Automatic church headcount

An automatic headcount for every service.

No clicker counters, no tallies on scrap paper. A PTZ camera above the stage counts the congregation in the room, door cameras cover your entrances, and the count arrives in your briefing after each service — as anonymous totals, not identities.

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Anonymous totals Only during your service windows Processed on hardware we own
How the count works

From the sanctuary to a number you can use

Four steps, and none of them involve a clicker counter or a cloud full of video.

1

Set your service windows

Tell ChurchSight when your services run. Cameras count only inside those windows, never continuously.

2

Count the room

A PTZ camera above the stage sweeps the seating sections from locked, versioned presets and counts the congregation in the room, round by round.

3

Cover the doors

Door cameras cover your entrances, so arrivals are measured against the grace period you set for each service.

4

Process on hardware we own

Analytics run on redundant AI servers ChurchSight owns and physically controls. Your video is never handed to a public cloud provider; only aggregate metrics reach your dashboard.

Accuracy

A count that tells you how far to trust it

A headcount is only useful if you know when it's right. Every number carries its source and confidence.

  • Verified or estimated, always labeledA count that agrees with a manual headcount of the same service within 5% is marked verified. Otherwise it's an estimate carrying its confidence label.
  • The room's peak, from complete sweeps onlyThe peak is taken only over sweep rounds that counted every section. A round that missed a section publishes no room total.
  • Unavailable is never zeroA section the camera lost sight of is reported unavailable, not empty.
  • A moved camera is flaggedIf a camera drifts away from its preset, the observations it affects are marked degraded.
  • Failover can't inflate the countA server failover or a replayed door crossing cannot increase the finalized attendance count.
  • How full, not just how manySeated occupancy by section, with seat utilization measured against your seating survey.
Counting, not identifying

A headcount that identifies no one

Counting people in a sanctuary is not the same as watching them. ChurchSight keeps the two apart. Read our privacy commitments.

  • Totals, not identitiesThe headcount is anonymous. Identity matching is a separate capability that stays off unless your jurisdiction permits it and you switch it on.
  • Posted notice, built inNotices at your entrances, correction, deletion, export, retention limits and a full audit history are part of the product.
  • No footage on the dashboardYour briefing shows numbers and trends. It never shows camera footage or face thumbnails.
  • Never inferredChurchSight never infers emotional state, ethnicity, health or beliefs.
FAQ

Headcount questions

What cameras does the headcount use?

A PTZ camera mounted above the stage counts the congregation in the room, and door cameras cover your entrances. ChurchSight works with approved local cameras through vendor adapters; the initial supported path is UniFi Protect. Cameras run only during the service windows you define.

How accurate is the count?

Every count says how far to trust it. A count that agrees with a manual headcount of the same service within 5% is marked verified; otherwise it is published as an estimate with its confidence label. A section the camera could not see is reported unavailable, never counted as empty.

Do members need to consent or opt out?

Attendance counting is anonymous — it produces totals, not identities — so no individual consent is required. Notices posted at your entrances state that entering the building implies consent to photo and video capture. Any identity feature is separate and stays off unless your jurisdiction permits it and you explicitly enable it.

Does the video go to the cloud?

No. ChurchSight does not use a public cloud for video. Video is processed on redundant AI servers ChurchSight owns and physically controls at our own facility, and only aggregate metrics reach your dashboard.

Church attendance tracking software The briefing your team reads after every service, with trends and comparisons. Planning Center attendance Volunteers and children's check-ins beside attendance, never added to it. ChurchSight overview The whole product, how it works, and our privacy commitments.

Retire the clicker this season

See what an automatic, honestly labeled headcount looks like for your services.

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