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Planning Center Services Overview

What is Planning Center Services?

Planning Center Services is a worship service planning and volunteer scheduling software for church teams. With Services, you can: 1. Create an order of service with every detail planned out with timing: songs, media, custom notes, and much more. 2. Share the services plan so everyone is on the same page. 3. Organize volunteer teams for every ministry: worship, children’s, youth, events, facilities, etc. 4. Schedule teams in advance and send requests to volunteers. 5. Communicate with your volunteer teams via email, text, and the mobile app. 6. Equip musicians with rehearsal tools to help them practice, including a mobile media player and an app for sheet music. 7. Transpose songs into custom arrangements. 8. Import lyrics, chord charts, and audio files from ReheasralPack, SongSelect, and PraiseCharts. Learn more and sign up for a 30-day free trial.

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Product Description

Planning Center Services can help you schedule volunteer teams, plan worship services, and equip your worship team with rehearsal tools.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

There are five core things that make Planning Center different than the other software options out there:

1. Transparent pricing with no contracts or hidden fees. Churches are in charge of their subscription. You can upgrade for seasonal events, adjust plans without penalties or fees, and cancel anytime—your ministries dictate your cost.

2. Planning Center is privately owned and not for sale. Churches–not investors–help shape our product and business. Our product is for the churches who use us, not investors or potential buyers. Every update and every new feature is because we think it’s a tool the church needs. Check out our CEO’s statement for more on why we prioritize our independence.


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Year Founded
2006
HQ Location
Carlsbad, California
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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 Services Reviews

Amberlee A.
AA
Amberlee A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The best Church Scheduling Platform"
Simple and concise for scheduling volunteers and communicating with them important information.
Erin W.
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Erin W.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Planning Center Review"
They work well and we are able to use it in many areas at work. Check-Ins, People.
Tanisha T.
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Tanisha T.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Upgrade Your Ministry Volunteer System!"
I love that it integrates all volunteers, scheduling and allows easy communications and sharing of information.
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Planning Center Services Media

Planning Center Services Demo - Order of Service
Worship Planning: Order of Service
Planning Center Services Demo - Service Scheduling
Worship Planning: Service Scheduling
Planning Center Services Demo - Transpose
Rehearsal Tools: Transpose
Planning Center Services Demo - Song Integrations
Rehearsal Tools: Song Integrations
Planning Center Services Demo - Team Planning & Scheduling
Volunteer Management: Team Planning & Scheduling
Planning Center Services Demo - Worship Matrix
Volunteer Scheduling: Worship Matrix
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Amberlee A.
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Database Admin
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

Simple and concise for scheduling volunteers and communicating with them important information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

Only downside would be the feature to text the schedule instead of email is not as user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to schedule volunteers and communicate with them when they are scheduled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CS
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

Planning Center has made themselves a one-stop shop for most all of our platform needs. The fact that they integrate with so many other applications is exceedingly helpful. It seems that every time I think to myself, "Man, I wish Planning Center did xyz" I turn around and they have an update adding XYZ to their line-up. I am so grateful for all we can do within the Church Center App and the back end of PC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

There are a few things that haven't worked as smoothly as Planning Center does overall.

I don't like that the Messaging function for Groups only works through Church Center and not through the backend Groups tab. Opposite issue with Resources. Resources can only be added through the admin side, but it would be so helpful if Resources could be added through the app side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Tracking group engagement, calendar planning, resource management, first-time guest workflows, serve team scheduling, communication with serve teams... like ALL THE WAYS we could need help, PC is helping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tanisha T.
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Project Manager, North America Leadership Development, Customer Success
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

I love that it integrates all volunteers, scheduling and allows easy communications and sharing of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

Not really a downside, but proper tarining is a must. There are so many things that can be done, it's very beneficial to train in order to properly implement to the larger team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Solves the issue of managing scheduling and roles of volunteers. Assists with intake of new partners, visitors, etc. Forms can be created and distributed easily with QR codes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mike Q.
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

This is hands down the best way to manage worship service outlines, volunteer schedules, charts, music tracks, and realted files! It also is a great way to manage the songs we use and how often we use them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

There is a bit of a learning curve, especially with building and assigning teams, etc. But they have very helpful tutorial videos. Navagating the different features can be a bit convoluted as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps me communicate with the worship service volunteers and manage their schedules. It also helps them stay on task with letting me know when they are or not availaible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CD
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.

David C.
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Pastor for Creative Arts
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

All of the tools are built for worship leaders and planners to effectively and efficiently schedule volunteers and resource them with everything needed for a successful gathering for worship. All of the automation in scheduling reminders and all of the ways to customize the plans are vitally important for our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

The current pricing breakdowns seem arbitrary, and there isn't a good pricepoint for our specific church size. We actually use a legacy plan that was a better fit, but if we ever make a change we will get stuck in the new pricing breakdowns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Planning Center Services helps us schedule volunteers for our large group gatherings, security team, welcome team, children's ministry, and student ministry. It is a hub for sharing resources for songs, sermons, videos, and any other elements for our worship services. It has automated scheduling tools that save our volunteers time, and the database of volunteers makes communication simple and easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BK
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

Planning Center has the BEST customer service. They respond to each and every feature request, and they take their time when helping customers. They are committed to making their software better and more usable for the users that are actually using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

I don't have a downside to Planning Center. I love all of their products that I use, and wish I could use all of their products. I love all of the ways they are connecting each of the individual modules - calendar with registrations and groups, registrations with checkins, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

They solve the problems of having to use multiple systems to manage our church database, communications, and media. This makes it easier for myself and the rest of our staff to complete tasks sooner, and love people more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CM
Associate Pastor & Social Media Coodinator
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

It has the capability to help organizations keep track of all different components (finances, scheduling of staff, calendars, employees and others). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

There are a lot of different modules and learning everything can take a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helps us with scheduling volunteers, and rooms in different ministries so there aren't any conflicts. We are also able to communicate more effectively and easily with larger groups of people through the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Johann S.
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Pastor
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

Planning Centre Services has an absolutely incredible UI, making the abundance of information that needs to be incorporated in planning an effective service (band members, serving teams, media, speakers, order of events) so intuitive to bring together and coordinate. Scheduling all the different role players is also a sinch and makes a huge difference in administrating service planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

The price can be fairly hefty as it scales over a certain amount of users. We have a multi-site model, and the cost for volunteers in each serving area makes the database balloon quickly. Also, the mobile app can be very resource-intensive on older phone models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We need to do weekly planning and coordinating for our Sunday services (and other church events). This involves both the ordering of music, media, speakers, expressions and announcements as well as each of the people involved in these areas in terms of their availability and task. We are able to coordinate whole teams of tech, worship, serving, preachers, hosts, and kids ministry volunteers into well-designed ministry flows and service schedules. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JM
Kid's Pastor
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What do you like best about Planning Center Services?

Planning Center Services helps our team stay organized and on track. It allows our worship services to flow seamlessly, as we can coordinate and organize who is doing what in our weekly services. It also helps us send out reminders to those who are participating in our services and allows us to place individuals into teams/groups that work together! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Services?

My one pet peeve with Planning Center Services is that you do not have full functionality on a phone web browser. I was in a spot where I did not have a computer, so I tried to pull up the service plan on my phone web browser, and it did not have the same full functionality as it does on a normal desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Planning Center Services solves the problems of coordinating. It often falls on one person to make sure everybody knows what they are doing and when they are supposed to do it, but Planning Center helps ease the burden off of one specific person. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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