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Step-by-step guides for building your church’s tap page, putting it on your website and seeing how people use it.
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Getting started
Sign in, find your way around and make your first page.
- How DoorStep worksThe big picture: what a DoorStep page is, where it lives and how it reaches people.
- Sign in to the portalSign in with Google or a password, set up your account from a password link, and change your password.
- Your church’s pagesA tour of the portal’s main screen: page cards, what Live and Unpublished edits mean, and every button on a card.
- Make a new pageStart a page from a template or from scratch, and what each starter template is for.
Building your page
Blocks, buttons, text, colors and photos.
- A tour of the editorWhat each part of the editor does, how saving works, and the shortcuts worth knowing.
- Add and arrange blocksAdd blocks, change their order, copy, hide and delete them.
- Every block, explainedWhat each of the 19 kinds of block is for, with the settings that matter most.
- What a button can doEvery “When tapped” choice, from opening a link or pop-up to calling, texting, emailing and showing a PDF.
- Format textMake words bold, italic, linked or a different color, and highlight a word in your accent color.
- Colors, fonts and spacingUse the Theme tab to set your page’s colors, fonts, corner shapes, spacing and width.
- Photos and videoUpload photos or link to them, choose their shape, make a slideshow, and add video.
- Pop-up menusMake a menu that slides up from the bottom of the screen, like “Next steps” or “Contact us”, and open it from any button.
- Special timesShow a different version of your page at certain times, like during chapel, on Wednesday nights or over Christmas.
- Undo and version historyUndo a mistake, save a named version before a big change, and go back to an earlier version.
- Page settingsRename a page, turn on Advanced editing for block-by-block styles, and find its install code.
Publishing
Put your page on your website and keep it up to date.
- Put your page on your websitePaste a page’s two-line install code into your website once. After that, Publish keeps it up to date.
- Publish your changesSend your edits live with one click, check what’s live, and take a page offline.
- Tap tags and QR codesWhich link to put on your NFC tags and QR codes, and how to set them up so they never need changing.
- Fix blank pop-upsSome websites won’t show inside a pop-up sheet. Set up your own free pop-up worker on Cloudflare to fix it.
Feature guides
Connect cards, live lists, the photo and PDF viewer, and more.
- Connect cardAdd a form visitors fill in on their phone, show it on the page or in a pop-up, and read or download the answers.
- Live lists with the RSS feed blockShow your small groups, blog posts or sermons straight from your website, with filters, photos and a details sheet.
- Upcoming eventsShow the next few events from your Squarespace events page, kept up to date on their own.
- Photo and PDF viewerOpen a bulletin, flyer or menu full screen from any button, and let DoorStep turn the links in it into buttons.
- Invite messagesWrite invites once, and let your people copy one or send it to a friend in one tap.
- CountdownCount down to Christmas Eve, camp sign-ups or a big Sunday, with a photo, buttons and what to show when it’s over.
- SpotlightA photo or silent looping video with a title over it, plus a button or a short sign-up form underneath.
- Link to your online givingDoorStep doesn’t handle donations. Here’s how to send people to your church’s own giving page.
Stats and your team
See what people tap, share the numbers and add your staff.
- Tap statsSee how many people open each page, which buttons they tap, and when, without cookies or tracking.
- Share a stats linkMake a read-only link to your church’s tap stats for a pastor, board or volunteer, with no sign-in needed.
- People and rolesAdd your staff and volunteers, choose what each person can do, send password links and remove access.
Troubleshooting
Fixes for the things that most often go wrong.