Planning Center 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Pricing and Plans
Features
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User Reviews

Overview

Planning Center

4.7

(1135)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Planning Center

Planning Center’s the all-in-one church management software that helps churches help people. It gives leaders, teams, and congregants a single place to organize, connect, and get involved.

No matter your size, Planning Center’s the easy-to-use platform for:

Scheduling volunteers
Accepting online donations
Creating event signups
Establishing safe and secure family check-ins

And so much more!

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Planning Center Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing

Free Trial

Free Version

People

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Coordinate the Details
Inventory Tracking
Latest Product Update
Notifications
Permission Levels
Reports
Resource Tracking
Room Setups
Room Setups Organize and Schedule
Share With Your Church

Services

$0.00

per month

Plan includes:

Calendar Subscription
Household Scheduling
Integrations
Latest Product Update
Media Library
Mobile App
Permission Levels
Rehearsal Tools
Reporting
Stage Layouts

Check-ins

$0.00

per month

Plan includes:

Checkistrations
Communication
CSV Import
Fast and Smooth
Flexible Setup
Latest Product Update
Promote Grades
Reports
Safe and Secure
Safe Volunteers

Giving

$0.00

per month

Plan includes:

Connected Donor Profiles
Cover Processing Fees
Deposit Checks Remotely
Disable Credit Card
Export Data
Flexible Donation Options
Insightful Donation Data
Integrations
Latest Product Update
Protect Donor Data

Groups

$0.00

per month

Plan includes:

Create Opportunity
Cultivate Commitment
Group Photos
Latest Product Update
Open Signups
Private Groups

Registrations

$0.00

per month

Plan includes:

Collect and Organize the Information You Need From Attendees.
Coordinate Attendees
Early Bird Discounts
Latest Product Update
Permission Levels
Reports
Simplify Signups

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Planning Center Features

Popular features found in Donation Management
Campaign Management
Contact Management
Email Marketing
Event Management
Gift Matching Management
Grant Management
Mobile Giving
Online Giving
Payment Processing
Pledge Management
Receipt Management
Volunteer Management
More features of Planning Center
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Campaign Planning
Catalog Management
Child Check-in
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Configurable Workflow
Contact Database
Content Library
Content Management
Credit Card Processing
Customizable Fields
Customizable Forms
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Document Management
Document Storage
Donation Management
Donation Tracking
Donor Management
Drag & Drop
Electronic Payments
Email Management
Email Templates
Event Scheduling
Event Ticketing
Forms Management
For Nonprofits
For Religious Organizations
Historical Trend Analysis
Image Library
Media Library
Member Communication
Member Directory
Member Portal
Membership Management
Mobile Access
Mobile App
Multi-Location
Online Calendar
Personalization
Playlist Management
Recurring Giving
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Registration Management
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Role-Based Permissions
Scheduling
Search/Filter
Small Group Management
SMS Messaging
Summary Reports
Template Management
Third-Party Integrations
Usage Tracking/Analytics
Visitor Tracking
Website Management
Worship Planning

Planning Center Integrations

ProPresenter

Integration rated 4.6 from 26 reviews

Clearstream

Integration rated 4.6 from 21 reviews

Mailchimp

Integration rated 4.1 from 19 reviews

Checkr

Integration rated 4.9 from 11 reviews

Stripe

Integration rated 4.6 from 10 reviews

Pushpay

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Planning Center User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

74%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.5

Jennifer A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2025

Planning Center Highly Recommend

Excellent overall experience in tracking attendance, visitors, and check-ins. The workflows help keep me on track with activities that need to be done.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Planning Center is a All In One Church Management System - it does so many things but it can do it all in one spot

Cons:

It does so much that you almost do not know where to begin - the training videos are useful to help navigate

Duane D.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2025

Excellent Church Software

A wonderful cloud-based software that accurately keeps all records of our church membership. Our staff love it and use it regularly at church or on the go!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Planning Center is a great resource for our church. It is easy to use, has many great features, and is cloud based meaning it can be used anywhere. The apps that accompany it are just as intuitive and user friendly!

Cons:

Planning Center sometimes doesn’t recognize a name or email and will create a new profile. We’ve had several duplicates - some are easy fixes and others are more complicated if they are using the giving feature.

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

The other software just wasn’t doing all we needed it to do

Vendor Response

Hi Duane! Thank you for your kind words! You mentioned having a bit of trouble with logs in and duplicate profiles. Our Support Team is a great resource for help in that area. Hit the '?' icon in the upper-right of the screen when you are looking at your List. Please send us a message and our team will jump in to help!

