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Planning Center

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 31 - Reviews of Planning Center

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Ashley D.  
Office Administrator  
  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Love options just not crashes!"

December 5, 2018

3.0

Pros

Love all the options with Planning Center. So detailed and able to add so many things to the service and save for the next week.

Cons

We started having so many crashes with the program we finally had to change to something else after using for years. Customer support was helpful with some of the issues but when it is happening the middle of the service we felt we couldn't rely on the product any longer.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Worship Musician  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "An Amazing Tool for Leveling Up Worship Scheduling and Worship Service Management"

August 31, 2019

5.0

Planning Center is terrific. Moving from a system of calendars and spreadsheets to Planning Center meant an enormous boost in how easily and flexibly we can schedule, plan, and practice for worship services. It's a terrific tool.

Pros

I love how easy it is to block out dates, and know they'll be blocked out. Similarly, I love how easy it is to view the entire order of service, and to access arrangements of songs directly from the order of service.

Cons

My complaint is very role-specific. As a worship musician, I occasionally need to move from arrangement PDFs to MP3s to YouTube videos quickly to compare parts. It's impossible to start and stop audio while viewing the PDF, and moving from song to song can be a little cumbersome.

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CB

Callie B.  
Co-op Administrator  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Planning Center for Church use"

June 12, 2019

4.0

I have used it in a church setting for a variety of different ministry uses.

Pros

I like the ease of using planning center for bringing together all of the different parts of church ministry into one. You need to check in kids to Sunday school? Planning center! You need to send out mailers to all of the parishioners? Planning center! You need to set availability for volunteers? Planning center! You need to collect money and sign ups for a men’s retreat? Planning center!

Cons

The user interface can be difficult for older adults to get used to (as with any technology-based product)

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Jessica M.  
Founder, Co Owner, & Designer  
Design  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Planning Center allows me to see everything I need to do at church."

April 12, 2019

5.0

Pros

I LOVE this app. It has all our choir music, playlists, set lists, schedule, and all the resources for us as the worship department to be able to function. It also has the order of Sunday morning services so we can all see what the order is ahead of time. Fantastic!

Cons

So far I haven't seen anything I don't like about this app.

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BL

Brittany L.  
Kids church director  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Best for smaller churches"

October 20, 2019

5.0

We use planning center for data management, church tracker and volunteer scheduling. The weekly emails and allowing our volunteers to choose what dates are best for them has solved a lot of issues.

Pros

Throughout my almost 10 years using different softwares for data management and scheduling, I have found that Planning Center is the easiest to use. It is especially better than others for smaller churches. The tiered prices based on size makes it easy to afford for what your church needs.

Cons

I haven't found anything that I have not liked so far. I am still learning the ins and outs but so far so good.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Assistant Machine Operator  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Makes My Serving Schedule at Church Fun and Easy!"

August 25, 2019

5.0

Makes scheduling serving at church fun and easy!

Pros

It's easy to use... whether it's the website or the app, it's pretty simple to use. The app for iPhone is great! You can even set block out dates for when you're on vacation using the app. There is also an option to decline a request and type a custom reason.

Cons

I don't have any complaints about this software. It works great and provides all the features and shows all the details I need to know.

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SC

Sara C.  
Secretary  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great, Easy Product"

July 18, 2019

5.0

Pros

It is easy to use and very effective for coordinating schedules. Plus the price is very reasonable.

Cons

I wish we were able to integrate it with our other database.

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Response from Planning Center

July 23, 2019

Hey Sara, thanks so much for the love and feedback. Love that it is effective for you and your church. As for the integration, we'd love to hear more about this. Would you be up for opening a support ticket with our support team and sharing some more about this? You can reach us at support@planning.center

Jake The Film G.  
Producer  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "I use Planning Center as a member of a production team."

April 23, 2018

5.0

Centralized planning, which churches desperately need, especially for their production teams. Back and forth emails are hardly acceptable on a team with multiple cogs at any given time.

Pros

It schedules people in one fell swoop, allows folks to "project manage" from one central location with attachments, service orders, and email people on a team.

