Church Claim Flow
Step-by-step flow for a church admin claiming their PewSearch listing — identity verification, premium_churches record creation, and redirect to checkout
Step-by-step flow for a church admin claiming their PewSearch listing — identity verification, premium_churches record creation, and redirect to checkout
How PewSearch handles keyword search, PostGIS geo-filtering, denomination filtering, and pagination to serve 218K+ church listings across directory and state pages
End-to-end flow for the 2026-04 cold outreach campaign targeting 739 PewSearch-visible churches with no website. Offers the free AI Starter Kit as the primary gift and the PewSearch Pro Website as the secondary CTA. Step-by-step with verification at every point.
How PewSearch handles contact form submissions — routing to the church admin vs the general PewSearch team, rate limiting, and email delivery via Resend
All tables owned or primarily used by pewsearch/web — church listings, denominations, directory enrichment, and geographic data
Deploy pewsearch/web to pewsearch.com — pnpm build, merge to master, Vercel auto-deploy confirmation, and directory smoke test covering search, church detail, and admin pages
Resolve a PewSearch listing claimed by the wrong person — verify legitimate ownership, transfer the claim record, and communicate the outcome to both parties
Provision a Premium Page manually when automated checkout fails or for founding/manual deals — create the premium_churches record, optionally link a Stripe subscription, and test the page
Consolidate two duplicate church records in the churches table — identify the canonical record, migrate any premium_churches or voice_agent rows, and hide the duplicate
Overview of the PewSearch church directory — 218K+ visible listings, search and browse features, how it serves as the distribution channel for ChurchWiseAI products, and the free vs Premium distinction
Source of truth for what goes on pewsearch.com/help. Any change here must be reflected in pewsearch/web/src/app/help/page.tsx and vice versa.
What a PewSearch Premium Page customer sees at every touchpoint — discovery through working product
What a PewSearch Pro Website customer sees at every touchpoint — discovery through working product
PewSearch Premium Page product ($9.95/mo) — what it includes, how it differs from a free listing, the claim flow, and its relationship to the Pro Website product
Context
Set directory_visible=false on a church record to hide it from PewSearch — for closures, duplicates, spam, or church requests — with founder approval required