Planning Center Erfahrungen

Highly Recommend

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

Vorteile:

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

Nachteile:

Would love to see more personal customization options

Planning Center Review

Vorteile:

The volunteer and crew scheduling piece is great! I also really like creating run of shows or order of service on planning center.

Nachteile:

It’s great for crew management and run of show building but now so much client management.

Expensive and limited

Kommentare: It worked for a little while but was just too expensive and limited in its functionality for what we needed.

Vorteile:

It was simple to use, and the free option made it nice to try it out before committing to a subscription.

Nachteile:

The price was too high for the limited functionality of what they were offering.

The Gold Standard of Service Planning

Kommentare: This is the gold standard of all service planning softwares. No other software holds a light to planning center in this regard.

Vorteile:

The Service Planning function of PCO is incredible and so user-friendly. The functionalities and features of songs and teams and filters and types of services are all helpful to faithfully and effectively plan services.

Nachteile:

I have no qualms with Planning Center and am hard-pressed to think of something negative. It really is so great!!

One-Stop-Shop for Church Management

Kommentare: Our church has used a few different church management tools, and I feel none (at least at the time we had them) have been as comprehensive or easy to use as Planning Center. It is a powerful tool that helps us manage everything we do at our church.

Vorteile:

I love how everything works together, and how all the modules are connected by the people module. I also love the "Church Center" Hub, with everything in one place.

Nachteile:

It's not cheap, but I think you definitely get what you pay for.

great for non-profit use!

Vorteile:

Planning center is very user friendly. Even if you don't have any experience with building sign ups it takes a minimal amount of time to learn. The products are low maintenance and it's a great way to track volunteers for a non-profit.

Nachteile:

Pulling people off waitlists is a little tedious, but otherwise, we really love this product.

Planning Center Online is a must.

Kommentare: Great. Absolutely great. They have wonderful customer service as well.

Vorteile:

It literally is the backbone of our church planning. You can just about manage everything with it. Literally.

Nachteile:

Previously there were some gaps in workflow automations but they are heavily investing in this and coming up with things I didn’t even know I needed.

Planning Center: A Must do for Any Ministry

Kommentare: My experience with Planning Center has always been good. The Services platform is amazing and I love using it to plan worship and create service orders. Their customer service reps are always so nice. There was even a time of financial struggle in one of the churches. I reduced our system down to the free level and the reps were so nice and even credited back money we had prepaid. Planning Center is customizable, affordable, and a great resource for any ministry, church or nonprofit.

Vorteile:

I love Planning Center. I have worked in several churches and have started planning center from the ground up on several occasions. Every feature is very intuitive. It was so easy to learn and set-up. I have been an administrator as well and love the ability to view what others in the system do. It is great at sending email reminders. There are so many features you can customize for your own ministry situation. It transposes chord charts for you. What I am describing is just Planning Center's Services platform because I am the most familiar with that part. There other applications are useful and helpful as well.

Nachteile:

It is truly had to think of a con. The smallest complaint I have is minor. I download the chord charts I make in Planning Center chord chart maker as pdfs. When I have gone to a new system, I can only upload the pdf...I cannot change the song's key or arrangement in the chord chart maker as I could before in the prior system. But again, that's minor.

Church Service Planning

Vorteile:

I have been using Planning Center for many years now and I have enjoyed using it. It is easy to use, and I get all information needed for when I am scheduled to serve in worship.

Nachteile:

In the past I had issues with blocking my schedule but it's been fixed since then

Simple and intuitive

Kommentare: I am mainly an administrator for the People module and an end user as a group leader.

Vorteile:

I have worked with a church management system that was very complex, so it's been nice to work with something more intuitive and simple for the staff to use.

Nachteile:

It appears an integration with our donation platform is not available, so we may have to switch providers.

Exactly what we needed to take our organization to the next level

Kommentare: Planning Center has been a dream for our church. Before we made the move we had a different system for everything and none of them talked to each other in any way. We were scheduling 200+ volunteers 8 weeks out in an Excel spreadsheet. Our previous database software did almost nothing useful and we avoided even using it. Now with Planning Center we're more organized, automated, and streamlined than ever. I know we're not yet using it to it's full potential, there's so much more we can do still and we're excited to see how Planning Center will continue to change, grow, and get better.

