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Setting up takes about twenty minutes. You do not need to finish everything before inviting people — pick the one thing your congregation needs first and add the rest as you go.

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1. Create your account

Sign up at theharvest.site. You can use an email address and password, or continue with Google. Every plan except Free starts with a 14-day free trial. You are not charged during the trial and you can cancel from your billing settings.

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2. Choose your address

Your church gets its own address on Harvest:
This is the link you give your congregation. It is also where your public pages live — your event registration pages, your public calendar and anything you share on the web.
Pick carefully. Your address appears on printed material, QR codes and links people bookmark, so changing it later means those stop working.

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3. Add your church details

Under Church, add your name, address and contact details. Two of these do real work:
  • Your address puts you on the church map that members use to find congregations near them.
  • Your logo and colours appear throughout the member app. See Branding.

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4. Invite your team

Go to CRM → Roles and add the people who will help run things. Harvest lets you give each person exactly the access they need — a worship leader who plans services does not need to see your accounting. Roles and permissions covers this properly.

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5. Add the first thing your people need

This is the step that matters. Most churches start with one of these:

A course

Discipleship material people work through at their own pace.

A service

Your Sunday run sheet and volunteer rota.

A giving link

So people can give before anything else is ready.

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6. Invite your congregation

Share your address. People create their own accounts and land in the member app.
Members sign up at your address, not the main Harvest site. If someone signs up somewhere else, they will not be connected to your church.

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What happens next

Nothing is locked in. You can add features as you need them, and everything you have not set up simply stays out of the way — Harvest hides sections your church has not started using rather than showing you empty screens.