Documentation
Everything GiftWell does, and why it matters
30 short pages, one per feature, written for pastors rather than programmers. Each says what the screen is for, who on your team sees it, and the moment it earns its place.
Getting started
From creating your church to the first result in your list.
Start here
What GiftWell is, what happens in your first fifteen minutes, and the one moment that shows you what it is for.
Everyone on the teamSharing the assessment
The link, the website embed and the bulletin, and what a member sees from the first tap to their result.
AdminOwnerThe demo church
A church of example people you can open any time, read-only, reset every night, with a login that is published on purpose.
Everyone on the teamMembersThe Overview
The first screen after sign-in: who is waiting for a first look, what arrived this week, what is changing, and the setup steps left.
Everyone on the team
The assessment
What your people answer, what they see, and why it is built this way.
What people answer
The assessment itself: the three lenses it uses, why it asks about what has happened rather than what you are like, and what a member is asked to agree to.
Everyone on the teamMembersReading a result
Bands instead of a ranking, the gift at the edge, confirmations from two friends, and what the member gets that you do not.
Everyone on the teamMembersQuestions, wording and the builder
How the test is doing on your people, trying a new question without it counting, rewording, editing the result page's words, and bringing in questions of your own.
AdminOwner
People and follow-up
Every result in one list, and the conversations that follow.
People and Assessments
Every person with a result, filtered by gift, availability, consent and status, with who follows up, bulk actions and a print view.
Everyone on the teamA person's page
The conversation guide for one person: their bands, their own words, what they agreed to, the teams that fit, the timeline, and the three things you can do next.
LeaderPastorAdminOwnerFollow-up statuses
The four statuses a result moves through, what sets each one, and the rule that decides who is waiting for a first look.
LeaderPastorAdminOwnerThe weekly digest
One email a week that says who is waiting, what arrived, which placements need a check-in and what the signals are doing. Nothing if there is nothing.
PastorAdminOwnerIntroductions
When a person with a gift and a ministry that needs it line up, GiftWell suggests an introduction and tracks whether it was made.
LeaderPastorAdminOwner
Ministries and placement
Where you need people, who could serve there, and whether it took.
Ministries
The ministries of your church, what each one needs, who leads it, and the people GiftWell thinks could serve there.
PastorAdminOwnerWhere we need people
Every ministry against the gifts arriving at your church, so you can see which needs are covered, which are thin, and who could fill them.
Everyone on the teamPlacements
Who is serving where, since when, and whether it took. GiftWell asks a month after every placement and keeps the honest answer.
LeaderPastorAdminOwnerServing teams
The teams a member can ask to try at the end of their result. Add them by hand, pull them from Planning Center, or let GiftWell find them on your website.
PastorAdminOwnerYour ministries (for leaders)
What a leader sees: the ministries you lead, the people who could serve in them, your introductions and placements, and nothing else.
Leader
Signals and insight
Patterns across the whole church, read for you.
Signals
Watches you set on what people write and which gifts arrive, so a quiet pattern across twenty results becomes a line on Monday's Overview.
PastorAdminOwnerInsights
The charts on the Overview: how your church's gifts are shifting, how Ephesians 4 leanings fall, how teams line up with arrivals, and how you compare with other churches.
Everyone on the team
Resources
Something concrete to hand people after the conversation.
Your team
Who sees what, and how to bring leaders in.
Integrations and agents
Planning Center, your website, your AI key and AI agents.
Planning Center
Connect once, map your fields, and every result writes its band names to the person's profile, pulls teams, and checks whether placements actually got scheduled.
AdminOwnerYour website and the embed
Give GiftWell your website once and it learns your colours, logo and ministries. Then put the assessment on your site with one line, or on your own subdomain.
AdminOwnerAI briefs
An optional staff-only summary of a person's words before a conversation, written by an AI your church pays for with its own key, from what the person wrote and never from their scores.
PastorAdminOwnerAI agents
Let Claude or another assistant work your GiftWell for you: ask who is waiting, log a conversation, set up a new church. Each connection is named, scoped to a role, and expires.
AdminOwner
Settings, plan and data
Your look, your plan, your data in and out.
Settings
Every switch in one place: your address and brand, what members are asked, how long results are kept, embedding, integrations, and the plan.
AdminOwnerPlan and billing
Free for 50 assessments a year, then $100 or $500 a year by church size. The year starts at your first real result, retakes are free, and a lapse does not lock you out.
OwnerImport and export
Take everything out as a sealed file with a passphrase, bring results in from a GiftWell export or the WordPress plugin with a preview first, and never count an import against your plan.
AdminOwner
For the people who take it
What a member sees, keeps and can erase.
Privacy and what GiftWell never does
The rules the whole product keeps.
See it with your own result
Take the assessment yourself and open the pastor’s view in a demo church, or create your church and have the link in Sunday’s bulletin. The first 50 people are free.
Reading this with an AI assistant? The same pages are at docs/llms.txt and docs/index.json, and every page has a Markdown version with .md on the end of its address.