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Aug 26, 2009

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

Jul 06, 2009

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

Jun 22, 2009

Exciting Media Release

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current.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. Ask not what you can do for Planning Center Online, ask what Planning Center Online can do for you. And in this case, we've blown the doors off! We have released a new Media page- on your normal Planning Center site, and then also on our Community Media page. It's slick, easy, and integrates with Worship House

Katie Willard

Customer Support

4 min read

May 11, 2009

New Look Becomes Permanent, New Email Look, Edit Scheduled Person Dialog, and Quick Links Change.

Hello PCO users! A new mini-update for you has come once again. Hope you are all enjoying spring wherever you are! *New Look Becomes Permanent: *We are very excited about our look! It will now be the default. As you know, we are continually looking to improve the look of the site and are always working on making things better. Hope you enjoy! *New Email Look: *The notification emails will now look slightly different (just a little more organized). Things are situated a bit differently but

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Apr 06, 2009

Mini Update Release: Adding Items, Subscribing to Comments, and Positions Drop-Down Box.

*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 everyone! We just wanted to send out a quick blog post about some new mini-updates that we're releasing today! Hope you enjoy them- we anticipate that you will! *Adding Items: * Now you can add an item to anywhere in your plan! You'll see the plus symbol throughout the items already added, and to ad

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Mar 23, 2009

Community Page, New Look, Comments, and Songs Page Additions!

*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. Hello PCO users! Here we are once again with another update to enhance your use of Planning Center. As you may have noticed, we are updating whenever we have new features ready, instead of on a quarterly basis- so that is why you may notice that the updates seem to be more frequent lately. Here are the four new

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Feb 27, 2009

New Custom People Reports

For the last week or two, we've been working away at our next Planning Center feature release that we are incredibly excited about. Without giving away too much, we're adding some new innovative tools to help you better organize your content and simplify discovering new content. But I'm not going to get into that right now, I just wanted to whet your appetite a little. :) Somehow in the middle of working on that, Jeff got inspired to release Custom People Reports today. If you are used to wor

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Feb 10, 2009

A New Look for our MP3 Player

Hey everyone! We have an update to share with you that will enhance your experience in using Planning Center! We’ve been working on revamping the mp3 player that looked a little outdated, to say the least. We realized it didn’t match the rest of our site! So we have a new and improved mp3 “look”. Let us know what you think, and enjoy! Update** (2/11 10:00am)***: *To help with the transition we have re-enabled the old MP3 Player until we can add a couple more features to the new MP3 player. T

Katie Willard

Customer Support

1 min read

Jan 18, 2009

First of a few releases! Recently viewed plans, public viewing, and category divisions.

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! We at Ministry Centered Technologies hope you had a great holiday season. With the beginning of another year comes another release for Planning Center Online! I would like to tell you about the three new features we just released. Recently Viewed Plans The first is that from now on, when you hover over the Plans tab, you will see a list of the most recent plans you have accessed. This will make accessing your plans easier and more intuitive! Just hold your m

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Nov 03, 2008

Product Update: Transposing MP3's, new file box, ministry names, and stage layouts

We have some new updates being released today (Monday, November 3rd)! We decided to do an earlier update during mid-quarter just for fun. You can watch this video for an explanation and a tutorial on how to use these updates. Let me tell you a little bit about them first. Changing the name of Ministries: We will be changing the name of Ministries to Services. So from now on, when you see ‘create a new service’, it is the same as ministry. We felt this fit much better. Transposing mp3's: Anothe

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Aug 29, 2008

Product Update: Text Messaging, AmazonMP3 and a lot of prettiness

Well, it is that time again. We are about to deploy an update to our flagship product Planning Center Online and we are so excited to get this update to you. We have been really busy and already have some great plans for the next version of Planning Center which should be out after the 1st of the year. Also, if you haven't heard we are growing and we have just created a new position that we need to fill, you can find out more about that on this blog post. Text Messaging We have been ask

