Services mobile app: redesigned plan view for smoother navigation
Experience the new plans page on the Service mobile app, designed to help you switch seamlessly between tabs and boost productivity!
Evan Lemmons
·Product Manager
2 min read
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Revamped and ready: Your guide to the enhanced add file popup
Use the new Add File popup to easily add the files you need to share with your team, like song links, text docs, or files from integrations!
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
3 min read
Services Mobile Widgets: Song List, Team Status, & Next Up
When you need to prepare for church, you launch the Services mobile app and everything is right there. But you might want to keep tabs on some key tasks without needing to launch the app. With our new mobile widgets, schedulers can make sure everyone is confirmed, musicians can view songs in the setlist, and all team members can check their call times and make sure they’ve responded — right from their home screen. Rehearse The Rehearse widget also nudges team members to accept or decline, bu
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
3 min read
Dark Mode For Services Mobile Apps
Services version 4 for iOS and Android was just released, bringing with it an option to switch to a completely different look...dark mode!
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
2 min read
Edit Chord Charts with Music Stand 4.2
Last week Music Stand for iOS and Android was updated to version 4.2 and now allows you to edit lyrics & chord charts created in Planning Center, or create new ones from scratch. You can get chord charts into Planning Center in many ways. The most popular way is probably importing PDFs from SongSelect or PraiseCharts. If instead you make your own charts, or you want the ability to customize charts, you can enter the text into Lyrics & Chords, and Planning Center turns it into a PDF that can b
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
2 min read
Add Files from Services Mobile 3.5
Last week we released Services 3.5 for iOS and Android, which now includes the ability to attach files to Songs and Media from your mobile device! You can upload your own files or link to files on the internet. We've also added the ability to edit or delete existing files. Add Files You can now attach files to Songs or Media from within the app, or when viewing supported files in other apps, using the Share button. From the Services App From within the Services app, navigate to a s
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
3 min read
Households, Activity Feeds, and Workflows come to People Mobile
Our team finished version 1.5 before I could even write the blog post for 1.4. So here's a double dose of updates for you! Edit Your Households First up — now you can manage the members of a household right from your phone! When a new family is at your church, you can use the app to capture everything you’ll need to know about them. And just like in the desktop site, our app supports assigning someone to multiple households so that your data stays accurate, and when used with Check-Ins, your
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
2 min read
Touch ID Support is Here
Churches that use Planning Center have access to a ton of incredibly powerful data about the people in their church. When you understand a person's history of serving, attendance, and even giving, you’ve got another tool in your belt to help you serve that person better. All this information is powerful, valuable, and sensitive. The people in your church have entrusted you with their personal information and it’s up to you to keep it somewhere safe. We’ve always considered the security of you
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
2 min read
Just Launched—Mobile Profile Editing
The wait is over! With the latest version of Planning Center People’s mobile app, you can create and edit profiles right on your iOS or Android device. Hurrah! Imagine a visitor to your church stops by your information booth. Instead of filling out a piece of paper that you'll have to deal with later (or maybe not...), you can enter it all in on your phone or tablet right then and there. In addition to recording basic contact and demographic information, you’ll be able to fill out your custom
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
1 min read
It's here! PCO People for Android!
The wait is over! And it was even shorter than I expected it to be! PCO People for Android is now available for free in the Google Play Store, with the exact same feature set as our recently announced iOS app. With PCO People for Android you'll be able to look up any information about the people in your church and give them a call or send them an email, right from your device. All the data stored in custom fields and lists is available, and there's even some nice looking graphs to get you more
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
3 min read
Introducing Mobile Pass
Checking in needs to be quick. On any given weekend your entire children’s ministry and their families need to check in, print labels, and arrive safely in their classroom in a matter of a few minutes. We’re doing all that we can to make that process as fast as possible. And now we’ve given your congregation a tool to quickly check in using their own phone with a mobile pass. With the power of Apple Wallet, each family’s personal barcode pass will automatically show up within a half-mile of
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
2 min read
Planning Center Android App
With great excitement we are ready to release the first version of our Android App! Jason, our mobile developer, has been working hard on it for the past month or two, and it's now available in the App Store and ready to download. The app is free as long as you already have a sign-in with Planning Center. The app is a wrapper around our existing mobile site with some added features to make it play well with your Android phone. Here are a few features that are included in the app: * View and
Katie Willard
·Customer Support
1 min read
iPhone and Music Stand updates
To Order the X-Clip for the iPad, Click Here Greetings from Albuquerque! I'm sitting in our Planning Center booth at the National Worship Leader Conference here in New Mexico on the last day of a great conference! I love getting to travel around and meet all of our extremely loyal Planning Center users and hear about how PCO is helping you be more effective in your ministry; that's what Ministry Centered Technologies is all about! We recently introduced Planning Center Music Stand and
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
3 min read
Introducing Planning Center LIVE 2.0
** ** Before I tell you what's new, let me make sure you know what it is! Planning Center LIVE allows you to step through your plans in real time during your service, displaying the current item, description and notes with a timer counting down to the next item. Anyone with access to your plan can load LIVE and see the current status of your service. LIVE records the actual time taken for each element to review later, lets you chat with other users viewing your service and simultaneously watc
Jeff Berg
·Owner / Developer
3 min read
Mobile Flow Editing
Around three weeks ago we enhanced the mobile version of Planning Center with the ability to schedule and email people. Now we're proud to announce that we just updated our mobile site to include the ability to add and edit items, songs & headers! Additionaly, each user can easily change their status from the mobile site as well. Status is indicated in a color-coded bar at the top of the flow, and can be changed independently for each position they are scheduled. Only mobile phones whose w
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
1 min read
New Additions to Mobile Site
We have yet another exciting release, and this one is in the world of mobile phones. Last night we released an update that allows you to perform certain tasks on the mobile version of your phone (including iPhone, Android, and Pre). You now have the capability to schedule people and email those that are scheduled. This also paves the way for our new official Planning Center Online iPhone App that released today! The official app is a streamlined version of the updated mobile interface that r
Katie Willard
·Customer Support
1 min read
Product Update: New Mobile Site, New Filtering & Storage Options
Hey everyone! Here we are again with another released update for you. This one is exciting as well! Mostly because of the new mobile interface for more phones than just the iPhone!!! New Mobile Site Here at Ministry Centered Technologies we love our iPhones!!! We also realize that many of you guys love your Blackberrys, Palm Pres, Windows Mobile, Android and other phones. So we have finally updated our mobile site for people who use phones other than the iPhone!!! Planning Center Online w
Katie Willard
·Customer Support
3 min read