Planning Center Services

Leaders can now take attendance for their teams and events right inside Services and Registrations!

A streamlined layout highlights things you care about, calls out action steps, allows more customization, and sets the stage for the future!

This blog is a collection of some of our best-practices and pro tips as you prepare for what might be one of your busiest and most important Sundays of the year.

We've improved the popups for tracking service and rehearsal times, importing templates, using auto-schedule, and sending out plan emails!

Services version 4 for iOS and Android was just released, bringing with it an option to switch to a completely different look...dark mode!

It's now easier to add new songs through the popular recordings search, find existing songs with new filtering features, and stay organized with bulk editing.

Today we announce the new and Plans page—this updated page vastly improves the experience of finding any plan.

Best practices for how you can use Planning Center People and Services to care for and coordinate your children's ministry volunteers.

Volunteers can now view and manage the schedule of their households by responding to requests and adding shared blockout dates from the new My Schedule tab.

Check out this video to learn how to create a volunteer pipeline to help you find new volunteers for your team using our use our free application, People.

The new 3-step walkthrough for creating Service Types gives new users the context they need to learn and power-users the tools to create Service Types faster.

The improved Universal Search is the best way to navigate to almost any page in Services: use it to quickly find Songs, Media, Teams, Positions, and People!

We are reducing the number of emails your team receives by bundling Scheduling Requests, Blockout Notifications, and Accepted Request Notifications.

Last week we released Services 3.5 for iOS and Android, which now includes the ability to attach files to Songs and Media from your mobile device.

We consolidated multiple popups into a new Service Type page in Services, making each feature easier to find and use. We also added some new reports!

Planning Center Services' internal apps and some of the web app's new pages have moved to v2 of our API, so we are beginning to depreciate API v1.

We consolidated pages and updated and added new features to create the new Team Pages for a more streamlined way to manage your teams in Services.

The new Add Plans popup includes new options that make it easier to add normal plans and special event plans like Christmas and Easter.

Family coordination is tricky, but now each person can set a preference for if they do or do not want to be scheduled when other family members are serving.

For Christmas you're getting new media pages, a new media player with playlist support, and a surprise stocking stuffer your budget might be excited about.

We made some changes to how to schedule people to your plans by putting them in the same place, making it much easier to access and your scheduling options.