# Planning Center

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/planning-center/  
**Website:** https://www.planningcenter.com  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 37.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 52.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 34.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Planning Center Calendar API** — Church calendaring, events, and facility resources.
- **Planning Center Check-Ins API** — Attendance, events, locations, and stations.
- **Planning Center Giving API** — Donations, funds, batches, payment sources, and pledges.
- **Planning Center Groups API** — Small groups, memberships, and group events.
- **Planning Center People API** — People, households, contact info, lists, forms, and workflows.
- **Planning Center Publishing API** — Sermon channels, series, episodes, and speakers (read-only).
- **Planning Center Registrations API** — Event signups, attendees, categories, and campuses.
- **Planning Center Services API** — Service planning - service types, plans, songs, teams.
- **Planning Center Webhooks API** — Cross-product event subscriptions and deliveries.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Planning Center Agentic Access** — 61 operations · 10 acting

## Security (4)

- **Planning Center Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Planning Center Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Planning Center Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone
- **Planning Center Trust Center** — SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Planning Center Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Church Management, ChMS, Faith, Giving, Event, Scheduling, People, Non-Profit

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/planning-center/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.