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[Planning Center Update] Reply To Texts and some minor changes

Hello Everyone,

We have a lot of big things on the burner right now, but we wanted to get a couple of quick enhancements out to you because they don’t really change anything, they just make it better.

Here are a couple of the changes:

Clean Up Of Facebook & Schedule pages

We have made a couple of minor enhancements to make those pages more readable & accessible, especially when you have Recurring Block Out Dates. Also, when you decline on the Facebook page it asks you for a reason.

Accept or Decline via TEXT!!!

If your phone supports replying to e-mail texts you can now reply to scheduling requests with either an ACCEPT, DECLINE or STOP (to stop receiving texts). Right now this is only for AT&T and Verizon because those are the only phone carriers we could test. If you would like this enabled for your carrier please e-mail smstest@planningcenteronline.com with your Carrier Name & Phone Number.

Also, if the reply doesn’t say Accept, Decline or Stop then we will forward it to the person who sent the message.

That’s about it! But tomorrow we have a HUGE announcement and a lot of other big things coming out over the next couple of months.

Thanks for all your support!

Jeff Berg
Owner/Developer
Ministry Centered technologies

11 comments

Bryan Lamouruex #permalink

Thanks for your continued commitment in making Planning Center the leading service scheduler out there!

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Jeffrey Jue #permalink

The new text accept/decline feature is a great tool for some of the volunteers who text a lot but don’t always check their e-mail since those who plan can get a quicker response when planning a technical staff for a service.

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J.J. #permalink

Oooooo… I’m looking forward to the HUGE Announcement!

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Todd #permalink

Thanks for all you do to make my job easier!

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Chad #permalink

Big Announcement??? Android app?!?!?!

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Jay H #permalink

if you consider responding via text a ‘minor’ enhancement…. and i’m on the edge of my chair for something PCO calls “HUGE”…..
DON’T LEAVE ME HANGING!!!!!!

Love you guys… you are redefining ‘remarkable’

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Todd G #permalink

Finally…people will do whatever I say? I knew the day would come!!!

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Steve Rogier #permalink

Is it possible to have the dates (BD & Ann) with separate fields for the data base (CSV)?
Thanks

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Mathew I #permalink

Awesome – I have lots of younger players who never check their email in time to know…so I’m constantly either missing them or calling the “must have” group.

I’d love more free music tabs…! just a hint!

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Buddy P #permalink

Thank you so much for adding this txting feature!!!! This is something I’ve been asking for for several months now! This will really help me communicate better with my volunteers!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

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