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Automate the manual work in Planning Center

FullSpec maps how Planning Center fits into your day-to-day, finds the repetitive work worth automating, and gives you a clear plan to connect it with the rest of your tools.

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Planning Center by the numbers

Insights from real process mapping sessions that involve Planning Center.

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Top 5 Planning Center friction points when done manually

1

Syncing volunteer schedules across Planning Center

You manually copy volunteer availability from Planning Center into spreadsheets or calendars because the scheduling data doesn't flow automatically to other systems your team uses.

78% report this
2

Chasing down Planning Center attendance records

You spend hours each week manually pulling attendance data from Planning Center to reconcile it with your own records or to generate reports for leadership.

71% report this
3

Updating contact info across Planning Center manually

When someone updates their phone number or address in Planning Center, you have to manually enter it again into your email system, accounting software, or other tools.

62% report this
4

Recreating Planning Center event details elsewhere

You re-enter event dates, times, and descriptions from Planning Center into your website, social media, or email marketing platform because they don't sync automatically.

51% report this
5

Manually generating Planning Center giving reports

You export donation data from Planning Center and manually reorganize it in spreadsheets to create the financial summaries and donor reports your board actually needs.

26% report this

Data points based on anonymized data from FullSpec mapping sessions

What you can automate in Planning Center

Browse popular Planning Center automations FullSpec can map for you. Pick one to map, see what it's costing you today, and get a plan to automate it end to end.

Tools commonly connected to Planning Center

Most automations involve more than one tool. These are the ones that show up most often alongside Planning Center.

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