Subscribing and Unsubscribing from Messages
Sometimes members wish to unsubscribe from specific Church Social emails, or want to resubscribe. Unsubscribing can be done directly from a link at the bottom of email messages and the preferences can be managed directly within your Church Social account.
Updating Your Own Email Preferences in Church Social
Login to Church Social and then click on your profile icon (often your family picture) at the top right of the page. Now click on My profile in the drop-down menu as pictured below.
The My Profile page should load. At the top of the page you should find the Notifications tab as pictured in the screenshot below.
Here you will see options to disable email notifications for specific modules such as Messages, Schedules, Platform messages (if admin) and Prayer request (if enabled) notification settings. You can review the settings and put a checkmark in the box beside all the notifications you wish to receive as well as remove the checkmark from any groups you no longer wish to receive email notifications for.
At the bottom is an option to Disable all emails which will prevent Church Social from sending you any email notifications. Note that some roles in Church Social require you to have email notifications enabled so that Church Social can send you necessary notifications and reminders.
Notification Management by Local Administrators
Local Administrators and Statisticians are able to view and manage email notification settings for members as well. This is helpful since sometimes members unsubscribe from Church Social emails, and then later forget, or simply want to resubscribe. This can easily be done when editing a person by clicking on the Email address field. Doing so will bring up the Edit email dialog which has dedicated tabs for notification Preferences and Unsubscribes.
Unsubscribing from a Message or Group
Church Social also allows members to unsubscribe from individual email senders, messages sent to a group or all email notifications right from the email message. This is in compliance with anti-spam regulations.
The footer of each email message contains the following options as pictured below:
- View the full message - Allows recipients to view the message in Church Social and reply to the sender.
- Unsubscribe - Allows recipients to immediately unsubscribe from all or some messages (as pictured below) without needing to log onto Church Social.
Notification Preferences - Allows recipients to log onto Church Social and view and edit all their notification preferences.
Clicking on the unsubscribe option will take you to a page with options that allow you to unsubscribe from all Church Social email, unsubscribe only from message notifications or to unsubscribe only from messages sent by a specific congregation member.
