Happy May! We’ve got some cool new features we want to tell you about today. While these additions are medium to smaller in scope, sometimes it’s the small things that can make the most difference in your productivity! Don’t worry, we are working on some bigger things, but for now, here are the details of the latest round of improvements. Plan Contributors At the bottom of every plan is a new Plan Contributors section that will show the user pictures for anyone who has made changes to that plan. When you hover over a contributor, you’ll see a popup with …

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It’s been a month and a half since we launched Planning Center Resources and we are going full steam ahead! In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve added quite a few new things recently and wanted to make sure you knew about them. Room Setups Every individual room page now has a new Room Setups section. Add different room setups, each with their own image and description to show your users the different ways that room can be setup. When they reserve the room the first thing they are asked is which setup they’d like. This is helpful if your rooms …

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You might have noticed that the logo at the top left of Planning Center has changed. Not to worry, the Planning Center Online you know and love is still the same, but we’re just branding it differently to help differentiate between our products. If you follow our Facebook or Twitter feeds, you probably saw that we recently launched a new product called Planning Center Resources that manages your church’s rooms, resources and approvals. It’s an awesome product that is free to use through July 1 while we continue testing it and adding features. Check it out and sign up for …

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On Wednesday, February 13, from 9:30 to 11:30 Pacific Time, Planning Center was having some issues related to permissions. What was up with that? Short answer: we messed up! In the process of making some other improvements to the site, we accidentally made a change that upgraded some people permissions. Those people all of the sudden had administrator permissions and would have been able to make changes that their real permissions didn’t allow. Luckily, we caught this error almost immediately, and to make sure all accounts stayed secure, we took the site down so we could come up with a …

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Happy New Year! I hope you got at least a little time off during the Christmas break and you’re back and ready for a great year. We want to get that year started by releasing the following updates to make things a little easier for you. Undelivered Email Status Last month we released Email Templates & Formatting which allow you to save frequently used emails for quick sending at any time. Emails are such a critical part of Planning Center so we wanted to add some more enhancements. Until now, when you would email your users, Planning Center would show …

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‘Tis the season of giving, and today we’re giving you three awesome updates! Each update is for a different product, so hopefully there’s something for everyone. Email Templates, Formatting & Signatures Communicating with your team through email is one of Planning Center’s core features. Many people have different saved emails they send over and over again, so they’ve come up with systems where they save those emails in another program and then copy and paste them to Planning Center. From the beginning one of our mantras has been to “keep everything in one place” so we decided enough with the …

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A couple months ago we introduced Planning Center Spotlight, a new site made to connect artists and churches. Since then, hundreds of bands, musicians, speakers and other types of on-stage, featured artists have created profiles with their bio, location, audio and videos. Now that Spotlight has a great and ever-growing pool of artists, we’re starting Phase 2. Phase 2 opens up Spotlight to churches, allowing them to post events. If you are responsible for finding a featured artist for your service or event, you can create a profile for that event. Artists are then free to use our search and …

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There are many different ways to schedule people within Planning Center. You can schedule people individually, in groups, multiple weeks at a time, and even using Auto-Schedule. All of our current scheduling methods require you to schedule people and then send scheduling request emails that they can accept or decline. Over the years we’ve had many requests to allow users to schedule themselves, and today we’re releasing a great new feature that does just that; it’s called Signup Sheets! Signup Sheets Signup Sheets use your needed positions to allow users to schedule themselves. Tell Planning Center you need 6 Ushers …

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We’re very excited to announce the release of Planning Center Music Stand 2.0, our biggest update yet! There’s a lot of great new stuff in this update, so we wanted to give you some detail of what has changed.

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We’re excited to announce new integrations with Rdio and Vimeo along with a brand new Media Player! These new integrations give you more ways than ever to provide legal audio and video to your users. Rdio is a music subscription service that lets you listen to millions of songs ad-free wherever you are. You can now easily link to any song on Rdio from the ‘Add an Attachment’ box on any Song Arrangement page. To play Rdio files, each user must have an Rdio subscription, which is $4.99 a month for web streaming, and $9.99 a month for web + …

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