Planning Center Services

Name: Planning Center Services
Rating: 3.7 (2188 reviews)
Author: Ministry Centered Technologies

Service Planning & Scheduling

Free

2.2K Ratings
Age Rating

13+
Years
Chart

#104
Business
Developer

Ministry Centered Technologies
Language

EN
English
Size

124.8
MB

You must already have an account at Planning Center to use this mobile app. The Planning Center Services app is the best way to access your Planning Center Services account on your iOS device. Planning Center Services is an online scheduling and worship planning application to keep your staff and volunteers connected. With our native app, you get an optimized Planning Center experience wherever you are. Manage your schedule, accept or decline scheduling requests, blockout dates, upload your user picture, and if you are a musician, use the media player or attachments section to access music for rehearsals. If you are responsible for scheduling volunteers or planning services, the app has features just for you! Add users to your schedule, check for conflicts, and email them at any time. Add items, songs, media or headers to your order of service and drag and drop them to reorder. Plus, the plan page and your schedule update in real time even without having to refresh! Have any questions? Use the app's built-in "Help" to email us details.

Ratings & Reviews

3.7

out of 5

2.2K Ratings

Please send notifications after plan is updated
11/17/2022
Scotchard
For the most part, PCO works really well. But for the love of everything decent and holy, PLEASE send a notification to all users on a plan when the plan is updated. Too often, keys get changed, arrangements are changed, and there is no way to know unless the person the changing notifies everyone themselves. It makes no sense why all users wouldn’t receive a little Notification saying what changed. I know it’s easy to say the person changing SHOULD send out an update. But people make mistakes and what’s the point of automating some simple tasks if we simply say that other simple tasks are human responsibilities.And while it’s easy to say you don’t do this because e-mails are easily over-looked, that’s kind of a cop-out since the notification could easily have a custom subject line that lets the user know an important change is made. If anything, you could prompt the admin or editor with a notification, “Would you like to notify your team?” after a change is made.

Developer Response
Thanks for sharing! At the moment, we aren't tracking each change made to a plan, which would potentially be in the millions. We also try very hard to limit the amount of automatic or manual emails people receive from Planning Center because the more emails people receive, the easier it is for them to overlook something important.So, for now, we've decided against creating a feature to automatically notify people of changes made to a plan they've been scheduled to. When you make a change you feel needs to be communicated to your team, click email these people on the plan to customize a message with more meaningful detail than an automatically generated email would allow. - Matt[UPDATE]Great suggestion! We'll keep that in mind as we continue making updates to the app.
Please send notifications after plan is updated
11/17/2022
Scotchard

For the most part, PCO works really well. But for the love of everything decent and holy, PLEASE send a notification to all users on a plan when the plan is updated. Too often, keys get changed, arrangements are changed, and there is no way to know unless the person the changing notifies everyone themselves. It makes no sense why all users wouldn’t receive a little Notification saying what changed. I know it’s easy to say the person changing SHOULD send out an update. But people make mistakes and what’s the point of automating some simple tasks if we simply say that other simple tasks are human responsibilities.And while it’s easy to say you don’t do this because e-mails are easily over-looked, that’s kind of a cop-out since the notification could easily have a custom subject line that lets the user know an important change is made. If anything, you could prompt the admin or editor with a notification, “Would you like to notify your team?” after a change is made.
Developer Response 11/18/2022
Thanks for sharing! At the moment, we aren't tracking each change made to a plan, which would potentially be in the millions. We also try very hard to limit the amount of automatic or manual emails people receive from Planning Center because the more emails people receive, the easier it is for them to overlook something important.So, for now, we've decided against creating a feature to automatically notify people of changes made to a plan they've been scheduled to. When you make a change you feel needs to be communicated to your team, click email these people on the plan to customize a message with more meaningful detail than an automatically generated email would allow. - Matt[UPDATE]Great suggestion! We'll keep that in mind as we continue making updates to the app.
Id give zero stars if I could
Apr 12
grim faide reper
Ok, I downloaded this app to help with my church and I open it to find I can’t create an account in app I HAVE to do it on the website so I do and no matter what I do, I CANNOT create a working account, none of them work! I’ve tried two different emails and neither worked! Then I went to the website to make an account and it worked so I open the app and it’s saying my account doesn’t exist! I try on another device with the app and again it doesn’t exist! I add my phone number to my account and still it won’t work! So I go ahead and make a new account with a different email and again not even that works! I try with three different devices this time! It just keeps saying the account does not exist! Then I try a website that I think ‘parents’ this apps website to supposedly make it work better and my account doesn’t exist on there so I decide to just make ANOTHER new account with one of my emails and I CANT CAUSE THE SIGN UP BUTTON TAKES ME TO A PURCHASING PAGE! I have to start a trial and later PAY MONEY to have an account CAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON YOUR WEBSITES! NONE! fix your broken website and don’t get me STARTED on the interface and accessibility, it was a NIGHTMARE to work with!

