Product Updates
New for You in Planning Center April 2025
Get an overview of what's new in Planning Center this spring, and find ways to streamline your workflow!
Shared dashboards: A new way to collaborate in Planning Center
Create additional dashboards to share with other team members and launch projects, events, and ministries, or highlight metrics!
New in Services: Limit song access with new permissions
Set file, song, and media access apart from plan permissions—protecting worship-only content while still empowering other ministries.
Text In Church messaging: Now in Planning Center
Send personalized texts right from within Planning Center using your Text In Church account.
Expand your care through confidential member groups
Support people who need privacy during their healing journey by keeping their personal information hidden from others.
5 new features you may have missed in People
Learn how you can keep your data more secure, communications easy, and day-to-day ministry work flowing smoothly.
Organize your children’s classrooms based on milestones
Organize children into classrooms based on their unique needs and developmental milestones!
Centralize your event details in Calendar
See important event details across other Planning Center products in each Calendar event!
Your year in Planning Center
Get an overview of what's new in Planning Center this winter, and find ways to streamline your workflow!
Tell a better ministry story with new statement cover letter formatting
Use new formatting options for your statement cover letters to connect more meaningfully with your generous donors!
Welcome more people, more easily: Introducing guest access in Church Center
Visitors and newcomers can easily browse what’s happening at your church without logging into Church Center!
Beta launch: Announcing sermon notes in Planning Center
Create sermon note outlines for your congregation to easily follow along with!
New in People: Less spam, cleaner profiles, better permissions and more
TEN improvements to People, because an up-to-date database is not about keeping things clean but about making sure your people don't fall through the cracks.
Customize emails using your church name
Send emails directly from your church’s name and email address—no more confusion about who’s sending what!
Church Center precheck for families: always safe, now faster
Skip the line and save time with Church Center precheck for families! Households can avoid the hustle and bustle of check-in by using precheck before they arrive and then scan their kids in when they get there.
Start your day right with daily task reminders
Cut through the noise and focus on the work that truly matters with daily task reminders!
New for You in Planning Center September 2024
Get an overview of what's new in Planning Center this fall, and find ways to streamline your workflow!
Make task lists in Calendar to track event details
Connect a task list to a Calendar event so you can easily keep track of your event tasks and ensure that no details are lost!
Track nondeductible donations in Giving
You can now track two common types of nondeductible donations in Giving: qualified charitable distributions and donor-advised funds!
Auto-reschedule declined volunteer requests in Services
Schedule new volunteers automatically when someone declines a volunteer request!
Give volunteers access to workflow cards
Get admin help by giving volunteers access to view and edit workflow cards assigned to them!