If your church has more than one campus, Planning Center is made for you, and this article is written especially for you! It includes the first essential steps to set up your multi-campus church, and then highlights additional helpful features across Planning Center's products.
Start by adding campus information in your account settings, which includes essential details that will be helpful across all of your Planning Center products.
Campus information is used to organize people, events, and features throughout other Planning Center products and provide important information to people using the Church Center app.
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Select the product name in the top navigation and choose account settings from the dropdown.
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Select the Church Campuses tab from the left sidebar.
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If you're adding your first campus, select the Add a Church Campus button.
If you already have at least one campus, select the Add Another Church Campus button.
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Enter the campus name and location details, and choose whether or not you want the campus to be listed in the Church Center app search. (If you don't see this option listed, that means the Church Center app must be enabled first.
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Select the Save button.
Tip
Planning Center does not limit the number of campuses you can have, but if you're adding a campus for the Check-ins Mobile Pass, remember that each Apple Pass can only hold up to 10 addresses.
Next, jump over to People and assign people to the campuses you just added. This also allows you to use campus information as a condition in lists and workflows in People. You can assign an individual or multiple people to a campus at once!
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Select the People page from the top navigation.
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Select the name of the person you want to assign to a campus.
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Select the Campus button in the top right corner of the person's profile page.
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Choose their campus from the dropdown.
If you don't see the campus option, your church has only one campus in Planning Center. An organization administrator can add campuses for you.
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Select the People page from the top navigation.
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Select the ⚙️ gear icon in the top right corner of the page.
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Choose Bulk actions from the dropdown.
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Search for individuals or a list of people and add them to the People selected section.
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Select the dropdown next to Action and choose the Set campus option.
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Select the dropdown next to Campus and choose the campus to which you want to assign these people.
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To finish, select the Perform action on people button at the bottom of the window.
Campus tags allow you to tag events so your staff can filter Calendar events relevant to their campus, and your congregation can filter for their campus in the events you publish to Church Center.
Campus tags are automatically set up in Calendar when you add campuses in account settings. If you add campuses in account settings after adding tags in Calendar, you can still set up campus tags manually.
Campus tags can also be used in event request forms, templates, and Calendar feeds that sync with Groups and Registrations. For more details, check out the guide to multi-campus setups in Calendar.
You can create unique events for each campus in Check-Ins, allowing you to tailor each event specifically to a campus.
If you use mobile Check-Ins, congregants can save their mobile pass to their phone's wallet for quick access when they're near the campus location.
All reports in Giving can be filtered by campus.
Giving pulls campus data from People, so once you've assigned people to your campuses, your donors' online donations are automatically given a stamp for their campus. These stamps are designed to be used as filters, helping administrators gauge donor engagement based on the campus they regularly attend. Stamps allow you to track which campus a donor is giving from. If you want to determine the campus a donor is giving to, you'll need to rely on campus-specific funds, explained below.
When you set up campus-specific funds, such as General: East Campus or General: West Campus, your donors can select the campus fund their donation is intended for.
Create a tag group with tags for each campus to allow people to find groups that meet at the campus they attend.
Administrators can also use these tags when filtering and sorting the list of all groups.
There are two options to choose from when creating pages for multi-campus churches.
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Create one home page that lists the essential information for each of your campuses.
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Create a custom page for each campus, where you can use content blocks to add campus-specific events, signups, or funds. This option requires the Custom Pages pricing plan, which an organization administrator can enable on the Products page in account settings.
Administrators in Registrations can assign a campus to a signup to help people find their campus events more easily. These campus designations also allow staff to filter and sort signups by campus.
Set up campus tags to sort and filter people outside their serving schedules.
If you have teams that are able to serve at more than one campus (such as a choir), create tag teams to simplify scheduling.
Create a folder for each campus to contain all of their plans and ministry schedules.