> ## Documentation Index
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# Welcome every new visitor with one connected journey

> Guests can plan a visit or connect without an account while staff coordinate consent-aware follow-up and useful next steps.

# Welcome every new visitor with one connected journey

Churches can now guide a guest from first interest to meaningful follow-up in
one connected workflow.

* Publish campus arrival, parking, kids, accessibility, gathering, map, image,
  and theme information on a public Plan a Visit page.
* Share direct visitor links or embed Plan a Visit and Connect Card forms in a
  church website.
* Receive anonymous guest submissions in a searchable Visitor Inbox without
  adding them to the member directory, with safe retry and spam safeguards.
* Assign owners, check in first visits, record no-shows, add private notes, and
  keep the full relationship timeline together.
* Configure consent-aware confirmations, personal welcome tasks, overdue
  reminders, pastor-call escalation, and optional newcomer-event invitations.
* Pause, resume, reassign, retry, skip, or complete follow-up steps.
* Show only next steps that lead to a campus, group, event, serving, prayer,
  visit, Connect Card, or pastor-care experience that is ready to use.
* Link or convert a visitor to a member while preserving the visitor history
  and reviewing exact Visitor or Member contact matches first; records are not
  merged automatically.
* Connect a church-owned Handwrytten account and deliberately send a
  consent-first physical welcome card with test/live warnings, reusable
  defaults, staff approval, status history, and safe failure handling.

Email, text, and phone permission remain separate throughout the journey, and
pending automated follow-up stops when a visitor is closed or converted.