2008 Survey Results

What do you like the Best about Planning Center Online?

• A database with all my people in their area of ministry who I can communicate with quickly!
• Ability for it to house files, notes, automation is key for us.
• Ability for leaders in each discipline to update their area. Flexibility of plan interface.
• Ability to communicate and get ahead of the game so everyone can plan
• Ability to connect with people to accept and decline
• ability to easily send emails to musicians
• ability to have an online accessible database
• Ability to schedule and communicate with volunteers easily.
• Able to collaborate on worship services, automate communication for weekly services.
• access . we have several worship leaders and this makes a very useable system for us.
• Access from any online PC
• Accessibility for volunteers
• accessibility to my data from any computer.
• Accessibility to the data base from anywhere and for multiple users.
• All of the ministries that can get online and manage events and projects, not just weekend church gatherings.
• All the organization all in one place. Our people can get up-to-date info on the service they are involved in.
• Allows our volunteers access to their schedules and visibility to what's going on in Worship
• Almost all of the program
• At a glance, I can tell who has responded to assignments, and know who still needs a phone call reminder.
• Attachments to the songs on the worship order.
• Attractive interface, does what we need it to do
• automated communication with all personnel involved in worship service
• Awesome way to organize the service so that everyone involved knows EXACTLY what's going on.
• backtiming and live module. Scheduling.
• Being able to add attachments to songs... The matrix...
• Being able to communicate with my team members and them instantly being able to see the plans and music.
• being able to do multiple services at the same time and have an eye view of what has been done. Also, to be able to contact my team(s) with one or two clicks. IT'S PHENOMENAL!!!!! Thanks!
• Being able to email my worship team their schedule
• Being able to get plans to our people ahead of schedule.
• Being able to quickly re-order services
• Being able to see who has responded every week and who I need to talk to that hasn't responded.
• capabilities. You can do SO much with the site. Very user friendly
• central location for information from multiple ministries
• Central place for scheduling and planning.
• Central repository accessible by all worship team members...and easy to use
• Centralized access for all our leaders and volunteers with automated reminders.
• Centralized communication, storage, planning. Ease of use
• Centralized file location, ease of communication
• church centralized contacts/songs/program flows
• Collaboration - Everyone involved can see what the services will look like and contribute. It's also the easiest and quickest way to do my run sheets. Instead of copying and pasting things when the run order changes - we just move it around.
• Collaboration and paperless attributes
• Communicating with everyone at the touch of a button. Having an archive of our services....it's hard to choose just one!
• Communicating with my team Tracking my songs
• Communication ability and easy access.
• communication between team members, matrix
• communication tool
• Coordination of communication with praise band, tech and pastor
• creating an order of service is really easy. I love the click and drag-i-ness. I used to waste so much time doing the math on the minutes and adding comments. Also, scheduling is pretty easy now too.
• Customization, ccli reports
• Don't have to email people every week!
• Drag & drop; ease of use; plan printing feature
• drag and drop flexibility, auto emailing,
• Drag-and-drop planning - the Matrix!
• Ease of communication with everyone on the team
• ease of contacting and scheduling the worship team
• Ease of organizing keys and chord charts with capos.
• Ease of planning a service.
• Ease of planning...everything in one spot
• ease of scheduling
• ease of use
• Ease of use
• Ease of use
• ease of use
• Ease of use and availability of all my resources in one place, where I can get to them from any computer
• Ease of use and communication to my team members
• Ease of use and convenience
• Ease of use and functionality
• ease of use and organization
• Ease of use for non techy people.
• ease of use for volunteers.
• Ease of use!
• Ease of use, and management of people
• Ease of use, clean look
• Ease of use, everything is in there.
• Ease of use, multiple users, free! Printing clear, organized worship orders each week
• ease of use, scheduling a cinch, communication ease, streamlined our ministry
• ease of use,streamline of our ministry,has taken our team to the next level
• Ease of use.
• Ease of use. Adaptability. No yearly contract.
• Ease of use. Consolidation.
• Ease of use. Flexibility. Fairly intuitive.
• Ease of use. The AJAX interface is sweet, with drag and drop. I don't like the new placement of links, however. It seems less logical, and my team has had a harder time finding the print link to print all the music
• Ease of use. Intuitive. Short learning-curve to become familiar with it. Web-based - anyone on the team can access it from anywhere. Sharp-looking.
• easy access from different locations
• Easy communication with all volunteers...
