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Miranda M.
Children's Pastor
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Planning Center Groups has been great so far!"
5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

What I like best about Planning Center Groups is the ease! We've used other software before that was so difficult to use, track data, and explain to users. Planning Center Groups is so user friendly and allows us to track all attendance in all the groups. You can even create events per group and chats within the members of your group. It makes communication to all your group members incredibly easy and we love it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

What I would like to be different in Planning Center Groups is that when someone wants to join a group it makes them create an account. However, if they already have an account in another Planning Center product, like Services, it doesn't just pull their information from there. So, when that happens we have a lot of duplicates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Charleigh P.
Charleigh Pafford
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Effective and efficient for Scheduling and planning services. "
5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

Planning center is very clear about teams and it's great for adding links to things you may need! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

Most often, the issue isn't ever with the app itself, but in the way the admin approaches the use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Ease and organization"
5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

Planning center makes it easy and efficient to organize and fulfill the needs of my group. There's many options for my church. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

I wish it were easier for my members to sign up and create and account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrew B.
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Andrew B.
Sr Web Designer
Design
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great way to organize small groups at a church."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

As a group leader at my church, Groups makes life so easy. We can keep an updated list of every member's info (email and phone), I can attach documents, images, and videos for everyone to access for our meetings, as well as take attendance to track which events have the most impact.

The group information section is also super helpful for potential members to find a group that fits their location, schedule, and age bracket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

There is no app for this program, which would be super convenient. The ability to jump onto the app to take attendance or add an event would be much easier than having to open a computer and login. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zack S.
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Zack S.
Sound & Media Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great small group management for churches of all sizes!"
4/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

It's a very easy to use system with a user-friendly UI that makes managing small groups or ministry groups a breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

It would be nice for there to be a bit more customization for the pages that the congregation sees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Religious Institutions
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Verified User in Religious Institutions
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Planning Center Review"
5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

Planning Center makes it so easy to keep volunteers organized with templates, teams, and automatic reminders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

I haven’t found a ton that I dislike, but when you’re trying to edit teams or songs and such, the navigation of it all gets a bit finicky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HP
Homer P.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Train people first"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

It's very easy to add people to groups and communicate changes and updates to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

The UI is not intuitive enough. It requires training people on how to utilize it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Peter E.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great group organization!!"
5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

There are several features I think are significant. First, it’s easynto update geoupsnonnthe backend. We can add, remove and adjust groups and their info with ease. Second, the public group directory makes it super easy for members of our church to find a group that suits them and sign up or communicate with the leaders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

There are a ton of ways to “tag” a group and I think that is a bit confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Audrey R.
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Audrey R.
Office/Operations Manager
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy group management on sliding cost scale"
5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

I love how easy it is to get going with PC Groups. Especially if you're already using PC People for people management, they work together seamlessly. When you begin with Groups, it comes with several example groups already set up so you can see the options available for how to use this module of Planning Center. It's easy to look at a sample group and then model your groups setup after the samples. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

It has a lot of features, which is good, bit since this is a newer product from PC, there probably aren't alot of helps out there. You have to figure it out yourself or contact PC's (excellent) support team. If you have LOTS of groups (like more than 15 or so) you'll want to put some thought in advance, into how to categorize them for easy browsing. Also, thus module costs Per Person in it. A person can be in multiple groups and you only get charged for them once, but this is not a good format for managing email lists, or groups of people that don't get regularly updated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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md F.
test
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Planning Center Rocks"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Planning Center Groups?

Planning center is super easy to use, and I can use it on all my platforms which helps when I am not in front of a computer. I like that all of the platforms are integrated and work seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Planning Center Groups?

I just like that sometimes when I have a document up and I scroll down that it goes too fast. I would like to be able to adjust the sensitivity of the scrolling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.