The Teams website

teams.culminate.life is Culminate Teams in a web browser. It works on a computer, a tablet, or a phone, and it’s also where every Teams email and text link goes.

Sign in

Volunteers sign in with their Culminate Life account, the same one they use in your church’s app. If they serve at more than one church, they pick the church at the top left.

Tapping their photo at the top right shows their name and Sign out.

What volunteers can do there

The website has the same tabs as the app: Home, Schedule, Teams, Chats, and Leading for leaders. On a computer they’re along the top. On a phone they’re a tab bar at the bottom.

Volunteers can do almost everything they can in the app:

• Answer requests and say Yes or No to each time.
• See the plan, its run sheet, docs, and files, and who’s serving.
• Open song charts, transpose them, play practice tracks, and Mark as practiced.
• Check in with I’m here, ask someone to swap, or say I can’t make it.
• Add blackout dates, set how often they’d like to serve, and subscribe to their calendar.
• Chat with their teams and send direct messages.
• Follow live mode.

A few things are different:

• Home also lists your church’s Open sign-ups, with how many spots are open.
• Add to calendar on a plan downloads a calendar file instead of opening the phone’s calendar.
• Leaders edit formatted docs here with the full editor, and get Remind, Remove, and Run it live. See Leading a team.
• There are no push notifications, and plans aren’t saved for offline.

One-tap answers from email and text

Every request email and text has a link (teams.culminate.life/a/…) that answers it without signing in or opening the app. The buttons in a request email, like Accept, Tentative, Decline, and Yes or No for each time, all open this page.

Opening the link never changes anything on its own, because some email systems open links to scan them. The answer is only saved when the volunteer presses Confirm.

1. Select a button in the email or text. The page shows the team, position, date, and place, with Accept, Tentative, and Decline to switch between.
2. When declining, add a reason if they like. Only leaders see it.
3. Select Confirm.

The page then shows You’re in!, Got it: maybe, or Thanks for letting us know, with See the plan. Under Changed your mind? they can switch their answer from the same link.

• A request with several times says This includes number times. Confirming says Yes to all of them. They can change any time later on the plan.
• A Yes or No button for one time asks Yes to time? or No to time? first. Saying No to the main time declines the spot, and the page says so.
• The reminder before they serve has a Can’t make it? link that opens Can’t make it after all?
• Each page shows Signed as name. If that’s not them, Not you? goes to sign in.

If the page says This spot was just filled, someone else said yes first. It can also say This plan was canceled, This has already happened, or This link doesn’t work.

Several dates at once

When a leader sends someone several dates together, they get one message: “You’re scheduled number times.” The link lists every date with Accept and Decline (or Can’t make it once accepted), and Accept all at the bottom.

Leader links from the daily digest

The leader digest email has one-tap buttons too:

• Ask opens Ask name? with any warnings. Send request (or Ask anyway) sends them the request.
• Remind opens Remind names?. Send reminder sends their request again by push and email.

Sign-up pages

A sign-up page (teams.culminate.life/s/…) is where people pick spots or ask to join a team. Your church shares the link in an announcement, on your website, with a QR code, or in the Teams website’s Open sign-ups. Anyone can look. Set up sign-ups in Sign-ups.

Pick a spot

Spots are grouped by day, with the time and how many are left, like 3 of 10 left.

• Sign up takes the spot. They get an email with the details.
• When a spot is full, Join waitlist puts them in line. If a spot opens, it’s theirs, and they’re told.
• Once they’re in, the spot shows You’re signed up with Can’t make it to give it up, or On the waitlist with Leave.

They sign in with their Culminate Life account to sign up. If the sheet is open to anyone, people without an account can sign up as a guest under Your info, with their name, email, and an optional phone number. Guests get an email with the details and a link to give the spot up.

Join a team

An Open Sign-Up lists the teams people can join, with how each one works: Join right away, A leader reviews sign-ups, or A leader will set up a time to meet. For each team they pick, they can mark positions I’ve done this or I’d like to learn, and say How often would you like to serve?. Then they select Sign up for number teams.

The page then shows Thanks! Here’s what happens next, with On the team, Signed up, or Not yet for each team, and Set my serving preferences. Leaders see new sign-ups in Needs attention. See Leading a team.

QR check-in

The check-in poster’s QR code opens teams.culminate.life/c/… on any phone. It signs them in if needed, then checks them in to whatever they’re serving at your church now, and shows You’re checked in. See Check in to serve.

Stage display

The stage display (teams.culminate.life/stage/…) is a screen for the platform during live mode: white text on black, sized to fill the screen. It shows the item on now, a song’s key and order, a big countdown, cues, what’s next, and the time of day. Before the service it says Waiting to start, and after, That’s a wrap.

To use it:

1. In the app, open the plan, then Live, and select Stage display to copy the link.
2. Open the link in a browser on the computer or TV that drives the stage screen, and make it full screen.

Nobody signs in on the stage display. Anyone with the link can see it. See Live mode.