• easy interface, templates
• Easy learning curve, real time adjustments to orders of worship, communication tools, ability to store files
• Easy prep for the service order
• easy scheduling of musicians and songs. Easy to change keys.
• Easy to schedule my team without being on the phone for hours.
• easy to use
• Easy to use.
• easy way for all team members to have access to plans, songs, etc.
• Email communication
• email participates, service layout, song planning,
• email scheduling of musicians
• Email scheduling; being able to see who downloaded what.
• emailing team and matrix
• Everyone being able to access plans on the web. Also, I love the scheduling.
• Everyone on our church staff can add or edit their own particular information for each week's worship services.
• Everyone on the worship team and in the band can access the worship plan and plan their individual parts accordingly. Everyone knows what's happening!
• Everything
• Everything
• Everything
• Everything can be posted in one place - music, lyrics, schedules.
• Everything important for worship planning in one place.
• Everything in one central location. A great Data base as you build it.
• Everything in one place
• Everything in one place (songs, plans, people)
• Everything in one place, with on-the-go access.
• Everything is automated, archived, catalogued, and accessible at any time any where.
• Everything is in one place, Schedule, Contact info, and OW
• Everything is in one place.
• EVERYTHING!!
• everything, but i guess the online presence and scheduling capabilities
• everything. makes life so much easier
• Fantastic organizational tool, which has given me back some head space.
• flexibility and tracking songs. Haven't used the email portion yet.
• flexibility, interface, coordinating all the elements (song, people, plans, etc.), the centrality and accessibility of all the info for our team
• Flexibility. I like the data base of songs. Honestly I like it all.
• Flexible design
• flow chart
• functionality
• Gives a dynamic accessible source for the scores of people involved in formulating and executing our ministry.
• gives my players/singers the music early. Gives our ministry the appearance of organization.
• Great communication & organization.
• Great to have an online database of all my current songs and my team members
• Great way to get all my "stuff" out to everyone involved quickly.
• Has everything I need and nothing I don't need. Company seems to be making an effort to make it work well for real worship leaders. Doesn't try to sell me things.
• Having a central location for service planning, songs, people and communication accessible from any location with an internet connection.
• Having resources and schedules available online for personnel to access rather than the time being taken from staff in the church office to copy and distribute music and schedules for personnel.
• Helps me be organized.
• helps me organize my plans and communicate it quickly and easily
• Helps me to see the big picture and keeps everyone organized. My Band loves it!
• how easy it is to coordinate scheduling volunteers and letting them view plans/demo songs at their leisure.
• How easy it is to keep your people updated.
• How easy it is to re-arrange the order.
• How easy it is to use
• How easy you make it to communicate with your team.
• how interactive it is. I can make it my own. The ability to create all those categories is just what I need.
• How much time it saves me
• how organized everything is
• How PCO connects our Worship Team together. It has made a huge difference in the ease of scheduling and coordinating schedules - church-wide, not just the worship ministry.
• How well I can connect with our team in format. I also happen to think it is cool.
• I can access it away from the office.
• I can access my plan from anywhere eg update it from work if I get some inspiration. I also like the email/communicaiton system and being able to add music to it and then print this out from anywhere - as can all my musicians.
• I can get to it from any computer via the Internet
• I can put everything in one place
• I find the song, people databases very helpful for our ministry.
• I like being able to plan online and having all worship team and staff members able to access all the information.
• I Like being able to see my song repertoire at a glance
• I like everything about it. It has made my job so much easier in so many ways. Communication with artists have improved. Taking it LIVE is great for evaluation meetings after the service. Song database is nice for my own planning as a worship leader
• I LIKE IT HELPS ME ORGANIZE. I ALSO LIKE THE MATRIX HOW I CAN ADD SONGS TO PLAN.
• I like that I can connect easy with the email write on the site.
• I like that I can keep all my worship service planning in one place. I like that my plans are accessible wherever I have internet access. Church, home, abroad. I like that I can keep all our songs in one place, that I can search by theme, key, etc. I schedule people and keep events straight through the Matrix view. I LOVE the look of PCO. So bright and cheerful. Honestly, it is fun to look at and use. Another service could have all these great features but look so bland and uninteresting. Thank you for the time you took to make this site fun to use and look at! I also like your update emails. I feel included in the improvements of PCO. Even though I don't have suggestions for new features, I like that you tell me what you improved. Your blog is helpful as well. PCO is such a great service! I have told many people about it and shown them the service as well. You know what else, come to think of it: I emailed one time to ask if I could send a screenshot of an order of worship to some of our team members but didn't want to infringe on your copyrighted material. Jeff Berg, owner and developer, wrote me back the next day and said "sure" that would be fine. I was blown away by your personal response. You have made me feel valued by your company and a part of the process through this survey. Thank you! God bless you all! You have blessed us!
