Setting up your Matrix | 215

The matrix lets you view many plans at once, so you can schedule many weeks at a time. Set it up so the plans you want to access show in the quick load, and you can also load and remove plans individually. If you have more than one window with the matrix open in your […]

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Let Volunteers Schedule Themselves | 209

Initially Posted by Planning Center on April 18th 2023 You can schedule your teams in different ways, but sometimes you may need your team members to schedule themselves. Where there’s a will, there’s a way! Enable the new Signup Sheets in Services, and allow your team members to add themselves to the schedule based on their availability. Now the […]

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Planning Center Replies To | 204

The Replies To person can receive notifications when team members accept or decline a position. You can update the Replies To person default for the team in the Team Settings or override the default for each individual person. The Replies To person should be someone who is in charge of rescheduling a position if it is declined. […]

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Planning Center People | 200

Planning Center Online (PCO) is a service that helps to manage teams of DreamTeam and especially the scheduling of those DreamTeam for specific weekend services. DreamTeam are always already in RockRMS. So why should you have to re-enter all their information in PCO when you already have it in Rock? And what do you do […]

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Planning Center Matrix | 198

Initially posted by Planning Center on January 24th 2023. When you plan and schedule church services, it can be helpful to focus on one week at a time. But more effective planning also includes zooming out and thinking about many weeks at a time. In Services, the Matrix empowers churches with that long-term view, showing […]

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Room Reservations Event Managers | 194

Originally posted on November 2nd by Planning Center You can now add Event Managers to events in Calendar! These are people who will have all of the same powers as the Event Owner once they’ve been selected which enables you to have more fine-grained control over who has authority and access to your events. To […]

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Rock and PCO Permissions | 181

You may wonder or need a quick reminder what type of permissions between Rock and Planning Center are automated.  Here is a really brief reminder of what those automatic permissions look like. Coordinators/Admin will receive “Scheduler” access in PCO This will be removed each June 1 (end of the school year) This will be added/updated […]

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Planning Center Two Factor Authentication | 182

Your church’s Planning Center account holds sensitive, important, and valuable information. Your congregation trusts you with their personal information. The most important thing you can do to protect this information is to take a moment and enable two-step verification for your Planning Center login. If your password or email account is ever compromised, this will […]

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Planning Center Music – Pencil Kit | 166

Posted by Planning Center on Feb 4th 2022 We may have snuck a little Music Stand update under your Christmas tree last year—did anyone find it? Whether you use an Apple Pencil to annotate your music sheets, or you draw everything by hand, you will now see a whole new set of drawing tools. You’ll […]

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Planning Center Room Approvals | 165

Calendar is where you can find all the answers to what events are happening when, where, and with what stuff. But there is one last question—who? Who is in charge of all the rooms and resources assigned to these events? Did you know that Calendar is also a great place to reserve things like: 15 […]

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