๐ŸŒฑProduct ยท New Member Onboarding

The first twelve months, structured.

Welcome portal, Navigator pairings, leadership dossiers, checkpoint cadence.

Most synagogues do new-member onboarding informally โ€” phone calls, name-tags, an intro email. It's brittle, easy to drop, and falls apart when the engagement director leaves. MyBimah Onboarding is the structured workspace for the relationship between joining and feeling at home: a polished welcome portal for the new member, a control room for the engagement director, a printable dossier for clergy and leadership, and a pairing model that gives every new family a Navigator from inside the community.

In development

Designed and ready to start. Beta cohort opening in tandem with Community CRM.

Onboarding shares its data spine with Community CRM and its ticket-style threading with Pulse โ€” same backbone, different workflow. Lining up launch-partner synagogues for the cohort. Request access if you'd like a seat.

Four surfaces, one journey

Each role in the onboarding loop gets a workspace tuned to their job โ€” but every workspace reads from the same journey, so nothing falls between the seams.

For the new member

A welcome portal that feels like the door is open

A landing page personalized for the household: welcome message, photo of their assigned Navigator, upcoming services and events to attend, a friendly checklist of first steps (sign up for holiday tickets, RSVP to the new-member shabbat, meet with clergy, join an interest group), and a one-tap way to ask a question that lands directly with their Navigator and the engagement director.

For the engagement director

A control room for every active journey

An admin inbox listing every household in the program with stage, time-since-last-touch, Navigator pairing status, and checkpoint coverage. Bulk publish a monthly new-member announcement to the bulletin or email blast. Compile a leadership dossier with one click. Promote a household to "settled," route a concern to the rabbi, or open a Pulse ticket when something needs staff follow-up.

For leadership and clergy

A monthly dossier that arrives in their inbox

A printable, emailable briefing of every new household this month โ€” names, photos, where they came from, their interests, their kids' ages, who their Navigator is, what they care about, and concrete recommendations for who to introduce them to. Generated automatically and reviewed by the engagement director before it goes out. The clergy member arrives at kiddush already knowing the family they're about to meet.

For Navigators

Volunteer-friendly, never overwhelming

A simple dashboard listing the household (or households) the Navigator is supporting, the next checkpoint due, and a low-friction way to log the touch โ€” a kiddush conversation, a phone call, an invitation to dinner. Suggested talking points for each checkpoint so first-time Navigators don't feel adrift. Optional family pairings, so a synagogue can pair a household-with-kids with another family rather than a single individual.

The cadence

Every journey runs through configurable checkpoints โ€” typically 30-day, 90-day, 6-month, and 12-month touchpoints, plus an annual review at the one-year mark and a clean "graduated" state when the household is settled. Each checkpoint surfaces a checklist for both the household and the Navigator: things to attend, people to meet, conversations to have. Missed checkpoints surface as nudges in the engagement director's inbox so nothing quietly ages off.

Tenants configure their own checklist catalog โ€” every synagogue's onboarding rhythm is different, and the platform ships sensible defaults but never forces them.

How it connects

  • People directory. Households are real members with full directory entries; the onboarding journey is a layer on top of the people record, not a parallel database.
  • Lifecycle module. Joining a synagogue often coincides with a B'nei Mitzvah on the horizon, a baby naming, or a wedding. The journey surfaces these and threads them naturally into the onboarding plan.
  • Pulse. A concern raised during a checkpoint can elevate to a Pulse ticket with one click โ€” the journey thread links to the ticket so nothing gets lost.
  • Email templates. Every notification โ€” welcome message, Navigator-assigned, monthly dossier, checkpoint reminder โ€” runs through tenant-editable templates with the same send-history + bounce tracking the rest of the platform uses.
  • Community CRM. Graduated households flow naturally into the broader CRM relationship-tracking layer โ€” onboarding is the first chapter, not a separate book.

Want a seat in the onboarding beta cohort? Tell us.

We're onboarding new launch-partner synagogues selectively while we mature the platform with our beta partner. Send a note and we'll set up a conversation.