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Aug 18, 2020

Show Registrations Events in Calendar

Event coordination almost always has two sides—the behind-the-scenes magic and the attendee experience. Together, Planning Center Calendar and Planning Center Registrations help you manage both sides. To simplify communication and streamline organization between all your teams, we released a new connection between the two products—a feed of all Registrations events into Calendar. Subscribe to the feed and you’ll see all of your existing Registrations events on your master event calendar, and

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

2 min read

Aug 04, 2020

Share Your Event Calendar with Congregants in Church Center

What is happening when? With more and more churches continuing to host some events virtually and others in-person‚ it feels like the calendar might be lying to us. Are you sure this event hasn’t been canceled? Is the monthly prayer meet-up on Zoom? Do I need to pre-register for Sunday service, or can I just show up? As of today, it might get a little easier to keep people in the loop. You can now share your Calendar events to Church Center, a custom mobile app and web experience where congreg

Planning Center

2 min read

Jun 15, 2020

Event Templates for Faster Planning

If there’s one thing I know about Calendar users it’s that y’all are planners, which is a hard thing to be in the event business these days. But as your church considers safety requirements and possible reopening options, know that when you are ready to plan, getting events on the calendar will be much easier with the brand new event templates feature. You can now save combinations of rooms, resources, tags, and a location as a template to use later when creating events. Simpler Startup for N

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

2 min read

Mar 05, 2020

Pro Tips for Easter Prep

Easter is just around the corner, but it’s never too late to plan—even one step towards getting organized can make a huge difference! This post is a collection of some of our best-practices and pro tips as you prepare for what might be one of your busiest and most important Sundays of the year. No matter what area of ministry or what stage of planning you’re in, there is something here to help make your Easter Sunday a success. Create a unique Easter service plan In some ways, planning for

Jeff Berg

6 min read

Feb 06, 2020

Resources has a new name—Calendar!

Every successful event takes teamwork—from the smallest prayer group on Wednesday mornings to the largest Sunday services. Facilities teams have Resources to help them communicate and coordinate these details, but they’re not the only ones who need to know the event schedule. People from ministries across your church need to have easy access to what is happening when, where, with what stuff, and know who is responsible for it all. In the last year, we’ve expanded the scope of Resources to meet

Planning Center

4 min read

Jan 23, 2020

The New Event Page

Last year we updated the calendar and tag system, simplifying scheduling and categorizing events by making it easier to find events in the bigger picture of the church calendar. Now we are bringing that same simplicity to managing the details of events with the complete redesign of the new Event page! A few weeks ago, we released this page as an open beta and starting today, we are rolling out the change to every organization that hasn’t already opted in. By February 7th, everyone will have the

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

4 min read

Oct 07, 2019

New Event Filters and Views for the Calendar

Everyone on your team is involved in event planning at some level. So everyone—from ministry leads to facilities staff—look at the event calendar for the details they need to play their role in the process. This is why the Resources calendar can be adjusted to show only the necessary details to whoever is viewing it. Recently, we updated event filters and event visibility to make the calendar more useful for anyone in charge of coordinating rooms and resources (so primarily facilities teams).

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

2 min read

Sep 06, 2019

Save Energy with Events2HVAC and Resources

It seems like most of the country is enduring a major heatwave, which means many of us are running the air conditioning 24/7. Thank goodness for central air, but in a large building—like a church, for example—it can get expensive! To help you keep your congregation cool, without blowing your entire budget on the energy bill, Events2HVAC developed an integration with Planning Center Resources so you can create custom HVAC schedules based on your event calendar! A New Way to Save Energy Even

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

3 min read

May 09, 2019

Required Tag Groups

As more people in your church find their way into Resources and start creating new events, many may not realize the immense organizational capabilities of tags. Or even worse, they forget to add tags altogether, which prevents their event from showing up when using filters on the Calendar. Not using tags creates a problem for your facilities director or event administrator who then have to dig through untagged events to plan their work. Staying organized is a team effort and Resources is here t

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 14, 2018

Remodeling Resources: Tags and Calendar

Hey there! My name is Evan Lemmons, the new Product Manager of Resources! I joined the Planning Center team earlier this year and I’m here to break our team’s silence with some exciting news! The first step to successful event planning is to establish when the event is happening. Before you can figure out who is doing what, in which room, and with what resources, you have to know when the event is. Since Resources first launched in 2013, the most requested feature from our churches is a ca

