Attendance, including online
Half your congregation
is not in the count.
Your attendance record is probably accurate for the room and completely blank for the stream. Here is how churches close that gap — and why the number matters far less than the names behind it.
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How churches do this today
The spreadsheet
Free, familiar, and accurate right up until the week somebody forgets. It records the room, never the stream — and it quietly stops being true the moment half your congregation moves online.
Check-in software
Excellent for kids and small groups, and worth having. But it counts the people who walk past a kiosk, which by definition excludes everyone watching from home.
Adding the online half
PealCast records who attended each service online, by name, and writes it back to their record in Planning Center — so one number finally covers your whole congregation.
A view count is not an attendance record
If your streaming platform says four hundred people watched, you know almost nothing useful. You cannot tell whether that was four hundred households or forty people reloading, whether any of them were new, or whether the family who watched faithfully for two years was among them.
An attendance record answers a different kind of question — the pastoral one. Who came for the first time? Who has not been here in a month? Those questions have never been about the total; they are about a specific person you might otherwise lose without noticing.
That is what PealCast keeps. Not a chart of viewers, but a record of people, written back to Planning Center and turned into a short list each week of who to welcome and who to check on.
Church attendance tracking questions
Count the people you cannot see.
Start free and get an accurate record of who attended online this Sunday.
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