• Pay by yearly statement and check - direct statement customers can pay 12 months in advanced. Customers wishing to pay 12 months in advance receive a 5% discount. Yearly pre-payment is not refundable.
• Pay by quarterly statement and check - You will recieve an invoice about 30 days in advance of the due date. You can still cancel and any paid months after the month of cancellation will be refunded.

About 20% of our customers ask us to help them get a quick start and then they maintain the site after it is up. Many find this an effective way to get a profession site up and running very quickly and economically. We have starter packages or you we can give you an estimate to suit your particular needs.

Your site is automatically updated several times a day with fresh external content through RSS feeds, but let's face it, most of your members are there to see what is happening in the church. We recommend that you update your site a minimum of once a week to keep the content fresh.

Better yet, come up with a schedule that coincides with your church activities and update your site in several different areas several times a week. For example, say you finalize your weekly Sunday bulletin by Friday noon. Post those on the website right away. Can you get your sermon audio ready for upload to the site by Sunday afternoon? Maybe your members would like to listen to it again to let it sink in after the football game is over! Perhaps you freeze your newsletter on the 15th of the month; develop a schedule to post new articles then. Your users will learn to check the site for the new content when it is posted and will appreciate being kept up to date.

Church Chat Live is an add-on product that allows you to interact directly with people visiting your site. Visitors can initiate a dialog or you can pop-up a window and welcome them to the site and ask if they have questions. Church Chat can help you bring the Gospel message, help site visitors understand your church or ministry in greater detail, and even act as an semi-anonymous communication tool between you and church members.

We suggest you select a URL with the suffix '.org'. The '.org' suffix is the one designated for non-profit organizations as '.com' is designed for companies.

You may find that many URLs are already taken. Try to keep it as short as possible. Often it can help to use a combination of the name and initials. For example, our sample site for Faith Community Church uses http://www.faithcc.org/. Many churches also tie their URL to the location, such http://www.churchnametown.org/.

1. Carefully fill in your description and keywords on your settings page (edit the site and click the settings button then on search engines). Make sure your description is 30 words or less and that it is a description, not a mission statement. You do not have to repeat the title (Church or Ministry name). If you are a local ministry include the city and state. Include important keywords in the description like "Christian church in northwest Houston, Texas." Put your most important keywords first in the keyword box.
2. Follow all the directions in submitting the site to the search engines (from the Search Engine Submission button on the Admin page).
3. Submit your site in Yahoo! It is free for non-profits ($299 per year for commercial sites). Navigate to your best category, probably something like Christian churches in your city. The 'suggest a site' button will be in the upper right hand corner of the page.
4. Submit your site to the Open Directory Project. Go to www.DMOZ.com. Same type of process as Yahoo! but free for everyone.
5. You should use the Search Engine Submit after a period of substantial updates or page additions in order to re-index your site but not more frequently than once every 2 months.