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Planning Center Services

Take Attendance in Services and Registrations

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

  • Allie Rice
    Allie Rice
Nov 09, 20202 min read

The New Plan Page

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

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Oct 28, 20206 min read

Pro Tips for Easter Prep

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.

  • Emily Jiles
    Emily Jiles
Mar 05, 20206 min read

Templates, Times, and Other Transformed Tools

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

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Nov 19, 20194 min read

Dark Mode For Services Mobile Apps

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

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Sep 20, 20191 min read

The New Songs Page

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Jun 11, 20193 min read

The New Plans Tab

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

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Apr 30, 20194 min read

Volunteer Care and Coordination for Children’s Ministry

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

  • Emily Jiles
    Emily Jiles
Apr 10, 20196 min read

The New My Schedule Tab & Household Scheduling

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Jan 21, 20194 min read

How to Create a Volunteer Pipeline

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.

  • Emily Jiles
    Emily Jiles
Sep 06, 20183 min read

Service Type Wizard

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Jul 10, 20182 min read

Navigate Faster with Improved Universal Search

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!

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Jun 27, 20182 min read

Bundled Scheduling & Notification Emails

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

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Jun 27, 20183 min read

Add Files from Services Mobile 3.5

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
May 14, 20183 min read

Service Types and Reports

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!

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Mar 14, 20186 min read

Planning Center API v1 Deprecation

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Mar 09, 20182 min read

The New Team Pages

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Jan 25, 20186 min read

Adding Plans Supersized

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

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Nov 27, 20173 min read

New Household Scheduling Preferences

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Apr 27, 20172 min read

Very Merry Media Updates

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Dec 23, 20166 min read

Scheduling Options United at Last

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.

  • Aaron Stewart
    Aaron Stewart
Nov 15, 20164 min read
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