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Jun 27, 2023

Announcing RehearsalPack: audio, lyrics, and chords in one subscription

As a worship leader, you coordinate so many things. And few things are as complicated as planning the set list—gathering all of the songs with the right parts, in the right keys, all for your worship team to be ready for the service. But planning your set list is much easier with RehearsalPack—a new, one-stop integration for the lyrics, a chord chart, an audio file, and the license to use them at your church from thousands of recordings by popular worship artists. It’s all available in

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

May 26, 2021

Giving API Improvements

If you've developed a software integration with Planning Center Giving (or perhaps you've thought about developing one) then this update is for you! Giving now supports webhooks—messages sent from our software system to yours, letting you know about some new or changed data in our system. So instead of periodically looking for changes to the Giving database, your application can now have them delivered to you as they happen. You tell us what kinds of data you're interested in tracking, give u

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Dec 16, 2019

New Integration with Zapier

At Planning Center we rely on a combination of tools like Slack, Trello, Basecamp, Zendesk, Github, and of course good old fashioned email to get our day to day work done. Now, if these tools didn’t talk to each other, we’d spend a lot of time looking for information and copy / pasting from one app to another. Fortunately, there’s an app called Zapier (Zapier rhymes with happier) that allows us to easily send information from one app to another—it’s the glue that ties our tools together so we c

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Oct 02, 2019

Use the tools you love alongside Planning Center

There are so many companies equipping churches with helpful tools, and some of them meet needs we don’t, fill spaces we can’t, or offer similar features in their own style. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to use these tools you rely on alongside Planning Center in your ministry. One of the ways we do this is by providing outside software companies with a platform to build their features into the framework of our products, so you can use them as you use Planning Center. In fac

Jeff Berg

2 min read

May 07, 2019

Deposit Checks Remotely through Paperless Transactions

If your church processes a sizable number of paper checks every week, we have some good news for you! A company called Paperless Transactions released an integration with Planning Center Giving that helps you scan checks, remotely deposit them, and automatically import those donations into Giving. In banking this process is called “Remote Deposit Capture” and this is the first RDC solution that integrates directly with Giving. How it Works 1. Scan Checks: Paperless software (Windows only)

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Oct 10, 2018

More Reliable Integrations with API Updates

We have seven product teams here at Planning Center, with one team for each of our seven applications. While each team works primarily on their own apps, all of our developers also work together on an additional “product:” The Planning Center API (Application Programming Interface). If you’re anything like me (not a software developer) you may have no idea what Application Programming Interface means, nor why you should care. In the simplest terms, APIs enable applications to work together.

Jeff Berg

2 min read

Apr 20, 2018

Free Event and Group Photos with Unsplash

Finding any image for your event or group is hard, and finding a quality photo is even more difficult! It’s amazing how something so simple can often take up so much of our time. To help speed up this process, we have added a little something to Registrations and Groups. Introducing our integration with Unsplash! Unsplash is a website where photographers upload their high quality work for anyone to use, for free! Now, through our integration with Registrations and Groups, you can get photo

Jessica Fleming

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 19, 2017

Send Text Messages with Clearstream

We've wanted to build a text messaging solution directly into Planning Center People for a long time now, but we've been kind of busy with some other things, and our list of ideas keeps getting longer. That's why we were so excited to find out that Clearstream, an online text messaging provider, has built their own integration with Planning Center! Clearstream is a great tool for sending text messages. You can use it to send out a reminder about an event, inform everyone in your church of imp

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 06, 2017

Introducing: Registrations and Check-Ins Integration

We are excited to introduce our most highly requested integration -- with Planning Center Registrations and Check-Ins. Assignments All filters you create in your Registrations Assignments will automatically be carried over to Locations inside of Check-Ins. This is great for things like camps or Vacation Bible School where you want to assign certain people to groups or cabins, and have Check-Ins automatically direct them to the right location when they arrive. In Check-Ins, you

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

May 31, 2017

Better Background Checks

Our integration with Checkr to provide background checks launched just a couple months ago, and it's been a huge hit! (Check out the announcement if you don't know what I'm talking about). With a lot of feedback and a little time, background checks are even better today. Here's some of the most important improvements we've made. More Access At first, only organization administrators could access background checks in Planning Center People. That meant that in order for a volunteer in your

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Mar 16, 2017

Secure Your Church with Background Checks

🚨Since we published this blog six years ago, Checkr has updated their pricing. For more information on what you and your church can do with this tool, see this article. Here at Planning Center, we do what we do because we love our churches. We want to see them saving time, saving money, and being more secure. Today’s new feature wins in all those categories. We're thrilled to release background checks, both manually tracked statuses and fully integrated checks with our new friends, Checkr!

