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Planning Center product overview
Key benefits of using Planning Center
- Organize get-togethers, classes, camps, and VBS with an easy signup process through Registrations.
- Keep families engaged, follow up with first-time guests, and send invitations with People's automations.
- Help people stay connected by offering event signups, recorded sermons, and much more on the free mobile app and web experience, Church Center.
- Allow volunteers to set their availability and organize schedules and Plan services months in advance, organize volunteer schedules, and allow volunteers to set their availability through Services.
- Host event request forms, plan events, manage rooms and resources, and get a central view of everything at your church with Calendar.
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Eric M.
Pastor
Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
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Eric M.: My name is Eric and I am a pastor in the nonprofit industry. I give Planning Center a four out...
Adam J.
Campus Support Team Director
Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees
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Adam J.: Hi, my name is Adam and I work as a multi-site church director. And I give Planning Center a...
Darien C.
Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Planning Center is a life-saver for our organization, freeing up our time to focus on the people that truly matter. Planning Center has allowed us to implement robust systems to manage a lot of our administrative work; simplifying our lives and helping keep our teams on the same page.
Planning Center offers a robust set of applications that help create a comprehensive church management platform. Combining the useful features of PC People (such as workflows, forms, database management, etc) with their Service management system (Services), Group management system (Groups), Calendar application (Calendar), Attendance tracking systems (Check-ins), Giving platform (Giving) and event...
Planning Center is a platform that is constantly growing, which of course means that there are always areas of improvement. The beauty of PC is that they are constantly monitoring what is missing, and working on improving in those areas - so anything I list here really are minor issues that will likely be addressed in the near future. Two crucial things that they are missing are a few back-end admin...
Jennifer V.
Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Planning Center is easy to learn and manage. It has helped our church navigate managing over 200 members. This includes using online giving, member database, scheduling, music, emailing members, managing attendance to events and conducting background checks. Planning Center certainly has made our life easier in the office!
I like how it is versatile and allows us to plug in other services that help us navigate our business efficiently.
I wish we could have access to a live person quickly if assistance with the program is needed.
Hi Jennifer, Thanks for your kind words! You mentioned wishing you could have access to a live person. We are here in the wings ready to support you. You may be surprised how quickly we respond! Our Support Team is a great resource for help in that area. Hit the '?' icon in the upper-right of the screen when you are looking at your List. Send us a message and our team will jump in to help! Thanks!
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Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Previously awesome, now frustrating.
Access to plan, songs and sheet music/chart access.
I used to absolutely LOVE Planning Center. But the new design is just awful and frustrates me greatly. It is not laid out logically. Common things that need to be done quickly and used to be easy to find, I now have to dig for and if I every find them, where they are makes no sense. What used to be easy to access is now cumbersome and it takes at me least twice as long to plan services. Scheduling teams is too difficult and confusing.
Manelle M.
Marketing and Advertising, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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I frequently used Capterra as a platform to help me choose which software to buy. The platform itself is simple to use, and the sign-up process is straightforward. They do offer a good incentive program whereby they give gift cards to reviewers for each review that is accepted.
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Thank you for your feedback, Manelle! We appreciate it!
John S.
Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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We've been using Planning Center for years now, and have steadily been adding additional features. One of the best parts is how everything is fully integrated: all of the names from PC People transfer to PC Services and PC Check-in. It makes the use of new services seamless and easy. It's super helpful to have different levels of access, especially in PC Giving. I can get a snap shot of all the financial information for our church without having access to specific donor information, which provides helpful boundaries and financial accountability.
We recently started using ProPresenter for our Sunday gathering visuals as well as our live stream. PC Services does integrate with ProPresenter, but our Director of Gathered Worship said he doesn't use it because it seems somewhat finicky. We may just need to do some more research into how to best use the products together :)
Hi John, Thanks for your kind words! You mentioned having some trouble with the ProPresenter integration. Our Support Team is a great resource for help in that area. Hit the '?' icon in the upper-right of the screen when you are looking at your List. Send us a message and our team will jump in to help! Thanks!
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