Product Updates
Introducing My Church Center: A new home base for congregants
My Church Center is where congregants can see important updates and notifications about anything they’re involved in at your church all in the same place.
New customizable content and style options for Church Center
You can now bring more unique content and style to your custom Church Center mobile app and website with new editor blocks for events, locations, and more!
The new event chart in Check-Ins
We've completely upgraded the layout of the event chart to make it more customizable—so you can see the events and the event details you care about!
Tidying up phone number formatting
We officially standardized formatting for the phone number field in the Planning Center database! Now everything is a little tidier.
New pencil kit in Music Stand 4.4 on iOS
Now see a whole new set of drawing tools in Planning Center Music Stand no matter how you annotate your music sheets!
A shiny new Approval Groups tab
We made it a little bit easier to answer the “who's in charge here?” question with the shiny new Approval Groups tab in Planning Center Calendar.
Introducing Planning Center Home
Planning Center now has a customizable dashboard that highlights important updates from your account and all the tasks you need to get done!
November 2021 Product Update
Watch a quick video overview of all the amazing updates we released in the last few months and get some tips on how to use them in your ministry!
Quick add items to your service order
Introducing a faster and more discoverable way to add items to your service plan—the quick add item row!
New customization options for pages in Church Center
Now you can give your Church Center presence a more customized website feel by creating your own page headings and stylizing your call to action buttons!
New Permissions in Groups: Group Type Managers
To give you more control over who has access to group information, we released a new permission level—Group Type Managers.
The New Plan Rehearse Tab
The new Rehearse tab makes songs and all their files easily accessible to musicians so you have everything you need to practice!
Create Custom Dashboards to Share Metrics
The new custom dashboard feature in Planning Center People makes it easier to find and access the stats you most care about, all in one place!
Add Group Members from Church Center
Now you can add members to your group right from the Church Center app!
Schedule Visible and Open Signups
Schedule your event ahead of time in Registrations to make it a little easier for you to move on from planning the event to actually coordinating it!
July 2021 Product Update
New features for all eight Planning Center products! Check out the video to learn what's changed and how to use the new features in your ministry!
Multi-Campus Support for Giving
Track donations for multiple campuses in Planning Center Giving! If you're a multi-campus church and already track campus affiliation, then you're all set!
Import Events from an iCal Feed to Calendar
Get all your events from your current calendar into Planning Center Calendar with the new iCal import!
Control Group Notifications in Church Center
See the new notification options for groups, including preference settings to control how and when you get notified for new messages, events, and more!
Easier and Faster Station Set-up
We've made the process of creating check-in stations even easier and faster so you can keep up with demand—making check-in time more magical.
Giving API Improvements
The Planning Center Giving API now supports webhooks—messages sent from our system to yours to let you know about new or changed data in our software.