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Family Fun Week 2017
Every quarter, our remote employees fly in from all over the country to spend a week with the in-office employees. Read about this one's twist.

Automatically Open & Close Registrations
Schedule exactly when your event is open for registrations as well as when your event will no longer accept registrations.

Creating and Resolving Conflicts
With our new feature, Conflict Resolution, you'll now be able to request a room, even if it's already booked.

Workflows V2: Faster & Real-time
Workflows now syncs updates in real-time, equipping teams to work more efficiently and complete projects faster!

Send Text Messages with Clearstream
Our new friends at Clearstream have built a great tool for sending text messages to your church!

It's Grade Promotion Time!
Summer is officially here, and with school ending, VBS in full-swing and preparation for the fall beginning, your church might be ready to promote grades!

Giving Comes to Canada
O Canada! We are so excited today to bring Planning Center Giving to our northerly neighbors. As of today, Canadian churches are welcome to sign up.

Introducing: Registrations and Check-Ins Integration
We are excited to introduce our most highly requested integration — with Planning Center Registrations and Check-Ins.

Archiving Groups
Today, we released an important new feature in Planning Center Groups: the ability to archive groups when they're disbanded or no longer in session.

Better Background Checks
We've been busy listening to your feedback to make background checks better than ever.

Smarter, Faster Lists
Make your life easier with these new updates to lists, including better search capabilities and faster refreshing time.

Introducing Headcounts for Android and iOS
We're excited to announce a Headcounts app for Android and iOS with a few experiences built specifically for your church to help you record attendance.

Grade & Age Range Assignment Filters
Assign registrants now by grade or age range with this new update to Registrations.

Recurring Donation Forecasts
Giving now calculates basic forecasting numbers based on your active recurring donations. The forecast can also be broken down by fund.

New Household Scheduling Preferences
Set a preference for each family member for if they do or do not want to be scheduled when other family members are serving.

Easter Weekend at Planning Center
Our team has proactively planned so you have a smooth experience on Easter. Here’s a recap of some fun facts that happened over Easter Weekend.

Introducing Trusted People
Record who can check children in and who should not check them out the new features of Trusted People and Not Authorized for Pickup.

Secure Your Church with Background Checks
Increase your church's security with integrated background checks through our new friends, Checkr!

Pinned Assignments in Workflows
Here are a couple of new tools in workflows are going to make your life easier and help your ministry be more effective.

Email Formatting in Groups
Releasing a rich-text editor in Planning Center Groups! Now available to administrators on the admin side of Groups and group leaders on the Group pages.

Households, Activity Feeds, and Workflows come to People Mobile
Our team finished version 1.5 before I could even write the blog post for 1.4. So here's a double dose of updates for you!