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Planning Center Calendar Overview

What is Planning Center Calendar?

Planning Center Calendar is a communication tool to help you manage your events schedule, reserve rooms, and track resources. With Planning Center Calendar, you can categorize events with descriptive tags, book rooms and resources and make those reservations visible to your team, set up event approval requests to mitigate miscommunications or double-bookings, and publish your calendar where congregants can see events and sign up. Planning Center Calendar is part of Planning Center, an all-in-one church management system to help you organize information, coordinate events, communicate with your team, and connect with your congregation.

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Church facilities managament


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Year Founded
2006
HQ Location
Carlsbad, California
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@PlanningCenter
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Description

Planning Center is a comprehensive software platform designed to assist churches and organizations in managing various aspects of their operations. It offers a suite of tools for services planning, volunteer management, event scheduling, and giving, among other features. Planning Center aims to streamline administrative tasks, enhance communication, and improve overall efficiency, making it easier for teams to focus on their mission and community engagement. For more information, visit their website at https://www.planningcenter.com/.


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Recent Planning Center Calendar Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Organized church calendar"
I like that everyone can see what is going on and how easy it is to add events
Lauren N.
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Lauren N.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Planning Center Resources is a great addition to the PCO suite—to manage rooms."
The fact that there is a native mobile app is a huge plus. Some of the other modules don't have native apps. It's nice that this one finally does.
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"PCO The Way To GO"
First off the name changed to Planning Center Calendar this year from Planning Center Resources. This software is very user-friendly. If you know a...
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Lead Minister
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What do you like best about Planning Center ChMS?

Scheduling members for services, coordinating events, automating background checks, and managing small groups are all great features we use regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center ChMS?

The cost scales fairly quickly, though the features are worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center ChMS solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our congregation uses planning center to communicate all events and activities to our members. We've found that the automated emailing features and the scheduling platforms have made our monthly service list more manageable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lauren N.
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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

The fact that there is a native mobile app is a huge plus. Some of the other modules don't have native apps. It's nice that this one finally does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

It's a little clunky... especially because we have a lot of data from old rooms and buildings that we no longer have... and from the older versions. It will take a bit of time to clean it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Planning Center Calendar:

This could be used as a standalone product or with the rest of the modules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's great for our admin teams to manage rooms and areas that need to be reserved on a weekly basis. It is easy to use for the end-user managing offices and teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

First off the name changed to Planning Center Calendar this year from Planning Center Resources. This software is very user-friendly. If you know anything about navigating a database, you can probably figure it out without any training, but they also offer a wide selection of video tutorials and documents to help, plus a fairly quick email response channel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

Their reporting system could use a little upgrade. It does an amazing job of reporting on any custom or installed field, but adjusting the feilds and layout would be most helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Planning Center Calendar:

If you don't need to do in-depth reporting, this is a great product to consider. Their whole suite of modules are very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

We schedule all our facilities, and all staff can see it and know what is happening. It also organizes resources (tables, chairs, coffee makers, whatever you put in), which helps us to not overbook at conferences or school events. It has a pretty good permission system—no worries of someone getting in there and messing it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

I like that everyone can see what is going on and how easy it is to add events Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

The groups integration is not working as well as hoped Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Planning Center Calendar:

Make use of the approval processes so that those who need to know are aware without having to check the calendar all the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Everyone keeping their own calendar and having to send emails to set up teams about what needs to be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

Like that it is so user friendly and easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

Registrations is nice but it’s often confusing for users to navigate. The log in is confusing...it’s easy to create multiple accounts that doesn’t capture all the users data over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps keep track of member information and pulling lists is 10 times easier with planning center. I don’t like that the generated list has to be sent to an email. It should download straight to your computer instantaneously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Micah H.
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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

We very recently started using planning center resources which is now called planning center calendar. We love the approval system that is built into Calendar for the request thing of different rooms and resources. This allows us to select different staff members and approval groups per event. This is helped us to get along farther faster with less email clutter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

Setting up planning center calendar in the resources that you will need will take some time. I think that was our largest hurdle and why it took us so long to implement it. But if you take the time on the front end to really create the system that you were looking for within planning center calendar it will go a long way to help your staff and team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Planning Center Calendar:

Like with all other planning center apps planning center calendar works best if you were implementing it with the entire family of planning center software. We really found that planning center resources, again now it’s called planning center calendar, has been a game changer for how we work internally as a staff Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

When I first started at my organization the master calendar was a white calendar on the back of the door. No one looked at it and there was a lot of conflict in terms of who had requested a room to use and Win. Now with planning center calendar all of our facility usage and departmental events are in one place on a really easy review calendar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Julie J.
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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

Improvements in increased details that can be added into a reservation, ect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

The requirement to add a location on a event registration/reservation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing conflicting reservations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kyler S.
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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

Seeing the calendar and events in one convenient place fully color coordinated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

Some of the features like notes and event details are a little hard to find and have too many ways to input the same information, often times information gets scrambled up or duplicated that doesn't need to be there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Planning Center Calendar:

Get all the integrated products involved with the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having all my church events in one place and available to share with everyone. Also the ability to find just about any person in my church in one location with address details and other details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

I LOVE PC Resources! I love that every member of my team can add their own events to the calendar and wait for approval. It doesn't stop with one person always having to be asked "What's available on the calendar?" Everyone in the organization has access to the calendar and can see what we have coming up. It's incredible and SO user friendly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

I dislike that you can't see the resources you need for each room - the details - one the front screen. You have to click thru three or four difference screens just to see all the notes people leave. But, that is a very small con to an infinite amount of pros!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Planning Center Calendar:

I would 100% recommend PC Resources! So far, it has much more pros for our organization than other software like Microsoft calendars and such. It's much more user friendly, especially when you have in-house and out-house staff members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

PC Resources is solving SO many problems! We can now solve so many conflicts in our organization with different building usage conflicts. Now, everyone knows what is happening when and in what building, so there is no longer multiple people fighting for the same building/room. A HUGE benefit is that this calendar can be downloaded to your computer or phone and be readily available! Also, there is an app where you can add your own events and you don't have do it thru a computer or website. Everyone is so happy with this system and its use in our organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Planning Center Calendar?

I like that it's geared towards churches. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Calendar?

That it has a learning curve. It's not the easiest thing for just anybody to pick up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Planning Center Calendar solving and how is that benefiting you?

Room reservation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.