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A recent update to our Church App added push notifications to group chats. (don't have the app? Get it here.) When someone posts in a group, provided you are signed in and have notifications turned on, you can receive a ping on your phone. This update means groups are far more useful and our Church App is (almost) a one stop shop for Bentley Baptist Digital! (That's not actually a thing but it sounds groovy.)

You’ll need an active Tithely account to access this feature. You can register or reset your password at this link (use your email as this is a separate login to Elvanto): https://tithe.ly/user/password 

(Unfortunately, you can’t currently reset your password in the app.)

Creating an account has a couple of advantages. Apart from participating in group chats, it also lets you save any user notes you make in Sermon Notes, and it’s easy to use the credit card payment services in Tithely (although we encourage regular giving via direct debit to save fees).

Not sure where to start? Under 'All Groups' scroll down to 'General Chat' and choose 'Join Group'.  This is a group for general church discussion and questions.

If you think this feature might be useful for your Discipleship Group or ministry team, let me know and we’ll set you up.

I Thought We Used Elvanto!? What's This 'Tithely'?

Elvanto was bought by a company called Tithely a few years ago. Tithely’s plan was to merge the Elvanto and Tithely platforms but the underlying software was just too different and this wasn’t possible (‘You don’t put new wine in old wineskins’ applies to technology, apparently). At the moment there are things each does better and so we use both but this does mean, unfortunately, that you need a separate account for each.

I’ll explain more about our technology strategy in an upcoming post, for those who are interested. If you have a question, let me know!