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Can each specific church in the organization have their own site?

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Hi,

My church is a multi church site with locations all over the world. As you can imagine each church has their own campaigns that they are running locally and their own local activities mutually exclusive from what is going on in other churches. Will Rock be able to support this type of structure?

Such as www.organizationname.com/churchlocation

for a specific church? it looks like the CMS system that its built on top off would be able to support this but I wanted to make sure.

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  • Photo of Jeremy Hoff

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    Hi Victor,

    Great info - thank you.  These responses presume you will be using a single instance for all of your church locations:

    "Off the top of my head I am thinking that the Global Church name would be the same, Main Address, Possibly the same layout."

    So far, RockRMS can handle all this.  If you need multiple layouts, you could do this on a per-page and/or per-URL basis.  In other words, Rock can host multiple "sites" each with their own theme.

    "or example , we have churches all over Cuba and when they come to a church in the USA that specific might run a specific ad campaign for that missionary mutually exclusive from all the other churches in the USA (they might be helping other missionaries, etc) "

    We're still good.  Ad Campaigns can apply to any or all campuses for your website.

    "tithes online we would want it to go to the acount of the specific church that they attend."

    So far we are batting 1,000.  RockRMS can host as many "Accounts" as you need, so that each campus can have one or more separate funds in which to accept donations.  See thse under Finance > Accounts.

    "Youth activities that are local to a church are not the same for a multi-site church organization.  Does this make sense?"

    Yes, it makes perfect sense to me. :-)  Since Ad Campaigns can be linked to Events, and Ad Campaigns are linked to a campus, filtering events for each campus Site should fit nicely.

    I hope that helps?

  • Photo of Victor Diaz

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    Off the top of my head I am thinking that the Global Church name would be the same, Main Address, Possibly the same layout. What I am expecting to be different is the giving we do in each church. For example , we have churches all over Cuba and when they come to a church in the USA that specific might run a specific ad campaign for that missionary mutually exclusive from all the other churches in the USA (they might be helping other missionaries, etc) 

    Off the bat I am seeing that being different for each church, also if people wanted to give their tithes online we would want it to go to the acount of the specific church that they attend. Youth activities that are local to a church are not the same for a multi-site church organization.

    Does this make sense?

  • Photo of Jeremy Hoff

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    Hi Victor,

    The documentation is forthcoming: Designing & Building Websites with Rock (http://www.rockrms.com/Rock/Learn) 

    For the time being, you will want to review the default settings found in RockRMS > Admin > CMS Configuration > Sites.  Note that each Site has defined "Domains" -- if your DNS settings point a particular domain name to your RockRMS installation, this area will direct each URL to the assigned start page.

    The pages and such require a little more than I can answer shortly here -- more to come!

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    Hi Victor,

    Off the cuff, I think RockRMS may work nicely.  To be certain, can you explain what parts of your church website will be the same across all campuses, and what parts will be different?

    Thank you,

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    Oh man that is awesome. Is there documentation on how to do the routing for each site that Rock hosts? I was messing around with the sites on the CMS configuration but it was a tad bit confusing on how to get to the page that had just gotten created. I know page/1 was the default one but I could not get a new page that I had just added.