Recent Features

Recent Features

This page highlights newer capabilities in the Communicate App. For a narrative overview of the latest release, start with What's New — October 2026. Full how-to details are in the linked guides below.

1. AI Copy Generation (Plus)

Click ✨ Generate on a campaign or communication to draft copy in your Church Voice. Choose length, emojis, and hashtags, compare Option A and Option B, and give feedback to regenerate. Owners, Admins, and Editors can generate once an Owner or Admin turns on AI Features and sets up Church Voice.

  • Where: Campaign page → Campaign Messaging; communication → Copy; setup in Admin Console → Church Profile → AI Features
  • Guide: AI Copy Generation

2. Requests (Plus)

Build forms, collect ministry promotion requests in Inbox, and optionally Generate campaign after you approve—without replacing Campaigns or Calendar. No public form link.

3. Campaign approval

Tag one person to sign off on a campaign (Waiting for approval / Approved), including from the Campaigns list with bulk Send for approval. Distinct from a request’s Approved status.

  • Where: Campaign page → Send for Approval
  • Guide: Campaigns

4. Assignments hub (Plus)

One list for campaign, communication, and owned request work. List (Today / This week / Later) or Board. Handling modal for person, progress, due date, and comments. Unassigned requests stay in Inbox.

5. Richer comments (Plus)

One-level replies, file attachments, thumbs-up, and @mentions. Campaign/communication comments live on the assignment row. Requests: Updates (shared) vs Comments (team-only).

6. Unlimited Viewers

Viewers are unlimited on every plan. Team seats stay Essentials 1 / Plus 5. Invite from Admin Console → Teams (Members vs Viewers).

7. Channel Preferences (Essentials and Plus)

Set a preferred day, optional preferred time, and blocked days per channel, per campus—so new communications land on the rhythm your church actually uses.

8. Channel Schedules (Plus)

Create named, repeating Schedules on the calendar (weekly email, first-Sunday newsletter, and similar). Optional lock keeps communications inside the Schedule.

9. Smart Templates (Plus)

Smart Templates replace the old week-grid-only model for new work. Anchor to campaign Start or End, drag channels onto a timeline, and let Communicate place communications using your Channel Preferences and Schedules on apply.

  • Legacy Templates remain for existing workflows but will be deprecated soon.
  • Convert — On the Templates list, Legacy rows include Convert to Smart Template in the ⋮ menu.
  • Templates page — List with All / Smart / Legacy chips, sortable Title / Category / Duration / Comms, search, and category filter.
  • Where: Templates → New → Smart template; apply from a campaign with Template Preview
  • Guides: Quick Start: Smart Templates · Smart Templates · Release overview

10. Template Preview

Before applying any template on a campaign, Template Preview shows ghost placements on the Communications Calendar. Drag to adjust, resolve conflicts, then Apply.

  • Where: Campaign → + Apply Template → choose a template
  • Guide: Templates

11. Communication time and notes

Set an optional time on a communication (shown on calendar pills). Add collapsible rich-text Notes in the entry modal for planning context separate from copy.

  • Where: Click any communication on the Calendar or Campaign Schedule
  • Guide: Communications

12. Category access for team members

Limit Managers, Editors, and Viewers to specific categories. Full guide: User Permissions and Roles.

13. Calendar view options and channel catalog

The Calendar View menu toggles Global, Campus, Drafts, and Completed communications. Filter chips remove active filters quickly. Channels now use a catalog of preset types with per-campus opt-in on Plus.

14. Channel Delete and Remove

Delete (single-campus or Global) and Remove (campus opt-out) now show an impact confirmation before anything changes—counts of communications that will be deleted, template placements that will lose the channel, and (for campus Remove) global communications that will only unlink this campus. Type DELETE or REMOVE when data will be destroyed. Global delete stays blocked until campuses with real usage Remove first.

15. Help menu and Viewer navigation

Help (sidebar, bottom) opens Setup Guide, User Docs, Training Videos, Feature Request, Report a Bug, and Contact (exact items depend on your role).

Viewers see a focused sidebar: Calendar, Campaigns, Requests (Plus), and Help. See User Permissions and Roles.

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