• I like the automated reminders and scheduling. It has made my life so much simpler.
• I like the fact that multiple folks can edit items as they know about them, and that it keeps up with all invited participants and sends reminders.
• I like the reminder emails we can send out to people on worship teams, etc
• I like the scheduling of musicians and the way they can reply as well as the drag and drop features of planning services. it makes it so easy for our programming team to see different options in real time in the click of a button.
• I love how easy it is for you to communicate with your workers. All of mine have adapted to it like we've been using it forever.
• I love how easy it is to manage
• I love the ability to share the info online with my members.
• I love the ease of use and the ability to alert our volunteers immediately.
• I only use the free version at present. I like the time saving for service planning, online "storage" and accessibility.
• I really like that it's web-based and I can continue working from home to office and I don't have any paper or notebooks to keep track of.
• I use it only for our service order
• Immediate access for my players and singers.
• Integration of all aspects of planning
• Interface and ease of use.
• Internet access to common plans and documents for team members working offsite.
• inviting teams to participate
• It allows me to get confirmations from my team and less paperwork for me as the leader. Puts the responsibility into the hands of the team members.
• It allows our entire team to make changes, schedule volunteers, etc. In the past, we had one Word doc & one person had to input everything.
• It brings everyone involved in our worship planning to one location where everyone knows what is going on.
• It brings everyone together to a central location for the services. Makes all of our volunteers fill more connected with what is going on.
• It brings together so many aspects of the worship ministry. It's a song database for our musicians to access at any time. It's a community hub allowing our musicians to get to know each other. It allows me to manage people and resources and services all in one place. It's like my pda cellphone - I can't believe I ever went without it!
• It has a "user friendly" interface. It is constantly being updated with better and better features. The cost is fantastic! Great way to communicate. Takes the bulk of the menial work away so I can concentrate on more important things.
• It has become our song and people database
• It helps centralize all of our planning and makes communication much easier.
• It helps me keep organized--songs and time frame.
• It helps me stay organized
• It is a central place that all our team can connect but what I enjoy the most is the support and willingness to change and develop the site by the PCO staff that makes me smile the most!
• It is a one stop communication tool for our team
• It is logically designed and intuitive to use.
• It is pretty intuitive to use. It has a neat and organized appearance. Be careful to not let it get to busy looking. That will make it harder to use.
• It is simple and user friendly.
• it is thought thru very well...the best thing is the fact that you can give a lot of admin away to volunteers
• It is web-based, and is not confined to any one computer, thus everyone on our staff has access to it.
• It keeps me organized with services, volunteers, songs, etc.
• It makes communication and organization a BREEZE!
• It makes communication with my teams very simple.
• It makes writing up a set list simple, intentional, and fast!
• It organizes the songs for me.
• It really helps to keep things organized and helps my team keep up with all that is going on in our ministry as far as the worship team is concerned.
• It saves time!
• It works
• It's a one stop shop for ALL of my worship planning needs.
• It's ability to keep all of the church planners on the same page. I love it's scheduling capabilities for all of our production and band volunteers. The Matrix rocks!
• It's all in one place.
• It's ease and usability.
• it's easy to use
• It's easy to use and you can setup your own formats
• It's easy to use; easy to move things around. And the accept/ decline buttons are the one form of communication our volunteers actually respond to! And I love that my leaders can access the plan and tools from anywhere.
• it's easy, it has everything that I need at my fingertips
• It's given us a tool to know everyone who will be supporting our weekend services, instead of relying on phone calls and emails from a variety of ministry leaders. With 2 campuses, 5 services and alternating week schedules, we had 10 possible combinations of people who might be there serving. We're just adding many of the ministries to Planning Center now (communion servers, parking, security, etc.), but we can already see the improved information flow.
• It's hard to list just one feature because there are so many that I enjoy. For now I'll say the SONGS section.
• It's just such an intuitive system. I feel like you guys thought of EVERYTHING.
• It's online. Available to almost all of my people.
• it's simple
• It's simplicity
• It's simply amazing. Love the automated scheduling, the Song section w/ attachments.
• It's so easy to use!
• it's useful features and the way it is organized. I love that it is web-based and that everyone can access it that needs to. It saves us alot of time and energy.
