How to Embed Planning Center Groups & Events Directly into Your Website
We all know Planning Center is an incredible tool for churches to use to improve their communications in a multitude of ways. Planning Center allows you to create Small Groups in the “Groups” app and Events in the “Registrations” app, both of which comes with tons of cool features. All the groups and events you create in Planning Center show up on “Church Center,” which is the web app and mobile app where your people can access both their groups and upcoming events through their own account.
Unfortunately, when it comes time to get all this great Planning Center content on your website, you are forced to either also recreate these items on your web builder and link to Church Center OR you can simply link directly to Church Center as your groups and events page. Both options work fine, but one is a lot of extra work and the other can be a confusing user experience.
This is why The Church Co created their Planning Center Integration. The Church Co is a web builder and hosting company that created a powerful and modern website platform for churches and in the process, created some amazing integrations.
Among their numerous integrations you can take advantage of when you use their builder is the Planning Center Groups and Registrations/Events integration. When you use their builder, set-up is pretty easy and their awesome team will help you make it happen.
However, if you’re like most churches and you don’t want to switch over to a whole new website platform just for an integration, have no fear!
The folks at The Church Co have made their integration available to embed directly into your native web builder. So whether you use Squarespace, Wordpress, or really any other platform the uses javascript and allows embedding, odds are they’ll be able to help you get the integration working. Click one of the links for an example of this integration on a Squarespace website with Groups and Registrations/Events.
Once it’s up and running, all you have to do is update Planning Center and all your groups and events will update automatically! It will cost you a little bit of money for the integration-only subscription, but it’s well worth it in the time and energy it will save you updating just one system instead of two!
Need help getting set up?
The team at “The Church Co” is very helpful to churches who would like to get this set up. While you won’t see it on their regular menu, all you need to do is use their intercom widget on their website, tell them you want the “integration only” plan, and they help you get things set up from there!
Step 3: Enjoy an automatic updating Groups page!
That’s it! You’re done! Now wherever you add a new group, or change an existing group in Planning Center Groups, your church’s groups page will automatically update on your website. People will be able to click on groups, interact with them on Church Center and you won’t have to do anything more to make it happen.
Need some help setting up your Church Co integration? We’d love to help! Just get in touch and we’ll set-up a call!
