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Apr 26, 2011

iTunes Integration with Previews!

Easter weekend is over, and if you're like me, you're feeling equal parts relief, exhaustion and wishing you could do it again. A friend of mine posted on Facebook that the week after Easter should be a mandatory holiday for church employees. You wouldn't be opposed to that, would you? Well, we at Planning Center can't make that happen, but we can keep doing our best to improve PCO so that your job gets easier, so today we release integration with iTunes! From any song arrangement page, c

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Apr 04, 2011

Service Setup, Category Changes & Item Information

If my alliterative title isn't as overtly obvious as previous posts, it could be caused by a cornucopia of categorical changes that couldn't be cleanly condensed or clearly combined. Sorry, I got carried away. The point is, there's a lot of great new stuff! Setup Service Properties & Categories From Any Plan You can now do all of your service setup directly in any plan! To edit your main service properties, click the pencil next to your service name. To edit people or note categories, click t

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Feb 18, 2011

Group Scheduling, Help & Delete Permissions

It's been less than a month since our monumental Matrix 2.0 release, and we're back with more! First of all, let me say thank you for all the positive feedback and comments on the Matrix. We love making your lives easier and having happy customers, so thanks for all the support! We've got a great improvement to group scheduling, a brand new help system, and an explanation of some changes we recently made to permissions in regard to deleting people, songs and media. Improved Group Schedulin

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Jan 26, 2011

Matrix 2.0!

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current. To read more about our recent product and company updates, please visit https://www.planningcenter.com/blog. For the last couple of months, we've been working on the single biggest update in Planning Center's 5 year history, and today is the day we release it into the wild! If you've caught any of our @planningcenter tweets or seen our Facebook page, you already know what it is: a completely new version of the Matrix.

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Jan 10, 2011

Product Update: Lyrics, Chords and a Little More

First of all, let me start of by wishing you a happy new year! Now that the best and busiest season for churches is over and you can breathe again, we decided we should reward all your hard work with the first PCO update of 2011! Lyrics & Chords 2.0 Planning Center's built-in Chord Chart transposer (on any Song Arrangement page) has gotten a big update and has been renamed "Lyrics & Chords". The obvious addition is extended support for lyrics. If you put in lyrics with chords, Planning Ce

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Nov 23, 2010

Music Stand Updates: Bluetooth Foot Pedal Sync, Annotations on Songs for iPad.

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current. To read more about our recent product and company updates, please visit https://www.planningcenter.com/blog. We wanted to take a moment and let you know about some new updates to the Music Stand app! These updates relate directly to the app for the iPad. The first is some exciting news: there is now a compatible bluetooth foot pedal transmitter on the market! Click here to go to the Air Turn site where you can purc

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Oct 25, 2010

Product Update: New Calendar Features & Link Your Accounts Together

We are excited to show you the newest update to Planning Center! The first thing you will notice is that we have redesigned the header across all of our pages. Shane, our designer, has continued to add his touch to the site and we really think it looks great! Hopefully you do too! New Calendar This new calendar has some new added functionality along with its new look! Here are some new features: * "My Calendar" only shows you the dates you are scheduled for or have blocked out. This wi

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Oct 13, 2010

Annotations on iPad for Music Stand and changes to our pricing!

We have released an update for the iPad Music Stand App! Now you can annotate your music directly on the iPad. You'll be able to highlight, draw, and enter text. Each user's annotations are saved for future use, and users can view or import other user's notes, too. Annotations sync perfectly between MusicStand on the web and the iPad app. We've also made a few changes to our pricing. The first big change is that now Planning Center LIVE will be available on ALL accounts! Live allows you t

Katie Willard

Customer Support

1 min read

Sep 21, 2010

New Dialog Designs, Apply A Template & Quick Assign People To Properties

It was about 5 years ago when Aaron Stewart and myself sat in a room talking about the possibility of making a small Worship Planning tool for my church. Since that time it has been mostly me doing the design & development of Planning Center Online. Well over the last couple of months you have seen that change. First off we have an awesome designer, Shane, who has designed Planning Center Music Stand, Planning Center Live 2.0 and now is putting his skills onto the rest of the Planning Center

