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JustSignup vs Planning Center Services
Planning Center Services is how thousands of churches schedule worship teams, tech and kids' ministry: leaders send requests, volunteers accept or decline, and everyone's schedule lives in the Church Center app. It is priced by the number of people who touch the system, from free for 5 to $239 a month for unlimited (planningcenter.com, October 2026). JustSignup is for the volunteers Planning Center wasn't built around: the Thanksgiving meal crew, the Angel Tree sorters, the community members who help at the pantry and will never log in to Church Center. One link, name and email, a reminder the day before.
| Planning Center Services | JustSignup | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Teams inside the church: worship, tech, kids, greeters, scheduled by a leader | Anyone you share a link with: members, neighbors, the partner church, the school group |
| How volunteers respond | Accept or Decline in an email or in Church Center; declining with a reason opens the Services site | Pick a spot on the page with a name and email; nothing to install |
| Volunteer accounts | Church Center login by email or phone code; under-13s can't log in; the church adds people first | None |
| Pricing basis | By total people who access the system: 20 people $15/mo, 50 $32/mo, 150 $69/mo, 400 $115/mo, unlimited $239/mo | Flat: Pro $9/mo or $79/yr for any number of volunteers |
| Reminders | Automatic reminder emails of upcoming commitments; texts via carrier email-to-text gateways | Email the day before on every plan; real text reminders and group texts on Pro + Texting |
| Building the whole service | Yes: order of service, songs, files, rehearsal plans | No. JustSignup schedules people, not the service |
| Church Center app | 4.0 stars, 2,000 ratings (October 2026) | No app; the page works in any browser |
If you already run Services for your worship and kids' teams, keep it; nothing here replaces it. The gap is the seasonal and community volunteers who aren't in your database: Christmas Eve parking, the coat drive, the pantry's Saturday shift. JustSignup puts those on one link anyone can use, without adding 150 people to your Planning Center tier.
Competitor details from their public pricing pages as of October 2026. Tell us if something changed.
Quoted reviews: Planning Center Services pricing · Planning Center help: respond to scheduling emails · Planning Center help: log in to Church Center · Planning Center help: texting