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Benson Lee
·Product Manager
Your online church directory is a gold mine for scammers. One of the most common things we see our churches fall for is a scammer getting access to a directory, impersonating a pastor, and tricking members into giving them money. The privacy mode option protects your congregation from scammers by not publicly listing emails and phone numbers. Instead, people can reach out to each other with a Contact Me button. Now, members can browse the directory, put faces with names, and contact each ot
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
Allow people to select rooms and resources à la carte style on event request forms!
Michael Burnette
Use templates to easily copy your tasks lists for recurrent events and projects!
Allie Rice
·Product Manager
Happy March! It might be cold outside, but hopefully these new features will be a spot of warmth and help you in the months ahead. ❄️ Build Your To-Do List with Automations Create new tasks automatically as soon as someone completes an action like accepting a serving request or filling out a form. Watch the video to learn how to automatically create tasks! 📺 Text People Through Clearstream in Planning Center Use a local Clearstream number to text your congregation right from the People d
Planning Center
Use conditional logic to show real-time, relevant questions on your event request forms!
Michael Burnette
Create tasks automatically when someone fills out an event request form in Calendar!
Michael Burnette
Experience up to 40% faster station speeds when you check people in during peak times!
Planning Center
Empower congregants to manage their own households effortlessly by adding or removing members in Church Center!
Benson Lee
·Product Manager
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
It’s never as easy as getting one thing done, is it? There’s always a follow-up task. Like, if you’re a worship leader, and someone accepts your request to help with lyrics (yay!). But now you also need them to create the lyric slides by a particular day. Now you can set Planning Center to automatically create new tasks for you or others as soon as someone accepts a request to serve, fills out a form, or a myriad of other triggers in the system! It’s like a domino train—once that first one
Emily Jiles
With attendance reports in Church Center, group leaders can quickly get a pulse on peoples’ engagement and see who they need to follow up with!
Jeff Berg
The new year is rapidly approaching, which means statement season (or tax receipt time, for our Canadian brethren of the north) is right around the corner! We have a few things to help you get through the season stress-free, and they’re all here in this blog! 1. A guide on how to generate statements in bulk. 2. Some updates to statement features in Giving that will improve the process for you this year. 3. A list of do’s, don’ts, and nice-to-knows of sending statements. 4. A list of h
Jeff Berg
We have two shiny new features to help you promote your 2024 events in the new year! You can now highlight events by laying out the calendar in a gallery view, then put a little featured star ⭐ next to the events you most want to draw attention to. Now your most important events will show up right at the top of a beautiful view of pictures! Use logos, event pictures, or stock photos to share your events, and embed the same gallery view on your website! To enable the gallery view for the
Evan Lemmons
·Product Manager
Texting your congregation just got a lot easier: You can now text people using your local Clearstream numbers from within Planning Center People! Texting is one of the fastest ways for churches to connect with people, and Clearstream is the premier option available—with customer support rivaled only by yours truly. Thousands of organizations—mega churches, church plants, and nonprofits—rely on Clearstream to communicate with their congregation. Many of you use Clearstream alongside Planning
Jeff Berg
Today the church texting software company, Clearstream, released a feature built directly into Planning Center People. This is the first of many partnerships to build other companies' features into the Planning Center experience with our new Add-Ons API! We want to simplify the church's life by putting more of the tools they rely on into Planning Center—the place they do a lot of their day-to-day work. What are Add-Ons? Planning Center can do a lot, but we can’t do it all. 😉 There are
Planning Center
A new way for you to creatively build the layout of your Church Center app and web!
Jeff Berg
Enable group leaders to email members and share resources from Church Center so everyone can stay informed and get the most out of their time together!
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
Get an overview of what's new in Planning Center this fall, and find ways to streamline your workflow!
Planning Center
See live updates on your task lists to know when someone else is making edits and avoid overlapping!
Allie Rice
·Product Manager