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Nov 17, 2011

PCO Facebook App Gone and Back

A couple of years ago we developed a cool app for Facebook that allowed you to access your schedule, get notifications and do some other cool things with your Planning Center account right from Facebook. For a while it was the only way to see your entire schedule if you had PCO accounts across multiple churches. But then a year or two ago, Facebook decided to make a big change to what developers were allowed to do. We were no longer able to actually send users of our Facebook App any kind of mes

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Oct 19, 2011

Mobile Media Player & Attachment Types

Mobile Media Player Two weeks ago we released an update to our mobile media player that plays all of your plan mp3s in succession! In the past, you had to manually navigate to each mp3, but now the mobile media player will automatically advance to the next mp3 when it finishes playing the current one. You can access the mobile media player from the button at the bottom of the Flow tab, or by going to any song and selecting an mp3. Improved Attachment Types Attachment types are used to

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Sep 13, 2011

SongSelect by CCLI Integration!

We're very excited to officially launch our SongSelect by CCLI integration today! We've been beta testing this for the last couple of months to make sure everything would work smoothly and today we are finally all-systems-go. If you have a SongSelect membership, you will now be able to import Lyrics and Chord Charts directly without having to download it from SongSelect and then upload it to Planning Center. It's now a 1-click integrated process that will save lots of time! To take advantage

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Jul 12, 2011

Planning Center Online needs another GREAT iOS Developer!

Planning Center Online is the number one Worship Planning & Volunteer Scheduling website with over 1,000,000 users and growing at a rapid rate. We are continuing to push the envelope in what software can do to help church staff. Our Planning Center Music Stand App has been a huge success and we have a lot more great plans for it and some other cool iOS apps! Because of that we are looking for another GREAT iOS Developer position to come join our amazing team of developers & designers that wor

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Jul 07, 2011

Scheduling Preferences and more!

Two months ago when we released Positions 2.0 and Auto-Scheduling, I mentioned that those features would make way for even more cool stuff down the road. Well here at the Planning Center offices we've been walking down that road since then and are happy to release the first new addition: Scheduling Preferences. Every user now has the ability to set preferences for how often they'd like to be scheduled. This can be set globally, which will apply across all service types in your account, or sep

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Jun 21, 2011

YouTube Integration

Happy Summer! We're in the middle of adding some big new features but we wanted to give you something new in the meantime. With our recent iTunes and AmazonMP3 integration, linking to purchasable versions of songs has become much easier. The other largest source of links people have been using is for videos on YouTube. Many people link to song videos for rehearsal purposes, videos of their live services for review, or instructional videos. Whatever your purpose, we've added a great new YouTub

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

May 13, 2011

Permissions Upgrade for Enhanced Security

We just updated Planning Center with a small but significant change to permissions to enhance security. Until today, any user who had permission to edit people could edit anything in that person's profile, including updating their email address, phone numbers and password. One of our users pointed out that this ability could be exploited. A person with Scheduler permissions could technically change the password or edit the email address of an Administrator which would then allow them to login as

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

May 04, 2011

Positions 2.0, Auto-Scheduling, & Last Scheduled Options

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current. To read more about our recent product and company updates, please visit https://www.planningcenter.com/blog. April showers are finally bringing May flowers. Well, since our Planning Center offices are located in the desert, we don't really get many showers or flowers, so to compensate, we've been hard at work for the last couple of months on some pretty big features that can add to your bouquet and start ours. Posi

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Apr 26, 2011

iTunes Integration with Previews!

Easter weekend is over, and if you're like me, you're feeling equal parts relief, exhaustion and wishing you could do it again. A friend of mine posted on Facebook that the week after Easter should be a mandatory holiday for church employees. You wouldn't be opposed to that, would you? Well, we at Planning Center can't make that happen, but we can keep doing our best to improve PCO so that your job gets easier, so today we release integration with iTunes! From any song arrangement page, c

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read

Apr 11, 2011

The Great Worship Giveaway and Better Security

The Great Worship Giveaway We are proud to be sponsoring The Great Worship Resource Giveaway. You can sign up to win 1 of the more than 100 prizes, but you gotta be fast. The contest ends on Wednesday! The prizes all center around one thing—** creating powerful worship services**. Prizes include things like: * A professionally created website, hosted free for a year * One year of expert video and audio podcasting * $100s in gift cards for worship images, music and videos, download