Developer Response
Hi there, sorry for the frustration! Planning Center works a little differently from most apps: accounts are tied to a church organization rather than created independently. If you're setting up Planning Center for your church, a free 30-day trial starts at planningcenter.com. If you're a church member looking to connect, your church's admin would need to add you first.This isn't a typical experience, and we'd love to help you get this sorted out. Please reach out to our support team at support@planningcenter.com, and we'll get you up and running quickly!
Id give zero stars if I could
Apr 12
grim faide reper

Ok, I downloaded this app to help with my church and I open it to find I can’t create an account in app I HAVE to do it on the website so I do and no matter what I do, I CANNOT create a working account, none of them work! I’ve tried two different emails and neither worked! Then I went to the website to make an account and it worked so I open the app and it’s saying my account doesn’t exist! I try on another device with the app and again it doesn’t exist! I add my phone number to my account and still it won’t work! So I go ahead and make a new account with a different email and again not even that works! I try with three different devices this time! It just keeps saying the account does not exist! Then I try a website that I think ‘parents’ this apps website to supposedly make it work better and my account doesn’t exist on there so I decide to just make ANOTHER new account with one of my emails and I CANT CAUSE THE SIGN UP BUTTON TAKES ME TO A PURCHASING PAGE! I have to start a trial and later PAY MONEY to have an account CAUSE THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON YOUR WEBSITES! NONE! fix your broken website and don’t get me STARTED on the interface and accessibility, it was a NIGHTMARE to work with!
Developer Response Apr 13
Hi there, sorry for the frustration! Planning Center works a little differently from most apps: accounts are tied to a church organization rather than created independently. If you're setting up Planning Center for your church, a free 30-day trial starts at planningcenter.com. If you're a church member looking to connect, your church's admin would need to add you first.This isn't a typical experience, and we'd love to help you get this sorted out. Please reach out to our support team at support@planningcenter.com, and we'll get you up and running quickly!
App good, but a few problems
07/14/2017
bfchris
The app works well, but the PCO system has a few problems, if you like more collaboration. The app has gained in features & abilities, and works well as designed. The Planning Center Online is set up with team leaders (e.g. a leader for musicians, a leader for audiovisual workers, etc.). When a team leader sends a notification or other communication, there is no way to reply within this app; I'm always looking for ways to keep communications organized, and email decluttered! I can't reply in this app, but must go to email. I'd love to have Ministry chats kept in this app. When a team leader seeks input from team members, that's not possible here; members are limited to Accepting assignments! If an unexpected event causes someone to need to cancel their prior acceptance of an assignment (PCO DOES allow that to be processed), there is no way to swap with someone else and have that swap show up in PCO. Support has recommended that we put the name of our substitute in the Reason for Declining field; the team leader will have to perform the actual swap, but that means Leader is aware of the swap.

