Setting Up Your Organization
Configure your church details, campuses, and service times so Vitals knows exactly when and where to expect your data.
Church Details
Your church details form the foundation of your Vitals account. These fields appear on reports, emails, and your public-facing profile. Navigate to Settings → Organization to update them at any time.
- Church Name
- Displayed on all reports and notifications sent to your team.
- Timezone
- Controls when weekly reports are generated and when sync jobs run. Must reflect your primary campus.
- Denomination
- Optional. Used to tailor benchmark comparisons to churches of a similar tradition.
Tips
Use your church's full legal name — it appears on exported reports.
Setting the wrong timezone shifts report cutoff times — double-check before saving.
Adding Campuses
Vitals supports multi-site churches out of the box. Each campus tracks its own metrics independently while also rolling up into your organization-wide totals. If you have only one location, a single default campus is created automatically.
- 1Go to Settings → Campuses
- 2Click Add Campus
- 3Enter the campus name and city/location
- 4Click Save — the campus is immediately available for data entry
Each campus can have its own service times, team members, and metric configurations. Campus-level data rolls up automatically to the organization dashboard.
Configuring Service Times
Service times tell Vitals when your services happen each week. This information drives sync scheduling — integrations like Planning Center pull data automatically shortly after your last service of the day.
- 1Go to Settings → Service Times
- 2Click Add Time
- 3Select the day of week and start time
- 4Assign the service to the correct campus
- 5Click Save
Tips
Add all service times, including early and late services.
Saturday services count — Vitals treats Saturday and Sunday as the same "weekend" when aggregating data.
If you add a new service permanently, add it here so sync continues to work correctly.
Fiscal Year Settings
By default Vitals uses the calendar year (January–December). If your church operates on a different fiscal year, update the start month under Settings → Organization → Fiscal Year.
The fiscal year setting affects year-over-year comparisons on your dashboard and in exported reports. For example, if your fiscal year starts in September, YoY growth will compare September–August periods rather than January–December. This setting does not change how raw data is stored.