Admin panel tour

When you sign in for the first time you see Ministrium’s admin panel with a side menu organized by area. This page describes what each menu section does, in the order it appears, so you can orient yourself without having to open them all blindly.

The top bar

• Church logo and name. On the left. Clicking it always takes you to the executive panel.
• Campus selector. If your church has multiple campuses and your role can see them, a dropdown appears that filters the entire panel to a specific campus or shows aggregated.
• Global search. Top center. Searches by name, email, phone, member code, or donation number across the entire church.
• Notifications. Bell in the top-right corner. Actions that need your attention: failed recurrences, batches to close, expired invitations.
• Your profile. Avatar at the top right. Personal settings, interface language, MFA, sign out.

Side menu sections

What you see depends on your role and the most relevant module for you. The default order is:

Executive panel

The home screen. Key metrics for the church (or the selected campus): last week’s attendance, total raised this month, new members, upcoming events. Designed so the pastor or admin understands in 10 seconds how the church is doing.

CRM

People, households, and the assimilation pipeline. Subsections:

• Members — the full list with filters by status, ministry, campus, baptism date, etc.
• Households — view grouped by family.
• Prospects — visitors and contacts in the pipeline.
• Pipeline — the assimilation stages and the prospects in each one.
• Import / Export — bidirectional CSV.

Attendance and Kiosk

• Today’s events — which services or meetings have active check-in today.
• Attendance dashboard — live numbers during the service.
• Kiosk tablet — the URL to open on the entrance tablet.
• Attendance reports — weekly, monthly, and annual trends.

Child Check-in

Variant of attendance with safeguards for minors. Configuration subsections (age ranges, tags, pickup authorizations) and operation during the service.

Donations

• Received — all donations in the period, with filters.
• Recurring — active subscriptions, upcoming charges, and failed recurrences.
• Batches — accounting groups, open and closed.
• Tax-deductible receipts — bulk and individual generation.
• QR Generator — create QRs for services and events.
• Settings — Stripe Connect, purposes, currencies.

Events and Services

• Calendar — monthly and weekly view of services and events.
• Create event — online registration, capacity, waitlist.
• Regular services — weekly services with their order of service and teams.

Cell Groups

Hierarchical structure of cells, leaders, supervisors, and weekly reports.

Communications

• Email — campaigns, templates, metrics.
• WhatsApp — active sessions, outgoing and incoming messages.
• Automations — event-driven triggers (new member, failed donation, etc.).
• Lists — reusable dynamic segmentations.

Reports

Executive cross-module dashboards, operational per-module reports, and CSV or JSON exports.

Church

General configuration:

• Settings — legal data, branding, language, time zone.
• Campuses — physical locations. Create, edit, mark primary.
• Team — staff users with their roles. This is where you invite collaborators.
• Compliance — DPA, BAA, privacy policy.
• Subscription — plan, billing cycle, payment method.

Integrations

Connection with QuickBooks, Stripe (already connected if you went through the Quick Start), WhatsApp Business, SendGrid, Google Calendar.

Audit

Immutable log of every critical action. Filters by user, date, module, and action type. Visible only to the admin, pastor, accountant, and finance roles. See Audit and logs.

Keyboard shortcuts

Next steps

• Import members — if you haven’t yet, upload your member base.
• CRM — the full documentation for the central module.
• Reports — the dashboards leadership will check regularly.