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May 24, 2016

Announcing Text-to-Give

UPDATE: When we originally launched Text-to-Give, it was an add on to your subscription. It's now included with every subscription! It's here! Text-to-Give has landed in Planning Center Giving. All your donors need is a smart phone, a payment method, and couple minutes to get set up. Sign up is lightning fast whether they're a brand new donor or a longtime giver. Standard Message & Data Rates May Apply. Easy to set up Text AMOUNT to 84321 to give. (Standard message & data rates

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Mar 03, 2016

Instant Bank Account Verification

We're super excited to announce this new feature for Planning Center Giving! Your donors can now set up ACH bank transfer donations by logging into their bank instead of using bank account and routing numbers. It works with 13 of the largest banks in the US. That means, statistically, the majority of your donors will be able to use this. Why is it the best thing ever? 1. It's faster than the current method of verifying bank account ownership: waiting for "micro-deposits". 2. It's eas

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Jan 15, 2016

Make A Statement!

Donor statements. If you manage the giving at your church you know that it's a major task. Most churches issue statements annually. Some do them quarterly. Some churches deliver them by email and only print them upon request. Some hand deliver statements for a period and then mail the rest. No matter when you issue statements or how you deliver them, PCO Giving has you covered. 1. Track & improve deliverability stats It's hard to email a statement to a donor when there's no email a

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

4 min read

Dec 15, 2015

Split-Fund Donations

Can you believe it? We just finished the brand new donor interface in PCO Giving and we've already released a new feature! Split-fund donations allow your donors to give to different funds in a single donation. It's easy for your donors and it minimizes processing fees. Until today, it's only been available on the admin side of Giving. As an administrator, you can split a cash donation, a check donation, or a credit/debit card donation among multiple funds. However, it wasn't possible on t

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read

Dec 03, 2015

See the All New Donor Interface in Giving

Today we've released a major update to PCO Giving: an entirely new interface for your donors. It's fast. It's easy to use. It looks great on any device. There's no app to download and your donors don't even have to create an account or remember a password to use it. New Design Your church name and logo are now front and center so it's clearer to donors that they're donating to your church. The color palette has been made to be a little more "web neutral" (white background, blue links,

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

4 min read

Nov 01, 2015

View Improved Date & Status Tracking in Giving

We've been hard at work on some big features for PCO Giving, but we've also been listening to your feedback about improving some existing parts of the application. So, here's a roundup of improvements we've made in the past few weeks: New "Received Date" Field Often, the date a donation was received is different than the date it was counted. We've added this new field to account for that. You can set this each time you count a donation or you can set it as a "Speedy Setting" on the batch.

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Oct 26, 2015

Admin Notes in Giving

Now you can add helpful little notes for yourself or other staff members as you work in PCO Giving. Wherever you see the little note icon just click and type your note: When a note is present, the icon will be attention-grabbing yellow. Donor notes: Donation notes: Batches & Deposit notes: Great work Dustin and Daniel (our newest member of Team Giving)!

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read

Sep 30, 2015

New Donations Screen For Giving

There's a new screen in PCO Giving! It shows all the individual donations that make up the dashboard view. You can also add a filter to further narrow down the list of results. Enjoy! Team Giving

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 min read

Sep 22, 2015

New Setting in PCO Giving: Disable Credit Cards

We've been listening closely to your feedback on the initial release of PCO Giving and one of the things we found out pretty quickly is that many churches don't accept donations on credit. So, here's what we did: We added this little guy here: Which reveals this little fella here: With this box checked: * Donors can still donate via debit card when they donate online. * Donors can still donate via prepaid cards (like Visa gift cards). * Admins can still add debit cards a

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

1 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