specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Planning Center
providerId: planning-center
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Church Management
- ChMS
- Giving
- Events
- Plans
description: >-
  Planning Center's API is free to use with an active Planning Center account -
  there is no separate charge for API access, and both Personal Access Tokens and
  OAuth applications are available at no cost. What you pay for is the products
  themselves. Planning Center prices each product (People, Services, Giving,
  Groups, Check-Ins, Calendar, Registrations, Publishing) as a separate
  subscription. People is free. Most other products have a free starter tier and
  then scale in monthly price by the number of people in the account. Giving has
  no monthly subscription fee for the software - instead it charges a per-transaction
  processing fee on donations. Exact per-tier dollar amounts change over time and
  are not reconciled here.
notes: >-
  The API is included with any product subscription at no additional fee. Verify
  current per-product tiers, people-count thresholds, and Giving processing rates
  on the Planning Center pricing page during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://www.planningcenter.com/pricing
- https://www.planningcenter.com/developers
- https://developer.planning.center/docs/
plans:
- id: pco-api-access
  name: API Access
  type: free
  description: >-
    Programmatic access to every product the account subscribes to, via Personal
    Access Token or OAuth 2.0. No separate fee - included with the account.
    Governed by the standard 100 requests / 20 seconds per-user rate limit.
  entries:
  - label: API Requests
    name: api_requests
    type: usage
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free with any Planning Center account
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: All Subscribed Product APIs
  - name: Webhooks
  - name: OAuth and Personal Access Tokens
- id: pco-people
  name: People
  type: free
  description: >-
    The shared people database and the People product, including the People API.
    Free for unlimited people.
  entries:
  - label: People Product
    name: people_product
    type: flat
    metric: subscription
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: People Database
  - name: Lists, Forms, Workflows
  - name: People API
- id: pco-product-subscription
  name: Per-Product Subscription
  type: subscription
  description: >-
    Services, Groups, Check-Ins, Calendar, Registrations, and Publishing are each
    subscribed to separately. Each has a free starter tier and paid monthly tiers
    that scale by the number of people in the account. The API for a product is
    included with its subscription.
  entries:
  - label: Product Subscription
    name: product_subscription
    type: subscription
    metric: subscription
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: tiered monthly by people count (see pricing page)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Free Starter Tier
  - name: Paid Tiers Scaling by People Count
  - name: Product API Included
- id: pco-giving
  name: Giving
  type: usage
  description: >-
    Giving has no monthly software subscription fee. Instead Planning Center
    charges a per-transaction processing fee on each donation. The Giving API is
    included at no extra cost.
  entries:
  - label: Donation Processing Fee
    name: giving_processing_fee
    type: usage
    metric: transactions
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: per-transaction processing fee (see pricing page)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Online and Text Giving
  - name: Giving API
  - name: Payment Sources
- id: pco-enterprise
  name: Custom / Large Organization
  type: enterprise
  description: >-
    Multi-site churches and large organizations can contact Planning Center for
    volume arrangements and support. Contact sales.
  entries:
  - label: Custom Agreement
    name: custom
    type: flat
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: contact sales
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Volume Pricing
  - name: Multi-Site Support
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com