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Jun 18, 2019

Lower Processing Fees

When it comes to processing online payments, our commitment to you is twofold: we will only partner with providers that meet our high standards of reliability and extensibility; and we will strive to keep your fees as low as possible. Starting today, the credit and debit card processing rate for Giving and Registrations will be reduced to 2.15% + $0.30 for US* customers. Compared to the prior rate of 2.3% + $0.30, this new rate will save our customers at least $1.6 million collectively over th

Planning Center

2 min read

Apr 02, 2019

Attach People Forms to Registrations Events

Summer events come with a lot of forms. Every summer camp and VBS registration comes with numerous release forms. Forms are necessary, unavoidable...and incredibly difficult to get people to fill out! Until now, you had to upload PDFs of these required forms to any event in Registrations for people to print, fill out, and then remember to bring in for an event manager to manually mark them as complete. So much room for confusion! The Forms feature in the People app is a much simpler way to co

Allie Rice

Product Manager

2 min read

Jan 09, 2019

See the New Signup Experience

With the release of our new Church Center app, we made it easier for your congregation to see and sign up for your events anytime and anywhere from their phone. Last week we brought the beauty and simplicity of the app to your congregation’s sign up experience on the web! Simplified Event List With our updated events listing, you can browse Registrations events more easily. See event images and essential information at a glance, or click through for full descriptions and details.

Allie Rice

Product Manager

1 min read

Oct 25, 2018

New Totals Sidebar for Registrations

Hi! I’m Allie, and I started at Planning Center as a designer on Team Registrations in 2017. Over this last summer, our team grew and I moved into my new role as product manager. Today I am so excited to share our first feature update since this transition! Have you ever managed a complex event with multiple attendee types, add-ons, discounts, and payments all within a single registration? With all those items in the mix, each with their own costs and quantities, the calculated totals can

Allie Rice

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 04, 2018

Emergency Contact Field in Registrations

Carson ate the craft project at VBS—a solid half pound of slime, toothpicks, and flannel. Who do you call? In the rare case an emergency occurs on your watch, we want to make sure you have the right contact information at your fingertips. Introducing the brand new Emergency Contact field in Registrations! The Emergency Contact field is an Attendance Types setting, which means you can set the field as required, optional, or hidden. When a person goes through the registration process, they c

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read

May 23, 2018

Manned and Self Stations for Registration Events

Last year we released an integration between two of our applications, Check-Ins and Registrations. This integration allows you to check people into an event you created in Registrations using a Roster Station in Check-Ins. Today, the Check-Ins and Registrations teams announce a stronger integration with all station types in Check-Ins, which means you now have options. If you use a Roster Station in Check-Ins, you can call out roll “clipboard style” from a list of all your attendees, which

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

May 17, 2018

Improved Registration Flow

One of the most important purposes of Registrations is to help your church’s event sign up process be as quick and as easy as possible. In response to your feedback about the public side of registering for an event, we made some big changes! Before After Mobile Friendly Out with the old, in with the new, and voila! By removing the sidebar we have a streamlined process on all mobile devices with consistent button placement and design, less overall scrolling, and no side-to

Scott Myers

Product Manager

2 min read

Apr 20, 2018

Free Event and Group Photos with Unsplash

Finding any image for your event or group is hard, and finding a quality photo is even more difficult! It’s amazing how something so simple can often take up so much of our time. To help speed up this process, we have added a little something to Registrations and Groups. Introducing our integration with Unsplash! Unsplash is a website where photographers upload their high quality work for anyone to use, for free! Now, through our integration with Registrations and Groups, you can get photo

Jessica Fleming

Product Manager

2 min read

Apr 13, 2018

Attendance Type Filters

The Jr. High Dodgeball night is coming up, and we have this problem where all the moms think they can sign up for the event. Alright moms, back off, this event is for the kids. With Attendance Type Filters, you can make sure the right people sign up for the right attendance types for your event! Starting today, you can require a grade, age, or gender filter for any attendance type. When a new person starts to register for an event, Registrations will immediately ask what the required f

Scott Myers

Product Manager

1 min read

Jan 03, 2018

Registrations Event Page Organization

Calling all Registration users! We are delivering on one of the main, recurring feature requests showing up in our support queue—event page organization using campus and ministry categories. You can now organize your events so church attendees and visitors can quickly and easily find events relevant to them at the campus they attend when navigating your church’s public events page. Administrator View When filling out the details for a specific event, like Snowboarding, you can selec

