Planning Center
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Gloria K.
Verified UserNon-Profit Organization Management · 11-50 employees
Highly Recommend
Overall, a great experience and a perfect way to bring in programs for multiple ministry needs
Ability to choose products a la carte for your organizations personal needs and cost efficiency
- Would love to see more personal customization options
Steven G.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 2-10 employees
The Best All In One Church Software
We love it and use it for our service planning, church database, forms, giving, app, communication, sign-ups, and registrations.
The user interfaces for all of their apps are intuitive, and it makes managing and communicating with our members quick and easy
There are certain tasks in the services app that feel a little redundant, but fortunately, they have videos that walk you through them
Switched From
Ease of use and great scalability options.
Why they chose it
"Ease of use and scalability. All the different apps and features are easily scaled up."
Mitchell H.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 2-10 employees
Incredible Software to help Manage your team!
Verified reviewer
We love how easy it is to add people to the program, how intuitive it is to create services plans and items and adding people into various positions, and we love how you can upload the music and chord charts for each song so that volunteers can easily rehearse and practice on their own
- It is a little more on the expensive end of the market; however the features they include mostly off set this
- We also wish it could do more
Why they chose it
"Planning Center has much more features and much more integration options. Plus it is easier to use!"
sandra s.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 11-50 employees
rating of PC
overall it has been good. No major issues
- the wireless printing of the name tags/mobile check in
- probably tech support
- hard to get answer rt away
Switched From
uh servant keeper! lol so out of date.....
Why they chose it
"we use both. we kept PC for the kids check in bc of the ease"
Duane D.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 2-10 employees
Excellent Church Software
A wonderful cloud-based software that accurately keeps all records of our church membership. Our staff love it and use it regularly at church or on the go!
- Planning Center is a great resource for our church
- It is easy to use, has many great features, and is cloud based meaning it can be used anywhere
- The apps that accompany it are just as intuitive and user friendly
- Planning Center sometimes doesn’t recognize a name or email and will create a new profile
- We’ve had several duplicates - some are easy fixes and others are more complicated if they are using the giving feature
Switched From
The other software just wasn’t doing all we needed it to do
Hannah M.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 11-50 employees
The one-stop shop for church data management
I am very glad they decided to expand beyond programming management. The interface is very user-friendly (unlike almost any other data management for churches). It integrates with messaging apps and giving platforms as well
- I appreciate the wholistic nature of planning center’s capabilities
- It is a church data management software that does it all
- There are times when it feels like it’s doing too much, like it can’t keep up with the demands of certain capabilities
- Through the many functions, programs and people are my most used, but I have access to all of its functions
- Calendar is helpful but can get very jumbled when dealing with a large church and all of the events we have
Switched From
ACS was very outdated and retrieving any data for any useful purpose was very difficult
Travis S.
Verified UserNon-Profit Organization Management · 51-200 employees
All in One Place and it Works
Overall, I love working with the system, and anytime I have questions, I receive relevant and clear answers very quickly.
I like that we can have all event registrations, giving, and people database management in the same place
- For what I do, learning the best way to pull reports (Lists) was a little tricky
- To overcome this and other challenges when we made the full transition to PCO, we worked with a paid professional team to transfer and set us up
Switched From
Our version of Shelby was out of date and we needed a more flexible solution that would also work with our volunteer team management.
Kylee A.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 11-50 employees
A GREAT resource for small-medium sizes Churches
Overall it’s a helpful tool for our church with a lot of great features. It’s much more user friendly than other software’s we’ve tried. The database includes more profiles than we would like.
- I like how many features it has to be fully customizable for your church’s needs
- Every staff members can find it helpful in their area of ministry
It is difficult to keep the people database under control due to the automatic creation of profiles anytime anyone downloads the app, fills out a form, registers for an event, etc
Switched From
We switched from CCB (church community builder) to Planning Center because it’s more user friendly and provides more features
Jami B.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 11-50 employees
The switch was worth it
Their online university has helped our whole team stay informed and well educated about the capabilities and usefulness of these tools
- We switched to Planning Center from a similar product because of the intuitive ease of use and the availability of constant support
- We appreciate the value to help our church manage everything well
- There is one tiny feature that I can't edit (all forms require an email address) and that is the only, admittedly very tiny, thing
- Other than that our experience is stellar
Switched From
Frustration with the previous product and countless glowing reviews and recommendations for Planning Center
Crystal N.
Verified UserReligious Institutions · 2-10 employees
Planning Center is best Church Management Software
Has been extremely helpful in streamlining our systems and helped us become more efficient.
- Ability to integrate several modules together
- The services module is not very kids ministry friendly
Switched From
Needed integration and something that was church management friendly for our growing congregation.
Why they chose it
"Less expensive since we were a smaller church."
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