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Best practices for how you can use Planning Center People and Services to care for and coordinate your children's ministry volunteers.

When a congregant points their browser to the Church Center side of Giving, Groups, or Registrations, they can log in with their mobile phone number.

The Forms feature in the People app is a simple way to collect information, and now you can connect a People form to an event in Registrations!

There is a new way for you to speed up your lines, even more than you already are with Check-Ins: family pre-check through the Church Center app.  

Five months from now Planning Center will discontinue support for the Internet Explorer browser across all of our applications.

We’ve added two new ways for you to give people on your team access to Forms without giving them higher permissions in People than they need.

To decrease our reliance on external printer software and increase the reliability of printing, we are working on a new feature called direct printing!

In addition to uploading pdfs or documents, Group Leaders can now share links to resources with their group members from the Resources tab in Groups.

You can now issue joint donor statements! Just identify which donors give together and issue statements as usual—we will take care of the rest.

Volunteers can now view and manage the schedule of their households by responding to requests and adding shared blockout dates from the new My Schedule tab.

We brought the beauty and simplicity of your congregation's signup experience on the Church Center app to their Registrations experience on the web.

Introducing Church Center, our free mobile app your congregation can use to connect with the life of your church by getting involved!

All of the actions you already use as Bulk Actions or List Automations are now available in Forms, including a new automation to send an email.

Over the last few months we released brand new features across all of our apps—watch our Fall Product Update to learn all about these exciting changes!

With the new avatar uploader and editor, you can crop any selfie, groupie, school portrait, or awkward family photo to look exactly how you want it.

We released four updates to the event reminder feature in Groups to help group leaders improve and customize their communication with members.

We released two new features designed to make it easy for your staff to organize and find event details in Resources—Tags and a new Calendar.

Edit lyrics and chord charts created in Planning Center Services, or create new ones from scratch, with Music Stand for iOS and Android, version 4.2.

You can follow up with people more efficiently by sending emails to multiple people at once from within your workflows in Planning Center People.

Calculating the totals of registrations costs can be perplexing and time-consuming, so we are going to do the math for you in the new totals sidebar.

Our goal is to continually improve our API (Application Programming Interface) so outside developers can build their features off of current code easily.