7APP CASE STUDY
Planning worship services without the WhatsApp chaos
7App is the app Drumcondra Seventh-day Adventist Church in Dublin uses to plan its services and the volunteers who serve in them. The order of service, the roster and the chord charts live in one place, on every phone, even with no Wi-Fi on stage.
- Client
- Drumcondra SDA Church, Dublin
- Sector
- Non-profit · Faith community
- Platform
- Installable web app, works offline
7AppPlan · Serve · Play
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app instead of rota spreadsheets, printouts and group chats
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roles with clear permissions
Offline
chord charts keep working without Wi-Fi
EN · PT
in English and Portuguese
THE CHALLENGE
Every Saturday ran on group chats
Like most churches, Drumcondra organised its services through a pile of WhatsApp messages, printed chord sheets and spreadsheet rotas. Leaders chased volunteers one by one, musicians played from charts in the wrong key, and nobody could see at a glance who had confirmed for Saturday.
The church needed one place that answered three questions: what happens in the service, who is serving and have they confirmed, and what do the musicians play, without asking volunteers to learn a complicated system.
OUR APPROACH
Scheduling and music in the same app
The unusual part is that the roster and the music are connected. When the worship leader adds a song to Saturday's plan, every musician on that service opens that exact song, in that exact key, from their own schedule.
A running order that keeps time
Leaders build the service from templates, songs and elements, and the app recalculates the clock as items move.
Start time and length for every item, end time for the service- Reusable templates for a standard Sabbath service
- Songs show when they were last played, to avoid repeats
Fair, informed scheduling
Assigning a volunteer shows who is free, who served least recently and who has a conflict, with the reason.
- Blockout dates and double bookings flagged, never silently ignored
- Pending, confirmed and declined in the same colours everywhere
- A multi-week matrix that makes gaps obvious
A volunteer's week in one screen
Volunteers see what they are asked to serve, accept or decline with one tap, and mark dates they are away.
- One-tap accept, with an optional reason to decline
- Invitations, approvals and team placement handled in-app
- Email and push reminders, plus a Thursday roster digest for leaders
Built for the stage
Chord charts work offline, transpose instantly and can follow the worship leader live across the band.
- Transpose, capo and lyrics-only singer mode
- Live band sync: song, scroll and highlights follow the leader
- The church events calendar, pulled straight from SharePoint
- Foot pedal support and a screen that never sleeps
THE PRODUCT
From the volunteer's phone to the leader's laptop
Large touch targets, a dark interface that does not blind the front row, and the same statuses and colours on every screen.
Screens from the live product, shown with invented sample data.
THE OUTCOME
What changed for the church
- Leaders see who has confirmed for Saturday without sending a message
- Musicians open the right song in the right key from their own schedule
- Charts keep working when the church Wi-Fi drops mid-service
- New volunteers are invited, approved and placed in minutes
- The whole team works in English or Portuguese
“7App replaced our group chats, printed chord sheets and rota spreadsheets. Volunteers confirm with one tap, the band always has the right key, and Saturday mornings are calmer for everyone.”
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