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Rooms & Groups

An overview on managing rooms and groups as part of your facilities in MinistryPlatform, including basic information and rooms and groups fields.

  • Records on the Rooms & Groups tab of an Event are Room Reservation records that include optional Group details.
  • The Check-In Suite primarily uses these additional Group details.
  • You can reserve, view, and manage Room details in the Rooms & Groups tab.

Rooms & Groups Fields

Event
The Event the room is reserved for.
Room
The room reserved.
Group
The group using this room for this Event.
Balance Priority
To balance Participants between Rooms:
  • For one group using one room, set both Room Reservations to 0.
  • For multiple groups sharing the same room, set both Room Reservations to 0.
To balance one Group assigned to multiple Rooms:
  • Fill one room completely, then fill other: set the first Room Reservation to 0, then set the other to 1.
  • Fill the rooms evenly, back and forth: set both Room Reservations as 0.
Closed
If you manually close the room, Participants can't check into the room regardless of other settings. You can also set this field using Check-In Suite Admin Console on the Group Room Overview. The Auto Close field does not change this value. The default is No.
Auto Close At Capacity
If set to Yes, this room will close and is no longer available for check-in when the number of Participants checked in meets the Max Capacity set on the Room record.
Note: Groups must be used for this feature.

You can turn off this option using the Check-In Suite Admin Console on the Group Room Overview. The default is No.

Room Layout
The layout selected for this Event's room.
Chairs
The number of chairs requested for this Event's room.
Tables
The number of tables requested for this Event's room.
Notes
Any notes you want to add about the Room Reservation.
Approved
If set to Yes, this Room Reservation has been reviewed and approved.
Cancelled
If set to Yes, this Room Reservation has been cancelled.
Primary Reservation
This is a hidden field. When in use, views and reports retreive only the most relevant record that associates a room with an Event when a room is associated multiple times with an Event so multiple Groups can share a room. This is common in some Check-In Suite scenarios.
  • Only one record can be a primary reservation.
  • If two records exist, the one with Notes become the primary reservation.
  • If two or more records with Notes exist, the records added first become the primary reservation.