Set up Kids rooms, services and pickup

Kids leaders set up Kids under Settings › Kids. Start with the rooms, then pick the services with check-in. Owners and admins are Kids leaders already; anyone else needs Kids access as a manager, with two-step sign-in.

Rooms

Add each room children go to: Nursery, Toddlers, Preschool, Elementary. For each one:

• Ages, from the youngest to the oldest in months, or grades. A child goes to the room their age or grade fits; a child who was in a room last week stays there while they still fit. Grades move up by themselves on your church's grade-change day.
• Holds: how many children at most.
• One adult to: the ratio, like one adult to four toddlers.
• At least: the fewest adults in the room, two by default. A child who needs one-to-one care counts as needing an adult of their own.
• When full, send to: the room to suggest once this one is full.
• Staffed by: the Serve positions whose people work this room. They're offered at the room's iPad to tap I'm here, and count toward the ratio when they're old enough and nothing on their requirements blocks them that day.
• Color: one of six. Each comes with a deep shade for the room's iPad, so white words on it are always easy to read. Status never relies on color alone.

Services

Under Services with check-in, pick the kinds of service that have Kids. Every time of those services becomes its own check-in (the 9:00 and the 11:00), and the stations pick the right one by the clock. Check-in opens sets how early, an hour by default. A family keeps one code and one page number all day, so a child staying for the 11:00 keeps theirs.

Add a Saturday party or a VBS night under Kids-only events: check-in with no service.

Pickup

Pickup always needs the code on the receipt; a Kids leader okays anything else. A name on a child's "do not release to" list shows in red at every pickup. Choose how many minutes after a service ends the Kids leaders hear about children still checked in; they hear again by email two hours after.