As summer comes to a close, we wanted to tell you about a couple of cool changes we’ve made over the last month or two. The first is additional functionality to our Top Songs feature that now shows more results and lets you search by title and theme to help you find great new songs. The others are some big additions we’ve made to our Projector mobile presentation app that now allows you to sync up multiple devices, display nursery alerts, and edit your order of service by adding, reordering, editing or deleting items or songs. More Top Songs Earlier …

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Would you like your very own limited edition, hand-painted bobblehead of our mascot, PiCO? Well, we’re going to be giving some of them out, and you just might win one! To enter the contest, post a picture of you or your team using Planning Center or any of our apps, or even wearing any Planning Center t-shirt you might have picked up by seeing us at a conference or here at our office. Post your picture on our Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/PlanningCenter or with a mention of @planningcenter on Twitter and you’ll automatically be eligible to win your very own PiCO Bobblehead! We’ll be announcing …

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Last month we introduced our brand new iPad presentation app for displaying images, videos, lyrics and Powerpoints during your service. We’ve had a great response so far and are excited to tell you that the first of many substantial updates is available now in the App store! The biggest news about this update is that it now runs on the iPhone and iPod touch! Projector was primarily intended as an iPad app, but because iPads and iPhones run on the same operating system, all we really had to do was design a smaller interface and everything pretty much just worked! …

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We’ve always taken pride in how often we continue to add new features to Planning Center. We also love getting to use the latest technology to bring you innovative functionality. The main area where this can cause a problem is in making sure our new features continue to run on older internet browsers. At some point it becomes impractical to support old browsers, so we’re giving you a heads up that we’re about to discontinue support for Internet Explorer 6 & 7. Planning Center’s codebase is built using Ruby on Rails. We haven’t updated our servers to the latest versions …

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As a company who not only creates software for churches, but has many employees actively serving in their own churches, we are always on the lookout for new ways to use technology to benefit the church.  With Planning Center, Smart Events, Music Stand, Projector and other big projects in the pipeline, we’re usually not able to devote any time to extra projects, but at a recent company retreat, we decided to all huddle together to create a brand new web application. Let me introduce you to Planning Center Spotlight! Spotlight is a service that connects churches with artists. Bands, musicians, …

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One of the questions we’ve heard many times over the years is “Does Planning Center have a presentation app?” For a long time, we weren’t interested in making a presentation application, mostly because there are already so many great ones available. In fact, we recently published a list of all the great applications that integrate with us, including ProPresenter, Proclaim & MediaShout. Then after the success and experience of our MusicStand iPad app, we started brainstorming where else we could use this new knowledge, and the often-requested presentation app sprung to mind. As far as we knew, there were no mobile …

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Over the last year, Planning Center has experienced explosive growth and increased popularity. As we’ve grown to become one of the most popular applications used by churches, our server infrastructure has been struggling to keep up. We take every outage very seriously because we know how critical PCO is to our users… we use it in our churches, too! We’re happy to report that as you were busy preparing for Easter, we were busy preparing for a major infrastructure upgrade. On Sunday night while you were recuperating, we were up flipping the switches to our new systems. Now that we’ve …

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We recently posted about our new RehearsalMix & WorshipHouseMedia integrations which are built in to PlanningCenter. In addition to our built-in integrations, there are a growing number of other applications that have their own integrations with Planning Center and we thought it would be great to highlight them here. We’re working on a page on our site that will always have a list of all available integrations, but for now, here is a list of the ones we know about. For over ten years, ProPresenter has been the preferred lyric presentation system for Passion Conferences, KidStuf, and churches around the …

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One of the best ways we can add functionality to Planning Center is by integrating with great companies & products. Today we’re really excited to let you know about an awesome new song integration and one greatly improved media integration. In addition, we’ve removed the Community Song & Media pages, enhancing and incorporating some of those features into other areas of Planning Center. RehearsalMix.com is a brand new service that takes the original recordings of your favorite worship songs and gives you a separate mp3 mix for each team member with their part turned up! What better way for your …

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