Your church's SteepleMate mobile app can carry your own look: where your church is on the map, your pictures and icons, the buttons people see and what each one does. This guide walks through the Mobile App Settings page and the church library that feeds the app. You need Administrator access.

Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Open Mobile App Settings and set your location

Open Mobile App Settings: From the left-hand menu, choose Media, then Mobile App Settings. (It is also under Administration.) The page has four sections: General Settings, Images, Custom Icons and Features and Layout.
Find your church: In General Settings, type your church's address and choose Search. SteepleMate fills in the coordinates and moves the pin. You can also type the latitude and longitude yourself, or click the map to place the pin.
Check the pin: It should sit on your church. This helps people within about 90 miles find your church in the app.
Save: Choose Save to keep the location.

1. Address: Type your church's address here.
2. Search: Looks up the address and sets the coordinates and the map pin.
3. Church Coordinates: The latitude and longitude, in decimal degrees. These are required.
4. Map: Click it to place the pin by hand.
5. Save: Keeps your location.

If you do not provide valid coordinates, your church will not appear in the app's list of nearby churches. The map and address above are an example.

Step 2: Upload your images

Open Images: Click Images to open the section.
Add the pictures: Drop a file on the box beside Intro Image or Logo Image, or choose Browse. The picture is uploaded as soon as you pick it, and the change shows in the app right away. The small ? beside the section title shows a sample of how the images look on a phone.

1. Intro Image: The picture people see when the app opens. About 1024 by 768 pixels (4:3), up to 4 MB.
2. Upload box: Drop a file here or choose Browse.
3. Logo Image: Your church logo. About 1000 by 250 pixels (4:1), up to 4 MB.
4. Reset: Removes your picture and puts the standard one back (the red Reset button beside each upload box).

Tips: Download the SteepleMate app on your phone to see your changes as you make them. If a picture does not look right, try swapping the header and the logo, depending on their size and shape.

Step 3: Upload custom icons

Open Custom Icons: Click Custom Icons.
Upload: Drop one or more icon files on the box or choose Browse. Icons should be square, no larger than 512 by 512 pixels, and under 40 KB.
Check your list: Your Current Icons shows everything you have uploaded. Choose Delete under an icon to remove it.

1. Upload New Custom Icon(s): Drop files here or choose Browse.
2. Your Current Icons: The icons you can choose from when you edit a feature in Step 5.

Step 4: Review the features and layout

SteepleMate gives your app a ready-made layout. You can change it to suit your church.

Open Features and Layout: Click Features and Layout. The list is grouped by Page: the Main Page, the Member Page, and one page for each set of administrator tools.
Find a feature: Type in the search box, or choose Expand All or Collapse All to open or close the page groups.

1. New Custom Link: Adds a button of your own (see Step 6).
2. Search box: Filters the list as you type.
3. Edit: Opens that feature so you can change it.

For each feature the list shows its Icon, Label, where it Navigates To, a Description, its Order, whether it is Hidden, and whether it is a Custom link.

The app checks each person's access level and shows only what that person can use. The Main Page is the only page people see before they sign in. It must keep the LOGIN feature, because that is how your people sign up, reset a password or sign in to reach the rest of the app.

Step 5: Edit a feature

Choose Edit beside a feature.

1. Change: Opens the icon list. Pick one of your custom icons or one of SteepleMate's stock icons, then save.
2. Label: The name shown in the app. You can rename any feature.
3. Navigates To: Where the button goes. For a custom link, paste a web address. Built-in features show In-App Page/Feature and cannot be changed.
4. Page: Which page the button is on.
5. Order: The position in the list. A smaller number shows first.
6. Is Hidden: Tick it to keep the button out of the app, for example About Our Church if your church does not want it.
7. Save: Keeps your changes.
8. Restore Default Settings: Puts the feature back the way SteepleMate made it. Changes you make take effect right away.

Built-in features show a note that fields shaded gray cannot be changed. If your church uses another website, not the one SteepleMate gave you, open Our Site and put that web address in Navigates To.

Step 6: Add your own link

Want a button for your Facebook group, a song playlist or a giving page outside SteepleMate? Choose New Custom Link at the top of Features and Layout.

1. Change: Choose an icon.
2. Label: What the button says.
3. Navigates To: The web address it opens.
4. Page: The page it appears on, such as the Main Page or the Member Page. The Description box above it is only for your own notes.
5. Save: Adds the button. A custom link also has a Delete button when you open it again later. For a shorter walkthrough, see Adding a Custom Link to Your SteepleMate Mobile App.

Step 7: Add bulletins and videos to the app

The Bulletins and Media buttons show what you add to your church library.

Open the library manager: From the Media menu, choose Manage Library. (Under Administration it is called Manage Mobile Media.) Media you add here shows in the mobile app and on your church website.
Add a bulletin: Choose New, then leave Media Type on Bulletin.

1. Media Type: Bulletin is the first choice. The other types are the ones your church has added, such as Sermon Archive.
2. Bulletin PDF: Upload your bulletin as a PDF, up to 4 MB. You must upload a PDF before you can save a bulletin.
3. Thumbnail: The picture shown for the bulletin in the church library. Choose Upload New or Use Existing URL. Test your thumbnail where it will show, because a small picture can look blurry or stretched.
4. Upload New: Uploads the thumbnail picture from your computer.
5. Visibility: Who can see it: Public, Logged-In Users, or Restricted by Group. Choose Public to show it on your church website.

The church library shows the thumbnail on each bulletin's card, and an item without one gets a standard picture. Add the name, date and description, then choose Save. For sermons, see Set Up a Sermon Archive in the Church Library.

Step 8: What your people see when they sign in

Members sign up and sign in through the LOGIN button. As of the October 2026 update (release 367), signing up in the app and resetting a password both use a code that SteepleMate sends to the person, and people need the newest version of the app to use it. The steps your people follow are in Launching SteepleMate to Your Church. Nothing about the code changes how you customize the app.

Step 9: Schedule announcements

Announcements are written in one place and scheduled in another, so you can set start and end dates to have them removed automatically. For example, a Christmas schedule can end on 12/31. See How to Add and Manage Scheduled Announcements in SteepleMate and Managing Announcements.

What can administrators do from the app?

Administrators see more buttons than members. The Member Page includes Manage People, Manage Events, Manage Finance, Manage Communication, Manage Media, Manage School and Manage Security, and each one opens the matching tools if the person is authorized. Most of these open in the phone's browser inside the app. They give quick access and may need a little adjusting on a small screen. The Description column in Features and Layout says which button each person sees. Members never see administrator tools unless they are given a higher access level. See SteepleMate Access Levels.

Tips

• * Test on a phone. Download the SteepleMate app and look at every change.
• * Keep LOGIN on the Main Page. Without it, people cannot reach the rest of the app.
• * Hide what you do not use. Tick Is Hidden on features your church does not want to show, instead of deleting.
• * Use Restore Default Settings if a change goes wrong.
• * Mind the sizes. The Intro Image, Logo Image and icons each have size limits shown on the page.