Aligned Guides
How can we help?
Short, honest guides to Aligned Leader and Aligned Church — each one walks you through the real screens, step by step.
For pastors & leaders
Aligned Leader
Sermons, study, meetings and media — and teaching Aligned to sound like you.
- Getting started8
- Sermons & preaching12
- Bible study & research6
- Making it sound like you9
- Meetings & notes2
- Graphics, video & social4
- Your assistant16
- Saving, sharing & exporting11
- Account, Pro & billing24
- The phone app5
For church staff
Aligned Church
Your website, giving, people, check-in, texting and everything that runs the week.
- Getting started17
- Your website18
- People & groups21
- Check-in5
- Forms, events & volunteers7
- Texting & email10
- Automations8
- Social media & getting found11
- Moving from another system10
For givers & members
Giving to your church, or checking in your kids?
Guides for the people in the pews — giving, changing a recurring gift, your giving statement, signing up and checking in.
What people ask us most
- Bring in your sermons from YouTubeConnect your channel or playlist so Aligned learns how you preach, and star the sermons that sound most like you.Leader
- Cancel Pro (and what happens to your work)Cancel your subscription, what you keep, and when it takes effect.Leader
- Find a past chat or sermonGet back to a conversation from yesterday or last month, even if you only remember a phrase.Leader
- Find your way around AlignedWhere chat, Brain, Media, Assistant, Saved and Settings live on a computer, and what the top bar tells you.Leader
- Find your way around on your phoneThe bar along the bottom, the More menu and its search — where everything in Aligned lives on a phone.Leader
- Make Aligned sound like youGive Aligned your website and your sermons so every draft sounds like you and believes what your church believes.Leader
- Print your sermon or save it as a PDFPrint your manuscript or save a PDF on a computer or phone, and know where the file ends up.Leader
- Bring your people over from your old systemConnect Planning Center, Breeze or Elvanto and bring your people, families, groups, lists and events across — you approve every change.Church
- Cancel your recurring giftStop a gift that repeats, yourself, from Your giving — or skip or pause it if you only need a break.Church
- Check kids in safely on Sunday morningSet up a check-in station, open it on a lobby tablet, decide on guest check-in, and plan the Sunday you start.Church
- Find your way around your church workspaceWhere your modules live, how to change pages, search for anything, and get back to the chat.Church
- Get your church set up, step by stepUse the Getting set up checklist and “What's next?” to finish setup in the order that gets you running fastest.Church
- Give online to your churchGive a one-time gift from your church's giving page — from a link, a QR code, its website or the lobby tablet.Church
- Put your website on your own addressConnect yourchurch.org to your Aligned site: type your domain, add two records where you bought it, and Aligned makes it secure.Church
Can’t find it? Ask us.
Message us from inside Aligned and you’ll get an answer in seconds — and a real person from our team for anything about money, your account or something that looks broken.