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Aug 17, 2010

Planning Center Music Stand Annotations & Tweet Your #WorshipSet

To Order the X-Clip for the iPad, Click Here! Wow! This summer has been busy. We have been going full speed (in between vacations) on a lot of new features that you are going to see us start rolling out pretty quickly over the next coming months. The first one, which so many people have been waiting for, is Planning Center Music Stand Annotations! Music Stand Annotations On The Web Our goal with annotations was to make it so that annotations added on the web show up on the iPad, and ann

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Jun 17, 2010

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

Jun 01, 2010

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

May 04, 2010

Introducing Music Stand

We are really excited to introduce to you today a project we have been working on over the last several months, Planning Center Online Music Stand. When we launched our API last year we were excited not only to see what kind of things others could do with the Planning Center framework, but also what other products we could develop. One of the first thoughts we had was to make a digital music stand using the PDFs you've already attached to your songs. And since each plan already has all of

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Mar 23, 2010

Product Update: Smart Events and Reporting.

We are excited to share with you some new updates to Smart Events! We feel like the program is really taking off, and with these new added features, it adds that much more to it as a whole. Check out our updates: *Reporting: *Printing off your information about events is now available! You can print it as a PDF, or to a CSV file which you could then put into Excel or some kind of program similar to that. It's even customizable, allowing you to specify which information prints off in your rep

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Mar 01, 2010

Product Update: Printing, Facebook Changes and More

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current. To read more about our recent product and company updates, please visit https://www.planningcenter.com/blog. Hey PCO users! We have some updates to inform you of! Which do you want first....the good news, or the not-as-good news? Ok, I'll give you the not-as-good news first: New Look to Facebook App** Facebook has changed the way they do things, and as a result, we have as well. Facebook has taken away all notif

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Feb 22, 2010

Big changes at Smart Events!

We had an amazing time at the Radicalis conference! Thanks for stopping by our booth and getting to know us. In the two short weeks since introducing Smart Events, we’ve been listening to your feedback and looking for ways to make the Smart Events experience even better. So today, we have a few changes we think you’ll love: The biggest change is right up front. A brand new, easy-to-understand pricing plan. Unlimited events, $19 a month. If your event has free registration, you can have up t

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read

Jan 11, 2010

Product Update: Reply To Texts and some minor changes

Hello Everyone, We have a lot of big things on the burner right now, but we wanted to get a couple of quick enhancements out to you because they don't really change anything, they just make it better. Here are a couple of the changes: Clean Up Of Facebook & Schedule pages We have made a couple of minor enhancements to make those pages more readable & accessible, especially when you have Recurring Block Out Dates. Also, when you decline on the Facebook page it asks you for a reason.

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Nov 24, 2009

Recurring Block-Out Dates, Online Manual, and Subscription to Community Songs and Media pages!

Hello PCO users! We have yet another exciting release for you and it's just in time for the Holidays (Happy Thanksgiving, by the way!). Here are a few things we've added: Recurring Block-Out Dates: Yes, we know this has been a long time comin'. But it's finally here! You are now able to block out a recurring date. So for all of you that say every 3rd Sunday of the month, you're unavailable, it's now just a few clicks instead of about 50. When you enter the date you need blocked off, yo

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Sep 22, 2009

Now with Facebook Integration

We are very excited to introduce our newest feature, Facebook integration. For the past several months we have been learning about how to develop on top of the Facebook platform and thinking about the best way to do this integration. I am really happy with what we have come up with and I hope this helps your volunteers become more informed about when they will be serving. Let me go ahead and walk you through the integration process: 1.) Install the Planning Center Online Facebook App: You

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Sep 14, 2009

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