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

May 19, 2008

Product Update: iPhone Interface, Enhanced People Pages & Much More

Well, it's been exactly 3 months since our last Planning Center Update and we're excited that this one has finally arrived! Though this update has some exciting new features, some of the biggest changes are behind the scenes in our database structure. To make this geeky information simple, it is setting us up much better for the future and speeding things up in the present too. Before we dive into "The List", I wanted to take a second and welcome Serena Petrie, who joined our staff about 2 mo

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Feb 18, 2008

Product Update: February 2008

Well, it has been a busy 2008 for us so far at Ministry Centered technologies. We were planning on getting many new features to you sometime in the first half of January, but as many of you know, the company that housed our servers had some major problems and went down. Consequently, we expedited our move to a new server facility and we have been extremely happy with our new server facility and have been able to increase both the speed and reliability of Planning Center as a result. Now that

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Sep 03, 2007

Product Update: 30+ New Features!

Hello Everyone, Well, it’s been a busy couple of months! We had a great time at the Saddleback Worship Conference in California and the National Worship Leader Conference in Austin, TX, and it was awesome to get to meet so many of you face to face. We are always blessed to hear how Planning Center is helping to better organize your ministries, and continue to be motivated to improve the service. One of our biggest updates ever is here and we wanted to give you all the details so you can kn

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

6 min read

Jun 12, 2007

Product Update: One Year Of Planning

I can't believe it has already been one year since we launched Planning Center Online. One year ago this week we let Planning Center Online out into the wild, right before our first advertising push at the Purpose Driven Worship Conference & Festival. We had a great time meeting many of our first customers and getting feedback right away on the product and the excitement people had about it. One of the features that everyone loved was the Matrix which was awesome since I just finished program

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Apr 11, 2007

Product Update: A Busy Month

Hello Everyone, Wow, last month was a long month!! Shannon and I had our 4th wedding anniversary, my daughter had her 1st birthday and this was my first year doing taxes for myself and my business, what a learning experience. And through all of that I have been able to get a lot of great features into this new version of Planning Center!!! And with no further ado here they are: Plans * Ministry Positions allow you to add a position to your plan without knowing who is going to fill it,

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Feb 21, 2007

Product Update: The beginning of a new thing

It has been about 8 months since we have launched Planning Center Online and I am amazed to see God working so powerfully through my life and through this company. We launched at the Purpose Driven Worship Conference and since then we have had over 1000 churches sign up! And the reaction that I am getting from everyone has been nothing but positive. Thank you so much, I really appreciate every single one of you guys and I hope that my work is enabling you to be able to do more effective ministry

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Jan 12, 2007

Product Update: Tons of Updates

Hello everyone, Looking at my blog I see that I have not been doing a good job of keeping you updated with all of the new features that we have been adding, mostly because I have been so busy with those new features that I have not had time to write about any of them. I am also going to try really hard to give more frequent updates in the future. Last week we deployed one of the largest updates we have made to Planning Center Online so I thought now would be a good time to get caught up wi

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Aug 16, 2006

Product Update: Announcing Planning Center LIVE

Last week was an exciting week for us as we got to travel to Phoenix, AZ and participate in the Worship Resource & Education Conference. While we were there we were able to meet some great people! We also were able to announce a new product coming out. So with that, we've got a lot to cover, so here is the update: Announcing Planning Center LIVE Planning Center LIVE is a new product that will add on to Planning Center and will allow you to go through your plans in REAL TIME. This allows yo

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Jul 28, 2006

Product Update: Video Tutorials, Song Keys & Matrix change

Hello everyone, Ok, ok, I know. I am late, but I've got a good excuse. Truth be told we have some things that we wanted to include in this e-mail, but just hadn't finished yet. Also, it is hard to get this e-mail done in the middle of the week. So in learning from our experience we will now be sending out the Planning Center update every other Friday instead of every other Tuesday. Downloadable tutorials Some of you knew that this was coming, so here it is. We have recorded tutorials hi

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read