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Onboarding and data preparation

Start with clear ownership and a small validated sample.

Review how a ministry can prepare the workspace, team, data and first connected workflow. This page is informational. It does not start onboarding or collect organisation details.

The preparation principle

  • Clarify roles before granting access
  • Clean and classify before importing
  • Validate a sample before scaling
  • Reconcile outcomes before wider rollout

Suggested rollout

Prepare the operating model before scaling the data.

The sequence is guidance rather than a managed onboarding commitment. Each ministry remains responsible for validating its records, permissions and rollout decisions.

  1. 1

    Set the workspace foundations

    Confirm organisation, region, currency, timezone and the core operational owner.

  2. 2

    Define access before data

    Invite only the core team, review roles and give each user the permissions required for their work.

  3. 3

    Prepare people carefully

    Clean identity fields, decide member/visitor classification and avoid importing unnecessary sensitive data.

  4. 4

    Test one connected workflow

    Create a programme, prepare attendance and follow one responsibility path from record to review.

  5. 5

    Enable Connect deliberately

    Open only the member journeys the church is ready to operate, review and support.

  6. 6

    Review before wider rollout

    Reconcile the sample, resolve errors and confirm ownership before bringing in more records.

Verified import boundaries

Use the supported lane for each record type.

The marketing website does not accept uploads. Import tools are available only inside an authorised workspace and apply file, row, validation and permission controls.

People

Available now · Template-based

Admin users can import CSV or Excel files using the provided people template. Required identity fields, optional profile fields and guest/member classification paths are defined.

Operational transactions

Available now · Review before commit

A template-based assistant validates transaction rows, category alignment and journal readiness before an authorised user commits the reviewed batch.

Historical attendance

Available now · Aggregate history

CSV or Excel templates can import service-date aggregate counts. This is not a person-by-person attendance-history migration.

Assets

Available now · Template-based

An authorised admin can import an equipment or property register with category, purchase, location, condition and optional asset-tag fields.

Households and programmes

Unsupported · Manual setup required

People can be imported, but household and programme batch-import lanes are not implemented in the current import workspace. Set up these structures separately.

Opening balances and other records

Separate workflow or unsupported

Opening balances use the finance journal workflow. Suppliers and other unlisted record types are not presented as supported public import capabilities.

Begin with a small validated sample.

Review duplicates, required fields, classification, errors and reconciliation before importing a complete historical dataset. Do not upload confidential files through the marketing website.

Support expectations

Use implemented guidance without inventing a service level.

StewardOS has API documentation and selected in-product guidance. Complete account documentation, public response times, plan-specific service levels, priority onboarding and migration assistance remain undefined.

Account documentation

Limited · Not established

The public /docs route is API documentation. Selected in-product help exists, but complete account, billing, closure and data-lifecycle documentation is not established.

In-product guidance

Available

Setup, launch and module guidance exists inside the application, with scope varying by workflow.

Email support

Approved contact channel · Service level undefined

The approved StewardOS email address is available for product enquiries. Coverage, eligibility and response times are not published.

Walkthrough

Preview architecture only

The public request route is designed but does not yet accept, store or send requests.

Priority onboarding

Not a current public commitment

Scope, eligibility, scheduling, response time and plan treatment require an approved operating model.

Migration assistance

Not a current public commitment

Template-based product import tools do not create a promise of managed migration, data cleansing or reconciliation services.

Prepare the data after understanding the workflow.

See StewardOS in action, then email joshowusu@gmail.com to arrange onboarding during this limited launch.