Developer Response
Thanks for the honesty! Though, there seems to be a misunderstanding. Members can always reply back to the emails they receive, in order to communicate and work out any scheduling changes. Our heart behind every product we make is far from totalitarian. Swapping would require a member also have Scheduler permissions. Instead, try having members talk to each other and then put the person's name in the "Reason" field when they need to decline. The leader will see that and be able to make those changes quickly and easily. Of course, there's always room to grow, and you seem to have some ideas! We'd love for you to share them with us, by emailing support@planning.center (or use "Help" to send a request right from within the app).
App good, but a few problems
07/14/2017
bfchris

The app works well, but the PCO system has a few problems, if you like more collaboration. The app has gained in features & abilities, and works well as designed. The Planning Center Online is set up with team leaders (e.g. a leader for musicians, a leader for audiovisual workers, etc.). When a team leader sends a notification or other communication, there is no way to reply within this app; I'm always looking for ways to keep communications organized, and email decluttered! I can't reply in this app, but must go to email. I'd love to have Ministry chats kept in this app. When a team leader seeks input from team members, that's not possible here; members are limited to Accepting assignments! If an unexpected event causes someone to need to cancel their prior acceptance of an assignment (PCO DOES allow that to be processed), there is no way to swap with someone else and have that swap show up in PCO. Support has recommended that we put the name of our substitute in the Reason for Declining field; the team leader will have to perform the actual swap, but that means Leader is aware of the swap.
Developer Response 07/11/2017
Thanks for the honesty! Though, there seems to be a misunderstanding. Members can always reply back to the emails they receive, in order to communicate and work out any scheduling changes. Our heart behind every product we make is far from totalitarian. Swapping would require a member also have Scheduler permissions. Instead, try having members talk to each other and then put the person's name in the "Reason" field when they need to decline. The leader will see that and be able to make those changes quickly and easily. Of course, there's always room to grow, and you seem to have some ideas! We'd love for you to share them with us, by emailing support@planning.center (or use "Help" to send a request right from within the app).
Amazing, but....
10/26/2017
niemann4210
Hey PCO. I love Planning Center and I love your app. Super intuitive and practical!! I use it almost as much as I use PCO on my computer. But I’ve been having a couple of problems lately. When I create a new person on the app and put their info in, it doesn’t save the info. I know this because after I create a new person and schedule them for an audition, I ask them to check their email for a PCO invite and they never get it until I redo creating them on the full-site version. Also, sometimes it crashes and it seems to always be at the worst time. I lead worship for The Point Church out the Raleigh area of NC. One thing we are asked to do is to be praying about things to say at certain points in the service. God will give me things to say at odd times and when I receive them, I like to write them in my notes on PCO immediately. I was doing that tonight and was almost done when the app crashed. This wasn’t the first time this happened, but tonight it was extremely frustrating.
Amazing, but....
10/26/2017
niemann4210

Hey PCO. I love Planning Center and I love your app. Super intuitive and practical!! I use it almost as much as I use PCO on my computer. But I’ve been having a couple of problems lately. When I create a new person on the app and put their info in, it doesn’t save the info. I know this because after I create a new person and schedule them for an audition, I ask them to check their email for a PCO invite and they never get it until I redo creating them on the full-site version. Also, sometimes it crashes and it seems to always be at the worst time. I lead worship for The Point Church out the Raleigh area of NC. One thing we are asked to do is to be praying about things to say at certain points in the service. God will give me things to say at odd times and when I receive them, I like to write them in my notes on PCO immediately. I was doing that tonight and was almost done when the app crashed. This wasn’t the first time this happened, but tonight it was extremely frustrating.

New - Account Settings: You can now manage your account settings right from the app. No more bouncing over to a browser to get it done. Improved - Fresh App Icon: Your app icon got a little shine to match Apple's new Liquid Glass look. - Interface Polish: Cleaned up filter chips, icons, colors, and spacing in a bunch of small spots across the app. Nothing dramatic, just tidier. Fixed - Teams Tab on iPad: Scheduled Viewers can now see the Teams tab and use Split View on their scheduled plans. It was only working on iPhone before. Reined in. - Team Options Menu: Tapping the team options menu now actually opens it. No more holding it down like you're waiting for a jump scare. - Chat Video and Keyboard Hiccups: Videos no longer restart themselves after you've already watched or closed them, and the keyboard behaves when it loses focus in chat.

Version 6.11.2 Sep 21

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Seller: Ministry Centered Technologies
Size: 124.8 MB
Category: Business
Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.0 or later.

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Languages: English
Age Rating: 13+

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