Planning Center

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Overview

About Planning Center

Planning Center’s the all-in-one church management software that helps churches help people. It gives leaders, teams, and congregants a single place to organize, connect, and get involved. No matter your size, Planning Center’s the easy-to-use platform for: Scheduling volunteers Accepting online donations Creating event signups Establishing safe and secure family check-ins And so much more! Find out all you can do from the freedom of a 30-day trial. No credit card needed! And, when you’re ready to upgrade, you only pay for what you need, when you need it, and cancel whenever you want.

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Planning Center Features

Features of Planning Center
Campaign Management
Contact Management
Email Marketing
Event Management
Gift Matching Management
Grant Management
Mobile Giving
Online Giving
Payment Processing
Pledge Management

Planning Center Integrations

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Customer Reviews

See why people love Planning Center

5 Star
70%
4 Star
20%
3 Star
10%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
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Gloria K.

Gloria K.

Verified User

Non-Profit Organization Management · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Highly Recommend

Overall, a great experience and a perfect way to bring in programs for multiple ministry needs

What they liked

Ability to choose products a la carte for your organizations personal needs and cost efficiency

Room for improvement
  • Would love to see more personal customization options

Steven G.

Verified User

Religious Institutions · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

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.

What they liked

The user interfaces for all of their apps are intuitive, and it makes managing and communicating with our members quick and easy

Room for improvement

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 User

Religious Institutions · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

Incredible Software to help Manage your team!

Verified reviewer

What they liked

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

Room for improvement
  • 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 User

Religious Institutions · 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

rating of PC

overall it has been good. No major issues

What they liked
  • the wireless printing of the name tags/mobile check in
Room for improvement
  • 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 User

Religious Institutions · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
Dec 22, 2025

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!

What they liked
  • 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
Room for improvement
  • 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 User

Religious Institutions · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

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

What they liked
  • I appreciate the wholistic nature of planning center’s capabilities
  • It is a church data management software that does it all
Room for improvement
  • 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 User

Non-Profit Organization Management · 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

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.

What they liked

I like that we can have all event registrations, giving, and people database management in the same place

Room for improvement
  • 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 User

Religious Institutions · 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

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.

What they liked
  • 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
Room for improvement

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 User

Religious Institutions · 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years
May 28, 2026

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

What they liked
  • 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
Room for improvement
  • 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 User

Religious Institutions · 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years
May 28, 2026

Planning Center is best Church Management Software

Has been extremely helpful in streamlining our systems and helped us become more efficient.

What they liked
  • Ability to integrate several modules together
Room for improvement
  • 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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