Planning Center

Planning Center is a suite of church management software products - People, Services, Giving, Groups, Check-Ins, Calendar, Registrations, and Publishing - used by churches to organize their people, plan worship services, process online giving, run small groups, manage attendance and check-in, schedule facilities and events, handle event registrations, and publish sermons. Each product exposes a documented public REST API under a shared base URL (https://api.planningcenteronline.com), authenticated with OAuth 2.0 or a Personal Access Token and returning data in the JSON:API 1.0 format. A Webhooks API delivers create/update/destroy events across the products. The APIs are free to use with a Planning Center account; each product is subscribed to separately.

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APIs

Planning Center People API

The system of record for people in a Planning Center account. Read and write people, their emails, addresses, phone numbers, households, field data, lists, forms, and workflows....

Planning Center Services API

Plan and schedule worship services. Manage service types, plans and their items, songs and arrangements, teams and team members, and the people scheduled to serve on each plan.

Planning Center Giving API

Read and write online and offline giving records - donations and their designations, funds, batches, payment sources, pledges, and recurring donations. Push gifts from an extern...

Planning Center Groups API

Manage small groups - group types, individual groups, their memberships and members, group events and attendance, tags, and enrollment. Read the group directory and write member...

Planning Center Check-Ins API

Read attendance and check-in data - check-ins, events and their event times, locations, stations, and the people checked in. Track headcounts and secure child check-in across ev...

Planning Center Calendar API

Manage church calendaring and facility scheduling - events and their event instances, room and equipment resources, resource requests, conflicts, and tags. Read the public event...

Planning Center Registrations API

Read event signups and registration data - signups (events), their categories and campuses, attendees, selection types, and emergency contacts. Surface live availability, times,...

Planning Center Publishing API

Read-only access to published sermon content - channels, series, episodes and their episode times, speakers, and speakerships. Syndicate sermon media into external sites, apps, ...

Planning Center Webhooks API

Subscribe to create, update, and destroy events across the Planning Center products. Manage webhook subscriptions, browse the catalog of available events, and inspect deliveries...

Collections

Planning Center API

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Pricing Plans

Planning Center Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Planning Center Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Planning Center Finops

FINOPS

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Blog

Sources

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Planning Center API
  version: '2.0'
  description: '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.'
request:
  auth:
    type: basic
    username: '{{applicationId}}'
    password: '{{secret}}'
  headers:
  - name: User-Agent
    value: apis-io
items:
- info:
    name: People
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List people
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/people/v2/people
    docs: Lists people in the account.
  - info:
      name: Get a person
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/people/v2/people/:id
      params:
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: path
        description: The person ID.
    docs: Retrieves a single person by ID.
  - info:
      name: Create a person
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/people/v2/people
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"data":{"type":"Person","attributes":{"first_name":"Jane","last_name":"Doe"}}}'
    docs: Creates a person (JSON:API document).
  - info:
      name: List emails
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/people/v2/emails
    docs: Lists email addresses across the account.
  - info:
      name: List households
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/people/v2/households
    docs: Lists households.
- info:
    name: Services
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List service types
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/services/v2/service_types
    docs: Lists service types.
  - info:
      name: List plans for a service type
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/services/v2/service_types/:service_type_id/plans
      params:
      - name: service_type_id
        value: ''
        type: path
        description: The service type ID.
    docs: Lists plans within a service type.
  - info:
      name: List songs
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/services/v2/songs
    docs: Lists songs.
  - info:
      name: List teams
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/services/v2/teams
    docs: Lists teams.
- info:
    name: Giving
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List donations
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/giving/v2/donations
    docs: Lists donations.
  - info:
      name: Create a donation
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/giving/v2/donations
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"data":{"type":"Donation","attributes":{"amount_cents":5000,"amount_currency":"USD","received_at":"2026-07-03"}}}'
    docs: Creates a donation with its designations and payment source.
  - info:
      name: List funds
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/giving/v2/funds
    docs: Lists funds.
  - info:
      name: List batches
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/giving/v2/batches
    docs: Lists batches.
  - info:
      name: List payment sources
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/giving/v2/payment_sources
    docs: Lists payment sources.
- info:
    name: Groups
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List groups
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/groups/v2/groups
    docs: Lists groups.
  - info:
      name: List group types
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/groups/v2/group_types
    docs: Lists group types.
  - info:
      name: List memberships for a group
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/groups/v2/groups/:group_id/memberships
      params:
      - name: group_id
        value: ''
        type: path
        description: The group ID.
    docs: Lists members of a group.
- info:
    name: Check-Ins
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List check-ins
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/check-ins/v2/check_ins
    docs: Lists check-ins.
  - info:
      name: List check-in events
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/check-ins/v2/events
    docs: Lists check-in events.
  - info:
      name: List locations
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/check-ins/v2/locations
    docs: Lists check-in locations.
- info:
    name: Calendar
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List calendar events
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/calendar/v2/events
    docs: Lists calendar events.
  - info:
      name: List event instances
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/calendar/v2/event_instances
    docs: Lists event instances.
  - info:
      name: List resources
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/calendar/v2/resources
    docs: Lists rooms and equipment resources.
- info:
    name: Registrations
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List signups
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/registrations/v2/signups
    docs: Lists signups (registration events).
  - info:
      name: List attendees for a signup
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/registrations/v2/signups/:signup_id/attendees
      params:
      - name: signup_id
        value: ''
        type: path
        description: The signup ID.
    docs: Lists attendees for a signup.
- info:
    name: Publishing
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List channels
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/publishing/v2/channels
    docs: Lists sermon channels (read-only).
  - info:
      name: List episodes for a channel
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/publishing/v2/channels/:channel_id/episodes
      params:
      - name: channel_id
        value: ''
        type: path
        description: The channel ID.
    docs: Lists episodes within a channel.
  - info:
      name: List series
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/publishing/v2/series
    docs: Lists sermon series.
- info:
    name: Webhooks
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: List subscriptions
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/webhooks/v2/subscriptions
    docs: Lists webhook subscriptions.
  - info:
      name: Create a subscription
      type: http
    http:
      method: POST
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/webhooks/v2/subscriptions
      body:
        type: json
        data: '{"data":{"type":"Subscription","attributes":{"name":"people.v2.events.person.created","url":"https://example.com/webhooks/pco","active":true}}}'
    docs: Subscribes to an available event; deliveries are outbound HTTPS POST.
  - info:
      name: List available events
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.planningcenteronline.com/webhooks/v2/available_events
    docs: Lists the catalog of subscribable events across products.