Every person, the whole story.
Scout’s person profile is built from every signal in the system — giving, serving, groups, attendance, household, and pastoral notes. It’s one screen, where the profile lives and where pastoral care actually happens.
Sarah Mitchell
Member · 3 years
Giving
$1,240 / year
Recurring since March
Serving
Welcome team
Twice a month
Groups
Tuesday Group
Joined last June
Family
Mitchell household
Four people
Scout's read
Sarah visited two springs ago on a friend's invitation, joined a Tuesday group by that summer, and stepped onto the welcome team in the fall. Her giving became recurring this spring. She is settling into a season of leading.
Her journey
Three things the profile does that a database can’t.
One profile, every signal
Everything you’d want to know about someone, on one screen.
Open a person and see the full picture — giving cadence, serving history, group membership, household, attendance, and pastoral notes. The profile reads like a note from a staff member who’s been paying attention for two years.
How Scout reads across all of itHouseholds + relationships
Family-first by default. Multi-household when life requires it.
Members can belong to multiple households with named relationships — spouse, parent, child, guardian, other. A primary contact flag handles the practical case. Households are the unit check-in works from, the unit giving statements come out of, and the unit pastoral care follows.
Tags, notes, and declared capacity
Custom data shaped to how you pastor.
Tag people however your church already thinks about people. Pastoral notes capture what only a staff member would notice — flagged as a prayer request when needed, and surfaced in the next morning briefing. Members declare what they bring on their own profile, in their own words.
The profile is the place every other Scout module ends up. Giving, serving, groups, attendance, and life events all flow into it. That’s why Scout can see what single-purpose tools miss — your data already lives together.
What Scout’s people module doesn’t do yet.
- Scout doesn’t have arbitrary custom-field columns on the person record. Anything you’d normally put in a field, you put in a tag or a pastoral note. Most churches end up preferring this. Custom fields can come later if enough churches ask.
- Members can’t browse the church directory in-app yet. Staff see every person; members see their household and group members.
- Profile photos are member-uploaded. No automatic cropping, background-removal, or AI cleanup. (Church photos stay out of any model.)
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