The check-in station

Check-in turns a tablet or laptop at the door into a check-in station. Children get a label with their room and a security code; the adult who brings them gets a tag with the same code, and a child goes home only with it.

Open the door

1. Open Check-in. It lists the dates from a few hours ago to a week ahead (a date has to exist under Events first).
2. Choose Open this door on the date. If another door has opened it already, choose Join this door: every door on the same date shares one session.

Check a family in

1. Under Arrivals, type a family or last name in Family or last name.
2. Choose the household. Its children are ticked; tick any adult who is coming in too.
3. Check each child’s Room: the station suggests one from the child’s age.
4. Choose Check in. The Labels appear: each child’s label (first name, last initial, room, label code and security code) and the guardian’s tag with the same security code. Choose Print, then Done.

Labels never show a birthdate, allergies or notes: a label is read by strangers.

Check out

1. Under In now, find the child and choose Check out.
2. The list Allowed to collect shows who may take them home. Choose the person, or type Who is collecting.
3. Type the Code on the tag the adult hands you, and choose Check out.

No tag? Choose a reason under No tag? Override with a reason: The tag is lost, A guardian the church knows or Another reason. The override is recorded. An adult checks out with one tap, without a code. Someone not on the list may still collect; it is recorded as such.

Close the door

When the service ends, choose Close this door, then Close the door (or Keep open).

Good to know

• Two doors agree. Every station on the same date sees the same arrivals within seconds.
• Who can do it. Owners and administrators hold check-in; give it to your door volunteers with a custom role.
• Rooms (their names and age ranges) are set up by DCX Logic support for now; a screen for them is coming.
• Allowed to collect is kept on each child’s record in People (the household’s adults by default, and anyone you add).
• Printing uses the browser’s print, so any printer the tablet can reach works. Label printers are not built in.
• Attendance from check-in feeds Reports → Attendance.

For members

Not yet: checking in from a parent’s own phone, and seeing who collected their child, are coming once the church’s legal review allows.

What DCX Logic support can do

Set up your rooms and their age ranges, and explain an override in the record.

Coming from Planning Center

Like Planning Center Check-Ins, a security code on the child’s label matches the guardian’s tag, and the station suggests a room by age. In Planning Center “Use a station” is available to editors, viewers and headcounters (Permissions in Check-Ins); in HoW it is the check-in permission, held by owners and administrators and any custom role you give it.