Replied September 2025

Mitchell H.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Incredible Software to help Manage your team!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Previously 5

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We love how easy it is to add people to the program, how intuitive it is to create services plans and items and adding people into various positions, and we love how you can upload the music and chord charts for each song so that volunteers can easily rehearse and practice on their own!

Cons:

It is a little more on the expensive end of the market; however the features they include mostly off set this. We also wish it could do more.

Reasons for choosing Planning Center

Planning Center has much more features and much more integration options. Plus it is easier to use!

sandra s.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

rating of PC

overall it has been good. No major issues

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

the wireless printing of the name tags/mobile check in

Cons:

probably tech support. hard to get answer rt away

Reasons for choosing Planning Center

we use both. we kept PC for the kids check in bc of the ease

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

uh servant keeper! lol so out of date.....

Vendor Response

Hi Sandra! Thank you for your kind review. We are glad you are enjoying our Check-Ins feature. Regarding support, we do our best to reply via email within one business hour, although it can look slightly different on holidays and weekends. We would love to learn more and get your feedback on your most recent tech support experience. If possible, send us a message here - support@planningcenter.com. We look forward to hearing back from you!

Replied January 2025

Steven G.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

The Best All In One Church Software

We love it and use it for our service planning, church database, forms, giving, app, communication, sign-ups, and registrations.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The user interfaces for all of their apps are intuitive, and it makes managing and communicating with our members quick and easy.

Cons:

There are certain tasks in the services app that feel a little redundant, but fortunately, they have videos that walk you through them.

Reasons for choosing Planning Center

Ease of use and scalability. All the different apps and features are easily scaled up.

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

Ease of use and great scalability options.

Hannah M.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

The one-stop shop for church data management

I am very glad they decided to expand beyond programming management. The interface is very user-friendly (unlike almost any other data management for churches). It integrates with messaging apps and giving platforms as well

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I appreciate the wholistic nature of planning center’s capabilities. It is a church data management software that does it all

Cons:

There are times when it feels like it’s doing too much, like it can’t keep up with the demands of certain capabilities. Through the many functions, programs and people are my most used, but I have access to all of its functions. Calendar is helpful but can get very jumbled when dealing with a large church and all of the events we have

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

ACS was very outdated and retrieving any data for any useful purpose was very difficult

Kylee A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2025

A GREAT resource for small-medium sizes Churches

Overall it’s a helpful tool for our church with a lot of great features. It’s much more user friendly than other software’s we’ve tried. The database includes more profiles than we would like.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like how many features it has to be fully customizable for your church’s needs. Every staff members can find it helpful in their area of ministry.

Cons:

It is difficult to keep the people database under control due to the automatic creation of profiles anytime anyone downloads the app, fills out a form, registers for an event, etc.

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

We switched from CCB (church community builder) to Planning Center because it’s more user friendly and provides more features

Travis S.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2025

All in One Place and it Works

Overall, I love working with the system, and anytime I have questions, I receive relevant and clear answers very quickly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like that we can have all event registrations, giving, and people database management in the same place.

Cons:

For what I do, learning the best way to pull reports (Lists) was a little tricky. To overcome this and other challenges when we made the full transition to PCO, we worked with a paid professional team to transfer and set us up.

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

Our version of Shelby was out of date and we needed a more flexible solution that would also work with our volunteer team management.

Jami B.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2025

The switch was worth it

Their online university has helped our whole team stay informed and well educated about the capabilities and usefulness of these tools

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We switched to Planning Center from a similar product because of the intuitive ease of use and the availability of constant support. We appreciate the value to help our church manage everything well.

Cons:

There is one tiny feature that I can't edit (all forms require an email address) and that is the only, admittedly very tiny, thing. Other than that our experience is stellar.

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

Frustration with the previous product and countless glowing reviews and recommendations for Planning Center

Stephen A.

Verified reviewer

Religious Institutions

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Indispensable for Church Management

Overall, I am very happy with Planning Center. It is indispensable for church management.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is comprehensive. It incorporates people management, giving, attendance, events, calendar, facilities, everything into one platform that works together.

Cons:

There are times where Planning Center Services is not as user friendly as I would like.

Reasons for choosing Planning Center

Planning Center Giving is natively connected to all of the other Planning Center products, which gives it a huge advantage over other giving platforms.

Reasons for switching to Planning Center

Planning Center Giving is far cheaper AND more user-friendly than PushPay; we had switched to PushPay for the Mobile App and got locked into a contract. As soon as it was up we rushed back to Planning Center, which by then had implemented the Church Center App

Vendor Response

Hey Stephen - thanks for such a positive review of our products. We're glad to be along for the ride with you. Reach out to support@planningcenter.com if you need anything!

Replied February 2025

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