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Utilities Importing Church Attendance with Barcodes Tracking church attendance for a large number of people can be difficult and time consuming. One way to speed up that process is to use barcodes and scanners. Excellerate can print barcodes for your members in many formats including cards, nametags, lists, etc Then, you can simply scan their barcode to track their attendance. This can be used for tracking any type of church service, most commonly, Children s Church. Excellerate s church attendance system can track the service, date, time-in and time-out. Or, you can just record their attendance without times. Excellerate currently supports the CS2000 handheld scanner from Symbol Technologies. This is a portable scanner that can read several hundred scans at once. Then the scanner is placed into its cradle and the data is read into Excellerate. The first step in using the Church Attendance with Barcodes feature, is to choose how you want to print your barcodes. Use the Members Lists/Labels report to select a report style that includes barcodes, or modify one of the existing styles to add the barcodes. To add the barcodes to a report style, simply add a text field to the report with the following value: BARCODE15:I+MemberQuery.MemberID This value tells the report to print a check-in barcode for the MemberID. You can also print a check-out barcode if you are interested in tracking check-ins and outs. BARCODE15:O+MemberQuery.MemberID This will print a check-out barcode. (Note the letter O, not zero.) (Also, see Report Styles in the Appendix for more information.) Before printing your barcodes, choose a view to select the members you are interested in, or you can print for all of your members. Now that you have your barcodes printed, you can scan the codes as each person attends using the check-in barcodes. If you want to track the check-outs as well, then you would scan the check-out barcode as the person leaves. You do not have to use the check-out barcodes if you are not interested in time-in and timeout. 142
