The questions your church is already asking.
Members’ meetings, budget nights, a new building, a hard season. People submit their questions ahead of time, the room upvotes what matters most, and you answer with the list up on the projector, in front of everyone, on the record.
Every meeting has a question nobody asks.
Not because people don’t have one. Because asking it means standing up, holding a microphone, and saying it in front of three hundred people you’ll see again on Sunday.
The same three people talk
A microphone in an aisle rewards confidence, not curiosity. The person with the question everyone else is quietly wondering about stays in their seat.
Questions arrive on scraps
An index card, a text to the pastor at 11pm, someone catching an elder in the lobby. None of it lives in one place, and half of it never gets an answer.
Nobody knows what got answered
The meeting ends, the questions scatter, and the people who asked are left assuming they were ignored, which is worse than the answer would have been.
Open Floor, in detail.
They ask before anyone’s in the room
Open a session and share the link: in the bulletin, from the stage, in a text to the whole church. Questions come in for days beforehand, from people who’d never queue at a microphone, and you walk into the meeting already knowing what’s on your church’s mind.
- A public Q&A link anyone can use: no app, no account, no login
- Submissions open days before the meeting and stay open during it
- Questions land in one list instead of five inboxes
The room decides what matters
Everyone can upvote. The question fourteen families are wondering about rises to the top, and the one asked by the loudest person in the building sits where the church actually put it. You spend the meeting on what people came to hear rather than on whoever reached the aisle first.
- Upvoting, so priority comes from the congregation rather than the platform
- The order is visible, so nobody has to trust that you picked fairly
- Moderation for the handful of things that shouldn’t go on a screen
Present mode, ready for the projector
When the meeting starts, put it on the screen. One question at a time, large enough to read from the back row, with the queue behind it. No screen-sharing a browser tab full of tabs, no reading questions off a phone, no wondering whether you skipped one.
- Projector-ready present mode, built for the screen, not a shared laptop window
- Work down the list live, marking each one as you go
- New submissions keep arriving mid-meeting and join the queue
Answered stays answered
Every question carries a state (queued, answered, or set aside), so the record survives the meeting. The people who asked can see they were heard, and next year’s budget night doesn’t start by relitigating what you already covered.
- Answered and queued states that persist after the room empties
- A session history your leaders can look back at
- Anything you didn’t reach stays on the list rather than evaporating
The rest of what Open Floor does.
Open Floor is its own product, and it shares one directory with any others you add.
Where this connects
Open Floor works on its own, on free Core. Add any of these when you need them (every product shares one directory and one permission system), or get them all with Churchory One.
Churchory Open Floor is live Q&A and polling for church meetings: people submit questions from a public link before and during the meeting, the room upvotes them, and you answer from a projector-ready present mode. It's $99 a year (or $25 a month) on its own, or part of Churchory One, with unlimited sessions and participants.
What problem does Open Floor solve?
Every members' meeting has a question nobody asks, because asking means standing at a microphone in front of people you'll see again on Sunday. The questions that do come arrive as index cards and late-night texts, scattered across inboxes, and the people who asked are left assuming they were ignored.
How does it work?
Open a session
Create a session for the meeting and share its public link in the bulletin, from the stage or in an announcement. No app, no account, no login.
Collect questions early
Submissions open days before the meeting and stay open during it, so you walk in knowing what's on the church's mind.
Let the room set the order
Everyone can upvote; the questions most people want answered rise, and the order is visible to all.
Present it
Put present mode on the projector: one question at a time, large enough for the back row, with the queue behind it. Run a quick live poll when you need a read of the room.
Keep the record
Each question is marked answered, queued or set aside, and the session history stays for your leaders to look back on.
Common situations
Budget night is coming up
Open the session a week early; by the meeting you have the questions people are actually asking about the budget, ranked by the congregation.
A building project is controversial
Questions come in anonymously from a link rather than at a microphone, so quieter members are heard and the leadership answers on the record.
You need a quick sense of the room
Run a live poll from the same session and show the results on screen.
The meeting runs out of time
Unanswered questions stay queued in the session history, so you can answer them in a follow-up rather than lose them.
What should you expect during setup?
Open Floor takes minutes to set up: create a session, share the link, and test present mode on your projector before the meeting. Pair it with Voting when a question needs to become a member vote.
Who uses it?
More questions
Do people need the app to ask a question?
No. Each session has a public link that works without an app, account or login.
Can we moderate questions before they go on screen?
Yes. You can set a question aside so it doesn't appear in present mode.
Can people submit questions before the meeting?
Yes. Submissions open before the meeting and stay open during it.
Does Open Floor include polls?
Yes, live polls are part of Open Floor.
How is Open Floor different from Voting?
Open Floor is for questions and quick polls; Voting is for formal member votes with eligibility, secret ballots, quorum and thresholds.