Tap Discs for Churches That Stream With Resi

What a Tap Disc Does Next to Resi

Start with a plain definition of each half. Resi is the streaming platform many churches use to broadcast their services, and the stream lands on a watch page: one web address where anyone can view the service live or later. A Tap.Giving disc is a physical shortcut to a web page. It is a durable disc with an NFC chip and a printed QR code. A phone tapped to it, or a phone camera pointed at the code, opens the one web address your church set for that disc.

Nothing has to be installed inside Resi, and there is no connection to approve. The disc opens the link you give it, and the most useful link a streaming church owns is its watch page. Resi carries the stream to the people who are not in the building. The disc carries the stream to the people who are in the building but not in the main room, and it carries everything else your watch page leads to. Our rundown of how the discs and the free Redirect Dashboard work covers the mechanics in full, and our playbook on giving during the livestream covers the online half of the same idea.

One stream, one watch page, and now a physical way to open it from anywhere in the building.

Lobby, Overflow, and Welcome Areas: the Stream Where the Seats Run Out

Every streaming church has the same geography problem. The main room has the stage, the screens, and the sound. The rest of the building has the people the stream was also built for: latecomers, parents with restless kids, volunteers on a break, and guests who arrived after the seats filled. A disc in each of those spaces opens the watch page on the phone already in their hand.

The pattern is the same one you already use online: make the stream impossible to miss at the exact place a person is standing. The disc is simply that principle, printed and stuck to the wall.

For Guests Who Found You Through the Stream

A growing share of first-time guests watched the stream for weeks before they ever visited. They already know your pastor's voice and your worship team's sound. What they do not know is the building: where to check in kids, how giving works here, or what a next step looks like. The stream taught them the service. The building has to teach them the rest, quickly and without friction.

That is where discs pointed somewhere other than the watch page earn their keep. A welcome-area disc can open your next steps page: groups, serving, baptism, a connect form. A seat disc can open your giving page during the offering, the same giving page your online viewers use, so the room and the stream give to one place. Tap.Giving is hardware only and never touches the money; your existing giving platform still receives every gift, exactly as it does from the stream.

The guest who found you through a screen should meet the same church in the room. Same stream, same giving page, same next steps, with the disc standing in for the link they used to tap at home.

Multisite: Every Campus, Every Room, One Stream

Multisite churches stream one service to many rooms in many buildings. The watch page is the same for everyone, which makes it the natural destination for every disc in every campus: the lobby in one city and the overflow room in another open the identical live stream with the identical tap. There is nothing per-campus to publish and no separate link to keep current, because every disc points at the one page Resi already serves.

Each disc's destination is still set on its own in the free Redirect Dashboard, so the sameness is a choice, not a constraint. When one campus hosts a local event, that campus retargets its welcome-area discs to the local signup page for a week while every other campus keeps pointing at the stream. When the week ends, it points them back. Nobody ships anything, reprints anything, or files a ticket with anybody.

That per-disc control is also the safety valve for the odd cases: a campus whose room layout puts families in a separate viewing space, a temporary venue during a remodel, a watch party in a partner building. Wherever the people are, a disc can put the stream there.

Change the Destination Any Time

A disc's destination lives on our side, in the free Redirect Dashboard, and you can change it in seconds, as often as you like, for no fee. That turns a fixed piece of hardware into a standing piece of signage whose message follows your calendar.

Nothing about the stream changes when you do this. Resi keeps broadcasting to the same watch page. You are only deciding which page a given disc opens this week, and that decision is yours to remake whenever the calendar moves.

What It Costs

Discs are a one-time hardware purchase: $5.00 each at 100 to 199, $4.00 each at 200 to 399, and $3.50 each at 400 or more, with a minimum order of 100. Shipping is free, there are no monthly fees, and every order carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Orders ship about 2 to 3 weeks from artwork approval, as an estimate, and there is no rush service. Full pricing is here.

For a multisite church, the arithmetic is friendly: one order can cover the lobbies, overflow rooms, and welcome areas of every campus, because every disc can point at the same stream from day one.

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