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A few of these look interchangeable and are not. Where a distinction has consequences, it is spelled out.

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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.
Donor — not a separate record. A contact or member with recorded giving against them. It is a filter, not a type. Admin — a member you have given some management access to. Admin seats are limited by plan. Owner — the person who created the church. Cannot be removed, always has full access.

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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. Forever Free has none. Every paid plan can add as many as it needs.
Two services on a Sunday in the same building are two services, one campus. Campuses are for separate locations.
Group — a smaller room inside your church. A home group, a youth team, a leadership cohort. Ministry plan.

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Collecting information

Signup — people putting their name down for something. A serving team, a trip, a small group. Available on every plan. Form — a custom questionnaire with your own fields. A connect card, an application, a survey. Ministry plan.
If you are on a lower plan and want a connect card, a signup usually does the job.
Registration — signing up for a specific event, with a ticket code. Ministry plan.

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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.

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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.

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Plans

Forever Free — for an evangelist discipling one person at a time. Courses and signups. Individual, Small Team, Ministry — the paid tiers. See Plans and limits. Add-on — something you buy on top of a plan: extra admin seats, unlimited contacts (Ministry only), or Ask Harvest. Trial — 14 days on any paid plan. Free is not a trial; it does not expire.

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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.