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Jun 01, 2010

Introducing Planning Center LIVE 2.0

** ** Before I tell you what's new, let me make sure you know what it is! Planning Center LIVE allows you to step through your plans in real time during your service, displaying the current item, description and notes with a timer counting down to the next item. Anyone with access to your plan can load LIVE and see the current status of your service. LIVE records the actual time taken for each element to review later, lets you chat with other users viewing your service and simultaneously watc

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

3 min read

May 04, 2010

Introducing Music Stand

We are really excited to introduce to you today a project we have been working on over the last several months, Planning Center Online Music Stand. When we launched our API last year we were excited not only to see what kind of things others could do with the Planning Center framework, but also what other products we could develop. One of the first thoughts we had was to make a digital music stand using the PDFs you've already attached to your songs. And since each plan already has all of

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

4 min read

Mar 01, 2010

Product Update: Printing, Facebook Changes and More

*This is an outdated blog post and the information here may not be current.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. Hey PCO users! We have some updates to inform you of! Which do you want first....the good news, or the not-as-good news? Ok, I'll give you the not-as-good news first: New Look to Facebook App** Facebook has changed the way they do things, and as a result, we have as well. Facebook has taken away all notif

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Jan 11, 2010

Product Update: Reply To Texts and some minor changes

Hello Everyone, We have a lot of big things on the burner right now, but we wanted to get a couple of quick enhancements out to you because they don't really change anything, they just make it better. Here are a couple of the changes: Clean Up Of Facebook & Schedule pages We have made a couple of minor enhancements to make those pages more readable & accessible, especially when you have Recurring Block Out Dates. Also, when you decline on the Facebook page it asks you for a reason.

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Dec 07, 2009

Webinars Now Available: Introduction to Planning Center Online

We launched our first-ever Webinar the other week with what we felt was success! We've decided to continue webinars that introduce Planning Center Online. The webinar allows you to log in from your computer and watch me give a demonstration of how PCO works and how to set it up. We believe this will be a bridge to better communication with our customers, which we are always striving to do. It will especially help you who have just begun using the program and want to have a demonstration of how i

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Nov 24, 2009

Recurring Block-Out Dates, Online Manual, and Subscription to Community Songs and Media pages!

Hello PCO users! We have yet another exciting release for you and it's just in time for the Holidays (Happy Thanksgiving, by the way!). Here are a few things we've added: Recurring Block-Out Dates: Yes, we know this has been a long time comin'. But it's finally here! You are now able to block out a recurring date. So for all of you that say every 3rd Sunday of the month, you're unavailable, it's now just a few clicks instead of about 50. When you enter the date you need blocked off, yo

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Sep 22, 2009

Now with Facebook Integration

We are very excited to introduce our newest feature, Facebook integration. For the past several months we have been learning about how to develop on top of the Facebook platform and thinking about the best way to do this integration. I am really happy with what we have come up with and I hope this helps your volunteers become more informed about when they will be serving. Let me go ahead and walk you through the integration process: 1.) Install the Planning Center Online Facebook App: You

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Sep 14, 2009

Mobile Flow Editing

Around three weeks ago we enhanced the mobile version of Planning Center with the ability to schedule and email people. Now we're proud to announce that we just updated our mobile site to include the ability to add and edit items, songs & headers! Additionaly, each user can easily change their status from the mobile site as well. Status is indicated in a color-coded bar at the top of the flow, and can be changed independently for each position they are scheduled. Only mobile phones whose w

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

1 min read

Aug 26, 2009

New Additions to Mobile Site

We have yet another exciting release, and this one is in the world of mobile phones. Last night we released an update that allows you to perform certain tasks on the mobile version of your phone (including iPhone, Android, and Pre). You now have the capability to schedule people and email those that are scheduled. This also paves the way for our new official Planning Center Online iPhone App that released today! The official app is a streamlined version of the updated mobile interface that r

Katie Willard

Customer Support

1 min read

Aug 11, 2009

Planning Center Update: It's About "Time"!

