How DoorStep works
The big picture: what a DoorStep page is, where it lives and how it reaches people.
DoorStep builds the page people see when they tap an NFC tag or scan a QR code in your church. It might be a welcome page at the front desk, a connect card on the seat backs or the sign-up page for an event. You build it in the DoorStep editor, and it shows up on your own church website.
The four pieces #
| Piece | What it is |
|---|---|
| The portal | Where you sign in at doorstep.camdengoff.com/app. It lists your church’s pages, their stats, connect card answers and your team. |
| The editor | Where you build a page out of blocks (a photo, a row of buttons, a connect card…) and pick its colors. Open it with ✎ Edit on any page. |
| The install code | Two lines you paste into a page on your website, once. They load whatever you last published. |
| Your tags and QR codes | They point at that website page, so they never need to change. |
How a change gets to people #
- You editChanges save to the portal as you work. Nobody outside sees them yet.
- You press Publish🚀 Publish sends the saved page live.
- The website shows itWithin about a minute, everyone who opens the page sees the new version. You don’t touch your website again.
Editing and publishing are separate on purpose. You can work on next week’s page on Thursday and publish it Sunday morning, and visitors only ever see a finished page.
What you can put on a page #
There are 19 kinds of blocks, including hero photos, buttons, banners, cards, slides, FAQs, videos, countdowns and ready-made invites. Some of the most useful:
- Connect cards that send answers straight to the portal.
- Live lists of small groups, blog posts or events that update themselves from your website.
- A photo and PDF viewer for the bulletin, with its links turned into buttons.
- Pop-up sheets that open forms and pages without sending people off to your full website.
See them all in the block reference.
What DoorStep doesn’t do #
- Giving. DoorStep doesn’t take or process donations. Add a button that opens your church’s own giving page. See Link to your online giving.
- Your website. DoorStep makes one page at a time and places it inside your existing site. The rest of your site stays as it is.
- Tracking people. Stats count visits and taps without cookies and without knowing who anyone is. See Tap stats.
Related guides #
Still stuck? Ask whoever set up DoorStep for your church, and mention this article: How DoorStep works.