New for You in Planning Center April 2023
See everything new to Planning Center in 2023 so far and find ways to use them in your ministry!
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May 2022 Product Update
Anyone else already get their first sunburn? ☀️ Summer is coming in hot, and so are the Planning Center Product Updates! Want to dive a little deeper into one of the new features? Check out the blog updates for more information! 👇 Planning Center Home Check out all the important updates and tasks from across your account on your new personalizable dashboard. Learn some of the best ways to use it! A New Home Base for Congregants to Get Involved My Church Center i
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November 2021 Product Update
Hello friends, and happy fall! 🍂 Pumpkin spice and product updates—the perfect pairing! No? Perhaps it is possible we pretentiously pushed the pairing to produce a pleasant alliteration...presently...post-haste. Pickles? Anyway, check out this video to see all the new ways to use Planning Center in your ministry! Want to dive a little deeper into one of the new features? Check out the blog updates for more information! 👇 Create Custom Dashboards to View and Share Metrics Tr
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July 2021 Product Update
All eight of our products have brand new features, and we made a video to tell you about them...and to make some bad puns. What else is new? Want to dive into the details a little more? Check out the blog post announcements from each of the new features from the last few months! 👇 Send Church Center Push Notifications Canceling due to weather? Need to remind everyone about the quarterly business meeting? Send out a push notification right from a list in People! Learn how to send not
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April Product Update
It’s officially spring—time for gentle breezes, fresh flowers, and a product update video! 🌻 Watch the video for an overview of everything new to come to Planning Center in the last two months, then check out the original blog posts for more details! Send mass texts right from People! You can now buy credits to send text messages to lists of people, just like you do from email! Emoji usage encouraged. 🙃 Stay on top of background checks. The new dashboard surfaces expiring
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February Product Update
We made a video highlighting all the major improvements to Planning Center from the last few months—from a new stage layout in Services to some design unification projects! Watch the video for a 3-minute overview of everything new, then check out the blogs below for more details on each feature! Save money on donation processing fees. ACH bank transfer donations have the lowest processing fees, and now it’s easier for donors to add their accounts to Giving—saving you money in processi
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Fall Update 2020
Happy Fall, friends! We have exciting new features and updates to share from all eight of our products, as well as a few bad amazing seasonal puns we want to force on bless you with. 🤓 So watch the video to see what’s new—it’s our last seasonal update of 2020! Hey, look, a new product—Planning Center Publishing! Level up your presence in Church Center with custom content and a way to chat while they watch sermons! Create a directory in the Church Center mobile app and we
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Summer Update 2020
What month is it? The heatwave in San Diego is telling us it’s summer, so we’re here with our quarterly update. Whether you and your church are working on mask-shaped face tans as you meet outside, or living the Zoom life and planning for reopening, watch the video to learn about our newest features. Pledge Campaigns: Plan budgets and projects. Invite your congregation to join a long-term vision by pledging to give towards a goal. Simple Signups: Plan simple events. Somet
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Spring Update 2020
We know ministry looks a little different right now...and so does this update. We have a few exciting new things to share, but mainly we want to focus on features uniquely helpful for doing ministry during the pandemic. You can watch the video to learn more or just to see if we managed to pull it off with webcams and no studio! Connect your church with group messaging! No more group texts and email strings! Groups now have a central place to keep in touch. Make onl
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Fall Product Update 2019
Anyone else feeling like fall went by too fast? It seems the window of time in which it is seasonally appropriate to go apple-picking has officially passed. Now we're in that in-between space when we debate whether or not we’re allowed to listen to Christmas music before Thanksgiving. Well, before you fully transition into the holiday season, take a minute to watch this video and learn how to make the most of Planning Center during this hectic time of year! Updating family
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Summer Product Update 2019
Pumpkin spice lattes are back on coffee shop menus, which must mean fall is approaching and summer is coming to a close…despite the heat wave! As you and your church settle back into your regular weekly rhythms, we want to highlight some of the major updates we made in the summer months so you can incorporate them into your routine this season! Watch the video to learn how to use each new update and then click on the links below if you want to dive a little deeper. Lower Pro
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Spring Product Update 2019
Get a quick walk through of all exciting feature updates by watching the video, and then dive a little deeper into best practices by checking out the announcement blog posts for each update! Speed Up Check-in Lines Encourage families to pre-check in to events through the Church Center app. Unlock Permissions in Forms Give people on your team access to Forms without giving them higher permissions in People. Simplify Form Collection for Events Attach
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Planning Center Fall Update 2018
Over the last few months, our team has been hard at work on new features across our suite! Watch our Fall Product Update to learn all about these exciting changes. If you want to learn more about the features mentioned in the video, click Read the Blog under each feature below for tips to help you get started! People Collect information with Forms! Create forms for people in your church to complete — and when they do, automatically send them an email, add them to a work
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Planning Center Summer Update 2018
Watch our Summer Update to learn how these new Planning Center tools can support your ministry! In the last six months, we released major new features and updates to all seven Planning Center applications, as well as our add-on app Music Stand! If you want to learn more about the features mentioned in the video, click Read the Blog under each feature below for tips to help you get started! People Updated Profiles: Make changes and find information faster with th
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