Register For an Account

The Account Registration block can be accessed by clicking the Register button from the Login page, or by going to https://yourchurch.com/NewAccount.

As pictured below, the person will be asked to create a Username and Password, as well as some information about themselves. This page is simple and easy to understand, which is by design. If account creation is a complex process, people may be less likely to complete it.

Account Registration Page

While the page looks simple, there’s actually quite a bit going on behind the scenes. The block settings pictured below give you an idea of what this block does, and lets you change it to suit your needs.

Account Registration Block Settings

  1. Name - You can change the name of the block here. Typically, the block name is only visible to administrators.
  2. Require Email For Username - Enable this option to force an email address to be used as the person’s username. That means the person will log in with ted.decker@rocksolidchurchdemo.com rather than tdecker. A person can still provide an email address as their username if this option is disabled.
  3. Username Field Label - Instead of the "Username" label, you can change it to something like "Email Address" or "Username/Email". You might want to change this if you’ve enabled the Require Email For Username setting described above, to ensure the person knows what they’re being asked to provide.
  4. Check For Duplicates - Enabling this will compare the information provided by the person to existing records in Rock. If a match is found, it’s likely the person already has a record. The person will be given a list of existing records with matching information, so they can select themselves if they already exist. This duplicate checking is disabled for people with certain Account Protection Profile levels, as defined in your Security Settings.
  5. Connection Status - If a new record is created in Rock according to the information the person provides, this is the connection status that will be applied to the record.
  6. Record Status - Like the Connection Status, this is the status that will be applied to a new person’s record.
  7. Show Address - The address fields will be added to the page if this is enabled, allowing the person to provide their address.
  8. Location Type - This setting only applies if Show Address is enabled. This will be the type of location assigned to the address the person provides.
  9. Address Required - You can choose to make the person’s address optional or required by adjusting this setting. This setting only applies if Show Address is enabled.
  10. Show Phone Numbers - Similar to the Show Address setting, you can choose whether or not the person can provide one or more phone numbers. There are additional settings related to phone numbers, which we’ll describe below.
  11. Minimum Age - Only people who are this age or older can create a new account. We very strongly recommend keeping this set at 13 or higher. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act disallows children under the age of 13 from giving out personal information without their parents' permission.
  12. Phone Types - If Show Phone Numbers is enabled, this is where you can select which phone types to display.
  13. Phone Types Required - You can select which phone types are required or optional. For instance, you can make a mobile number required, while home and work phone numbers are optional.
  14. Show Campus - Enabling Show Campus allows the person to select a campus when filling out the form.
  15. Campus Selector Label - You can also change the Campus Selector Label if you call your campuses something else. For instance, you could call it “Home Church” or “Site”.
  16. Campus Types and Statuses - If you're displaying campuses, here you can limit which campuses are shown by Type and Status. For instance, you may want to show only Physical campuses that are Open.
  17. Save Communication History - This simply indicates whether communications from this block should be saved to the person's communication history.
  18. Show Gender - Gender is shown by default, but you can choose to hide it by changing this setting.
  19. Attribute Categories - Attributes associated with the categories you select here will be available on the account registration form for the person to fill out.
  20. Disable Username Availability Checking - Selecting Yes does not mean multiple people can have the same username. This only affects the real-time warning that appears when the person provides their desired username, prior to submitting the form. Disabling this may help avoid performance issues because Rock won't need to scan all usernames in the system while the person completes the form.
  21. Disable Captcha Support - If Yes is selected, Captcha verification will be skipped. For more details see the Rock Captcha article.
  22. Require Campus - If you're including a Campus field, this setting determines whether it's required. If the Campus field is disabled based on the Show Campus setting above, this setting has no effect.
  23. Show Birth Date - If you want the person to provide a birthdate you can enable that here.
  24. Captions - You can customize the messages that people see by changing the text here. There are different messages depending on the person’s scenario. Generally, you shouldn’t need to make changes to these settings.
  25. Email Templates - Rock ships with email templates for forgotten usernames, account confirmations and account creation. If you want to use a different template for any of these, you can make the change here.
  26. Pages - By default, these are blank. You can direct the person to Confirmation and Login pages of your choosing by selecting the desired page here. If no other page is selected, Confirmation Page will take the person to /ConfirmAccount and Login Page will take the person to /Login.

After an account has been created it can be viewed from the Person Profile Security tab and the User Accounts page. Staff can add new accounts or modify existing accounts from these pages.