, fewer no-shows, less admin
Smart Event Management
Every booking becomes part of your system — automatically.
- Every attendee becomes a contact in People
- Attendees can be added to groups
- Tags can be applied as soon as they book
- Event history is stored on each person's profile
- No duplicate entry and no dropped data between tools
New booking · Alex Morgan
Profile created or updated · event stored on timeline · ready for journeys and messaging.
Alpha · Week 3 · Ended
6 no-shows · gentle "we missed you" queued
Built-in Follow-Up
Turn every event into ongoing connection.
- Trigger journeys after someone attends (or if they do not show)
- Send thank-you email or SMS from the same place you ran the event
- Invite people to a clear next step — Sunday, course, small group
- Assign follow-up tasks to staff or volunteers with ownership and due dates
Seamless Sign-Up Experience
Simple for your team and simple for guests.
- Clean, mobile-friendly sign-up
- Time slot choice built into the flow
- Payment completed in the same journey when the event is paid
- Low friction — fewer abandoned sign-ups
Grotto visit
Pick a slot
Full Visibility
Know exactly what is happening across your events.
- See who has signed up and who still owes payment
- Track capacity per slot so rooms and teams stay safe and calm
- View paid versus unpaid at a glance
- Monitor engagement across events without exporting spreadsheets
A full event system — not just a form
Bookings, slots, payments, people, and follow-up in one place.
- Typical tools only collect sign-ups, may bolt on payments, and rarely connect to pastoral follow-up
- Church Loop manages bookings, time slots, and payments together
- Attendees are tracked, journeys can start automatically, and your team sees one truthful picture
Typical tools
- Sign-ups only, or payments bolted on
- Little or no link to follow-up
- Data stuck outside your people records
Church Loop
- Slots, bookings, and payments together
- Attendees become contacts with history
- Journeys and tasks for what happens next
Everything works together
Church Loop isn't a collection of tools — it's one connected system.
- Forms feed into People
- People go into Groups
- Groups trigger Journeys
- Journeys send Email and SMS
- Events connect everything