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I love the ease of the user interface. It was easy for our entire team to learn. We also appreciate the pricing point and the ever-developing feature list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't love that the text-to-give option is location based and then doesn't show the organization you are logged in with. The way it is set up limits use for non-profits without a specific location. It is also poses a problem for our church if people go to more than one location in our area that uses Planning Center. Right now we have a neighbor ministry that uses PC, but not specifically the giving app. If they switch to it, it will be harder to navigate the text to give for those who attend both. Not a common situation, but it actually caused me to not want to use the text to give option for my non profit, because it will be confusing which company they are logged into if they go to the event of the non profit, as well as the church. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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I love that it is integrated with all of the rest of our planning center resources so we don't have to get a separate app or send people to a different site. They can see everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
From a user end, I like all of it. I haven't spent much time on the other side of it, but I do wish we could use it as a point of sale as well for our bookstore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like that PC giving is tied into the database, so you can give from your profile, or a guest, or infrequent giver, can give online with the continue as guest option. Also giving is available on the PC app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing really stands out as a dislike, other than some of the backend processing is MUCH slower than what we have used before. Checks take much longer to process and scanning is very slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's easy to use, automatically sends email receipt to donor, bookkeeper has easy access to reconcile books. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Would like administrator to be notified when changes are made to a donor profile or when there are duplicates in the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
People have direct access to their profile, and it is pretty self-explanatory for how to give. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The database can be clunky sometimes so people can easily create a duplicate record instead of adding to their current one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This has been by far the easiest system to set up for our organization to accept payments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nothing found to dislike so far with product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We just rolled out planning center giving as a new giving platform. We integrated it into a church that by and large did not have a high percentage of online givers. We jumped from 30% online giving to almost 70% online giving with it a month. The platform is really easy to use and easy to set up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Really nothing at this point. There are a few things that you have to get right early on in the administration set up side to make it easy to use on the user end but overall it is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The entire suite of tools from Planning Center are, in my view, a must-have for a church of any size. Their Giving platform is beautiful, it works seamlessly, and is easy for congregation members to use — even the older ones who are tech averse. That’s the best part. It works and is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There really isn’t anything I dislike. It’s well-thought-out and works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We use Planning Center People and Registration so it's nice to have them all under the same platform. I also appreciate how quickly they respond back to my emails with questions/problems I have. Not all answers have been satisfactory (i.e. the feature is not yet supported) but they are quick to try to find a solution for me.
There is a group of users on slack that is helpful to see what others are doing or ways they have solved problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't like that we currently can't have giving units (households) - it has to be by individual. That being said I believe they are close to adding in that feature … it just hasn't happened yet.
While I understand why they only allow giving (and not payments for items) it would be nice if there was a feature to allow non-tax-deduction payments rather than recording it on a separate spreadsheet.
I have yet to figure out a good way to reconcile my statements at the end of the month. I currently do a lot of things manually after printing out sheets and am still working on figuring out a way to make this smoother.
I don't like that the fee for each donation is attached to the donation rather than a fee that is just charged to us monthly … this messes up my accounting a little bit and I have to work around that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Ease to setup giving profiles and system settings. Text to give options and customizable giving optiioons for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
No major complaints. The system is easy to use and setup an account from either the end user or as the admin staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
