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Exporting Data from Planning Center: CSV, the API, and When to Stop
What each Planning Center product exports, how the API really behaves under load, and an honest look at what building your own sync costs to maintain.
Michael Visser
The Church Dashboard: What Belongs on It, and How to Build One from Planning Center
The thirteen metrics worth putting on a church dashboard, which ones lead and which lag, and how to build the whole thing from Planning Center data.
Michael Visser
Multi-Site Reporting in Planning Center: Why Your Campus Numbers Never Line Up
Campus is modelled differently in every Planning Center product. How to get per-campus attendance and giving out of PCO, and where the roll-up breaks.
Michael Visser
Planning Center Lists: A Power User's Guide (With 15 List Rules Worth Copying)
How Lists actually work in Planning Center People: rules, all/any/none logic, refresh behaviour, plus 15 ready-made list recipes and where Lists stop.
Michael Visser
I Know What It Feels Like to Be Invisible at Church
Parable is church analytics for Planning Center, built by people who spent years inside church databases. The founder's story, and why it exists.
Michael Visser
Why We Built Parable: Transforming Church Care Through Intentional Insights
Parable is ministry intelligence for churches on Planning Center. Why we built it: to surface the people quietly slipping through the cracks.
Michael Visser