• It's user friendly and meets all my current needs
• it's very intuitive and well thought out.
• Its ability to add attachments.
• its easy to keep our team in the loop all the time
• its organization
• Keeping my team in the know.
• Keeping the entire team resourced
• keeping track of everything in one place and everyone
• keeps everything in line and helps keep me organized
• Keeps me connected with the people on my different teams. Obviously helps us in being more intentional in our worship times, but also keeps me aware of deadlines.
• keeps me very organized...from charts to our volunteer database
• Keeps track of all my timing regardless of whether I need to move stuff around
• Makes communication within our ministry a lot easier
• Makes planning and coordination between lead pastor and worship leader easier.
• makes scheduling team members and the specific worship orders so much easier. has improved our communication between tech and worship team
• Matrix
• Matrix scheduling.
• Matrix View
• Matrix view.
• matrix, communication between teams
• most everything
• Multiple people can work on an existing service at the same time. Immediate access online. Stability of service...
• no more making packets!!!!!!!! It's so easy and everyone who uses it finds it easy as well.
• no soft ware to install
• Once formatted, speed and efficiency in organizing Worship plans
• once you've entered the data, it's incredibly streamlined on so many levels. plus it gives a central location that can be accessed by anyone approved, anywhere. this is great since i'm moving on to another church in a month and the volunteer leadership can use this to continue right where i left off without killing themselves with a lot of administrative on-ramping.
• One place for all involved to go to for information
• one place to administrate all aspects of a ministry/service
• One stop for all of our ministry to find orders.
• one stop shopping; i.e. the ability to design & communicate services all in one place
• Online access to plans and songs for each team member
• Online Planning is so cool. Songs/Sets available to the band from anywhere is very cool as well.
• Organization
• Organization and everyone can get all the information they need.
• Organization and tracking!!
• Organization of all of my songs for planning and distribution of materials. The Key changer is the single biggest time saver in arts ministry today. Matrix planning is cool too.
• Organization of charts and music.
• Organization.
• Organizing various groups of volunteers
• Our entire staff can log on and view/edit our service flow from anywhere at anytime.
• People and song management
• People in my account can see the plan and listen to the music for each Sunday.
• people who aren't that tech savvy are able to navigate it - our volunteers are raving!
• Planning anywhere anytime and not needing to be at church. Also planning with other people online.
• Planning Center improves communication both ways between the worship leader and team members.
• Planning Center is a comprehensive, all-in-one support system for worship leaders: plan a service and music, set bands in place and communicate with them and fellow leadership to keep everyone abreast of important details.
• Planning Center is a great communication tool for the various people involved in so many aspects of ministry that are existent on a Sunday morning. It helps keep information flowing, keeping people in the loop with what is happening, allowing for dynamic ministry to take place.
• Planning the service and emailing participants
• planning the song list (using songs from database)
• Polished look, 100% accessibility to info, ease of scheduling, ease of teaching program to others
• Price, convenience, and auto record keeping.
• Provides the chance to do much of my planning in advance and communicate easily with members of my worship team.
• real time access by all members
• real-time, web-based. My teams can view the worship order at any time during the week, & they don't need to call me to see if they're on the worship team this week. :)
• Records, notifications, scheduling, editing features
• Reminder emails, database features
• Response Text
• Saves me LOTS of time!!!
• Saves me many hours of making phone calls and such - very flexible.
• Saves time for volunteer who co-ordinates schedules
• scheduling
• Scheduling
• Scheduling
• Scheduling & ability to organize and layout worship services.
• Scheduling (getting their responses), reminders & not making copies of music.
• scheduling - no more tiresome paper rosters that are obsolete before they are even printed
• Scheduling and e-mails - this has kept our team MUCH better informed than they used to be.
• Scheduling and time management of events
• scheduling features
• scheduling features, and integration with plan
• Scheduling for the sunday services.
• Scheduling is easy and not confusing for volunteers - minimal training on how to use program
• Scheduling people
• Scheduling team members.
• Scheduling volunteers
• Scheduling, centralized database for songs, etc... pretty much everything!
• sends the emails for me- easy to schedule and keep everyone organized
• service planning
• Service planning layout and structure
• service planning/communication obviously...also, the connectivity with SongSelect
• simple, fast, powerful, web 2.0
• Simple, intuitive organization and communication of ministry planning.
• Simplicity
• So many integrated features--song selection, personnel scheduling, email, etc.
• So many things. Transposing chord charts on the fly, the matrix, printing full packets of music with a click, having archives of everything, having access from anywhere I have internet.
