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Jul 18, 2016

Introducing the New Planning Center Logo

In the past couple of weeks, we’ve had much to celebrate. Not only did we hit our 10-year anniversary, but we also proudly announced our newest app, Planning Center Groups. Because we believe omne trium perfectum, we are proud to announce our new Planning Center logo. Some History When we launched in the summer of 2006, we used the logo below. At that time, Planning Center was both the name of the company and a single app, and the clipboard was a symbol of organization and structure.

Corey Witt

Communications Director

4 min read

Jun 29, 2016

Double Digits

“Double digits.” I remember as a kid, double digits was a milestone birthday. There’s a sense of pride that comes with being ten years old, and in the software world, that milestone is even more special. Computer hardware changes, cultural trends change, and the software market is infinitely more competitive than other markets, so it’s kind of a big deal… 10 Years Ten years ago this week, we set up a booth at the Saddleback Worship Conference in Southern California. That was the first

Corey Witt

Communications Director

2 min read

Feb 25, 2016

A Few Words About Sunday's Downtime

If you use Planning Center Services or Check-Ins, you might have noticed that our sites had some serious reliability and performance issues at just about the worst possible time on Sunday morning, February 21st. Not only did this affect you, our customer, but it affected many of us personally since we rely on Planning Center in our own churches. We take that responsibility very seriously. Your trust means everything to us, and here are some changes we're implementing so that we can keep that tru

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

6 min read

Jan 05, 2016

DIDJA KNOW? 2015 Edition

Who’s a fan of corporate annual reports? Not me! Ya’ know… those boring brochures that large companies hand out to shareholders/investors to show the mind-numbing details of financial records and employee retention rates. zzzzzzzzzz… Although that information is really important, I’m so glad I don’t work for a company that publishes one of those each December! I’m the Communications Director at PCO and, while those boring annual reports WOULD be my responsibility at another company, at Planni

Corey Witt

Communications Director

4 min read

Dec 17, 2015

Staff Retreat 2015

For the past 7 years, I worked for a large enterprise company writing website code. It was a pretty good gig and I was content with my career. I could have easily continued on that career path for the rest of my life. But I’m so glad I didn’t. A year ago I started attending a local tech talk called Full Stack. It has a diverse and interesting group of people talking about a wide spectrum of web technologies. The meetups happen monthly and over the last year, I got to know the people attending

Erik Bye

Software Developer

5 min read

Jul 27, 2015

Announcing PCO Giving

After months of research, development, design, and testing, we're very happy to release Planning Center Giving - a complete donation system for your church. Complete Donation Management When we talked to church administrators, they told us that one of the most frustrating parts of their process was that it was fractured. There's a system for counting cash and a separate one for online donors. We even saw some churches with a third system in place for text-message donations. With

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Dec 16, 2014

Coming Soon: Planning Center Registrations

Today we are very excited to announce the latest addition to the Planning Center family of applications: Planning Center Registrations, the best way for your church to put your events online, accept sign-ups and payments, and rein in the chaos of the details. Great Design When you use PCO Registrations for your events, your church will look good. People registering for your event will find the process is easy, fun, and of course secure. We believe that a great product builds

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

3 min read

Dec 10, 2014

Staff Retreat 2014

If you know anything about PCO, it's probably how to set up split teams in Services, create a custom security label in Check-Ins, or reschedule an event in Resources. If you need to know anything about PCO behind-the-scenes, it's that everything we do is guided by three things: * We love our people * We love our products * We love our churches We love our people We recently took an all-staff retreat to the desert of southern California for a weekend. We spent time reviewing t

Dan Ott

Software Developer

3 min read

Mar 26, 2014

Meet Your Support Team

The Planning Center Support team is here to help around the clock. Our team writes articles, creates videos, tests our apps, teaches and trains at conferences and webinars, and of course helps when you write or call in. Get to know our team below and you'll see that we are blessed with some of the most talented, energetic and passionate people that love the support they do. Support Agents Planning Center Support Agents are the first responders for all customer questions. They're not o

Scott Myers

Product Manager

5 min read

Feb 19, 2013

Planning Center Services

You might have noticed that the logo at the top left of Planning Center has changed. Not to worry, the Planning Center Online you know and love is still the same, but we're just branding it differently to help differentiate between our products. If you follow our Facebook or Twitter feeds, you probably saw that we recently launched a new product called Planning Center Resources that manages your church's rooms, resources and approvals. It's an awesome product that is free to use through July

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Aug 14, 2012

Win a PiCO Bobblehead!

Would you like your very own limited edition, hand-painted bobblehead of our mascot, PiCO? Well, we're going to be giving some of them out, and you just might win one! To enter the contest, post a picture of you or your team using Planning Center or any of our apps, or even wearing any Planning Center t-shirt you might have picked up by seeing us at a conference or here at our office. Post your picture on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PlanningCenter or with a mention of @pla

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

1 min read

May 17, 2011

Wallpapers featuring PiCO, our new mascot!

On June 27, Planning Center will be celebrating its 5-year anniversary! We decided that since Planning Center has become such a big part of so many people's lives, it's about time we had a mascot. Our clipboard logo is great, but being an inanimate object, it can't really express the joy people get from streamlining their systems and communication using PCO. Enter PiCO, the Planning Center robot. So many of the tasks people were used to juggling in the past can now be almost completely automate

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read