The Clearstream Blog

Last week we launched a brand new site, and we'd love for you to check it out! We completely rebuilt it, and now have dedicated pages for each of our features and integrations. You may learn something new that you didn't know you could do with Clearstream!

Welcome to the middle of July! Not sure how the weather is where you’re at, but it’s hotter than fireworks here. We’ve made some small, but highly-requested updates that we’re excited to share—subscriber reports, improvements to the Subscribers page, export options for polls, additional workflow functionality, and some UI redesign. Let’s jump in!

If you're wondering what texting has to do with Vacation Bible School, then this is the right read. Because it turns out texting has everything to do with VBS. You'll likely see the best response rates when collecting registrations, recruiting volunteers, and sending parent announcements through texting. And even though there's a lot to think about during one of the busiest weeks of kids ministry, we can help brainstorm with you. So if you’re the children's director, this post is for you, and if you're not, then you know who to share this with.

How's that saying go? April showers bring a May product update? Yes, I think that's right... Anyways, we're excited to share a few updates with you!

Texting is the best way to reach your students. With a 97% open rate (3 times more successful than any other communication method), texting is the most sure way to connect. So here are some best practices you can easily implement in your student ministry.

We won't pretend to know the answers to all the questions facing pastors and church leaders in the weeks leading up to Easter, but we'd love to help where we can. Our focus here is utilizing resources you already have with Clearstream: polls and keyword workflows. We've laid out exactly how you can use these, taking the guesswork out of the equation.

Our team is excited for Spring and daylight saving time! We're also excited to share a new feature and some updates! Not sure which is more exciting... we really love the sunshine. ☀️

Here are a few helpful updates we've recently pushed - You can now create Keyword aliases when using a dedicated number, view context within Slack to see what message an incoming text is replying to, and your account switcher got a small make-over. Check out all the details below!

Happy New Year and welcome to the first product update of the 2022! There was a lot worth celebrating in 2021 and we're excited for what this new year will bring! To kick the year off we've created a custom link shortener, added new options for using Subscriber Data, and also made some big updates to our integration with Rock RMS!

Along with polls, you can now use subscriber data in your workflow texts ("Hi First Name"), customize the instructions when sending a menu in a keyword workflow, and if you use our CCB integration, you can now automatically add subscribers to a CCB group.