Or…What makes it a sock drawer? ne question it seems to come up a lot when people are beginning to plan their migration to PCO Giving is: How do we set up PCO Giving for a Multicampus Church? The question usually comes from a backdrop of working with other church management systems (Chms). Many Chms provide, or …
** Caution: The following might be construed as a Rant. Caution is advised 🙂 I confess – I have always loved Apple products. Being an old guy, I can remember the first time I played with an Apple II! My history with Apple goes back the high school – I went to high school at Homestead high school in Cupertino …
I had the opportunity recently to do a very large PCO People import for another church. Since it was a few years since I did the import from my own church, this was a good opportunity to revisit the importer, considerations for planning, things to think about, as well as how to organization and prep for the import Source data …
As more and more churches, small businesses, even medium-sized businesses move their communications to the cloud, a large proportion of these are opting to go with Google G Suite, the current version of Google apps for email, basic office apps such as Word processing, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Shared file storage, etc. There’s a tremendous amount of value here at a very …
We have been actively developing a number of different web apps for church– some internal, and some potentially for use by other churches, depending on how well they come out 🙂 In today’s environment, there’s a number different ways you can host these but the most common is going to be to run things in the cloud, where you won’t …
You may or may not have heard of GDPR, but be certain that most commercial Enterprises, businesses, corporations have heard of it and are taking aggressive actions to meet this regulatory monster. What is GDPR? It is a new European Union regulation – General Data Protection Regulation – going into effect late May 2018 which seeks to strengthen protections of …
As a multi-campus church, when we decided to migrate to the full PCO suite, we had to work through some considerations to support and simplify our multiple campuses. I thought it might be handy to put down some of the considerations in tips that we used, hopefully, helpful for other churches in similar situations. Of course, it’s got to be …
Part of the available services within Google for NonProfits is Google Ad Grants (GAG), which subsidizes upto $10K/month in Google Adwords. That sound amazing, almost too good to be true, and while it is awesome to get Google Adwords for your church or non-profit for free, it’s actually pretty difficult to utilize the $10k/month currently. There are a few reasons …
If you’re like a lot of churches, nonprofits, and small businesses, it’s very likely that you use Gmail for your primary email system (or you’re thinking about it). It’s also possible, for a small team, that you signed up for G Suite, formerly known as Google Apps. G Suite has a number of obvious benefits over standalone email accounts, including …
We did our migration from Community Church Builder (CCB) to Planning Center Online (PCO) in the Fall of 2016, and we have been very happy with the platform, as well as the excellent support that the Planning Center team provides. While CCB was largely in our rearview mirror, I still continued to be engaged in discussions with other churches that …
