Planning Center API
Representative Open Collection for the Planning Center suite of church management APIs - People, Services, Giving, Groups, Check-Ins, Calendar, Registrations, Publishing, and Webhooks. Shared base host https://api.planningcenteronline.com with per-product path prefixes. All responses are JSON:API 1.0. Authenticate with HTTP Basic using a Personal Access Token (application id / secret) or an OAuth 2.0 bearer token. Rate limit: 100 requests per 20 seconds per user.
Overview
Planning Center API is a Open Collection published by Planning Center on the APIs.io network, version 2.0.
Representative Open Collection for the Planning Center suite of church management APIs - People, Services, Giving, Groups, Check-Ins, Calendar, Registrations, Publishing, and Webhooks. Shared base host https://api.planningcenteronline.com with per-product path prefixes. All responses are JSON:API 1.0. Authenticate with HTTP Basic using a Personal Access Token (application id / secret) or an OAuth 2.0 bearer token. Rate limit: 100 requests per 20 seconds per user.
The collection contains 31 requests organised into 9 folders.
Tagged areas include Church Management, ChMS, Faith, Giving, and Event.
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