Planning Center is a church management software that allows users to streamline their various ministry activities. It enables them to keep a member database, conduct activity check-ins, and manage member givings. In this article, we cover user reviews and pricing. Ready to try Planning Center? Get a free trial.
What Planning Center Does Well
Users who gave Planning Center a positive review said that it is a great service planning platform with an excellent volunteer management functionality that simplifies the process of scheduling. They also mentioned that it is easy to use and is innovative and that it has a great user interface and a responsive support team.
“Planning Center has a great user interface. The media player is equally well-designed too. Overall the organization of the data, scheduling, and files is very efficient and easy to process at a glance but also has great in-depth features, like accessing PDF uploads, blocking out dates on your calendar, and new features of managing people and workflows, complete with charts and metrics.”
– John Packer
What Planning Center Does Not Do Well
Users who gave Planning Center a negative review said that the software is a little clunky and has a steep pricing scheme. They also mentioned that the program is hard to use and is sometimes buggy.
One user who gave Planning Center a negative review on Capterra said that the program is very difficult and confusing to use. He mentioned that they have been using Planning Center for years but are still having trouble using a lot of its features.
Planning Center Pricing
Planning Center has a free plan and three paid subscription options: Small Church (starting at $70/month), Medium Church (starting at $234/month), and Large Church (starting at $654/month). However, each plan is flexible, so users may opt to add or remove certain features to better fit their church’s needs, which may increase or decrease the total monthly price.
| Plans | ($/Month) |
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| Free Plan | |
| Small Church | |
| Medium Church | |
| Large Church |
*The prices listed above are set by default based on the suggested number of daily check-ins, donations, members, attendees, rooms, and team members.
All plans initially include the following add-ons: People, Check-ins, Giving, Groups, Registrations, Resources, and Services. All of the plans are free for the first 30 days of use.
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Planning Center Features
Check out the list below of some of Planning Center’s features:
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Planning Center FAQ
Does Planning Center provide training and support?
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Do users need to install additional software on a device to use Planning Center?
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Popular Integrations
Here is a list of some of Planning Center’s popular integrations:
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Planning Center Alternatives
Not sure if Planning Center is the right fit for you? Read our reviews of all top church management software providers or check out one of these three Planning Center competitors.
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Robin Rojas Duno
Review SourceOrganic
I love that I can add people to see the same events throughout the company; In addition, you can share songs, media, services, etc. It is really useful that there is so much flexibility and versatility to make each service yours with holders of elements, notes, adding means, songs, times and the duration of each element. It is very useful and easy to use!
The appearance of the template was a bit confusing / difficult to use. If you upload that template you stay with it. Also, when I’m looking for someone, sometimes it was complicated because if you did not have the correct box checked, it would not work.
That some of the automatically generated emails can be confusing to users.
Brett Coates
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Review SourceOrganic
Planning Center is innovative and responsive to customer demands. They are leading in creating products and software that churches actually use! Most used by our team is the Services app. But we ended up switching everything from resources, money, and people over to PC.
The only snag we have encountered with Planning Center is as we are entering a fund raising campaign, we have yet to discover a way to track “pledges.” Their might be a way, however, we haven’t found it yet.
We switched from what became a bloated CCB cost with many functions we never used and never looked back. We are thankful for Planning Center and all that they provide for CRM needs. If you are looking to switch, don’t hesitate. You will be thankful you did.
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Brandon Hibbard
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Review SourceOrganic
Quite simply, the best “service” planning platform I’ve encountered and now they’ve added an excellent volunteer management function.
I’ve never encountered a problem with Planning Center.
Planning Center is the standard in the church world and I hope more organizations outside the church world begin to utilize it as well.
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Jared Sartin
Review SourceOrganic
Planning center does it all. While we mostly use it for team scheduling and service outlines, they do have presentation tools as well – which integrate with the service outlines. It has been a real life saver to use the web and mobile apps, making sure the band has all the right chords, charts and more. It also is just an easy to use scheduler!
The Mobile UI is a bit hard to navigate on a phone. There is no easy way to look at weeks that you are not scheduled on without a few little workarounds.
I wish I knew about the presentation software before purchasing a new presentation package. I am sure I still would have gone with my choice, but it would have been a great improvement over our old software.
Review SourceOrganic
Andrea Brown
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Easily gets music and files in a secure way to the teams.
I haven’t experienced a down side.
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