Have you ever wished you could have a single source of information for your different ministry teams? Or wanted a super easy, no-fail way to share key metrics with your church leadership?

The good news is that everyone in your organization already enjoys their own personalized dashboard in Planning Center Home…

The better news is you can now create additional dashboards to share with other team members. These dashboards can serve as dedicated launch pads for your teams, projects, events, and ministries, or highlight metrics.

So what does that mean exactly? Check out the video to learn more!

More collaboration, less red tape

Dashboards aren’t just about individual productivity anymore—they’re about team collaboration. 

You can now build dashboards more intentionally for specific ministries, and share them with both the teams who make it happen and leadership who want visibility into data across ministries.

By bringing the right ministry information front and center, teams can better prioritize tasks without insights getting siloed or slipping through the cracks.

To make this even more seamless, all collaborators can view dashboard content regardless of their specific permissions in Planning Center. For example, if you add a Calendar widget to your dashboard, collaborators without Calendar access can still see upcoming events right on the dashboard.

New widgets for info at-a-glance

Speaking of widgets—we’ve got more.

Notepad

Use the notepad widget for things you need to remember or bring immediate visibility to, like a digital Post-It. 

You can share things here people on your team need to know—like weekly announcements, top priorities, or important reminders.

Linked resources

The quick links widget lets you gather all your essential resources—both inside and outside Planning Center—in one spot. This could include links to tools your church uses like Canva, QuickBooks, Google Drive, and social media accounts, and it can also be for things within your Planning Center account you need quickly and regularly: events, forms, curriculum, and lists. If it’s linkable, you can link to it on your dashboard.

A Notepad widget and Quick Links widget in Planning Center Home.

How to create a shareable dashboard

Here’s how to create a shareable dashboard in Planning Center Home.

  1. Create a new dashboard using the plus (“+”) symbol.
  2. Add the widgets that matter most to your ministry or project using the Add widget button.
  3. Add collaborates as views or editors.
A dashboard in Planning Center Home with three widget showing attendance, tasks, and first time visitors.

The cool part? Anyone who can log into Planning Center can be added as a dashboard collaborator—whether they volunteer as an usher, small group leader, or on the hospitality team.

Anytime you share a dashboard, your team members will know too. Recipients will get an email and a notification in their Planning Center inbox. And the next time they navigate to Home, they’ll see a new tab for your shared dashboard.

By having all of your high-level information and action items in a single place, your dashboard can become the starting place for your day-to-day ministry work. 

There’s more coming for shared dashboards—a lot more—that will change the way you collaborate with your teams and engage with data from across your ministries. 

Ready to create your first shared dashboard? Head to Planning Center Home now!