Multiple Times, Multiple Locations
Checking in isn’t always a simple matter of sign in, label print, and drop off. Sometimes a child stays through multiple services times and goes to different locations throughout the same morning; and...
View ArticleSummer Product Update 2019
Pumpkin spice lattes are back on coffee shop menus, which must mean fall is approaching and summer is coming to a close…despite the heat wave! As you and your church settle back into your regular...
View ArticleSave Energy with Events2HVAC and Resources
It seems like most of the country is enduring a major heatwave, which means many of us are running the air conditioning 24/7. Thank goodness for central air, but in a large building—like a church, for...
View ArticleEasy Profile Editing for Households
Even the most organized People account can get messy because of incorrect profile information. An incomplete medical note during a check-in rush, a typo on an event form—these are the kinds of things...
View ArticleDark Mode For Services Mobile Apps
It stands to reason that if you use an app to organize your worship service, you just might need to open it while you’re in that service. What you might not want is the full-force light of Heaven...
View ArticleUse the tools you love alongside Planning Center
There are so many companies equipping churches with helpful tools, and some of them meet needs we don’t, fill spaces we can’t, or offer similar features in their own style.We want to make it as easy as...
View ArticleNew Event Filters and Views for the Calendar
Everyone on your team is involved in event planning at some level. So everyone—from ministry leads to facilities staff—look at the event calendar for the details they need to play their role in the...
View ArticleMake sure people are prayed for and cared for
Right before the Sunday morning service, someone shares a prayer request with you. You quickly type it into your phone, promising to follow up with them. But soon, it's buried under shopping lists and...
View ArticleCreate Specialized Forms with Conditional Fields
Have you ever asked “if this, then that” questions in your forms? Do you have a background in children's ministry? If yes, tell us a little bit about your experiences. If no, do you have any background...
View ArticleShare Lists and Collaborate
Reports—everyone wants them, which is why anyone can make a custom list in People. Making a list is a lot like putting together your own personal puzzle— piecing together just the right conditions to...
View ArticlePreview Custom Reports Live
Every feature we add or update in Planning Center People is an attempt to make life easier for you, which is why we recently launched a change so you can share Lists and have more control over what...
View ArticleEmail Lists of People within Planning Center
Email has a reputation for being nothing more than a way for companies to send us their annoying marketing jargon, but we all know its more than that. Email can also be a launching pad for meaningful...
View ArticleTemplates, Times, and Other Transformed Tools
Putting together a service plan usually involves a ton of varied details. Whether you’re keeping track of service or rehearsal times, importing templates to give you a head start, using auto-schedule...
View ArticleFall Product Update 2019
Anyone else feeling like fall went by too fast? It seems the window of time in which it is seasonally appropriate to go apple-picking has officially passed. Now we're in that in-between space when we...
View ArticleCustom Labels for all Printers
Yes, you read that correctly: with Universal Printing (formerly Direct Printing), you can create custom labels and print them from any supported printer.Create Custom LabelsWhen you add a new label you...
View ArticleNew Integration with Zapier
At Planning Center we rely on a combination of tools like Slack, Trello, Basecamp, Zendesk, Github, and of course good old fashioned email to get our day to day work done. Now, if these tools didn’t...
View ArticleSaying Thank You for 2019
Almost every Sunday morning for two years I was the hapless teenager in the sound booth of my small church—doing her best to operate the 2006 version of Easy Worship on an ancient PC, botching the...
View ArticleThe New Event Page
Last year we updated the calendar and tag system, simplifying scheduling and categorizing events by making it easier to find events in the bigger picture of the church calendar. Now we are bringing...
View ArticleResources has a new name—Calendar!
Every successful event takes teamwork—from the smallest prayer group on Wednesday mornings to the largest Sunday services.Facilities teams have Resources to help them communicate and coordinate these...
View ArticleLocations for Event Signups
Summer camp at the lake. An annual community Christmas concert. Volunteer training for a local nonprofit. Youth group coffeehouse night.Events like this often happen somewhere other than your church’s...
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