{"id":56131,"date":"2025-12-16T10:55:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/help\/non-knowledgebase\/uncategorized\/check-in-group-meetings-group-calendar-whats-the-difference\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:14:24","password":"","slug":"check-in-group-meetings-group-calendar-whats-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in-en\/check-in-group-meetings-group-calendar-whats-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Check-in, group meetings, group calendar &#8211; what&#8217;s the difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In order to work smoothly with the Check-in module and make full use of the module&#8217;s possibilities, it is helpful to know the differences between the <strong>Check-in<\/strong> module, the <strong>group meetings<\/strong> of individual groups and the <strong>group calendars<\/strong> from the Calendar module. We explain this difference in this article. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group calendar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You create group calendars in the <strong>Calendar module<\/strong>. You can use these calendars to manage appointments for individual groups. Group members can be given permission to manage a group calendar. You can find more information in the <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/create-administer-calendars\/how-to-create-a-calendar\/#4-toc-title\">Group calendars<\/a> section on our help page <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/create-administer-calendars\/how-to-create-a-calendar\/\">How to create a calendar?<\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#3e70ce;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#f3f5f7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">A calendar appointment does not automatically create a group meeting.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group meeting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You create and manage group meetings via the <strong>Groups module<\/strong>. In the respective group, you can enter attendance and complete meetings under <em>Meetings<\/em>, for example. In our Academy, our <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/group-meetings\/\" data-type=\"doc_category\" data-id=\"304\">help pages for group meetings<\/a> provide you with all the relevant information, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/group-meetings\/how-to-create-edit-a-group-meeting\/\">How to create\/edit a group meeting?<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#3e70ce;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#f3f5f7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">A group meeting does not automatically create a calendar appointment.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Check-in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Check-in is a <strong>separate, additional module for group meetings<\/strong>. It offers a quick overview of attendance at group meetings and provides you with various filter options that allow you to easily show and hide different calendars and groups. You can add new group meetings here, even for existing calendar appointments.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We show you how to manage and use check-in on our <a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in-en\/\" data-type=\"doc_category\" data-id=\"234\">check-in<\/a> help pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-group ct-box ct-box-blue has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-002f1c27 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-radius:8px;border-left-color:#3e70ce;border-left-width:0.5rem;background-color:#f3f5f7;margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0.5rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0rem;margin-left:0.5rem\"><strong>Note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"margin-top:0rem;margin-right:0.5rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;margin-left:0.5rem\">You can use the Check-in module to display group meetings and calendar appointments and record attendance.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\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\/de\/help\/churchtools-module\/check-in\/0-check-in\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7270\">Overview check-in<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in\/system-einstellungen-modul-check-in\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7450\">System settings Check-in module<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/de\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in\/0-checkin-mit-der-app\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7273\">Check-in with the app<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in-en\/connect-label-printer-to-check-in\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"7393\">Connect Label Printer to Check-in<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to work smoothly with the Check-in module and make full use of the module&#8217;s possibilities, it is helpful to know the differences between the Check-in module, the group meetings of individual groups and the group calendars from the Calendar module. 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Group calendar You create group calendars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[241],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[224],"class_list":["post-56131","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-check-in-en","knowledge_base-churchtools-modules"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"year_month":"2026-05","word_count":233,"total_views":"22","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Victoria Weidemann","author_nicename":"vweidemann","author_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/author\/vweidemann\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Check-in","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/check-in-en\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[{"term_name":"Modules","term_url":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/help\/churchtools-modules\/","term_slug":"churchtools-modules"}],"knowledge_base_slug":["churchtools-modules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/56131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56131"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/56131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56145,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/56131\/revisions\/56145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=56131"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=56131"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchtools.academy\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=56131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}