Product Updates

We brought the beauty and simplicity of your congregation's sign up experience on the Church Center app to their Registrations experience on the web.

We are expanding our attention to provide you with tools to support your congregation with our new mobile app Church Center, a dedicated space for people to connect with the life of your church. Tell people they can find more information or get involved by downloading the app on their smartphone—we’ll help them do the rest!

All of the actions you already use as Bulk Actions or List Automations are now available in Forms, including a new automation to send an email. You can automate actions across most of our apps, including Check-Ins, Groups, People, Registrations, and Services.

Over the last few months, our team has been hard at work on new features across our suite! Watch our Fall Product Update to learn all about these exciting changes.

The goal of reminder emails and RSVP requests is to give group leaders a way to encourage members to stay connected. In the last few weeks, we’ve released four updates to the reminder feature to help you improve and customize your communication with members.

Since Resources first launched in 2013, the most requested feature from our churches is a calendar-centric system for organizing event logistics. Today, we are announcing the release of two features—Tags and a new Calendar—designed to make it easier for your staff to find event details.

Music Stand for iOS and Android has been updated to version 4.2 and now allows you to edit lyrics & chord charts created in Planning Center, or create new ones from scratch.

Until today, the only way to send mass emails to people in workflows has been through some inconvenient workarounds. But now, you can contact multiple people in your workflow using our new bulk email action.

Have you ever managed a complex event with multiple attendee types, add-ons, discounts, and payments all within a single registration? We are going to do the math for you with the new registration totals sidebar!

Whenever our developers release a new feature in any of our applications they also update our API (Application Programing Interface) so outside developers can build features off of current code. Our goal is to continually improve our API to make it easier for developers to use.

Sharing a direct link is the easiest way to get people to fill out a form, sign up for a group, or give to a specific fund. But we realized link-sharing might not be the best way for some churches to share your public pages and created an alternative: QR codes!

Today, we are introducing a few new features which we hope will contribute to a clearer picture of how processing fees impact your donations.

You should spend as little time as possible using Planning Center Check-Ins and as much time as possible doing ministry, which is why we are excited to share the new layout for the Stations page! We added more details about the information you need, and decreased the noise from the things you don’t.

Are you ready for one of the most exciting and frequently requested features in the history of Planning Center? Say hello to Forms! Forms is a way for you to hear directly from the people in your church by giving them opportunities to share information with you.

No matter how big your church or how many classrooms you have, one of the most chaotic aspects of Sunday morning is getting everyone to the right place after they check in. Today, we are giving you the power to decide how you want Check-Ins to suggest people to locations.

A new 3-step wizard for adding a Service Type gives first-time users the context they need to get started and power-users the tools to create Service Types faster than ever.

The more emails a person receives, the more likely they are to ignore them. Today's update reduces the number of emails we send by bundling similar messages together! The three types of emails that are now consistently bundled are Scheduling Requests, Blockout Notifications, and Accepted Request Notifications.

Learn how to navigate Services like a pro using the improved Universal Search!

In the last six months we released major new features and updates to all seven Planning Center applications, as well as our add-on app Music Stand! Learn how these new Planning Center tools can support your ministry and watch our Summer Update!

Wouldn’t it be nice to know exactly how many people are planning to come to your event? You can! Include an RSVP request in your event reminders!

Because not all banks and card networks can support Stripe’s auto-updating system for credit cards, we made some changes in Giving to smooth over times when Stripe cannot automatically replace an expiring card.