Install before launch

Paycheck giving opens to donors on launch day. Until then, your dashboard shows a band at the top: "Preview: install the buttons now. They stay hidden on your site until we launch." You can set up your church and install both buttons now. On launch day they appear on your site on their own, with nothing to do.

This page is the kit for the person who sets up the church and edits its website: what to have ready, what to do in one session, and what happens at launch.

Have this ready

• Access to your website. A login that can edit your Give page and publish it (Wix, Squarespace, WordPress or your own code).
• Your website addresses. The main address, such as https://yourchurch.org, and any other one where the buttons will go, such as your members area.
• Your church's legal details. The legal name, EIN, address and the authorized representative's details, for Setup.
• Online access to the church's bank account. Before launch, the bank account is connected by logging in to your bank in a secure window. The name on the account must match your church's legal name.
• Your site's Content Security Policy, if it sends one. See If your site has a Content Security Policy.

In the session

1. Create your account at https://church.rostergiving.com and sign in. See Start receiving gifts.
2. Fill in Setup and submit. See Verify your church.
3. Save your website in the Integration Guide, step 2. The buttons only work on the addresses saved there.
4. Install the giving button. Copy the code from the Integration Guide, step 2, paste it on your Give page and publish. See Install the giving button.
5. Install the cancel button. Copy the code from the Integration Guide, step 3, or from Cancellation, paste it where donors look for their giving and publish. See Install the cancel button.
6. Check that the dashboard sees both buttons. Open the pages where you pasted the code. In about a minute, steps 2 and 3 of the Integration Guide read On your site.
7. Invite your team from Team, if others will use the dashboard.

What you see before launch

The buttons don't show on your site. That is expected: our script loads on your page, tells the dashboard the button is there, and draws nothing until launch. Don't reinstall the code because you can't see it. The dashboard is what tells you it worked.

To see a button on your site, select See it on your site next to the code in the dashboard. It opens your saved address with the button showing, in that browser only. Clicking it opens a page that says paycheck giving isn't open yet: nobody can give before launch. Hide it again turns it off in that browser.

If you use your own button, the code in the dashboard adds hidden to it. Keep it: our script removes it at launch. If you point a link in your site builder to #roster-give or #roster-manage, there is nothing to add: our script hides that link until launch. Before the script loads, the link can show for a moment.

At launch

Nothing to do. On launch day, both buttons appear on every page where you installed them, and the band at the top of the dashboard goes away. Donors can give once your Setup is approved and the dashboard has seen your cancel button on your site. See Start receiving gifts.

Keep the buttons on your site until then. If the dashboard stops seeing a button for 3 days, step 2 or 3 of the Integration Guide reads No signal: put the code back.

For AI agents

If you are an AI agent installing the buttons before launch:

1. Follow For AI agents in the giving button guide. The code is the same before and after launch.
2. Do not expect to see the button on the page, and do not remove hidden from a button that has it.
3. Ask the person to check that the Integration Guide reads On your site for both buttons.