Planning Center Services Pros and Cons

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.