Planning Center

Planning Center is a set of online products for running a church. Churches can subscribe to individual tools or combine them on a shared database, with People acting as the core record of members.

What Planning Center offers

• Services: builds service plans, schedules volunteers and rehearsals, and lets teams annotate music.
• Check-Ins: registers children into classrooms securely.
• Resources: handles facility and room booking.
• Giving: takes donations online, with processing fees listed on the site.
• Church Center: a mobile app and web area where people view schedules, join groups, register for events and send prayer requests.

Who it works with

Churches of all kinds, from large congregations to new church plants. The company says more than 60,000 churches use it and that support replies within about an hour.

Key facts

• Structure: products can be used separately or together
• Support: help articles, training videos and email support inside every product
• Updates: product changes are published regularly on its blog