{"id":39510,"date":"2025-12-11T12:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/help\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/general-system-settings\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:52:06","password":"","slug":"general-system-settings","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/allgemein-system-einstellungen\/general-system-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"General system settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Under <em>General<\/em>, you define the basic settings that make the first impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Church information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is where you maintain general information about your church, such as <em>name<\/em>, <em>logo<\/em>, address, or contact details. The data you enter here is automatically synchronized with your public parish profile in <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/website-and-finder\/public-relations\/overview-of-public-relations\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7704\">Public Relations<\/a> and vice versa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Campuses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your church community has additional campuses, you can create them here and then enter further information about them in the <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/website-and-finder\/public-relations\/how-to-create-and-edit-our-public-profile\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/website-und-finder\/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit\/wie-erstelle-und-bearbeite-ich-unser-offentliches-profil\/\">public campus profiles<\/a> in the <em>Public Relations<\/em> section. We explain what campuses are in the article <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/allgemein-system-einstellungen\/what-are-person-statuses-campuses-and-departments-in-churchtools\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7650\">What are person statuses, campuses and departments in ChurchTools?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Salutation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What <em>welcome message<\/em> should your users be greeted with before they log in? You can enter it here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also formulate an <em>admin message on Login and Start page<\/em>, e.g. for a planned downtime, and customize the text of your <em>invitation e-mail<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can store a <em>welcome message<\/em> for the <em><em>Start page<\/em><\/em> and a <em>subtitle<\/em> for it, decide which <em>widgets<\/em> should be displayed on your <em>Start page<\/em> on the web and <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/allgemein-system-einstellungen\/how-do-i-fill-the-links-widget-and-authorize-users-for-it\/\" id=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/system-einstellungen\/allgemein-system-einstellungen\/wie-fulle-ich-das-widgets-links-und-berechtige-nutzer-dafur\/\">store links for the \u201cLinks\u201d widget<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Registration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Under <em>Registration<\/em>, you define all the <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/general-system-settings\/how-do-i-store-registration-settings\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"25065\">settings for self-registration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you can make further settings for the <em>license key<\/em>, your <em>time zone<\/em> and the <em>start page for users who are not logged in<\/em>. This is the first page that a public user sees. After Login, the <em><em>Start page<\/em><\/em> is displayed by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-artikel-zum-weiterlesen has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-89fd719a wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:8px;background-color:#f9fafb;margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:24px;padding-top:32px;padding-right:24px;padding-bottom:32px;padding-left:24px\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Read more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/website-and-finder\/public-relations\/overview-of-public-relations\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7704\">Overview of public relations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/allgemein-system-einstellungen\/what-are-person-statuses-campuses-and-departments-in-churchtools\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7650\">What are person statuses, campuses and departments in ChurchTools?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/general-system-settings\/how-do-i-store-registration-settings\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"25065\">How to store registration settings?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/system-settings\/general-system-settings\/how-to-create-and-edit-a-campus\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7658\">How to create and edit a campus?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under General, you define the basic settings that make the first impression. Church information This is where you maintain general information about your church, such as name, logo, address, or contact details. The data you enter here is automatically synchronized with your public parish profile in Public Relations and vice versa. 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