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Text In Church messaging: Now in Planning Center
Mar 11, 2025

Text In Church messaging: Now in Planning Center

Send personalized texts right from within Planning Center using your Text In Church account.

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Marketing Copywriter

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Clearstream texting: now inside Planning Center
Nov 28, 2023

Clearstream texting: now inside Planning Center

Texting your congregation just got a lot easier:  You can now text people using your local Clearstream numbers from within Planning Center People! Texting is one of the fastest ways for churches to connect with people, and Clearstream is the premier option available—with customer support rivaled only by yours truly.  Thousands of organizations—mega churches, church plants, and nonprofits—rely on Clearstream to communicate with their congregation. Many of you use Clearstream alongside Planning

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Announcing Add-Ons: Build your features into Planning Center
Nov 28, 2023

Announcing Add-Ons: Build your features into Planning Center

Today the church texting software company, Clearstream, released a feature built directly into Planning Center People.  This is the first of many partnerships to build other companies' features into the Planning Center experience with our new Add-Ons API!  We want to simplify the church's life by putting more of the tools they rely on into Planning Center—the place they do a lot of their day-to-day work.   What are Add-Ons?  Planning Center can do a lot, but we can’t do it all. 😉 There are

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Reach your people with updated text messaging
Sep 26, 2023

Reach your people with updated text messaging

Send mass texts to your church with your own 10-digit, toll-free phone number!

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Daniel Murphy

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Product Manager

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Announcing Text Messaging from Planning Center People
Feb 16, 2021

Announcing Text Messaging from Planning Center People

Have you ever wanted to send very fast, very short letters to your congregation? Based on our feature-request inbox, that would be a heck yes. Well, today is your lucky day—texting is here! And like everything we want all churches to have easy access to, we put it in Planning Center People. So now whenever you want to quickly get a hold of a group of people, you have the option to send that tiny letter. How It Works Go to the list of people you want to connect with and you’ll have the

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Daniel Murphy

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Product Manager

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Emergency Text Notifications for Parents
Apr 24, 2020

Emergency Text Notifications for Parents

Texting parents has been one of the most requested features we receive for Check-ins, and now it’s included in every plan for customers in the US and Canada—completely free. We know this feature is not entirely helpful while you’re doing church from home, but we want you to know it's here for you when you are back to welcoming families in person. One day you will again need parents’ help with diaper changes and hurt elbows on Sunday mornings, and texting will be ready to help you communicate t

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Scott Myers

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Product Manager

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