Online Church Calendar App Solutions: Planning Center Calendar
The most useful tool in a church's existence may be calendars. Church life consists of many events from recurring activities such as the Sunday morning service of the church, to the more regular and local events such Bible school vacation missions. Church employees, members and visitors need reliable and highly-visible calendars. A well planned church calendar with accurate church events is a requirement for all churches.
Planning Center Calendar
Planning Center Calendar (Calendar) is a powerful and easy-to-use calendar and scheduling tool that helps organizations streamline their day-to-day operations. Calendar makes it easy to keep track of events, meetings, and deadlines as well as manage assets and resources. It also integrates with other Planning Center products to keep everyone on the same page.
One Calendar to See Everything
A master calendar allows you to see everything across your organization and useful tools like tags make finding events and resources easy. Calendar also offers reporting for tracking resource utilization as well as event details. The Master Calendar allows you to view the entire church schedule and individual event details. While tags organize events with a descriptive label so that events can be easily found in an organized calendar. You also have a reporting option to get an overview of event details, such as timescale and approval status for assets and resources used for your events.
Calendar is Flexible and Customizable
Calendar is designed to be flexible and customizable. It allows users to create events and assign them to specific people or groups. All events can be tracked in real-time, and users can receive notifications when events are updated or changed. The calendar also has a wide range of features to help users manage their events, classes and resources more efficiently.
Built specifically for churches Planning Center Calendar allows you to schedule and share your events quickly
The most useful tool in a church's existence may be calendars. Church life consists of many events from recurring activities such as the Sunday morning service of the church, to the more regular and local events such as Bible school vacation missions. Church teams, members, and visitors need reliable and highly-visible calendars. A well-planned church calendar with accurate church events is a requirement for all churches.
Key Features of Calendar
Calendar’s key features include the ability to manage and track events, projects, and resources. It also provides users with the ability to view and access event and resource information from anywhere. The software also allows users to assign tasks to team members and manage resource availability. It also allows users to customize their event and resource management processes to fit their organization’s specific needs.
Additional Features in Calendar
The resource tracking features of Calendar allow you to keep track of all the resources needed for each event. You can create resource requests and assign them to different teams and individuals. You can also manage inventory and track the availability of resources, as well as set up automatic notifications to keep everyone informed. Here’s a breakdown of some of the additional features:
Resource Tracking: See exactly who used what resource and where for an event.
Inventory Tracking: Know when resources need to be serviced by tracking expiration dates and serial numbers.
Room Setups: Create multiple setup layouts for each room, so it can autosuggest commonly used resources for each setup.
Notifications: Enable email notifications to keep people informed of key changes made to events.
Permission Levels: Assign permission levels allowing people to view or edit events, rooms, resources, and people.
Reports: Print a list of all rooms and resources booked by events, or a custom report sortable by tags, date, and more.
Collaboration Features
Calendar also makes it easy to collaborate with your team and manage tasks. You can create tasks, assign them to team members, and set due dates and priorities. You can also set up checklists and track progress, so everyone is on the same page.
Requests: Book rooms and resources from the Events page and check back for approval status.
Approvals: Give specific staff, like your facilities manager, permission to approve or deny requests and mediate conflicts.
Custom Questions: Ask event planners for setup requests, like the layout for chairs and tables.
Communicate: Track and discuss changes with other planners in event activity threads.
Keep your Congregation Informed about Everything you Plan.
Calendar tools like Kiosks - Display live data on your smartphone or TV to show current events. Calendar feeds: Using a personal Google Calendar, users are entitled to subscribe to the Events Calendar. Calendar Widget: Embed an event calendar for your congregation with time and place details.
Calendar also integrates with other popular services, such as Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar. This makes it easier for users to sync their events and tasks with other services and stay organized. It also allows users to access their calendar from any device, including their phone, tablet, or laptop.
Planning Center Calendar is Best in Class
With its intuitive features and powerful resource management capabilities, Calendar is an essential tool for any church looking to streamline its event scheduling and resource management. Planning Center offers a suite of apps in addition to Calendar that helps churches plan, schedule, track donations, manage events, and more.
Need Assistance with Planning Center Calendar?
If you are currently using or interested in using Planning Center as your church management system (ChMS) and need training or assistance with setting up Calendar properly, Threefold Solutions can help. We have years of experience with Planning Center and can set you up and have you using Calendar immediately. If your church needs to move quickly or you want to start with best practices and not figure it out as you go, let Threefold Solutions help you with your Planning Center needs. Your team could be using Calendar successfully within days! Click the blue Let’s Get Started button above to set up a free consultation meeting to find out how we can help you and your team.
Jason Silbernagel
Co-founder, Threefold Solutions