Guides
Help, one step at a time.
Plain guides for the people who run the masjid, not IT experts. One for each thing you can do in the portal, and most take less than five minutes to read.
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Every guide.
Getting started
Sign up, find your way round the portal and set up your team.
- Get started with MasjidConnectCreate your account, add your masjid and do the first few jobs. Takes about fifteen minutes.5 min read
- Find your way round the portalWhat the Dashboard shows you, how the menu is laid out and where to get help.4 min read
- Keep your masjid's details up to dateChange your masjid's name, address, logo and contact details, and see where each one appears.3 min read
- Give committee members their own loginGive committee members, imams and volunteers their own login and choose what each can change.3 min read
- Your plan and how to upgradeWhat each plan includes, how the one-off licence works and how to upgrade.3 min read
Prayer times
Start times, jamaat and Jumu'ah, printed timetables and prayer times on your website.
- Add your prayer timesUpload the timetable you already use, or let the portal work out start times from your address.6 min read
- Set and change jamaat timesChange a jamaat time for one day, set rules for a whole season, and handle Ramadan.4 min read
- Set your Jumu'ah timesSet khutbah and jamaat times for Friday, including a second Jumu'ah and summer and winter times.3 min read
- Print a prayer timetableMake a monthly, Ramadan or whole year timetable to print or share on WhatsApp.2 min read
- Change the words used for prayersChoose Zuhr or Dhuhr, Jumu'ah or Jummah, jamaat or iqamah, everywhere at once.1 min read
- Put prayer times on your websitePut live prayer times on your masjid's own website. They update by themselves.3 min read
Screens
Put a screen up, keep it running and send urgent notices to every screen.
- Put up your first screenConnect our Display Unit, MasjidConnect TV on a Fire TV Stick or Android TV, or a browser on a computer or smart TV, by typing a short code into the portal.6 min read
- Run more than one screenCheck each screen is working, rename or turn it, and give each one its own playlist.2 min read
- Change how your screens lookMove prayer times, the clock and slides around, change colours, add your logo and set what happens during jamaat.4 min read
- Send an urgent notice to your screensPut a janazah notice, fire alarm or jamaat change on every screen straight away.3 min read
- Keep your screens up to dateHow screens update themselves overnight, and how to update one straight away.2 min read
- Fix a screen that isn't workingBlank, offline or showing old times? Work through the fix that matches what you see.4 min read
Slides and playlists
Make the slides your screens show and choose when each playlist plays.
- Make slides and playlistsMake slides once, then put them in a playlist for your screens.7 min read
- Add an announcementPut a notice on your screens and, if you like, send it to phones in the Community app too.3 min read
- Change what screens show at set timesHave each screen switch playlist on its own: Fridays, between prayers or all of Ramadan.4 min read
Community
Events, classes, members and the Community app.
- Add events and take bookingsAdd a talk, class, iftar or fundraiser once. It goes in the app, on your screens and gets a booking link.3 min read
- Run classes and coursesPut madrasah classes and courses online with an enrolment form, and track who has paid.2 min read
- Keep a list of membersKeep members, families and committees in one place, track fees and email members.4 min read
- Get your masjid on the Community appHow your masjid appears in the free MasjidConnect Community app, and what people see.4 min read
- Send a message to people's phonesSend a notification to everyone who follows your masjid in the Community app.2 min read
- Answer questions with Ask the ImamAnswer questions people send from the Community app, in the portal or on your phone.2 min read
Giving
Donations, appeals, card readers, your donate page and spending.
- See what's been givenSee everything given this week in one place, then download it or send receipts.4 min read
- Record cash and chequesAdd the Jumu'ah collection, a cheque or a bank transfer in under a minute.2 min read
- Run an appealRaise money for something specific with a target, a progress bar and a link to share.2 min read
- Take donations online and by cardBring in SumUp card reader takings and set up a donate page for online gifts.4 min read
- Show giving on your screensShow a QR code to give, an appeal's progress and this week's total on your screens.2 min read
- Keep track of spendingWrite down what the masjid spends and keep track of what's approved and paid.1 min read
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