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Apr 16, 2015

New Last Scheduled Date Options

Today we've got lots of new options all centered around Last Scheduled dates. It's often helpful to see the most recent time (even in the future) that a person is scheduled to serve. Many schedulers like to make sure they rotate people somewhat evenly, so seeing this date helps them schedule people who haven't served for the longest time. PCO Services has shown you this last scheduled date for a while, and has even let you change the scope of that date to your entire church, a folder, or a sp

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Apr 15, 2015

Spring Cleaning in PCO Registrations

We hope you and your church had a great Easter and that you've gotten a chance to rest up! While you were recovering from your busiest day of the year we've been hopped up on Cadbury Eggs and jelly beans making some great new features in Registrations just for you. They were too big to fit in your Easter basket, so you'll have to just take a look at them here instead. A Better Confirmation Page It’s spring, so we've done a little house cleaning on the last page that your attendees see whe

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

3 min read

Apr 07, 2015

Easter, Post Check-Ins, iOS Update, and MORE!

Easter Wrap-up! Check-ins was used for the first time during Easter, and we had over 100,000 check-ins during the Easter week! The majority of check-ins happened before 10:00am on Sunday morning. This was surprising to my church because we assumed people with families would come to later services. However, it looks like the majority of kids checking in came to earlier services on Easter. Next year my church might decide to add earlier services rather than later ones. Post Check-Ins

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

Apr 06, 2015

Custom Fields in Reports & Last Name Sort

We've got more great updates for your new favorite people management app! If you're interested in hearing about each of these features as they are released, follow PCOPeople on Twitter or Facebook. Otherwise, here's what's new: Custom Fields in Reports After you've created a List, you can print a report from that List. Until now, these reports could contain any of the data from our built-in fields, but it couldn't include any of your Custom Fields. We've updated our Reporting functionali

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

6 min read

Mar 31, 2015

Add Arrangements & Keys from iOS

Services for iOS has been updated to version 2.8 with some great new features. Editors and Admins can now add and edit arrangements and keys and even import SongSelect files in the process. Plus, Viewers now see times they are not scheduled to in gray. Arrangements & Keys Editors can finally add and edit Arrangements & Keys. Florists and Locksmiths rejoice! Oops, different kind of arrangements and keys. Nevertheless, you don't have to be on the website to add a new key to a song arrangem

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Mar 30, 2015

Metronome & Audio Looping for Android

Music Stand for Android just got a handful of great new features to make it even more powerful. We've added a full-featured metronome to help you stay on tempo, and added looping to the audio player to help you perfect that tricky section while you're rehearsing. Metronome PCO Services has let you store the tempo in beats per minute for a long time, and now Music Stand for Android can take advantage of that. Tap the metronome button in the toolbar to get started. You'll see controls on t

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Mar 11, 2015

One-Time Guests & Keyboard Shortcuts

We’re working to continue improving Check-Ins! Check out some of the newer features we’ve just released. Guest Check-In One of the biggest days for guests to visit is coming just around the corner… Easter! In preparation for the big weekend, we’ve added a new One-Time Guest option. When added, these people will not be saved in your main people database, but they will get a simple label with their name, medical notes, and the same security code of the household. Check out our article on Ch

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read

Mar 03, 2015

Register Several People, and Delete Some Others

The last couple weeks since launching PCO Registrations have been a flurry of activity. Our team has been busy at work adding some great new features and squashing bugs, and you've been busy setting up and accepting registrations for your events. Thousands of people have already signed up for events, and churches have collected thousands of dollars. Not bad for a few weeks! Here's a couple highlights of what we've been working on. You can follow us on Twitter or like us on Facebook if you'd l

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Mar 02, 2015

New List Conditions & Household Updates

Since its release 2 weeks ago, we've added quite a few great new features to PCO People. If you're interested in hearing about each of these features as they are released, follow PCOPeople on Twitter or Facebook. Otherwise, we'll wait until we have a couple things ready and detail them here in our blog. Here's what's new: New List Conditions When creating Lists based on data in your account, you add conditions to filter your results. We've added new filtering options to those conditions.

