Planning Center Analytics: How to See Your Whole Church in One Dashboard

What Planning Center reports do well

Each Planning Center product has helpful reports of its own. Check-Ins shows who checked in. Groups shows group attendance. Services shows who is scheduled. Giving shows donations.

If you only need an answer from one product, those reports are often all you need.

Where it gets hard

Most leadership questions cross more than one product. How many people in groups also serve? Are new guests getting connected? Is attendance growing compared with last year?

Answering those usually means exporting several files, matching people by hand, and building a spreadsheet. By the time it is done, the numbers are already out of date.

The numbers most church leaders want

• Weekend attendance: Weekly averages, trends, and how this season compares with last year.
• Connection: How much of your church is in a group, on a serving team, or both.
• Next steps: Guests, baptisms, membership, and classes, with real dates.
• Giving trends: Givers and regular givers over time, visible only to people with finance access.
• Data health: Duplicate profiles and missing information that quietly skew every number.

What a church dashboard looks like

A good dashboard puts those answers on one screen, uses your own definitions of membership and community, and tells you plainly when something needs setup instead of guessing.

Share it with your staff and leadership

Ministry Lens turns the same numbers into a leadership summary you can download as a polished PDF, so staff, board, elder, and committee meetings start from the same picture.