Evan Lemmons

Product Manager

3 min read

Apr 25, 2018

Shared Conflicts

Last summer we released a feature to help you handle conflicts on Planning Center Resources. A Conflict Resolver allows you to choose one event over the other when they request the same room or resource. But what if a church’s cafe is big enough to handle two Bible studies at the same time? What if a women’s lunch and a youth worship night both want to use the gym and sound board on the same day, but the times overlap only for one hour during teardown and setup? In these circumstances, you

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read

Jul 27, 2017

Creating and Resolving Conflicts

There are times when you'd like to request a room or resource even though it is already booked for an event. Let’s say your men’s breakfast always has the Fellowship Hall every Friday morning, but the pastor’s daughter would like to use that room for her wedding on an upcoming Friday. Now we have a conflict. We all know who is going to win the conflict in this scenario, and Resources is here to help manage that! The Room or Resource, in this case the Fellowship Hall, will still indicate th

Scott Myers

Product Manager

1 min read

Nov 14, 2016

Resources' New Features and New Look

The Resources team is excited to show off some things we’ve been working on for quite a while. Introducing, with quite a few brand new features, the new Rooms and Resources pages. The Look Since the Resources team was so jealous of how awesome Services is starting to look, we’ve borrowed a few concepts and design ideas from it. Editing details is now a joy to use with the new in-line editing. Need to edit the Resource name? Just click and start typing; it’ll save automatically for you

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

Jan 18, 2016

Resources Date/Time Format and 2016 Plans

Date/Time formating We've just released a significant update to PCO Resources, in that we’ve changed a highly-requested feature to allow different date and time formats. Now, if you’ve edited your date/time formats in Accounts, Resources will honor that change. If you prefer 24/02/2016 over 02/24/2016, Resources can look exactly how you want it to. 2016 Plans A little over a year ago we decided that we were going to focus on Planning Center as a suite of apps, as opposed to several

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 20, 2014

Shuffling Resources

We made some changes in the past few weeks that will make it a bit easier to move events around. If you have a busy calendar and events are often being rescheduled, extended, etc. then this update is for you! Copy Reservation Blocks You may have noticed a new button on the reservation block page: "Copy to New". This was a highly requested feature and it's useful in a few scenarios: Creating Non-Repeating Patterns Let's say an event happens 4 times a year, but it's not on a spec

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Oct 30, 2014

A couple wild months for Resources

Whew! It's been a crazy couple months for the Resources team. Here's what's been happening: Reservation Block Mini-Redesign There are a few places where people spend a lot of time in Resources. One of those is the "Reservation Block" page. As an event planner, it's where much of the work is done. It's the page where you add rooms, configure your requests, move resources around, and answer room/resource questions. As a facilities director, it's where you go to find out which requests are s

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

6 min read

Jul 31, 2014

iCal Feeds & Reports: More to Explore!

More is better. Well, usually it is. You wouldn't want more wisdom teeth. Or insect infestations. Or chins. But in this particular blog post… more is better! More options for ical feeds 1. Select what types of events you want to include in ical feeds. 2. Optionally include information about rooms and resources in the event notes. 3. By using event schedules you can now hide certain event times from ical feeds, just like you could with kiosks and the embeddable calendar widget. This

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 24, 2014

Okay, Who's Hogging the Chairs?

When setting up an event in Resources, you may find that some rooms or resources are unavailable during your event's timespan. Hey, in a busy church it happens! Now you can quickly see which event has that room or resource booked. To jump over to that event, just click the name. Sometimes, a quick comment in the event discussion is all it takes to sort out resource conflicts: Your pals, The PCO Resources Crew. Dan, Jeremy, & Jake!

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read

Jun 12, 2014

Better Reports in Resources

Facilities managers love their reports. Today we've released some improvements to the reporting system in Resources. New Report Descriptions & Variables The new "Report Description" field will help you distinguish between reports. When you create a new report, you can describe what it does using this new field. We've also added some new variables about the reports themselves including {{report.title}}, {{report.scope}}, {{report.start_date}}, and {{report.end_date}}. Hurray! One List

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Mar 31, 2014

Event Archiving in Resources

If you've used Resources for a while, you probably have a growing number of old events. You're also probably tired of manually deleting them. Today, we've rolled out a new feature: event archiving. What it looks like: LEFT: Three of our events occurred in the past and they aren't scheduled to occur again. RIGHT: These three events are pulled from the main list and archived. How it works: Every night, Resources will take a look at your events. If all the reservation blocks occur

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read