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

4 min read

Jun 03, 2013

PraiseCharts and Lyrics & Chords Page Setup

With summer virtually upon us, we wanted to usher you into sunny days with some sunny news of our own. We've got exciting music updates to let you know about today! PraiseCharts Integration! One of the best ways to make sure your musicians are prepared is to give them the perfect chord chart or sheet music. PraiseCharts.com provides high quality sheet music, orchestrations, chord charts & audio files for many popular worship songs. What's more, they often have many different arrangements

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Jan 15, 2013

Email Status, Spotify & Custom Slide Layouts

Happy New Year! I hope you got at least a little time off during the Christmas break and you're back and ready for a great year. We want to get that year started by releasing the following updates to make things a little easier for you. Undelivered Email Status Last month we released Email Templates & Formatting which allow you to save frequently used emails for quick sending at any time. Emails are such a critical part of Planning Center so we wanted to add some more enhancements. Until

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

6 min read

Sep 21, 2012

Media Player Update Featuring New Rdio & Vimeo Integrations!

We’re excited to announce new integrations with Rdio and Vimeo along with a brand new Media Player! These new integrations give you more ways than ever to provide legal audio and video to your users. Rdio is a music subscription service that lets you listen to millions of songs ad-free wherever you are. You can now easily link to any song on Rdio from the ‘Add an Attachment’ box on any Song Arrangement page. To play Rdio files, each user must have an Rdio subscription, which is $4.99 a mo

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Mar 28, 2012

Third-Party Integrations

We recently posted about our new RehearsalMix & WorshipHouseMedia integrations which are built in to PlanningCenter. In addition to our built-in integrations, there are a growing number of other applications that have their own integrations with Planning Center and we thought it would be great to highlight them here. We're working on a page on our site that will always have a list of all available integrations, but for now, here is a list of the ones we know about. For over ten years, Pr

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Mar 21, 2012

RehearsalMix, WorshipHouseMedia & Top Songs

One of the best ways we can add functionality to Planning Center is by integrating with great companies & products. Today we're really excited to let you know about an awesome new song integration and one greatly improved media integration. In addition, we've removed the Community Song & Media pages, enhancing and incorporating some of those features into other areas of Planning Center. RehearsalMix.com is a brand new service that takes the original recordings of your favorite worship songs and

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Jan 03, 2012

2011: 525,600 minutes of PCO

As I'm sitting here on my first day back to work in 2012 (I'm choosing to call it twenty-twelve, not two-thousand-twelve, by the way), I'm reflecting back on what a great year 2011 was for PCO and thought I should write a quick post overviewing a lot of the great and memorable stuff that happened. New Peeps The first thing that came to mind for me was that after helping co-create PCO with our amazing owner & lead developer Jeff Berg 6 years ago, last January 2, I finally became a full-tim

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Nov 17, 2011

PCO Facebook App Gone and Back

A couple of years ago we developed a cool app for Facebook that allowed you to access your schedule, get notifications and do some other cool things with your Planning Center account right from Facebook. For a while it was the only way to see your entire schedule if you had PCO accounts across multiple churches. But then a year or two ago, Facebook decided to make a big change to what developers were allowed to do. We were no longer able to actually send users of our Facebook App any kind of mes

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Sep 13, 2011

SongSelect by CCLI Integration!

We're very excited to officially launch our SongSelect by CCLI integration today! We've been beta testing this for the last couple of months to make sure everything would work smoothly and today we are finally all-systems-go. If you have a SongSelect membership, you will now be able to import Lyrics and Chord Charts directly without having to download it from SongSelect and then upload it to Planning Center. It's now a 1-click integrated process that will save lots of time! To take advantage

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 21, 2011

YouTube Integration

Happy Summer! We're in the middle of adding some big new features but we wanted to give you something new in the meantime. With our recent iTunes and AmazonMP3 integration, linking to purchasable versions of songs has become much easier. The other largest source of links people have been using is for videos on YouTube. Many people link to song videos for rehearsal purposes, videos of their live services for review, or instructional videos. Whatever your purpose, we've added a great new YouTub

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read