Product Updates
Send Text Messages with Clearstream
Our new friends at Clearstream have built a great tool for sending text messages to your church!
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.
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.
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!
Apple Pay for Giving
Planning Center Giving customers can now enable Apple Pay for their donors. It's a simple, fun, secure way to give using iPhone, iPad, and Safari.
Detailed Stripe Transfers in Giving
Get the complete picture of what's happening when money gets deposited from Stripe and track donations all the way through until they're deposited.
Printable Views in Giving
Today, you'll find that Planning Center Giving plays a little nicer with your old friend: the printer.
One-click Calendar Subscriptions
Today we have a small update to the calendar subscription options for Planning Center Groups.
New in Accounts: Administrators
This new screen answers the question: who has access to our Planning Center?
Emails, Workflow Improvements, and More!
See a handful of handy updates as we kick off a happy new year, with even more to come.
Very Merry Media Updates
For Christmas you're getting new media pages, a new media player with playlist support, and a surprise stocking stuffer your budget might be excited about.