Is the thank-you note private, like the details card?

No. It's public text — the same words show on the thank-you page and in the confirmation email, and the thank-you page can be reached by anyone with the link. Addresses, gate codes, and dietary needs still belong in the Only for confirmed sign-ups card, which is shown only to people who actually signed up.

Does the next-step link send people away automatically?

No. It's a button — “Continue to ourchurch.org” — under the recap, so the calendar buttons and the change-or-cancel reminder stay on screen. Only https links are accepted; a pasted bare domain is fine.

Does the closed note show before the sheet opens?

No. “Registration is full” would be wrong on a sheet that hasn't started. It shows under the standard line while the sheet is closed or locked, and under the full notice on a form that has reached its limit.

Do responses I add myself count toward a form's limit?

No, like spots per person. The limit is for the public page; you can always add more from the dashboard, and removing a response reopens a place.

Every plan, including Free, on every sheet and form.

Announcement · October 21, 2026

in your words, not ours

After they sign up: your own thank-you, a next step, a closed note, and a limit for forms

The thank-you page used to be ours: “You're signed up!”, the recap, a calendar button, and a link back. Fine, but nobody at your church wrote it. Now the moment after someone signs up can say what you'd say — and a plain form can know when it's had enough.

The short version: A new After they sign up card on every sheet's Settings tab: a thank-you note in your words, a next step link that becomes a button, a closed note for when the sheet isn't taking sign-ups, and — on plain forms — stop after this many responses. The thank-you page also offers Sign up someone else. Every plan.

Your thank-you, on the page and in the email

Write a line or two on the new card and it shows on the thank-you page the moment someone signs up — “See you Sunday! Park in the back lot and come in through the kitchen door.” The same words head their confirmation email, under “A note from your church,” so the email reads like you wrote it rather than like a receipt. Someone who answers an RSVP with “No” doesn't get it; there's nothing to welcome them to.

It's public text, the same as the sheet's description. The part we sweated: keeping it separate from the Only for confirmed sign-ups card, which still holds the meal train's address and gate code and still reaches only the people who actually signed up.

A next step, as a button

Paste a link — your website, the giving page, the next form in a registration — and the thank-you page gets a Continue to ourchurch.org button. We chose a button over an automatic redirect on purpose: the recap, the calendar buttons, and the reminder that their email holds the change-or-cancel link all stay where they are. Only https links are accepted, and a bare “ourchurch.org/giving” is cleaned up for you.

The closed note

A sheet that's closed or locked says so in our words. Now it can also say yours, underneath: “The schedule is set — email Deacon Ray to swap a Sunday,” or “Registration is full; email the office to join the waiting list.” It never shows before the sheet opens, where “full” would be wrong.

Forms that stop at forty

A spot has a capacity; a plain form never fills. Until now, when it should have — the first forty families for Thanksgiving baskets, twenty-five seats in a class with no time slots — you watched the count and unpublished by hand. The form's card now has Stop after this many responses, with the current count beside it. At the limit, the page says the form is no longer taking responses, shows your closed note under that, and refuses what a stale tab tries to send. Two people reaching for the last place at the same second are sorted the same way two volunteers reaching for the last spot are: one gets it. Responses you add yourself don't count, and removing one reopens a place.

Sign up someone else

Under the recap there's now a plain link named for what the parent registering three kids is about to do. It goes back to the same sheet; it just says so.

Where it lives

Every sheet's Settings tab, the After they sign up card (on a form, After they send). Every plan. The help center covers it under Say thanks in your own words and, for the response limit, Stop after a set number of responses.

Common questions

Is the thank-you note private, like the details card?: No. It's public text — the same words show on the thank-you page and in the confirmation email, and the thank-you page can be reached by anyone with the link. Addresses, gate codes, and dietary needs still belong in the Only for confirmed sign-ups card, which is shown only to people who actually signed up.
Does the next-step link send people away automatically?: No. It's a button — “Continue to ourchurch.org” — under the recap, so the calendar buttons and the change-or-cancel reminder stay on screen. Only https links are accepted; a pasted bare domain is fine.
Does the closed note show before the sheet opens?: No. “Registration is full” would be wrong on a sheet that hasn't started. It shows under the standard line while the sheet is closed or locked, and under the full notice on a form that has reached its limit.
Do responses I add myself count toward a form's limit?: No, like spots per person. The limit is for the public page; you can always add more from the dashboard, and removing a response reopens a place.
Which plans?: Every plan, including Free, on every sheet and form.

← All posts