Service Companion overview

Quick start

1. Build and order the whole service in Service builder.
2. Open Service companion in the service builder.
3. Choose whether attendees may see the optional summary, Show speaker notes, or Show song lyrics. Speaker notes and lyrics stay off until an editor enables them.
4. Use Enable companion link when the service is ready to share. Follow Share Service Companion for the complete sharing workflow.
5. Copy or preview the link, download a customized QR code, or create a themed one-slide QR presentation for the service.
6. Open the link as an attendee to browse the service. See View Service Companion for the viewing experience. During the service, attendees can turn on Follow live. See Follow live in Service Companion.

Service Companion provides one public link for the whole service. Attendees browse the service and its slides at their own pace. While the service is running, they can choose to follow the slide that is on screen. The companion does not run the presentation or change what the screens show.

Service Companion is included with the Church plan. On other plans, the service builder shows the feature as locked with an option to upgrade.

Deep dive

One companion for the whole service

Service Companion follows the ordered presentations in a service and presents them together at one public link. Arrange the service first in Service builder, then use Service companion to choose what the link includes.

This is different from:

• Live presentation — browsing stays independent of the operator. Follow live is optional, shows the current slide, and does not advance outputs or control what is on screen. See Follow live in Service Companion.
• Presenter views — it is an attendee-facing page, not a private speaker-notes or worship-team display that follows a live presentation.
• Single-presentation sharing — its link covers the whole ordered service rather than one presentation.

What attendees can see

Slides appear as they were designed, with their existing layout and aspect ratio. Service Companion does not rewrite slides or create a separate mobile version.

An editor can also provide an optional attendee summary for the whole service. The summary may be left blank.

Show speaker notes and Show song lyrics are separate optional settings. Both are off until an editor enables them. Because an enabled companion is public, review Service Companion privacy before making either type of content available.

Song lyrics

Lyrics are available only for presentations composed from library songs. When Show song lyrics is enabled and a presentation is eligible, attendees read the arranged lyrics one section at a time.

Presentations without eligible composed-song data still show their slides, but they do not offer the lyrics view.

Share with a QR presentation

The companion panel can create one QR presentation tied to the service. Choose the QR colors and styles, enter an optional line of slide text, name the presentation, and select a presentation theme. WorshipDeck creates a 16:9 announcement presentation with one slide and adds it as the first item in the service.

After it is created, View presentation replaces Create QR presentation and opens the presentation viewer in a new tab. Removing the QR presentation from the service order does not create another one. Deleting the presentation clears the connection so a replacement can be created.

Next steps

• Share Service Companion — configure and manage the public link.
• View Service Companion — learn how attendees browse a service.
• Follow live in Service Companion — follow the slide that is on screen during the service.
• Service Companion privacy — understand what the public link can expose.