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Mar 07, 2014

Enhancements to Room and Resource Questions

We love seeing customers set up their Resources accounts in ways that make sense for their organization. One of the more heavily used features in Planning Center Resources are custom questions. Freeform room and resource questions help facilities managers gather the information they and their setup crews need. Here's what is new: Sortable Questions Now you can rearrange your questions after you've added them. Just give them the old drag-'n-drop to reorder the questions. Question Group

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read

Jan 23, 2014

Resources iOS App

Give the people what they want Okay! We hear you loud and clear. You like Resources on the web but you'd really like a true iOS application. Something you can download. Something with an icon. The Planning Center Resources iOS App for iPhone and iPad is now available in the App Store. Yep, it's free! An Enhanced iOS Experience There are a few advantages to using the Resources iOS application over the standard mobile website view: Full-screen kiosks for iPad The kiosk views in t

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 25, 2013

Power to the Thumbs!

If you use Planning Center Resources primarily on your iPhone or Android phone, this update is for you. We've released tons of new functionality for small screens. New features for mobile: * Reports: For events, rooms, resources, & folders. * Room setups: Manage & add diagrams. * Approval groups: Administer on the fly. * Month-view calendar: New to mobile. * Calendar subscriptions: Use your native calendar app. Managers and setup crews rejoice! With this update, setup and ma

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read

Nov 06, 2013

Building For Speed

Over the past few months, customers have been adding a lot of events to Resources. More events, more folders, more people, more everything! We listened to your feedback and we've released some small improvements today that should help you work a little smarter and a little faster. Quick-Search Events If your church makes heavy use of folders and has lots of events, it can be a pain to find a specific event. Not anymore! This feature, which works on mobile screens and the full desktop v

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Sep 18, 2013

New to Resources: Calendar View

There's something new in Planning Center Resources! Since we launched Resources a couple months ago, we've been listening to your feedback. Far and away, the most requested feature was a full-size monthly calendar view. Today, we're releasing the first version of this feature! Using the calendar view While viewing your events, you'll notice a new "large view" button under the mini-calendar. That button will take you to the full-size calendar. Select a day to see all the events happening o

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Jul 01, 2013

Introducing: Planning Center Resources

It's official! Today we launched our second major product, Planning Center Resources. Resources has been in beta for a few months (thanks to all our beta testers!) and we're ready to pull the curtains back. Meet Resources One of the most time consuming and frustrating parts about managing a growing church is keeping track of rooms and other resources. Planning Center Resources makes it much easier. Rooms - Allow users to reserve rooms & choose how they should be set up for their event.

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 20, 2013

Kiosks & Embeddable Event Lists

Last week we released a brand new Kiosk feature that we think you’re going to love. Now you can put kiosks up in the lobby of your church to show everything that’s happening. In addition, last month we released an embeddable event list you can insert into your own church website. Kiosks From any event, room, resource, or folder, click the “calendar feed” button under the calendar, and make sure Event Times is selected in the toggle at the upper right. Chose the light or dark theme by cli

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Mar 13, 2013

Planning Center Resources Updates

It's been a month and a half since we launched Planning Center Resources and we are going full steam ahead! In case you hadn't noticed, we've added quite a few new things recently and wanted to make sure you knew about them. Room Setups Every individual room page now has a new Room Setups section. Add different room setups, each with their own image and description to show your users the different ways that room can be setup. When they reserve the room the first thing they are asked

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read