A few of these look interchangeable and are not. Where a distinction has consequences, it is spelled out.
People
Contact — a record your church created. A visitor who filled in a card, a donor, someone you are following up. A contact has no login.
Member — someone who made their own Harvest account at your church’s address. They open the member app.
A person can be both, and Harvest counts them once. But the link is the email address — a contact with no email can never be matched to a member, which is why gifts recorded against them are invisible to that person.
Places
Your address — yourchurch.theharvest.app. Members must sign up here, not on the main Harvest site.
Campus — a separate physical location of your church. Every plan includes one; more are an add-on.
Two services on a Sunday in the same building are two services, one campus. Campuses are for separate locations.
If you are on a lower plan and want a connect card, a signup usually does the job.
Sunday
Service — a gathering you plan: the order of service and the volunteer rota. Does not need an event.
Event — something you advertise and take registrations for. A conference, a crusade.
Rota — who is serving in which role, across weeks.
Order of service — the run sheet. Items with lengths, so moving one shifts the clock times after it.
Check-in — recording who actually turned up on the day.
Money
Payment link — your own PayPal, Revolut, Wise, Venmo, Cash App or Zelle. Harvest points people at it and never handles the money.
Recording a gift — entering a donation that arrived in your own account. Nothing in Harvest counts until this happens.
Invoice — created automatically when you record a gift. This is what accounting and giving statements read.
Campaign — a fundraising goal with a progress bar. Counts money received.
Pledge campaign — tracks money promised, and how much of it has arrived. The gap is the point. Ministry plan.
Giving statement — a member’s yearly record of what they gave, built from recorded gifts matched to their email.
Reference code — the short code an attendee puts in a payment note so you can match their payment to their ticket.
Plans
Forever Free — for an evangelist discipling one person at a time. Courses and signups.
Plus, Pro, Ministry — the paid tiers. See Plans and limits.
Add-on — something you buy on top of a plan: contact packs, admin seats, campuses, or Ask Harvest.
Trial — 14 days on any paid plan. Free is not a trial; it does not expire.
Content
Course — discipleship material people work through at their own pace. Yours, or adopted from the Harvest library.
Adopted course — a library course you added. Counts towards your course limit like your own.
Blog — published articles, keepable and shareable.
Community feed — the week’s notices, photos and polls.
Note — your team’s internal writing. Can be shared with admins, published to the web, sent to the livestream, or turned into a blog draft. 