Benson Lee

Product Manager

2 min read

Jul 31, 2017

Automatically Open & Close Registrations

There's a time for everything in life - including when your event registration should be open and closed! With today's release, you can schedule exactly when your event is open for registrations as well as when your event will no longer accept registrations. Let's take a look! By default, events will remain open for registrations unless they are manually scheduled to close. If you have a registration deadline, specify the date and time (relative to your time zone) of when the registration wil

Benson Lee

Product Manager

2 min read

Jun 06, 2017

Introducing: Registrations and Check-Ins Integration

We are excited to introduce our most highly requested integration -- with Planning Center Registrations and Check-Ins. Assignments All filters you create in your Registrations Assignments will automatically be carried over to Locations inside of Check-Ins. This is great for things like camps or Vacation Bible School where you want to assign certain people to groups or cabins, and have Check-Ins automatically direct them to the right location when they arrive. In Check-Ins, you

Scott Myers

Product Manager

3 min read

May 02, 2017

Grade & Age Range Assignment Filters

Hello! My name is Benson, I'm the new product manager for Registrations. You've long been able to create assignment filters connected to a specific grade — we have heard your suggestions, and we are happy to announce that you can now assign registrants by grade or age range. This works by manually assigning registrants to the assignments or by clicking on the auto-assign button to let Registrations handle it automatically for you. The auto-assign button respects the various filters you've

Benson Lee

Product Manager

1 min read

Sep 29, 2016

Registrations Now Supports Apple Pay!

With the release of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra comes Apple Pay for Web, the fastest way to pay for online purchases using Touch ID! As soon as Apple announced this feature, we knew we'd want to support it in all of our applications. The Good News Registrations now supports Apple Pay for Web! When someone registers for one of your events using an iPhone or iPad on iOS 10, or a Mac running macOS Sierra, they'll find the option to pay using their Apple Pay linked credit or debit card. There’s n

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

1 min read

Jul 20, 2016

Announcing New Profile Pages!

PCO Registrations just got even easier to use with its brand new profile pages! Registrations has always allowed users to make multiple payments on their registrations by following a link in their confirmation email. But for some people it can be difficult to find those old emails. Do you know anyone whose phone looks like this? Instead of having to find those emails, we want to make it easier for your attendees to come back to their existing registrations to make those payments. Fi

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

1 min read

Apr 12, 2016

Introducing Filters in PCO Registrations

When your event has more than a few attendees, viewing and communicating with just the right people can be overwhelming, or even impossible. Today that gets much easier! We've added a new tool so that you can filter your registrations and find just the people you're looking for. Filters are easy to use. Click on the Filters button and choose a filter from the menu. There are lots of options here: you can filter by attendee type, discounts used, add-ons applied, or any other criteria you m

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

1 min read

Feb 22, 2016

Announcing Assignments

We've got a brand new feature in PCO Registrations to tame one of the most chaotic parts of event management. In your event, you probably need to keep track of who is assigned to your cabins, vans, tables, or groups, which can be really hard to get right! Now it's been made easy with our new assignments feature. Let's take a look at how assignments work. First, we're going to create our assignment type. We'll assign our campers to their cabins for this example. Next, we'll add our

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Nov 02, 2015

New Profile Pages and a Refreshed Look

We've got more features in development for PCO Registrations, and we need to make some room for them! Before today, a user's contact info, personal information (such as their age and grade), registration history, and administrative permissions were all crammed into one itty-bitty popup box. But now profiles have grown up, moved out of their parent's, and got a place all on their own. These new pages give you access to more information about the person's registrations, and include an all-n

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

1 min read

Oct 05, 2015

Event Managers and Multiple Event Times

You know what's even better than an awesome new feature in PCO Registrations? Two awesome new features! Event Managers Up first is the oft-requested feature for more granular administrator permissions. Before today, administrator permissions were a take-it-or-leave-it proposition — a user could either admin every event in your account, or none of them. But today we fix that! Now you can add Event Managers to a single event from the event's settings page. Event Managers will be able to log

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read

Sep 21, 2015

Forms in PCO Registrations

PCO Registrations is already helping churches manage all the aspects of accepting online registrations and payments for their events. Now it's getting even better by starting to help you manage some of the tedious offline aspects as well! Many events require the attendees to fill out some kind of additional paperwork like liability release forms or emergency contact info sheets. Often these forms can't be handled digitally for whatever reason, and so it's up to you to keep track of who has tu

Daniel Murphy

Product Manager

2 min read