Multiple accounts or multiple campuses?
If your church meets in more than one location, is it better to create a separate Planning Center account for each location or create another campus within your existing account? The answer depends on a few key details. This article will help you make the best decision for your church.
Which of the following scenarios best describes the relationship between your church's campuses?
Take a look at the advice below to decide if you should have multiple campuses in the same account or separate accounts for each campus.
If your campuses have separate tax ID numbers, bank accounts, or copyright licenses, these are valid reasons for having separate accounts. Your church staff can have profiles in both accounts and link them together for easy access.
See Set up a new account for instructions on getting started with a new account.
Warning
Separate Planning Center accounts cannot be merged after they are created.
Managing multiple campuses
Campuses can be used to organize your church information in each of the Planning Center products. However, campus information will only show up across products if more than one campus is added in your account settings.
The table below describes how campuses are used in different Planning Center products.
Product | Multiple campus features | Links for more information |
|---|---|---|
Services | Associate folders and tags with a campus and run Services LIVE for more than one location. | |
Giving | Use labels and funds to designate donations for a specific campus. | |
People | Campuses are listed on a person’s profile and used in lists and workflows. | |
Registrations | Assign specific campuses to Signups so congregants can easily find events at their campus. | |
Check-Ins | Campuses that have the same times can use separate folders in the same event. If campuses have different times, separate events need to be created. | |
Calendar | Set up a folder structure to keep track of each campus's rooms and resources, add tags to each campus-specific events, set campuses as event locations, and set up multiple calendars for each campus's ministries. | |
Groups | Set campuses as locations, assign groups to a specific campus, and use tags to designate groups. | |
Publishing | Add specific campuses to your settings to make your church easier to find on the web and Church Center app. Use custom pages to display campus-specific information. |