Resources

What a resource is

A book, podcast, course, conference or event, with the gifts and topics it is good for and a pastor's note: one or two sentences in your voice about why you recommend it. A book is looked up by title or ISBN so its cover and details fill themselves in.

Adding a shelf at once

Add from a photo takes a picture of a bookshelf, reads the spines, and offers each title to add, with cover and details found for you. Check the list, untick the ones that are not yours, add. Most churches' first twenty resources arrive this way.

Where resources appear

• On a person's page, the ones tagged for their lead gifts, to suggest in a conversation. Suggesting one is logged.
• On the result page a member sees, if you choose, as "a few things our pastors recommend".
• On your public directory at /resources, a page in your colours listing what your church recommends, grouped by gift.

Amazon links and opens

A book can carry a link to buy it. If your church has an Amazon Associates tag, Settings lets you add it and the disclosure required with it appears on every page that uses it. GiftWell counts how many times each resource was opened, so you can see which recommendations land; it never records who opened what.

Who sees what

Pastors, admins and the owner curate the list. Leaders see it when suggesting. Members see what you chose to show them.