Hey PCO users! We have an exciting release for you. The most exciting part is a feature that people have been asking for, and that we are FINALLY adding for you! Yes, it's about "time" these features were added. Let me explain: Block Out Dates by the Hour/ Conflicts by the Hour: Until now, users were only able to block out dates a whole day at a time. We realized this did not meet everyone's needs, especially since there are some weekend services that have something happening in the mornin

Katie Willard

Customer Support

4 min read

Jul 28, 2009

Text Messaging Changes

Hey PCO users! We have some very important information for you about text messaging through PCO. Up until today, we have been using TextMarks.com for sending out the automatic text messages. However, after over 12 hours of downtime today from TextMarks, we've decided to take the text messaging feature into our own hands. Here's how it will affect you: *All current text message users: *You must log in to your PCO account, go to 'My Account' in the top right corner of the screen, and then enabl

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Jul 06, 2009

Product Update: New Mobile Site, New Filtering & Storage Options

Hey everyone! Here we are again with another released update for you. This one is exciting as well! Mostly because of the new mobile interface for more phones than just the iPhone!!! New Mobile Site Here at Ministry Centered Technologies we love our iPhones!!! We also realize that many of you guys love your Blackberrys, Palm Pres, Windows Mobile, Android and other phones. So we have finally updated our mobile site for people who use phones other than the iPhone!!! Planning Center Online w

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Jun 22, 2009

Exciting Media Release

*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. Ask not what you can do for Planning Center Online, ask what Planning Center Online can do for you. And in this case, we've blown the doors off! We have released a new Media page- on your normal Planning Center site, and then also on our Community Media page. It's slick, easy, and integrates with Worship House

Katie Willard

Customer Support

4 min read

May 11, 2009

New Look Becomes Permanent, New Email Look, Edit Scheduled Person Dialog, and Quick Links Change.

Hello PCO users! A new mini-update for you has come once again. Hope you are all enjoying spring wherever you are! *New Look Becomes Permanent: *We are very excited about our look! It will now be the default. As you know, we are continually looking to improve the look of the site and are always working on making things better. Hope you enjoy! *New Email Look: *The notification emails will now look slightly different (just a little more organized). Things are situated a bit differently but

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

2 min read

Apr 06, 2009

Mini Update Release: Adding Items, Subscribing to Comments, and Positions Drop-Down Box.

*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. Hey everyone! We just wanted to send out a quick blog post about some new mini-updates that we're releasing today! Hope you enjoy them- we anticipate that you will! *Adding Items: * Now you can add an item to anywhere in your plan! You'll see the plus symbol throughout the items already added, and to ad

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Mar 23, 2009

Community Page, New Look, Comments, and Songs Page Additions!

*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. Hello PCO users! Here we are once again with another update to enhance your use of Planning Center. As you may have noticed, we are updating whenever we have new features ready, instead of on a quarterly basis- so that is why you may notice that the updates seem to be more frequent lately. Here are the four new

Katie Willard

Customer Support

3 min read

Feb 27, 2009

New Custom People Reports

For the last week or two, we've been working away at our next Planning Center feature release that we are incredibly excited about. Without giving away too much, we're adding some new innovative tools to help you better organize your content and simplify discovering new content. But I'm not going to get into that right now, I just wanted to whet your appetite a little. :) Somehow in the middle of working on that, Jeff got inspired to release Custom People Reports today. If you are used to wor

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read

Feb 10, 2009

A New Look for our MP3 Player

Hey everyone! We have an update to share with you that will enhance your experience in using Planning Center! We’ve been working on revamping the mp3 player that looked a little outdated, to say the least. We realized it didn’t match the rest of our site! So we have a new and improved mp3 “look”. Let us know what you think, and enjoy! Update** (2/11 10:00am)***: *To help with the transition we have re-enabled the old MP3 Player until we can add a couple more features to the new MP3 player. T

Katie Willard

Customer Support

1 min read

Jan 18, 2009

First of a few releases! Recently viewed plans, public viewing, and category divisions.

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! We at Ministry Centered Technologies hope you had a great holiday season. With the beginning of another year comes another release for Planning Center Online! I would like to tell you about the three new features we just released. Recently Viewed Plans The first is that from now on, when you hover over the Plans tab, you will see a list of the most recent plans you have accessed. This will make accessing your plans easier and more intuitive! Just hold your m

Katie Willard

Customer Support

2 min read

Jan 09, 2009

IMPORTANT: January 12th Maintenance - Moving Our Servers

Hello Everyone, Wow, 2008 is over and what an exciting year it has been! We have some updates that we are ready to deploy out to you but before we do that we are adding another server to our cluster. The problem is that we have maxed out our rack at RackSpace and we need to move all of our servers to a new Rack within the RackSpace data center. So on Monday January 12, 2009 at 5:00am PST we will be moving our servers to this new Rack. The move should take about 1 hour. During this time Planni

Jeff Berg

Owner / Developer

1 min read