• Song and People database, Chord chart transposer, the ability to edit reports (wish I didn't have to edit html though!)d
• song database
• Song Tracking and Easy Ability to Create Sets
• Storage of attachments for band members to view and listen to in preparation for Sunday Ability to create multiple worship gatherings so I can plan ahead. Matrix of songs used over a particular time frame. Block out dates
• That all administrative task can be done in one place.
• That everyone can see it from anywhere
• That everyone on the team knows what's going on and that it's easy to do
• That everyone who needs to has the ability to access the site to see future commitments
• That I don't have to make copies and make sure my cue sheet is perfect before rehearsal. It enables others to take more leadership in my services
• That it centralizes everything in one place.
• That it's free, and reasonably easy to use.
• That it's web-based - it has made scheduling a LOT easier for me to have a central place for getting people's requests (and it's viewable for multiple staff).
• That people can login and give their availability.
• that you can use is for the whole tech sheet and that i can communicate to everyone on my teams
• The "Plan" page is an awesome tool and has allowed our vocalists and instrumentalists the means to come to rehearsal prepared and to be able to give God our most excellent.
• the 'centrality' of it - it becomes the center, people go to it for the information they need and it is always available.
• The ability for all my team members to see current plans.
• The ability for it to be your scheduling person. And the ability to change keys.
• The ability for the volunteers to take charge of their own schedule and have another line of communication available.
• The ability for various people to collaborate easily.
• the ability to communicate and transfer information and data with participants and for others besides the administrator to be able to make up plans remotely
• The ability to control the ministry and administration thru a network that each member has access to.
• The ability to coordinate worship on a weekly basis without having to burn Cd's, email large files etc. It has the capabilities to grow with our ministry.
• the ability to do all my administrative tasks/planning with one piece of software
• The ability to easily share plans and links to other resources with musicians. Also the scheduling system has reduced my workload tremendously! I work with middle school and high school musicians and trying to track all them down via phone or email was an enormous task each week. Thank you!!!!! Also, the matrix view is really helpful for planning songs and people.
• The ability to have all the files I use on a daily basis in one place.
• The ability to have everyone see the same schedule; the ability to allow musicians and vocalists to see and hear the music!
• The ability to have everyone using the one program to schedule and program and the easy was to email volunteers.
• the ability to have everything in one place
• the ability to have others use it with different degrees of access (editors, schedulers, etc.)
• The ability to keep (or link) all my people, documents and files and communicate with specific groups in 1 place. Also, that it's something my people can access from anywhere.
• The ability to keep everything in one place. Communication is simpler. Scheduling is simpler. Life is simpler. The cost of planning center is paid off in my time saved and used for more important stuff like bible study, practicing and. . . solitaire!
• The ability to keep the teams in harmony with all that is going on. No one has an excuse to say "I didn't know that was going to happen!" --Thanks!
• The ability to keep volunteers informed and resourced.
• The ability to manage my scheduling....and for the team members to accept/decline online.
• the ability to not do all the thinking, I just let planning center do it for me
• The ability to organize all the information.
• The ability to plan out months of services ahead of time.
• The ability to plan thru a matrix type format
• The ability to schedule my team and then send a mass list of dates when they are scheduled.
• the ability to schedule my team members online
• The ability to see what other directors and leads have entered.
• The ability to send group emails with accept/decline links embedded and automatically send reminder emails.
• The ability to streamline the information in planning a service, and the ability to communicate on a multi-campus basis.
• The ability to upload everything in one place complete with being able to import the CCLI info from SongSelect (that has saved me a lot of time since I didn't have to type in all that info).
• The access for other team members and online library of songs and lead sheets
• The administrative relief that it brings... doing the whole scheduling of bands and songs for me.
• The amazing level of quality and excellence as demonstrated by the product itself and the customer service.
• The archiving of songs and the communication with band members.
• the chord chart editor, AMAZING
• The clean look & feel.
• The communication functions. The reminders are a key element for keeping a large ministry on track. Being able to e-mail within the website is also very helpful.
• The communication it brings to my team. Anybody from my team can log on and see what is happening with the service this week.
• The communication it provides to team members.
• the connection i have with my band.
• The connection it provides to different dept's. of a large church
• The connectivity to volunteers
• The convenience of being able to work from anywhere.
• The data base that keeps everything you do forever. Music, text docs, lyrics, etc...
• The database that remembers when I last used a song and the web based idea so I can work from anywhere
• The Developers are always willing to listen to the customers needs.
