Shepherd’s Staff Attendance: WebTools, Check-in, and More (2026)

November 9, 2026

Learn how to take attendance without the church office: enter batches online with WebTools, let members check themselves in at a kiosk, and run secure check-in and check-out for Sunday school. Then analyze your attendance trends in Explore. This is session 2 of the Attendance module in the Shepherd's Staff training webinar series from Concordia Technology Solutions. Instructor: Tim Burke, CTS Support. Recorded live on October 29, 2026. All names and data shown are from a fictional demo database. You'll learn how to: • Register your database and sync WebTools (requires an active support plan) • Enter attendance batches online from anywhere, then import and post them at the church • Set up a self check-in kiosk for members, returning visitors and first-time visitors • Customize the kiosk: church name, welcome message, image, colors and exit PIN • Run secure Sunday school check-in with matching child and guardian labels • Chart weekly and monthly attendance and copy graphs into reports • View attendance by person, by week, by year and by age group • Find people by attendance behavior (no attendance, perfect attendance, missed a few) • Clean up detail records older than 10 years and combine attendance for duplicate records CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and agenda 3:53 Workspace settings 5:06 WebTools: what it is 6:49 Registering your database 8:29 Support status and what data syncs 11:02 Syncing and opening your WebTools portal 13:09 Entering an attendance batch online 22:22 Marking a WebTools batch ready 25:29 Importing and posting the batch 28:15 Kiosk check-in overview 30:11 Self check-in and secure check-in modes 31:20 Self check-in kiosk tour 33:40 Kiosk settings: name, image, colors, PIN 38:10 Setting up an event for kiosk check-in 42:03 Member and visitor check-in 48:23 Secure check-in for Sunday school 51:06 Printing check-in labels 56:45 Checking children out 58:46 Posting kiosk batches 59:13 Explore: weekly and monthly attendance 1:04:40 Explore: attendance by person 1:08:27 Explore: attendance by age group 1:09:01 Attendance behavior report 1:12:35 Cleaning up old attendance data 1:15:43 Combining attendance for duplicate records 1:18:49 Quiz 1:24:07 Q&A and wrap-up MORE SHEPHERD'S STAFF TRAINING All sessions: https://www.concordiatechnology.org/shepherds-staff/training Help Center: https://shepherdsstaff.zendesk.com/hc/en-us Resource Center: https://resources.concordiatechnology.org/shepherds-staff NEED HELP? Shepherd's Staff Support: 1.800.346.6120 | support@cts.cph.org #ShepherdsStaff #ChurchCheckIn #LCMS

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