Workflows

How Parish Bells works

Real parish work, followed step by step through Parish Bells: who does what, on which screen, what the other person sees, and how it ends.

Everyone

Parish office

Vicar

Treasurer

Auditor

Head of family

Member

All 12 workflows

5 steps

A baptism, from request to certificate

The family asks once, naming the child, the parents and the godparents. That request becomes the draft register entry, so nothing is typed twice between the request and the certificate.

A wedding with one party from outside the parish

A partner from elsewhere becomes a member when the marriage is recorded, the couple’s household is settled in the same step, and the anniversary is remembered from then on.

Dues raised, paid by UPI and confirmed into the books

No gateway sits between the family and the parish. The family pays from its own UPI app, says so with the reference number or a screenshot, and the treasurer confirms it against the bank.

A household asks for a login

Only the head of family asks, and only for somebody in the household. The office checks the relation against its own records before anybody gets in.

A family joins the parish online

Most parishes start from an imported register, so the office usually links the request to the family it already holds, keeping the register’s facts unless it chooses otherwise.

Asking the office for a date

A family asks from the phone or the website; the answer comes back to them, with a reason when it is no.

An office carries a role: the committee handover

Access follows the office, not the person. When a term ends the access ends with it, and the next Treasurer has the books from the day the new committee begins.