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Mar 02, 2015

Linking Split Teams with Other Times

Last year we released a new scheduling feature called Split Teams. Split Teams is a scheduling tool for when you have more than one service time and your teams are different for each. For example, if your 9am Greeters are different than your 11am Greeters, Split Teams is a great way to set that up. Until now though, Split Teams were only compatible with Service Times. That's mostly been fine, because that's its primary use, but sometimes you have rehearsals or other times that are also different

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Feb 25, 2015

Check-Outs, Time-Outs and Labels

We’ve been working on some exciting new updates and features with Check-Ins this month. You may need to refresh your stations for these to take effect. Among several minor bug fixes and speed improvements, here’s a few of the highlights. Check out by name In the days of yore (last week), you could only check people out by using the security code printed on the labels. Now, you can check people out by name as well! If you pull up a name or household where someone has already checked in, yo

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

Feb 12, 2015

PCO Registrations is Here!

Today we’re happy to announce the launch of the newest member of the Planning Center family, PCO Registrations, the best way to manage your church’s events and accept online signups and payments. You can start your free 30-day trial now. Just like all of our apps, PCO Registrations is built with the needs of churches in mind and offers all the flexibility you need. Here’s just a few exciting features that are ready for you to use. Add Ons Want to offer an optional handbook for your

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Feb 10, 2015

Introducing PCO People

2015 is going to be a great year. We've already released a huge new version of Projector, our portable presentation app, and PCO Registrations, our app we announced last December for signing people up for events and taking payments, is being released on Feb 16. If that weren't enough, we've got another huge announcement. PCO People All the people you've ever added to any Planning Center app are already in your PCO People account. Plus, you can add as many other people as you want,

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

9 min read

Jan 29, 2015

Arrangements, Keys, Permalinks & More

Over the last month or so we've released some smaller and medium-sized new features, and it's time we detailed them together in one place. The biggest thing is that when you add new arrangements or keys to your songs, you have a lot more options, including the ability to import SongSelect and PraiseCharts files for the main key and alternate keys! We've also given you a new way to link to your shared plans, and made some visual tweaks to make it easier to see split teams and temporary positions.

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

6 min read

Jan 27, 2015

Introducing Projector 2.0

Today we’re excited to announce a completely new version of our portable presentation app for iPad and iPhone, Projector 2.0! Projector connects to your PCO Services account to turns your videos, lyrics & slides into presentations. Send HD video wirelessly to your screens by simply swiping left and right on your slides. All new for iOS 8, Projector 2 includes tons of improvements and new features. To start, it’s dramatically faster & smoother and has a beautiful new design with optimized navi

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

8 min read

Jan 18, 2015

Check-Ins Reports and More

Reports We’re excited to show off our brand new reports engine! Now, it's even faster and easier to generate reports with all the information you need. Starting today you can get information on birthdays, see which weeks people have missed, and view who checked each person in. Also, you can find the primary contact information for households such as email addresses, phone numbers, and their street address. If you find yourself printing the same things over and over again, you can now save

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

Dec 18, 2014

Music Stand for Android 3.5

When we release a huge new version of an app, we're always sure to announce it. What we haven't done, however, is blogged much about intermediate updates to our iOS and Android apps in the past because we figured the people who have them installed will see what's new when they read their update release notes. I mean, everyone reads release notes, right!? ;) But it's time that changed! Yesterday's update to Music Stand for Android is the perfect chance to highlight some cool new stuff. Access

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Nov 20, 2014

Shuffling Resources

We made some changes in the past few weeks that will make it a bit easier to move events around. If you have a busy calendar and events are often being rescheduled, extended, etc. then this update is for you! Copy Reservation Blocks You may have noticed a new button on the reservation block page: "Copy to New". This was a highly requested feature and it's useful in a few scenarios: Creating Non-Repeating Patterns Let's say an event happens 4 times a year, but it's not on a spec

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

3 min read

Nov 19, 2014

Check Out the Check-Ins Changes

It's been awhile since we lifted our heads up from our computers and we are excited to share some of our recent improvements! Here are some of the highlights. Auto-filled Locations We introduced a new way we handle auto-filling locations. It used to be that if only one location would match your profile, it would auto-fill your location and prepare your check in. However, since many parents don't need to be checked in, that didn't work very well. We changed this so that if you've ne

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

Nov 12, 2014

Services LIVE 3.0

Services LIVE is an entire app built into your PCO Services account that you run during your service. If you've planned your service items, put in notes and entered in item lengths, LIVE steps you through that information one item at a time so you and your team can see what's happening now, what's coming up next, record the actual timing of each item, chat with your team & much more. We've completely redesigned LIVE for version 3 and packed in a ton of great new features. If you use LIVE regu

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

7 min read