Should you encourage congregants to sign up for Realm on your website or should you send invitations? This article explains each invitation model.

In order to take full advantage of all that Realm has to offer, you'll want to make it as easy as possible for congregants to find small groups, communicate with each other, access personal giving history, or register for events. But it's also important to balance this transparency with privacy concerns and understand the benefits and risks of both invitation models. You'll need to decide if congregants will be allowed to register for events and/or anonymously give online to your church.

There are three types of invitation models. By default, all accounts are set to the invite only model when you first purchase or convert to Realm.

To see what invitation model you're using, go to Settings > Security & Privacy and click the Invitation Model tab. You can select from the invitation model types: