Changing Service Times Best Practice for Church Metrics

[Tim_Lemons]

Hey everyone. We are getting ready to change our service times from 11:15a to 11:30a.

Can you guys/gals give me options on how you have dealt with that and the pros and cons of doing it that way?

For example, do I just go change the service times from 11:15a to 11:30a? If I do that we won't have a record (in church metrics at least) of when we switched service times and how that impacted attendance.

Should I create a new service time of 11:30a and if so can I delete the old service time of 11:15a but still see that historical data for the deleted service time of 11:15a?

Thanks everyone!

[ScottLesser]

@Tim_Lemons great question! So, Church Metrics is a little wonky in how it handles service times. Records are actually saved independent of their service time. So, if you change a service time in the admin, none of the records are changed.

If you delete the existing service time and add a new one, that will effectively be the same as editing the existing one. Does that answer your question?

For example, do I just go change the service times from 11:15a to 11:30a? If I do that we won't have a record (in church metrics at least) of when we switched service times and how that impacted attendance.

I don't know if I answered the question, I didn't quite understand.

Thanks Tim! We love you're involvement in the community!

[Tim_Lemons]

Thanks @ScottLesser

let me phrase it this way - if you were running church metrics for your church and you were changing from 11:15a service times to 11:30a what would you do?