Adding a Household to Empower
After getting your Church details set up in Empower, one of the first things you’ll need to do is begin adding Households into the system.
If you are transitioning from Powerchurch Software or from another Church Management Software, be sure to contact us about transferring that data for you. Our import function and our technical support team will be happy to help.
If you are importing from another management software, Households might be known as Families.
If you’re ready to add your first Household, let’s walk through those steps together.
Navigate to the Households page via Membership in the Top Menu. Once you’ve arrived there, find the Page Menu. These are just right of the Page Title.
To add a Household, we will click on the Add button.
When you click Add, a pop-up window will appear. It will ask you to Enter the names of the people in the new household. Enter the names of each person by clicking on Add Another Member for each person needed. You can also set Roles for each person in the Household.
The default role will be Primary Adult. This designation will signify the head of household. You can set more than one Primary Adult per household. The alternative designation is a Child.
When you’ve finished entering people, click on the Next button.
The next screen will prompt you for Household information. Remember, this is for the group, not for each individual.
The next screen will allow you to put in specific information for each individual member of the household. You can edit names, gender, phone numbers, and more.
Be sure to click through each individual member on the left to edit their information. When you have completed each person, click on the Finish button.
Updating Existing Households
Once you’ve added your Household(s), you might still need to go back and edit for specific details. For example: when adding a member, you will not be prompted for custom attributes (click here for more on adding attributes to households).
To fill these in, you will need to edit the Household. To do this, simply navigate to the Household to edit, find the detail you’d like to edit, and click the pencil icon or the three blue dots icon nearest that profile field. Edit your details and click Save.
Household Status
The Household Status is used to designate the membership status for the Household. Sometimes this might vary even across members of the same household. Each person’s Status can also be edited separately.
To add and edit applicable statuses, navigate starting at the Top Menu to Utilities> Options>Membership>Household. Click on Household Statuses in the left-hand Navigation Pane.
The Household’s Status is shown just below their Name(s) on their profile page.