Vorteile:

Planning Center apps more than make up for their cost by the time, headache, and agony they save us. They are well designed and regularly adding new features. Planning Center listens to user feedback and is very friendly. They want to see churches empowered and so they listen to users for direction as they're implementing new features. Their help docs are great. The apps themselves are powerful. They may not always do what you want in the way you want it, but there's always a way to get it done. The integrations – Lists, Automations, Workflows, Forms – transform People from a database app into a powerhouse of tracking and automation.

Nachteile:

Some more complicated tasks are not alway simple for PC novices to figure out; they do require some problem solving and hoop-jumping at times but it's still better than going without. Better training docs for getting users or volunteers up to speed for the first time are currently missing. I find myself having to create these based on existing help docs and my own material.

Best service planning software around

Kommentare: Around Services and Check ins, Planning Center has been exceptional with customer service and helping us sort through issues. Their tutorial videos are also great. We didn't have great luck with customer service around the financial module, hence the choice to go another direction with our overall database while continuing to use Services.

Vorteile:

Planning Center Services automates really helpful admin and communication work and allows teams to learn and grow with all of the resources they need. From an administrator's perspective, the ability to schedule and view services in matrix mod and keep track of multiple teams of volunteers with various limitations and requests using the preferences and blackouts is easily worth the monthly cost. Services is the backbone of planning center, and there's good reason that it's the standard in mid-sized and larger churches. The interface is intuitive and easy for volunteer users to figure out, and they do a great job of continuing to innovate features and usability.

Nachteile:

While the other modules across planning center have great integration, our church found that the finances side lacked necessary features, meaning we are now running a separate database/CRM while still running planning center services. We wanted to be able to add financial information (givings) into the database without the person entering the data seeing previous data - essentially the ability to enter data blindly. I suspect many other churches are running different databases as well as planning center services, and the multi-system approach isn't ideal, so it would be nice to have a more responsive development team as planning center's interface is generally well built and user friendly.

Great software for church

Vorteile:

I think it's most amazing to make church-related work easy because all the functions are gathered in one place. I'm satisfied with being able to communicate with the songs and lyrics, all the other volunteers, and plan church-related work without difficulty. Also, I was able to easily manage the relevant information of the people.

Nachteile:

There is no cons, everything is good so far.

Saves so much time!

Kommentare: I love this app and will continue to keep using it to its fullest potential. It makes our life at our church so much better using this!

Vorteile:

We utilize the services app for managing peoples schedules and Sunday morning flow of service. It makes it a breeze and is such a huge help with saving time for scheduling and also planning ahead to know how to properly plan!

Nachteile:

I love everything about planning center. It was such a breeze setting up all of the volunteers at our church. And now they love using the app as well!

User Friendly

Vorteile:

I love how easy it is to access and customize events, registrations, payments, etc. Easy tracking and management. Can sort the registration lists a variety of ways. Can add manual payments and registrations. Can access people information, household information, attendance records, etc. Love it!

Nachteile:

I guess what I like least, is the fact that payments towards an account are split equally for registrants in the same household. Our situation with fundraising is that sometimes one registrant in the household partakes in a fundraiser, while another does not. When I post a manual payment, it posts to the household total due instead of just one registrant or the other. We also sometimes have donations come in for one registrant or the other and I would like to be able to post it to just one of their accounts instead of both.

Great Product

Kommentare: Overall, I’ve been very happy with planning center especially when it comes to reporting for CCLI!

Vorteile:

I like how easy it is to set up music for each service!

Nachteile:

I don’t like that I have to pay more to have 2 services set up.

Good app and cool features

Vorteile:

I like how audio can be uploaded and played on the app. Even downloaded. I could listen to songs so I know how to plan using the cameras.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it was hard to find specific things but that could depend on the admins and where they put it and label it

Use it all the time!

