Glossary

The terms Inperia uses, grouped by topic.

People

Term	What it means
Member	A person who is part of the congregation. They have a record, a rung and at least one role, and they hold a place in the tree except while they’re unassigned. If they have an email, they can receive an invitation to use the app.
Record	A person’s entry in Inperia, with their details, their history and their relationships.
Contact	Someone who isn’t part of the church yet: a visitor, someone who’s interested. Their record is lighter, and they can be converted into a member.
Responsible	The member who walks alongside a contact. When the contact is converted, they’re suggested as the new member’s direct leader.
Invitation	The email that gives a member access to the app. It expires after 7 days.
Archive	Taking a person off the list without erasing anything. You undo it by restoring them.
Delete for good	Permanently erasing the data of an archived person. It can’t be undone.
Merge records	Combining two records of the same person into one.
Each person’s attendance	How a person has been coming over time: when they last came, whether they’ve been missing, and every mark. It’s on the Attendance tab of their record.

Leadership

Term	What it means
Growth Ladder	The stages a person goes through in the church. It also orders the leadership tree.
Rung	Each stage of the ladder, such as Pastor, Leader or Disciple. Every member is always on one.
Direct leader	The person a member reports to in the tree.
Branch	A leader and all the people who report to them, at every level.
Unassigned	A member who doesn’t have a leader yet and is waiting for their place in the tree.

Access and permissions

Term	What it means
Owner	Whoever manages the church’s account: billing, owners, the network and support access. They can do everything.
Role	The set of permissions and scopes that decides what a person sees and does in the app.
Permission	An action a role allows, such as creating meetings or taking attendance.
Sensitive field	A piece of protected data, such as the address or the ID document, that’s only visible with its permission.
Scope	Which people or records a role applies to: only the person themselves, their branch or the whole church.
Support access	Temporary access to your account by the Inperia team, approved by an owner.

Agenda

Term	What it means
Meeting	A church gathering with a date, a place, a person leading it and an attendance list.
Series	A meeting that repeats every week or every month.
Attendance	Each person’s present or absent mark at a meeting or an encounter.
Unmarked	Someone on the list who didn’t get any mark. It doesn’t count as an absence.
Meeting type	The kind of meeting, such as a service, prayer or youth. It decides whether the meeting counts toward each person’s attendance.
Quick count	How many adults, children and visitors were at a meeting, without naming each one.
Visitors’ QR	The code visitors scan to register for a meeting from their phone.
Pastoral follow-up	The report of a one-on-one meeting with a member. It’s read by the people who have its author within their scope.
Contact follow-up	The record of a visit, a call or a conversation with a contact.
Cell group	A home where a small group from the church meets, with its leaders, members and hosts. Each church chooses what to call it.
Encounter	Each meeting of a cell group, with its attendance and its report.
Course	What the church teaches, with its lessons, the attendance it asks for to pass and the courses it asks for first.
Group	The people who take a course together, with their teachers and their classes.
One-to-one course	A course given to just one person, without forming a group.
Class	Each session of a group, copied from a lesson of the syllabus, with its attendance list.
Earlier completion	A course someone passed before the church recorded it in Inperia.
Public calendar	A part of the agenda that the church publishes so anyone can subscribe.
Subscription link	Your personal link to see your meetings in Google, Apple or Outlook.

Care and reports

Term	What it means
Care	The module that tells you who to reach out to and why, based on each person’s attendance.
Reason	Why someone shows up in Care, such as absences in a row or days away.
Case	The time someone spends in Care: from when they show up until they come back or it’s no longer needed.
Snooze	Taking someone out of your Care inbox for a few weeks.
Away until	The date until which someone doesn’t show up in any inbox. Only the date is kept, never the reason.
Assignment	Putting someone in the inbox of another leader who already reaches them.
Reports	How the church is doing over time: attendance, consolidation, care and cell groups.
Consolidation	What happens to the people who arrive: whether they come back, whether they’re looked after and whether they become members.
Goal	What the church sets out to reach in the year, such as its weekly attendance average.
Month summary	One month of the church on a single page, to read or print.

Account and network

Term	What it means
Module	A part of the app with its own section in the menu, such as Contacts or Cell groups.
Plan	What your church’s account includes: Starter, Growth or Expansion.
Main church	A church that manages others, its child churches.
Child church	A church with its own account and plan that agrees to let another church manage it.
Coverage	A relationship in which one church walks alongside another at the level the covered church grants: read only, or read and write.
Delegated access	The access to other churches in the network that an owner shares with a member of their church.