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Nov 06, 2013

Building For Speed

Over the past few months, customers have been adding a lot of events to Resources. More events, more folders, more people, more everything! We listened to your feedback and we've released some small improvements today that should help you work a little smarter and a little faster. Quick-Search Events If your church makes heavy use of folders and has lots of events, it can be a pain to find a specific event. Not anymore! This feature, which works on mobile screens and the full desktop v

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Oct 30, 2013

Accounting Your Blessings

"Hey, where are you guys?" It's been quite awhile since our last update! We've been so busy with our new product, the new layout, new features, updates to our apps, and traveling to conferences or regional trainings. This is the first of a few catch up blog articles to let you know what the newest features are, and what's planned for the near future. A Fresh Look for Services The biggest (and probably the most obvious) change that happened over the summer was the final step of a

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Sep 18, 2013

New to Resources: Calendar View

There's something new in Planning Center Resources! Since we launched Resources a couple months ago, we've been listening to your feedback. Far and away, the most requested feature was a full-size monthly calendar view. Today, we're releasing the first version of this feature! Using the calendar view While viewing your events, you'll notice a new "large view" button under the mini-calendar. That button will take you to the full-size calendar. Select a day to see all the events happening o

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Jul 01, 2013

Introducing: Planning Center Resources

It's official! Today we launched our second major product, Planning Center Resources. Resources has been in beta for a few months (thanks to all our beta testers!) and we're ready to pull the curtains back. Meet Resources One of the most time consuming and frustrating parts about managing a growing church is keeping track of rooms and other resources. Planning Center Resources makes it much easier. Rooms - Allow users to reserve rooms & choose how they should be set up for their event.

Jeremy Ricketts

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 20, 2013

Kiosks & Embeddable Event Lists

Last week we released a brand new Kiosk feature that we think you’re going to love. Now you can put kiosks up in the lobby of your church to show everything that’s happening. In addition, last month we released an embeddable event list you can insert into your own church website. Kiosks From any event, room, resource, or folder, click the “calendar feed” button under the calendar, and make sure Event Times is selected in the toggle at the upper right. Chose the light or dark theme by cli

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / 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

May 01, 2013

Plan Contributors, Text Message Setup & More!

Happy May! We've got some cool new features we want to tell you about today. While these additions are medium to smaller in scope, sometimes it's the small things that can make the most difference in your productivity! Don't worry, we are working on some bigger things, but for now, here are the details of the latest round of improvements. Plan Contributors At the bottom of every plan is a new Plan Contributors section that will show the user pictures for anyone who has made changes to tha

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Mar 13, 2013

Planning Center Resources Updates

It's been a month and a half since we launched Planning Center Resources and we are going full steam ahead! In case you hadn't noticed, we've added quite a few new things recently and wanted to make sure you knew about them. Room Setups Every individual room page now has a new Room Setups section. Add different room setups, each with their own image and description to show your users the different ways that room can be setup. When they reserve the room the first thing they are asked

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Feb 13, 2013

What was up with the permission changes?

On Wednesday, February 13, from 9:30 to 11:30 Pacific Time, Planning Center was having some issues related to permissions. What was up with that? Short answer: we messed up! In the process of making some other improvements to the site, we accidentally made a change that upgraded some people permissions. Those people all of the sudden had administrator permissions and would have been able to make changes that their real permissions didn't allow. Luckily, we caught this error almost immediately

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 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

Dec 05, 2012

Email Templates, Music Stand for Android, & iPad Metronome

'Tis the season of giving, and today we're giving you three awesome updates! Each update is for a different product, so hopefully there's something for everyone. Email Templates, Formatting & Signatures Communicating with your team through email is one of Planning Center's core features. Many people have different saved emails they send over and over again, so they've come up with systems where they save those emails in another program and then copy and paste them to Planning Center. From

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

6 min read

Oct 08, 2012

Signup Sheets

There are many different ways to schedule people within Planning Center. You can schedule people individually, in groups, multiple weeks at a time, and even using Auto-Schedule. All of our current scheduling methods require you to schedule people and then send scheduling request emails that they can accept or decline. Over the years we've had many requests to allow users to schedule themselves, and today we're releasing a great new feature that does just that; it's called Signup Sheets! Sign

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Oct 01, 2012

Music Stand 2.0

We're very excited to announce the release of Planning Center Music Stand 2.0, our biggest update yet! There's a lot of great new stuff in this update, so we wanted to give you some detail of what has changed. Brand New Design After spending so much time getting our Projector iPad presentation app pixel perfect, we wanted to put the same amount of love into Music Stand. Plus, we had just added some great features to Projector that we knew we were going to add to Music Stand, including p

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 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

Aug 21, 2012

Top Songs & Huge Projector Updates

*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. As summer comes to a close, we wanted to tell you about a couple of cool changes we've made over the last month or two. The first is additional functionality to our Top Songs feature that now shows more results and lets you search by title and theme to help you find great new songs. The others are some big addi

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

May 29, 2012

Projector Presentation App Now on iPhone!

Last month we introduced our brand new iPad presentation app for displaying images, videos, lyrics and Powerpoints during your service. We've had a great response so far and are excited to tell you that the first of many substantial updates is available now in the App store! The biggest news about this update is that it now runs on the iPhone and iPod touch! Projector was primarily intended as an iPad app, but because iPads and iPhones run on the same operating system, all we really had to do wa

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

May 24, 2012

Server Updates Lead to Discontinued Support for IE 6 & 7

We've always taken pride in how often we continue to add new features to Planning Center. We also love getting to use the latest technology to bring you innovative functionality. The main area where this can cause a problem is in making sure our new features continue to run on older internet browsers. At some point it becomes impractical to support old browsers, so we're giving you a heads up that we're about to discontinue support for Internet Explorer 6 & 7. Planning Center's codebase is bu

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Apr 17, 2012

Introducing Planning Center Projector

One of the questions we've heard many times over the years is "Does Planning Center have a presentation app?" For a long time, we weren't interested in making a presentation application, mostly because there are already so many great ones available. In fact, we recently published a list of all the great applications that integrate with us, including ProPresenter, Proclaim & MediaShout. Then after the success and experience of our MusicStand iPad app, we started brainstorming where else we could

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Apr 10, 2012

A Faster & More Stable Planning Center

Over the last year, Planning Center has experienced explosive growth and increased popularity. As we’ve grown to become one of the most popular applications used by churches, our server infrastructure has been struggling to keep up. We take every outage very seriously because we know how critical PCO is to our users... we use it in our churches, too! We’re happy to report that as you were busy preparing for Easter, we were busy preparing for a major infrastructure upgrade. On Sunday night while

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 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