PCO is Being Attacked. How to Stay Safe

Friends…it’s time for a candid talk about Planning Center security. There are some sad realities that we’re hearing from PCO that will require us to make some changes to our mindset as well as our policies. I’m going to walk you through what you need to know and give you some practical action steps to…

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Automatically Assign Adult/Child Designation

Adults are adults and kids are kids. A kid can’t be an adult and an adult can’t be a kid. A kid can’t “graduate early” to adulthood and they can’t “test out” of childhood. Although you might know an adult that sometimes acts like a kid, they’re still an adult. It’s all about that magic…

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Planning Center API- What You Should Know

I get SOOOO MANY questions about the Planning Center API that I thought I would take a pause from my normal hints/tips articles and talk about the Planning Center API. Note: This is not a technical explanation of the API. This is for non-programmers-possibly even non techies. If you’re a programmer, you will not see…

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How to Increase Event Attendance

Today, we’re going to learn how to use Planning Center and Mailchimp integration to promote an upcoming event to people who attended a previous event. Planning Center and Boxing For years, I was a big fight fan. UFC, boxing, kickboxing, strange fights from Japan I didn’t understand, it didn’t matter. I loved all things fighting.…

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Automatically Change Attender Status

Today we’re going to learn how to automate the action of changing somebody from active to inactive. We’ll also look at how you can show ministry leaders how to use it for their purposes. What is Non-Attender? Before we build the system, we need a clear vision. People are welcome regardless of the label in…

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Create a List to Show Who Hasn’t Finished Growth Track

Today, we’re going to learn how to identify people that need an invitation to an upcoming Growth Track event. Last week we looked at how to create a disaster response team. Check it out if you missed it We are going to create a list that shows everybody that has attended at least 1 growth…

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Use PCO to Create a Disaster Response Team

When disaster strikes, how do you put a team together fast? Answer? You already know who to call. Today, I’m going to show you how to use PCO to assemble your team long before you need help. Disasters Don’t Wait Hurricane Irma was Category 4 (In hurricane terms, that means big and powerful) hurricane that…

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Use Bulk Actions to Cut Out Repetitive Tasks

Tired of doing repetitive tasks in PCO? Today, I’m going to show you an easy way to clean records fast with next to no work. Hurts My Heart! You want to know what hurts me to the core? When I talk to fellow PCO users who are cleaning their database going record to record and…

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How to Easily Add Gender to Men’s Night Attenders 

Don’t miss an opportunity to add important data to a person’s profile, especially when it means zero extra work on the part of the attender or you.   Today, I want to show you an easy way to update profiles based on attendance at an event.  Men’s Night  Once per year, my church has a men’s…

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How to Clean PCO Services Permissions 

If somebody hasn’t served in a while, their advanced privileges in Planning Center should be removed. I don’t think anybody would disagree with that but who has time to keep up with those people? Today, I want to show you a simple way to be alerted to people that should have lowered permissions automatically.  PCO…

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