New for You in Planning Center April 2025
Get an overview of what's new in Planning Center this spring, and find ways to streamline your workflow!
Jon Aleixo
·Marketing Copywriter
3 min read
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Jon Aleixo
·Marketing Copywriter
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New for You in Planning Center March 2024
Happy March! It might be cold outside, but hopefully these new features will be a spot of warmth and help you in the months ahead. ❄️ Build Your To-Do List with Automations Create new tasks automatically as soon as someone completes an action like accepting a serving request or filling out a form. Watch the video to learn how to automatically create tasks! 📺 Text People Through Clearstream in Planning Center Use a local Clearstream number to text your congregation right from the People d
Planning Center
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For group leaders: Attendance reports in Church Center
With attendance reports in Church Center, group leaders can quickly get a pulse on peoples’ engagement and see who they need to follow up with!
Jeff Berg
2 min read
Email group members and add resources all in Church Center
Enable group leaders to email members and share resources from Church Center so everyone can stay informed and get the most out of their time together!
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
New for You in Planning Center October 2023
Get an overview of what's new in Planning Center this fall, and find ways to streamline your workflow!
Planning Center
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Create multiple events for multiple groups all at once
Create the same event for multiple groups at the same time!
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
3 min read
New for You in Planning Center July 2023
Happy July! Tis the sea-sun for popsicles, pools, and product updates! We’ve got some new features and improvements to help you in the months ahead. ☀️ RehearsalPack: All Your Materials in One Place Gather lyrics, chord charts, audio files, and licenses all in one place through our exclusive integration with MultiTracks.com! Watch the video to see how to set up the integration! 📺 Invite People to Church Center With a Custom Link Share a custom setup link with your church so people can ea
Planning Center
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Set up automations to keep groups organized and communicate with people
It can be challenging to stay on top of your church-wide communications. There’s so much information you want to get regular attendees, or ways you want to welcome visitors. But sending the right message to the right people at the right time is a lot to keep track of! Automations are a great way to streamline communications to people in your church so that no one falls through the cracks—and now you can manage them from Groups! Whether you want to automate a welcome email when someone joins a
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
3 min read
Simplify group management by allowing members to take attendance
Allow group members to take attendance so group leaders can focus on the broader picture!
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
Event notes and visitor count for Groups
The heart of your small groups can usually be found in face-to-face conversations. Maybe someone shares a prayer request, a special moment, something to mourn, or maybe someone visited for the first time. The health of your group can depend on moments like this, and with Planning Center Groups, you can now keep better track of them with event notes and a visitor counter in Church Center! Event Notes On each event your leaders will have the ability to add a new note or view any notes made by
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
Emoji reactions in Groups messaging ❤️
What’s worse: getting a million responses of “ok” to your message or having no one respond because they don’t want to bother the group? Either situation is less than ideal, but there’s a new way around it—reactions! Reactions are an unobtrusive way to acknowledge, send love, and respond to a topic or reply to a message without blowing up everyone’s phone! Replies and Topics 🙏 Hold down on any message, and you’ll see a menu that allows you to react, and shows an option to view reactions.
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
New Permissions in Groups: Group Type Managers
You probably don’t want the person managing the Thursday night softball teams to have too much insight into your Celebrate Recovery groups. You probably also don’t want your small group manager to have access to the leadership team group. And at the very least, you don’t want to overwhelm your Groups Administrators with all of the groups ever in your church account. To give you more control over who has access to group information, we are releasing a brand new permission level for people who n
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
Add Group Members from Church Center
Say one of your group members brings a guest to their small group, and they decide they want to join officially—awesome! It’s now a little easier to add and invite new members to your group right from where you already are with the Church Center app! We think it will speed up the process of inviting new members, while respecting their privacy. It also gets new members instantly connected with their new Group in Church Center! Adding Members If you’re a leader in Groups, you’ll see a new butt
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
3 min read
Manage Group Events in Church Center
With attendance and messaging already in the Church Center mobile app and on the web, it’s becoming the central spot for Groups-related activities. And with the release of new event management options, attendance alerts, and RSVP responses, we’re excited to bring even more of those day-to-day tasks to your fingertips. Events: Add, edit, and cancel Have you needed to update event details recently or perhaps an event was rained out, requiring you to cancel? Or maybe you finally decided on whe
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
Show Events from Groups in Calendar
Small groups are the textbook example of a flexible event—also known as a planner’s nightmare. Everything from meeting time to location and even day can change on a dime to suit the needs of the group. It gets even more tricky if you have to book facilities for those events! Then you have to update details in Groups and Calendar. Now, just like with Registrations, you can subscribe to a feed of Groups events in Calendar—any changes you make in Groups will automatically update in Calendar! Ble
Evan Lemmons
·Product Manager
2 min read
Group Messaging: Out of Beta and On to the Web!
Since we launched the beta of group messaging, it’s become the place for small groups to stay connected with each other throughout the week. We released a few updates to the beta, but today we are ready to bring this feature home officially because messaging is available on the web! Now leaders can communicate with members from wherever and whenever they please—from their computer or on their phone through the app. This also means that members without smartphones won’t be excluded from the co
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
New Sharing Permissions for Group Members
Personal information is...personal, and we all want to have control over who can access our email or phone number, even if it's with people at church. With our latest update in Groups, group members now control what contact information they’d like to share with each group they’re a part of. When people log in to Church Center, they’ll see an option to Review Shared Information in their groups. From there, they can choose the information they want to share with that particular group, and save
Jessica Fleming
·Product Manager
1 min read
Take Group Attendance in Church Center
Taking attendance is a huge part of Groups, and now leaders can do it quickly right from the Church Center app—no more going back and forth between the web and app for those day-of-group tasks! The overall process of taking attendance in Church Center is the same as what your leaders are used to in Groups. With the latest update to the Church Center app, leaders will see a new Take attendance button next to any live event for that will show all the members ready to be accounted for. Leaders c
Jessica Fleming
·Product Manager
1 min read
Group Messaging: New Features and Improvements
Messaging can be as much fun as it is practical—a way to connect and laugh, and a way to share information and coordinate plans. Group Messaging is still in public beta while we work on polishing things up, but we didn’t want to wait too long before we released a few updates to improve both the fun and the practical side of this feature. So based on feedback from users, here are a few new options now available in Group Messaging! Stay on Topic One of the problems with group texts or email t
Jessica Fleming
·Product Manager
3 min read