CHECK-INS & SAFETY

The most important label your printer will ever print

Kids ministry runs on trust. SundayHQ check-in prints a child label and a matching pickup tag with a unique security code, gates rooms behind background-checked volunteers, and keeps working when the venue Wi-Fi doesn't — because Sunday morning is not the time to find out.

Matched

Child + pickup security codes

Gated

Rooms require cleared checks

Live

Headcounts as families arrive

Offline

Queues and reconciles

CORE CAPABILITIES

Security that parents can watch working

No matching code, no release

Each check-in generates a unique security code printed on both the child's label and the guardian's pickup tag. At pickup, the station matches the code before releasing the child; a mismatch is blocked and logged. Lost the tag? There's a documented staff override — PIN plus reason, always audit-logged — instead of a shrug.

  • Unique per-check-in codes, matched at checkout
  • Mismatches blocked and logged, every time
  • Staff override path with PIN, reason, and audit trail
Pickup — Room: Sprouts (ages 2–3)
Child: M. OkaforCode 4Q7-D
Guardian tag scanned4Q7-D · Match
Previous attemptMismatch · logged
Released byStation 2 · 11:42

Rooms that refuse unscreened volunteers

Mark a room as requiring a cleared background check and the schedule enforces it: a volunteer without current clearance can't be assigned there, and an expired check blocks them until it's renewed. Allergy and medical flags print prominently on the child's label and appear on the room roster, with capacity and child-to-volunteer ratio warnings as rooms fill.

  • Background-check gating enforced at assignment time
  • Allergy and medical flags on labels and rosters
  • Capacity and ratio warnings before a room is over
Room status — Sunday 10:30
Sprouts · 11 kids / 2 volsRatio OK
Explorers · 18 / 20 capacityNearly full
Volunteer J. ReyesCheck expired · blocked
Allergy flags in Sprouts2 · printed bold

Stations that fit how your lobby actually works

Self-serve kiosks for regulars, manned stations for guests, roster mode for classrooms — all searching by phone, name, or barcode, resolving the household, and suggesting rooms by age and grade. A fast guest-child flow creates a minimal record on the fly and still prints a secure label. Every check-in feeds attendance analytics: headcounts, first-timers, and retention curves, live.

  • Self, manned, roster, and locked kiosk modes
  • Guest-child fast path with full label security
  • First-check-in triggers your assimilation workflow automatically
This morning — all stations
Checked in142 kids
First-time families6
Lobby kioskSelf-serve · online
Gym door stationOffline · 3 queued

Queued check-ins reconcile automatically when the network returns.

MORE IN THIS MODULE

Everything around the label

Label Printing

Child and pickup labels with name, room, session, timestamp, and bold allergy flags on supported printers.

Offline Resilience

Stations cache eligible families and queue check-ins locally when venue Wi-Fi drops, replaying on reconnect.

Age & Grade Rules

Rooms carry age ranges and grades; the station only offers rooms a child is actually eligible for.

Household-Aware Search

One phone number pulls up the whole family, pre-selected for their usual rooms.

Attendance Analytics

Headcounts by service, room, and date; unique kids; first-time versus returning; retention curves.

Medical Visibility

Allergy and medical notes print on the label and surface on the roster the volunteer actually looks at.

FAQ

Common questions

A staff member with the right permission uses the override path: PIN, reason, and identity confirmation, all recorded in the audit log. The child is never released on a shrug, and the exception is never invisible.

Yes. Stations cache the eligible-family set and queue check-ins locally, then reconcile automatically when the connection returns. Sunday doesn't wait for the router.

Volunteers carry a background-check status with an expiry date. A room marked as gated will not accept an assignment from anyone without current clearance — and an expired check blocks scheduling until renewed.

Yes — mobile pre-check-in from the member portal produces a code the station scans on arrival, turning a five-minute lobby line into a badge print.

The guest-child fast path creates a minimal person and household on the spot and still prints the full secure label pair. You can complete the record after the service.

Run a Sunday morning in the demo

Check a family in, print the labels, try a wrong-code pickup, and watch the headcount move — the demo church has a full kids wing.