Cons

It's a bit cumbersome when it comes to blocking-out dates where a production member is unavailable. The buttons to do this seem too obscure and small, and I'm not some old guy complaining the font is too small. :)

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DF

Daniel F.  
Developer  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Enterprise Church Scheduler"

October 15, 2020

5.0

Overall, Planning Center is a great product, which I'm glad my church switched to. It brings formality and order to a system that would be chaos otherwise.

Pros

I really liked how this software allows each user a login to confirm/deny or adjust their schedules. My church started with just sending emails around for scheduling teachers from week to week, but it was confusing and unofficial. In addition to scheduling, this tool allows me to see the complete layout of an event or church function, with attachments, links, and music/video that can be embedded.

Cons

This software feels like an enterprise solution to church scheduling, which become more valuable as the size of the church increases. However, for many large churches, the settings and options do seem a little much. And while you don't have to use everything, them being there makes the user experience feel a little busy, and is sometime difficult to find or set something.

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AG

Amy G.  
Administrative Assistant  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Organizes our services"

April 12, 2017

4.0

We have used Planning Center for over 5 years. The ease of use, integration with other programs like CCLI and price make it a great program for us. The automated communication features make scheduling easy and efficient and save us time doing it manually.

Pros

Scheduling, ease of use, price, integration

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SW

Sean W.  
Production Specialist  
Motion Pictures and Film  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "You Need A Plan, Let Planning Center Help!"

February 17, 2017

4.0

If you are a church that struggles with scheduling volunteers and also knowing the flow of a service, I strongly suggest Planning Center! It's easy to use and also sends emails for you when booking your volunteers. If you see some holes, you can quickly ask other people or have a plan to get the position filled. Apart from the volunteer interface, you can create a plan for how each service will run and delegate minutes for each task. Keeping everyone on-track is made easy with the help of this tool and you can even 'play' the plan so you know where everyone needs to be and what is happening on stage during the service. This allows you to adjust time- slow down if running ahead or speed things up in order to get finished on time.

Pros

Schedule Volunteers Create Service order and keep track There's a phone app that helps you see things on mobile

Cons

When people do not confirm (but not a software issue)

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AB

Adam B.  
pastor  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Planning center is one of the best ways to schedule your sunday morning services"

January 22, 2020

5.0

This is a great resource to allow the planning of your services to look professional!

Pros

This software makes it incredibly easy to schedule your volunteers and plan out a service and then inform everyone to know what their specific roles are.

Cons

The cost when you add some of the additional pieces of software can get to be pretty expensive. In fact it was going to cost 10k extra per year than what we already have.

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JP

James P.  
Fire Support Specialist  
Military  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great functionality "

November 7, 2018

5.0

Pros

It’s very beneficial to be able to communicate with full teams Including production and sound.

Cons

There are sometimes issues with uploaded material

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Response from Planning Center

November 16, 2018

Hi James, Thanks for taking the time to review us here, and we're sorry to hear that you've had some issues with uploading content to the Services app. If you haven't already, would you mind emailing us at support@planning.center with some details about this so that we can look into this for you? Thanks!

Lloyd R.  
programer  
Computer Games  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Planning Center"

February 27, 2020

5.0

i was able to use this one software for all the planning needs

Pros

This is the best all in one software that you will need to plan things for your church lots of tools to plan everything

Cons

you only get a 30 day free trial to check out this software to see if you like it or not then you have to buy it if you still want to use it

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Interior Designer  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great scheduling software "

March 25, 2019

5.0

Great. It’s much more efficient than emailing multiple attachments to different lists. It’s all there to send out and users can log on and view relevant info.

Pros

Easy scheduling and email list sorting. I like that documents can be attached and easily sent out to email recipients.

Cons

It can take a bit to get used to but I think improvements have been made to make it more user friendly.

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Zach Y.  
Site Operations  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Awesome Product! "

September 20, 2019

4.0

Pros

Planning Center is a must use for any service planning. It helps explain every detail of an event or service so the whole team can be on the same page. It has every feature anyone would need.

Cons

Planning Center is super functional and has lots of abilities, but it is not extremely intuitive. It does take a little bit of training to use at first.

