Planning Center has two main places to create a group of people. You can make a team in Services or a group in Groups.
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Use Services when you need to know exactly who is going to show up on a specific date and to find someone to take their place if they can't. Making a team in Services allows you to put relevant notes in the team's plan, send scheduling invitations and reminders, and participate in team chats that the leader creates.
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Use Groups for situations where everyone in the group is always invited to each event or included in all communication. If enabled, group members can use chat to communicate.
If your people serve at an event, create the teams and positions in Services and add them to the plan they're serving in.
You can create templates of rotations or add needed positions to plans to schedule your team members.
If your people meet at times that don't need worship planning, use Groups instead. Create a group of all the members and add any events to meet with them.
Services allows your members to access resources easily from any device, including Android and iOS apps.
You can also upload resources to a group or multiple groups.
Group leaders can enable chat in Church Center so that members can communicate there.
Team leaders in Services can send emails from the team page or the main People tab.
Team leaders can also text members from a plan on the Android or iOS mobile app or use chat.