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Attach People Forms to Registrations Events
The Forms feature in the People app is a simple way to collect information, and now you can connect a People form to an event in Registrations!

Announcing Family Pre-Check
There is a new way for you to speed up your lines, even more than you already are with Check-Ins: family pre-check through the Church Center app.

Discontinuing Support for Internet Explorer
Five months from now Planning Center will discontinue support for the Internet Explorer browser across all of our applications.

New Admin Permissions in Forms
We’ve added two new ways for you to give people on your team access to Forms without giving them higher permissions in People than they need.

Direct Printing for Check-Ins
To decrease our reliance on external printer software and increase the reliability of printing, we are working on a new feature called direct printing!

Share Links as Resources
In addition to uploading pdfs or documents, Group Leaders can now share links to resources with their group members from the Resources tab in Groups.

Joint Donor Statements
You can now issue joint donor statements! Just identify which donors give together and issue statements as usual—we will take care of the rest.

The New My Schedule Tab & Household Scheduling
Volunteers can now view and manage the schedule of their households by responding to requests and adding shared blockout dates from the new My Schedule tab.

See the New Signup Experience
We brought the beauty and simplicity of your congregation's signup experience on the Church Center app to their Registrations experience on the web.

Announcing the Church Center App
Introducing Church Center, our free mobile app your congregation can use to connect with the life of your church by getting involved!

Automations in Forms
All of the actions you already use as Bulk Actions or List Automations are now available in Forms, including a new automation to send an email.

Planning Center Fall Update 2018
Over the last few months we released brand new features across all of our apps—watch our Fall Product Update to learn all about these exciting changes!

New Profile Avatar Editor
With the new avatar uploader and editor, you can crop any selfie, groupie, school portrait, or awkward family photo to look exactly how you want it.

Updates to Event Reminders
We released four updates to the event reminder feature in Groups to help group leaders improve and customize their communication with members.

Remodeling Resources: Tags and Calendar
We released two new features designed to make it easy for your staff to organize and find event details in Resources—Tags and a new Calendar.

Edit Chord Charts with Music Stand 4.2
Edit lyrics and chord charts created in Planning Center Services, or create new ones from scratch, with Music Stand for iOS and Android, version 4.2.

Mass Emailing in Workflows
You can follow up with people more efficiently by sending emails to multiple people at once from within your workflows in Planning Center People.

New Totals Sidebar for Registrations
Calculating the totals of registrations costs can be perplexing and time-consuming, so we are going to do the math for you in the new totals sidebar.

More Reliable Integrations with API Updates
Our goal is to continually improve our API (Application Programming Interface) so outside developers can build their features off of current code easily.

Share Public Pages with QR Codes
Link-sharing is not always the best way for some churches to share public forms, events, or fund pages. So we created an alternative option— QR codes!

Share Public Pages with QR Codes
Link-sharing might not be the best way for some churches to share public pages, so we created an alternative:QR codes!