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May 26, 2021

Giving API Improvements

If you've developed a software integration with Planning Center Giving (or perhaps you've thought about developing one) then this update is for you! Giving now supports webhooks—messages sent from our software system to yours, letting you know about some new or changed data in our system. So instead of periodically looking for changes to the Giving database, your application can now have them delivered to you as they happen. You tell us what kinds of data you're interested in tracking, give u

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Oct 10, 2018

More Reliable Integrations with API Updates

We have seven product teams here at Planning Center, with one team for each of our seven applications. While each team works primarily on their own apps, all of our developers also work together on an additional “product:” The Planning Center API (Application Programming Interface). If you’re anything like me (not a software developer) you may have no idea what Application Programming Interface means, nor why you should care. In the simplest terms, APIs enable applications to work together.

Jeff Berg

2 min read

Mar 09, 2018

Planning Center API v1 Deprecation

Planning Center Services internal apps and some of the web-app's new pages have moved to version 2 of our API, so we are starting the process of deprecating the original API v1. Summary This message is important for those who have received and used a Planning Center v1 API key: if you have an application in production using the original PCO API, please transition to the new version by Feb 11, 2019. If you have an installable app you cannot update for your users for free, please email us w

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 14, 2017

Introducing the API Explorer

This week, we released something very near and dear to my heart: the Planning Center API Explorer! Another Feature From Free Weeks As a developer, I love working at Planning Center. Nothing is more exciting and fulfilling than utilizing my God-given gifts and interests; but to do that while also supporting other ministry-minded people is a very special opportunity. We are passionate about creating tools that allow you to manage your ministry as effectively and efficiently as possible.

Geoffrey Lessel

Developer

5 min read

Sep 27, 2017

Payment Sources and the Giving API

Today's updates are all about opening up Planning Center Giving and making it play nicely with other donation systems – whether you're counting donations in a batch or allowing integration with a third party using the new Giving API. External Payment Sources We've introduced the idea of a payment source. While a payment method tells you the type of transaction (cash, check, card, ACH, etc) a payment source tells you where this donation came from (Planning Center, Paypal,

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

4 min read

Sep 19, 2017

Introducing Webhooks

This one is for the programmers and the teams who build on top of the Planning Center API. We're excited to introduce webhooks! Webhooks give your website or application a way to receive updates from Planning Center in real time, without having to continuously poll the API and hunt for changes. Read the documentation. Starting With Planning Center People In this initial release, we're starting small and focusing on Planning Center People. Besides, that's where most people's integratio

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Jun 28, 2016

Expanding Check-Ins with our API

Last year at Orange, a children’s ministry conference, we met Brian Jones, a youth pastor that dabbles a bit in development. He shared with us how he uses our Check-Ins API to help with his ministry. We loved his ideas and implementation so much that we wanted to share two of them with you! (If you’re not a tech person, an API is an “Application Program Interface,” a tool to make one piece of software “talk to” another piece of software, especially when they’re built by different software develo

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read