For group leaders: Attendance reports in Church Center
With attendance reports in Church Center, group leaders can quickly get a pulse on peoples’ engagement and see who they need to follow up with!
Jeff Berg
2 min read
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Announcing tasks: Create to-do lists and collaborate with teams
How do you keep track of your to-do list? Brightly colored sticky notes stuck all over your desk? An assortment of note-taking apps? Maybe a backlog of emails and text messages? All of the above? What if you could bring your scattered web of notes into a single place where you’re already doing your ministry work? Now you can create detailed tasks, organize to-do lists, and collaborate with other people on those tasks—all in Planning Center! And that’s not all. You can create tasks abs
Allie Rice
·Product Manager
6 min read
Announcing RehearsalPack: audio, lyrics, and chords in one subscription
As a worship leader, you coordinate so many things. And few things are as complicated as planning the set list—gathering all of the songs with the right parts, in the right keys, all for your worship team to be ready for the service. But planning your set list is much easier with RehearsalPack—a new, one-stop integration for the lyrics, a chord chart, an audio file, and the license to use them at your church from thousands of recordings by popular worship artists. It’s all available in
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
2 min read
Create custom forms for event requests in Calendar
Add custom fields and event templates to event requests! Now you can collect more information up front and minimize lost details or miscommunications.
Evan Lemmons
·Product Manager
2 min read
Respond to potential data breaches with the new account Security History page
Use account security logs to view activity across your entire Planning Center account and respond to potentially data threats!
Jeremy Ricketts
·Product Manager
2 min read
Create Registrations signups from Calendar
Create Registrations signups from within a Calendar event, and use the connections feature to seamlessly switch back and forth between the two!
Evan Lemmons
·Product Manager
2 min read
The Matrix reloaded: new features to help plan church services weeks ahead
Plan church services weeks in advance and view multiple services side by side!
Aaron Stewart
·Co-Founder / Product Manager
4 min read
Announcing sermon audio in the Church Center mobile app
Share your sermon audio on your Church Center mobile app and website for people to catch up on their own time!
Benson Lee
·Product Manager
3 min read
May 2022 Product Update
Anyone else already get their first sunburn? ☀️ Summer is coming in hot, and so are the Planning Center Product Updates! Want to dive a little deeper into one of the new features? Check out the blog updates for more information! 👇 Planning Center Home Check out all the important updates and tasks from across your account on your new personalizable dashboard. Learn some of the best ways to use it! A New Home Base for Congregants to Get Involved My Church Center i
Planning Center
3 min read
Introducing My Church Center: A new home base for congregants
Where do your congregants go to see everything they’re involved in at your church? How do people RSVP for an event, see what they signed up for, and respond to scheduling requests without having to check four different places? Now they can check a single place for information on everything they’re involved in— My Church Center. What is My Church Center? My Church Center is your congregants’ new home base—where they can see important updates and notifications regarding anything they’re i
Jeff Berg
4 min read
Introducing Planning Center Home
You are responsible for so much at your church. Maybe you have multiple volunteer teams to schedule for the many events that you’re managing, and follow-up emails that you need to send to all the first-time visitors who came on Sunday… …and a million other things to keep up on and take care of! You need a home base where you can orient yourself to what’s going on and align your tasks with your priorities. So we made Planning Center Home—a personalizable dashboard highlighting all of the impo
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
5 min read
November 2021 Product Update
Hello friends, and happy fall! 🍂 Pumpkin spice and product updates—the perfect pairing! No? Perhaps it is possible we pretentiously pushed the pairing to produce a pleasant alliteration...presently...post-haste. Pickles? Anyway, check out this video to see all the new ways to use Planning Center in your ministry! Want to dive a little deeper into one of the new features? Check out the blog updates for more information! 👇 Create Custom Dashboards to View and Share Metrics Tr
Planning Center
3 min read
Easier and Faster Station Set-up
It’s Sunday morning and there’s a long line out the door for families to check in. In one way, this sounds great—the church is growing, families are being welcomed, and children are safe. But in real life, this experience isn’t ideal. When checking in isn’t fast, people miss out on worship and connecting with others, all because they’re stuck waiting for labels to print. With our recent update to Check-Ins, we’ve made the process of creating check-in stations even easier and faster so you can
Scott Myers
·Product Manager
3 min read
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
Daniel Murphy
·Product Manager
3 min read
Planning Center Publishing is Out of Beta!
Planning Center Publishing is officially out of beta, and we're so excited about it we made a new video. 🎉 Custom pages, live streaming, and a sermon library for your mobile app are truly just the beginning of what you will be able to do on Church Center through Publishing. There will be even more ways for you to customize your app and site for your congregation in the coming months. So be sure to subscribe to the blog or keep an eye on social media to learn what’s new! New to Church Cente
Benson Lee
·Product Manager
3 min read
Announcing Planning Center Publishing: Create Custom Web and App Content
Today we are announcing Planning Center Publishing—a brand new product to power your presence in Church Center, the mobile app and website, with custom pages and video sermons! Church Center is an online experience where your congregation can explore, engage, and stay connected throughout the week. Publishing is how you make this app your own—how you connect with your congregation in unique ways through your own custom content. Each feature of Publishing gives you options. Church Center is yo
Planning Center
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Announcing Group Messaging: It’s in beta!
Group Messaging is in public beta, which means your small groups can make the Church Center app their official center for communication. No more cycling between Facebook Messenger, the dreaded group text, and infinite email strings! Read in browser We know many of you have temporarily suspended weekend services due to COVID-19, and some of you are also under state-mandated shelter-in-place orders, making even small gatherings impossible. We
Jessica Fleming
·Product Manager
3 min read