Tracking Event Supporters Separately From People Who Are Actually Attending
Not everyone who gives toward a church event is registering to attend it. mySmartAccessCard tracks financial support and event registration as two distinct, separately-approved flows.
Church programmes are rarely funded only by the people showing up. A member travelling that weekend, a well-wisher in another city, a former member who's since relocated — all of them might want to give toward a conference or a building project without registering as an attendee. Lumping that giving into the same list as paid registrations muddies both numbers: attendance projections get inflated, and giving gets buried inside a list meant for headcount.
mySmartAccessCard keeps these as two separate, independently tracked flows on every event.
Registration
Someone signing up to actually attend the event — pays the registration fee (if any), checks in on the day, and is counted toward attendance.
Support
Someone giving financially toward the event without registering to attend — reviewed and approved through its own queue, kept distinct from headcount.
Why the split matters
Keeping support separate means a church's attendance figures stay honest — the registration count reflects people actually expected to be present — while giving is still fully tracked, reviewed, and reported through its own approval queue in the church dashboard. Both flows are visible in the church-wide insights view, so nothing gets missed just because it wasn't a "registration."
Set this up for any programme through event registration — supporters and attendees are handled correctly from the moment the event is created.
Published 10 Jul 2026 · mysmartaccesscard
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