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Apr 04, 2011

Service Setup, Category Changes & Item Information

If my alliterative title isn't as overtly obvious as previous posts, it could be caused by a cornucopia of categorical changes that couldn't be cleanly condensed or clearly combined. Sorry, I got carried away. The point is, there's a lot of great new stuff! Setup Service Properties & Categories From Any Plan You can now do all of your service setup directly in any plan! To edit your main service properties, click the pencil next to your service name. To edit people or note categories, click t

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Mar 17, 2011

Top PCO Easter Songs

I've had a couple of people ask recently if there was a way to know what songs other churches are using for Easter this year. We've had our cool Community Songs page for last couple of years, but it shows the top songs for last month, and by the time that page is updated, those dates are past. We thought it would be cool to be able to show you the top Easter songs being planned before Easter happens for those of you looking for ideas. So head on over to your Planning Center Community Song

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Feb 18, 2011

Group Scheduling, Help & Delete Permissions

It's been less than a month since our monumental Matrix 2.0 release, and we're back with more! First of all, let me say thank you for all the positive feedback and comments on the Matrix. We love making your lives easier and having happy customers, so thanks for all the support! We've got a great improvement to group scheduling, a brand new help system, and an explanation of some changes we recently made to permissions in regard to deleting people, songs and media. Improved Group Schedulin

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Jan 26, 2011

Matrix 2.0!

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current. To read more about our recent product and company updates, please visit https://www.planningcenter.com/blog. For the last couple of months, we've been working on the single biggest update in Planning Center's 5 year history, and today is the day we release it into the wild! If you've caught any of our @planningcenter tweets or seen our Facebook page, you already know what it is: a completely new version of the Matrix.

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

5 min read

Jan 10, 2011

Product Update: Lyrics, Chords and a Little More

First of all, let me start of by wishing you a happy new year! Now that the best and busiest season for churches is over and you can breathe again, we decided we should reward all your hard work with the first PCO update of 2011! Lyrics & Chords 2.0 Planning Center's built-in Chord Chart transposer (on any Song Arrangement page) has gotten a big update and has been renamed "Lyrics & Chords". The obvious addition is extended support for lyrics. If you put in lyrics with chords, Planning Ce

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Oct 25, 2010

Product Update: New Calendar Features & Link Your Accounts Together

We are excited to show you the newest update to Planning Center! The first thing you will notice is that we have redesigned the header across all of our pages. Shane, our designer, has continued to add his touch to the site and we really think it looks great! Hopefully you do too! New Calendar This new calendar has some new added functionality along with its new look! Here are some new features: * "My Calendar" only shows you the dates you are scheduled for or have blocked out. This wi

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Sep 30, 2010

Planning Center Android App

With great excitement we are ready to release the first version of our Android App! Jason, our mobile developer, has been working hard on it for the past month or two, and it's now available in the App Store and ready to download. The app is free as long as you already have a sign-in with Planning Center. The app is a wrapper around our existing mobile site with some added features to make it play well with your Android phone. Here are a few features that are included in the app: * View and

Katie Willard

Customer Support

1 min read

Sep 21, 2010

New Dialog Designs, Apply A Template & Quick Assign People To Properties

It was about 5 years ago when Aaron Stewart and myself sat in a room talking about the possibility of making a small Worship Planning tool for my church. Since that time it has been mostly me doing the design & development of Planning Center Online. Well over the last couple of months you have seen that change. First off we have an awesome designer, Shane, who has designed Planning Center Music Stand, Planning Center Live 2.0 and now is putting his skills onto the rest of the Planning Center

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

Aug 17, 2010

Planning Center Music Stand Annotations & Tweet Your #WorshipSet

To Order the X-Clip for the iPad, Click Here! Wow! This summer has been busy. We have been going full speed (in between vacations) on a lot of new features that you are going to see us start rolling out pretty quickly over the next coming months. The first one, which so many people have been waiting for, is Planning Center Music Stand Annotations! Music Stand Annotations On The Web Our goal with annotations was to make it so that annotations added on the web show up on the iPad, and ann

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Jun 17, 2010

iPhone and Music Stand updates

To Order the X-Clip for the iPad, Click Here Greetings from Albuquerque! I'm sitting in our Planning Center booth at the National Worship Leader Conference here in New Mexico on the last day of a great conference! I love getting to travel around and meet all of our extremely loyal Planning Center users and hear about how PCO is helping you be more effective in your ministry; that's what Ministry Centered Technologies is all about! We recently introduced Planning Center Music Stand and

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

3 min read