Member Accounts in Your App
Members can create an account in your app using their email address and a password. Here's what accounts unlock, where the data lives, and how deletion works.
What Members Get with an Account
Right now, signing in unlocks:
- Saved sermon notes — members can take notes on any sermon and save them. Notes sync across devices so they're there whether someone is on their phone or tablet.
- My Notes — a personal library of all their saved sermon notes, organized by sermon
More features tied to accounts will be added over time. Members who don't create an account can still browse sermons, groups, and events — they just won't have a personal space to save things.
Where the Accounts Live
Member accounts are created on your church's own website, not in any FaithMade central system. When a member signs up in your app, their account is a WordPress user account on your site.
This means:
- FaithMade doesn't hold your congregation's passwords or profile data
- If a member contacts FaithMade support, we won't have their account information — you do
- Your members' data stays under your church's stewardship
Deleting an Account
If a member wants to delete their account, they can do it from inside the app. This is real deletion — their account and all their saved notes are permanently removed from your site. Nothing is archived. Nothing is retained.
You can tell your members this truthfully: deleting their account in the app wipes their data completely.
If a member asks your staff to delete their account instead (for example, if they've lost access to the app), a site admin can remove their user record from the WordPress dashboard (Users → [name] → Delete).
Prayer Wall
If your site includes a prayer wall, here's how the app integration works for churches that want the details:
Where requests go: Prayer requests submitted in the app land in the same moderation queue as requests submitted on your website. Your prayer team manages everything in one place.
"I prayed" counts: When a member taps "I prayed" on a request, that count is tracked per device. Someone can only count once per request per device — the taps don't stack.
Private requests: Members can mark a request as private when submitting. Private requests never appear publicly — they're only visible to your site's prayer team in the admin.
Rate limit: To prevent spam, the app allows a maximum of 3 prayer request submissions per person per hour. Members who hit the limit see a message asking them to try again later.