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MH

Matthew H.  
Lead Pastor  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Planning Center has it all"

September 6, 2019

5.0

Overall I would recommend this service and I know tons of other churches using it and have great success!

Pros

We just signed up for planning center a few months ago and it seems like it has everything we need. I love how you can customize what apps/ service you need and not have to purchase things you don't need. Seems fairly easy to use and can integrate paypal.

Cons

It has been a little difficult to set it up and transfer all our information from our previous database. But other than that it seems good.

Alternatives considered

[Breeze](https://www.capterra.com/p/135832/Breeze/)[ChurchStaq](https://www.capterra.com/p/211982/ChuchStaq/)

Reason for choosing Planning Center

It worked well with our size church and was affordable

Switched from

[Churchteams](https://www.capterra.com/p/103773/Churchteams/)

We needed a system that had more capabilities as well as able to integrate other payment options.

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VK

Vince K.  
Owner  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Great tool for keeping our worship team on the same page."

September 18, 2017

5.0

Pros

Planning Center has proven to be a great tool for making sure everyone on our worship team is informed and organized. I like that we can include the necessary documents for each week's service, so they're always right where we need them.

Cons

I guess if I had to make one request, it would be that I could click on an event from the main screen when I'm shown all of my upcoming events.

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KW

Kevin W.  
Web Developer  
Wine and Spirits  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great for our worship team"

February 19, 2019

4.0

Pros

Using the services portion of Planning Center right now and it has been great for getting our worship team on one page and reducing time spent each week getting resources together

Cons

Web interface seems to be lacking in comparison with the app

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Response from Planning Center

February 19, 2019

Hey Kevin, thanks for the love and we love that it is working great for your Team. If you have any suggestions on how we can make the experience better for you between the web view and the mobile app, don't hesitate to write in to us at support@planning.center We are always looking for ways to improve our apps and knowing what our users want helps us when planning future features.

EB

Emily B.  
IT assistant  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Is there really any better planning center?"

October 9, 2019

5.0

Planning center has been a great tool. My experience in using it has been scheduling properties.

Pros

I love the ease of use and the CRM functionality within planning center. It allows so many uses for scheduling, remembering birthdays, keeping track of new members and next steps, volunteers and events.

Cons

There really is not much that I do not like about this specific planning center software. It is great.

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SM

Stephanie M.  
Finance  
  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great scheduling app, very user friendly"

May 11, 2018

5.0

Ease and flexibility of scheduling our evolving team.

Pros

This program is the easiest scheduling app I have ever used. The on line app, linked with the email reminder feature makes for thorough communication for our team.

Cons

The only thing I would like to see added would be the option to personalize each individual profile. The addition of a picture icon for each user would make this more complete.

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DE

Dan E.  
Owner  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Best Organizing Tool"

December 3, 2019

5.0

We have all benefited in several ways. Everyone knows who is supposed to be where and what we are all supposed to be doing on a weekly and monthly basis.

Pros

I like how the software keeps everyone and every team on the same page. It’s great for worship teams to organize music and kids ministry volunteers schedule.

Cons

I can only wish we had it sooner. It’s a critical piece to keeping All the parts of the church organized

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EP

Emily P.  
Office Administrator  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Good software "

November 3, 2022

5.0

Pros

It works well for our needs. The music is easy to find.

Cons

I have no complaints about this software.

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AK

Allison K.  
Ministry Assistant  
Non-Profit Organization Management  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Planning center for church plant"

February 3, 2019

5.0

Pros

Planning center is equipped with every powerful tool and feature that any church, large, medium, or small - even church plants - needs. I love the functionality and ease of use of each platform and how powerful all tools are combined together. I love how you can pick and choose the platforms you need versus being cornered into a product you won’t ever use. Planning center is an effective tool to be able to minister to the church and community at large.

Cons

Would like all planning center platforms to have their own apps; ie Groups

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SS

Spencer S.  
Director  
Religious Institutions  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Incredible Software for groups and events"

November 29, 2018

5.0

Pros

Ease of use and extra functions for live use, planning, and details. App is very helpful as well. Scheduling is very easy and beneficial.

Cons

Very few - App flow is not as clean as website. More user friendly view would help.

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