The Planning Center

Planning Center offers church management software for any size church. That is the short version of The Planning Center. The job it does: managing your IT, from help desk to infrastructure, as an outside partner.

It makes the most sense for small and mid-sized companies. They also list Information Services and Mobile Apps, so expect those to show up in the feature set. As a mid-sized company team themselves (51 to 200 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best.

The Planning Center is based in Carlsbad, California. Their site is planningcenter.com.

Our checklist for this category: response SLAs, onboarding, and what is billed per hour. Get the renewal terms in writing before the first invoice.

If you have worked with The Planning Center, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.