Posted by Planning Center on March 23rd by Aaron Steward When you need to prepare for church, you launch the Services mobile app and everything is right there. But you might want to keep tabs on some key tasks without needing to launch the app. With our new mobile widgets, schedulers can make sure everyone […]
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Planning Center Approvals | 121
Did you know that each campus has a room reservation calendar? The purpose of a room reservation is that it gives our campuses and teams a place to manage your rooms and resources. Who is using what room on what day. How many chairs and/or tables are needed in each room based on a specific […]
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Did you know that we have a tool available to us that will help schedule room and reserve resources at our campuses? You may already be familiar with Planning Center Services. Planning Center Services is the means by which we schedule our DreamTeam, our people. But, are you familiar with Planning Center Calendar? Planning Center Calendar is […]
Read MoreImporting and Exporting Plan Items | 110
Do you schedule a First Impressions team in Planning Center? Or maybe you work in the Arts and have recently started scheduling your campus in their own plan. Some teams across the church build one plan in Planning Center (a central plan) and schedule all DreamTeam members from all campuses on this one plan. CedarCreek […]
Read MoreChristmas Signup Sheets | 108
Have you started thinking about how you will staff your Christmas Schedules at your campus yet? This can be quite the task! Hopefully today, we can help offer you a way to create signup sheets for your DreamTeam. Wait… Did you just think of printed, paper sign up sheets… With printed sign up sheets, you […]
Read MoreNew Plan Page | 105
*Post from Planning Center* Dated: October 29th By: Aaron Stewart If you’ve been using Services since the beginning, learning one thing at a time and becoming an expert has been a snap. If you’ve just started using it 14 years in, then um…maybe not so much — there’s a lot there! But how do you […]
Read MoreNew Planning Center Plan Look | 096
New: The New Plans Page! [In Beta] Information Released on: August 3, 2020 by Planning Center We’ve been working for years towards a new and improved version of the main plan page, and it’s finally here! Only Administrators will get access to start, but over the next month or two, we’ll open it up to […]
Read MoreSetting Schedule Preferences for Teams | 085
Have you ever forgotten which service a person prefers to serve or how often they would like to serve? Maybe you want to send a message to only those on your 9:00 greeter team but were tired of selecting each individual person. You can do all of these things by setting team member preferences. Setting […]
Read MoreNew: Option to Not Auto-Create Needed Positions | 084
When a person declines or is removed from the schedule, you usually need someone else for that role, so Services creates a needed position to make it easier to fill that spot. But some teams are more open-ended, like a Choir. You schedule the whole team and if some people can’t make it, that’s fine, you don’t […]
Read MoreSchedule DreamTeam Gatherings | 077
Do you have an upcoming DreamTeam Gather or DreamTeam Leader Meeting? Have you wondered; ‘Whats the easiest way to schedule my entire team for one gathering’? Don’t worry! We have you covered! With our recent completion of Syncing our Rock DreamTeams and PCO Scheduling, you can schedule your DreamTeam Gatherings and Leader Meetings easily and […]
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