Vorteile:

I love using Planning center for weekly lessons and materials in kids ministry. I also enjoy being able to access music charts for worship.

Nachteile:

It has been difficult managing multiple profiles with different churches and deleting an "old" or unused account from my profile is not easy.

Great Product

Vorteile:

Ease of use for all the applications and all the functionality.

Nachteile:

Getting phone support quicker however they still have great support via email and phone support if you wait.

Planning Center Will Power You to Victory

Kommentare: It's been great overall.

Vorteile:

I have used Planning Center in the past with my church. It's been a helpful database useful with church information. It's helped me do my job more effectively as a church staff member. I would recommend it.

Nachteile:

Some of the features may be daunting at first if you're not familiar with it. It may take some time to get used to it.

Planning Center is great

Kommentare: Overall, Planning Center is a great and easy software to use.

Vorteile:

One thing I like is how easy it is to donate and use overall.

Nachteile:

I don't have anything I don't like about Planning Center.

upwork

Vorteile:

I frequently used Capterra as a platform to help me choose which software to buy. The platform itself is simple to use, and the sign-up process is straightforward. They do offer a good incentive program whereby they give gift cards to reviewers for each review that is accepted.

Our Virtual Assistant

Kommentare: Our team has come to a place of embracing this product and using it well for planning worship events. Early on, it was a bit of a learning curve. Having been use to software having phone support with programs. Over all, this product has become a virtual part of our team. We like the ability to update it on the fly, even in the middle of an event. We have also used the "groups" portion of the app, but not a lot. Our next adventure with this product is to be implementing the "check-in" portion of the app. The PlanningCenter portion is great for setting up teams to serve and for bringing our sheet music library into the 'plan.'

Vorteile:

This app/program has become a great aid in planning worship services and events for our Sunday Services and other events. It helps us get all of our information into one spot. Secondly, in planning our worship services and other events, it has become a template that leads us to our 'finished product,' a well planned and detailed event.

Nachteile:

All support is done through tutorials and through email contacts. There is no phone support, at least that I have found.

A game-changer for any church to spice up their worship planning!

Kommentare: Overall, Planning Center has been a game changer for our church. It has allowed us to be more prepared, planned and efficient when practicing and performing our worship services. There are a lot of features that we don't use simply because we are a small church but there are a lot of features.

Vorteile:

The music database has never not had a song we were performing. If it ever doesn't, not worries because you can add custom songs and lyrics that are automatically converted to a viewable PDF. The worship planning feature is pretty great as well. I love the drag and drop arrangement. I also love how you can add times to each song and item so you can estimate a total duration of your set. The member planning is pretty great as well. I love that you can see in real time which members invited have accepted, declined or have not responded to invitations. You can also add audio files (pads, backing tracks) that you can play on the child application Worship Stand.

Nachteile:

The learning curve for this software is pretty high. After a year of using it, I still find it difficult to add songs on the iPad version. I also find that the program crashes frequently when trying to add music. Battery optimization could be worked on as well as it drains battery pretty quickly.

Customizable packages - value for money

Kommentare: Overall this is a great program, a great way to keep everything in one place and keep all databases accurate. It helps keep our small groups organized, our calendar organized, and is great for registrations.We track giving and use it for receipts and it has worked nicely for that as well, and takes into account CDN giving rules/laws.

Vorteile:

I love that you can customize which modules you need. You can try a module for 30 days, you don't pay for large usage unless you need it. They give a grace period, where you can get the small package but if you use it more for one month, you don't have to upgrade. It keeps donor management and people database in the same place, so if someone changes their address, it is changed across all modules.

Nachteile:

Reports seem to be difficult to generate accurate results. For example, if you want to generate a report that includes everyone who gave any amount in the past year and attended an event or volunteered. We have tried this report and didn't get back proper results when run by someone other than the giving users. They don't need to know specifics on giving but should be able to add that as a criteria. Also, if someone accidentally deletes a user then there is no way to get them back even if they had giving. There should be a safeguard in place so that only giving users can delete a profile that has giving.I don't like that you cannot use VISA/MC debit for paying,