[Planning Center Update] A Busy Month
Hello Everyone,
Wow, last month was a long month!! Shannon and I had our 4th wedding anniversary, my daughter had her 1st birthday and this was my first year doing taxes for myself and my business, what a learning experience. And through all of that I have been able to get a lot of great features into this new version of Planning Center!!! And with no further ado here they are:
Plans
- Ministry Positions allow you to add a position to your plan without knowing who is going to fill it, and then easily find a person for that position based on your custom properties. This, combined with templates, will be a powerful feature which we plan on adding a lot more to in the next update.
- Download All PDFs is a link at the top of each plan that combines all PDF’s attached anywhere in your plan into one single PDF
- New song selection dialog when adding a song to a plan that allows you to filter using your custom properties
- When adding a song to a plan, it remember the notes from the last time you used that song
Ministries
- People & Song reports allow you to see when you used a song or person for a particular ministry
- Ministries can now have attachments
Songs
- Chord Charts now allow for different font sizes and the interface changes based on which font you select
- You can now hide any songs you don’t want to see in your song list but need to keep for archival purposes.
People
- All sent e-mails are tracked so you can see who received which e-mail.
- You can now see & modify blocked-out dates from each person’s page
- You can now attach files to people
- CHANGE: Scheduled viewers can no longer view personal information of others in the plan
- CHANGE: Scheduled viewers can no longer see services that they have been scheduled for but the notification has not been sent
Miscellaneous
- New features tour
- Miscellaneous bug fixes & interface clean-up
Well with this release out of the way I am already working on the next release which promises to have some pretty cool features in it. I am also going to start gearing up for all of the Worship Conferences this Summer & Fall. So, if you know of any conferences that would be good for me to exhibit Planning Center at, please shoot me an e-mail or leave a comment. I am also trying to come up with some cool swag to give away so please let me know if you have any ideas for those also.
Thanks,
Jeff Berg
Owner/Developer
Ministry Centered Technologies
Zachary Malito said,
April 12, 2007 @ 6:51 am
Hey Jeff,
My name is Zach and I work at Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado. I am on a team that works on service planning and creative elements for services. I cannot tell you how much we love this program. We have been using it for quite a few months and I don’t know how we lived without it! Thanks for everything!
Greg Davis said,
April 12, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
Jeff -
Once again great job! I speak for many at Brandywine Valley Baptist Church when I say you have made our planning, scheduling and preparation activities much easier! Thank you from all of us!
Greg
Elliott Moon said,
April 15, 2007 @ 5:18 pm
Yes Yes Yes!!! Really great advances on the site!! Thank you for working, and thinking so strategically!
Rob Wren said,
April 18, 2007 @ 11:55 am
Hello! I’ve been using PCO since November, first as a free trial and currently the lite. I absolutely love it! As a worship leader it is a necessary resource for me. My only desire would be to see a plan between the $9.00 and the 29.95 one. I’ve just a couple of people from maxing out my people list.
Again, Thanks. By the way, will you be at the worshipleader national conference in Austin, Tx on July 23-26 by chance?
Kevin said,
April 19, 2007 @ 1:20 pm
My team really loves the website. It’s saving the church a lot of paper and helping the team become more responsible in keeping up with their own charts!
I always go to J&J Music’s Worship Conference in the Smokies (held in July). It would be a great place to share your ministry. Let me know if I can help!
Also, it would be nice if I could have a page that listed all of the attachments I’ve uploaded (administrator only). That would make it easier to clean up storage space.
jeff said,
April 19, 2007 @ 1:29 pm
Hey Rob & Kevin,
Thanks for the compliments and suggestions. I will definitely put them on the list.
And actually I can solve one…there is a “secret” plan called Lite Plus which is basically the lite plan + 15 people and is $14/mo. To upgrade login as the account owner and go to https://www.planningcenteronline.com/account/change_plan/lite_plus.
Thanks!
Jeff Berg
Owner/Developer
Ministry Centered Technologies
Bob Wooley said,
May 19, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
HEY!
I’m a volunteer in a church band and my church uses this software.
Where do I go to get to the bottom of who started this and where, etc.?
I’m not trying to be rude but I’m jiust not that knowledgeable in computer ethics. I trust The Lord will guide me, and maybe He will have you respond.
I’m embarassed to appear so ignorant, but together we could fix that quickly.
All the best.
In Christ,
Bob Wooley