🚀 Getting started
Sola Studio has two parts: this website, where your team prepares the slides during the week, and the Sola Studio app on the church computer, which shows them during the service.
1. Create your sign-in
Once your congregation is approved, you get an email with a link. Open it, choose a password, and you’re in. The link works once — if it has expired, ask for a new one.
2. Tell Sola Studio about your services
The first time you sign in, you’re asked one question: which services do you have? Tick them, check the day and start time, and choose:
- Kind — Bible class (songs and the teacher’s slides) or Worship (songs, a scripture reading, the sermon slides, invitation and Lord’s Supper songs).
- Announcements before it — tick this if you show announcements on the screen before that service starts.
Press Create my slideshows. You’ll find them on the Slideshows page, grouped as 📣 Announcement slideshows and ⛪ Service slideshows. Nothing is set in stone — you can add, remove, rename and reorder everything.
3. Invite your team
Open the menu with your congregation’s name (top right) → 👥 Your team. Type someone’s email, choose what they can do, and press Create invite link. Send them the link by email or text.
- Members prepare slides each week.
- Leaders can also invite people, give password-reset links and turn off someone’s access.
4. Set up the church computer
Install the Sola Studio app on the computer that runs your projector or TV, then connect it to your congregation with a code from the 💻 Church computer page. See Installing the app.
5. Each week
Open each slideshow and work down the list. Slides that need this week’s information are marked ⚠; everything else stays as it was. Most weeks this takes a few minutes. See Weekly announcements and Services and songs.