• The ease of communicating and organizing all our folks
• The ease of everything. And the email system, I work with youth so their schedules are random and ever-changing. It helps to know who can and can not make it with a click of a button.
• the ease of planning and changing plans
• The ease of planning. I have been a member for a year and they continue to do upgrades that have helped.
• The ease of scheduling and adding items to the service, that it's online, CCLI tracking.
• The ease of scheduling and the visibility for my team
• The ease of scheduling people for a plan and the fact that it puts the ownership on the scheduled not the scheduler.
• The ease of use and the one stop shop for all of our volunteers' scheduling and resources
• the ease of use within it's applications and the intuitive nature of the software.
• The ease of use. Everything is "mostly" intuitive with only a few exceptions.
• the ease of using the songs and being able to rearrange the schedule
• The ease with which i can communicate with our volunteers
• The ease with which I can now communicate with worship teams.
• The fact that i have a place where all of my ministry partners can get the resources they need for Sunday ahead of time.
• the fact that it's online, custom uploads, scheduling, just the fact that it saves a lot time and helps me be organized.
• The fact that my weekend tech script is online and readily available for all of my ministry volunteers, especially the tech team, to view.
• The features and accessibility
• The flexibility and organization that we can give to our worship planning efforts.
• The flexibility issue. On Mondays we will put our elements into the computer and then drag them around into the order that would work the best for our ministry.
• The integration of scheduling people, viewing song lists, uploading essentials into one web-based application. So handy to never need to download upgrades.
• The Layout
• The look and ease of use. The automation. The integration.
• The Matrix
• The Matrix view. It makes planning three to four weeks in advance as easy as I can imagine. I work in Matrix view at least 90% of the time.
• The opportunity for people to block off dates they can't play and the ease of scheduling plus everything else...
• the organization and scheduling
• the organization of having everything i need in one place
• The overall concept, ease of use, and accessibility.
• The people planning, block out dates!
• The program makes it easier to distribute the songs of the week and future services ,and also make changes on the fly with quicker response from the musicians.
• The reminder emails being sent out
• The resources are available to the team ahead of practice time.
• The scheduling and keeping track of songs.
• The scheduling feature.
• The scheduling functions. I love seeing green buttons!
• The scheduling matrix
• The scheduling system (allows me to see who's confirmed and who isn't; also, the auto-reminders are great). Very user friendly interface, intuitive.
• The simplicity of planning and contacting people.
• the song database implementation in plans
• The song organization
• The time and money it saves me in the way of scheduling, printing charts, and burning CD's!
• The tracking of the Songs I have used, and it letting me know when I last used the song
• The tracking of when we last played the songs.
• the unity it brings to the team. speed of communication and 24/7 access to plans/files.
• the user friendliness
• Time Saver, Convenience
• tough question. the matrix option is up there in the top for me. The whole thing is just practical and makes a lot of sense.
• Tracking Song last usage and structuring service
• Ubiquitous access for all of my people.
• User interface from anywhere.
• user-friendliness, clean, minimalist.
• user-friendly
• Very easy to use, the scheduling
• Very easy to use.
• Very easy to use.
• Very easy way to organize the worship team and tech team on one schedule and keep everybody in sync. SO everybody knows what to do and when to do it. Also seeing were we need to place people and know if they can;t be their to plan somebody else out.
• Web-based access for anytime anywhere connection to my information.
• Web-based access for everyone.
• Web-based so everyone can see it
• Web-based, ease of use, good features, cost-effective, good tutorials, planning center live.
• Well thought-out. Clean. Fast. Powerful. Email-based.
• Well-designed for my purposes
• What I like best about Planning Center is that it is web based so multiple people can access it.
• when someone declines a date and the e-mail offers you other names to schedule at the click of a button. Brilliant!
• Working at a church can sometimes be an organizational mess. Planning Center is the infrastructure of our worship ministry. Our Church has nine staff members and one secretary for all of them. Planning center is my administrative assistant.
• Worship planning and scheduling tools
• you can know what your playing
• You can use it from a PC AND a Mac! Great for Service team to follow the "order of service" as a guide. The free version is a huge blessing for smaller churches like ours that don't have lots of money!!
• Your planning tool is outstanding! I love the drag-and-drop. I like the reminders. The database of songs. The printed format.
• Your tech support. I have ALWAYS gotten a USABLE answer the same day, and almost ALWAYS within an our or two. Of course, the entire concept and features are WAY up there, also.