What's new in ParishSignUp
October 28, 2026
Parish positions
People in a parish can hold positions: priest, warden, secretary, treasurer, council member, head of the brotherhood or sisterhood, catechist, coordinator, or app manager. A person can hold several. The priest, warden, secretary, and treasurer assign positions in Parish Admin → Members. Former admins became app managers.
Members are now parishioners
Someone without a position is called a parishioner. Being a voting member under your parish bylaws is tracked separately, as membership standing.
Council view
Council members get a Council link that opens Memberships and Surveys read-only. They can read membership and time-and-talents answers, but never pledge amounts, and they can't change anything.
Membership standing
The secretary marks who is a voting or non-voting member each year, on the Memberships page. Someone who is still an inquirer or catechumen can't be given standing. Everyone sees their own standing in Profile Settings.
Cancel a confession date
Anyone who manages the parish can cancel one confession date from Manage confession and write a reason. Everyone who booked a time gets an email or Telegram message with that reason, and a weekly schedule won't add the date back.
Docs
A Docs page explains how ParishSignUp works, from positions to confession and Parish Plus. The help chat answers from it and links to the right section.
Faster pages
Signup sheets, confession, Parish Admin, and Browse load their data at once instead of one piece after another. Pages in other languages no longer flash English first.
October 27, 2026
Priests manage the parish
Priests have the full Parish Admin page and the Parish Plus tools, the same as admins and treasurers. Pledge amounts still stay with the treasurer.
Your parish forms in Profile Settings
Profile Settings shows the parish forms you sent, with your answers and your own pledge, so you can look them up later.
October 26, 2026
Export your parish's data
The priest, admins, and treasurers can download everything the parish keeps in ParishSignUp, as a printable document and a data file.
October 25, 2026
Visitor cards
A first-time visitor can scan the parish's door QR code and leave a card with their name, and a note or photo if they like. Admins see new cards in Parish Admin and can print a letter-size door sign with the code.
October 20, 2026
2027 parish forms
Each parish has a 2027 membership form, a time-and-talents survey, and a financial support form. They open with Parish Plus. The treasurer is the only person who sees pledge amounts.
Coordinator role
A coordinator can create, edit, and delete signup sheets they made, and can create surveys when the parish has Parish Plus. Coordinators do not manage members, billing, parish settings, or other people's answers.
Diocese directory
Parish admins, treasurers, and priests can open the diocese directory and request to administer a diocese. Members and coordinators do not see that request. Someone who already administers a diocese can still open the directory.
Leave a parish
Members, coordinators, priests, treasurers, and admins can leave a parish from Profile Settings. The last remaining admin cannot leave until another admin is in place.
Parish link for admins and treasurers
Admins and treasurers see Parish in the header. It opens tools for the parish they are working in.
Welcome guide for each role
The first time you open a parish, a short guide explains what that role can do. It does not list a price.