Multiple Accounts or Multiple Campuses

If your church meets in more than one location, is it better to create a separate Planning Center account for each location or create another campus within your existing account?

Which is best for our church?

Which of the following scenarios best describes the relationship between your church's campuses?

Campuses share staff and volunteers

If you have staff or volunteers consistently serving at multiple sites, we recommend that you use a single account. Data can't be shared or synced between multiple accounts, so having one account is often easier to manage. This will also help keep your overall costs down.

Notice

See Add Campus Information for instructions on setting up a new campus.

Campuses have separate financial or licensing information

If your campuses have separate Tax ID numbers, bank accounts, or copyright licenses, these are valid reasons for having separate accounts. Your church staff can have profiles in both accounts and link them together for easy access.

Notice

See Setting Up a New Account for instructions on setting up a new account.

Caution

Separate Planning Center accounts cannot be merged after they are created. This is another great reason to use separate campuses instead of separate accounts, if possible.

Managing Multiple Campuses

Campuses can be used to help organize your church information in each of the Planning Center products. However, campus information will only show up across products if more than one campus is added.

The table below describes how campuses are used in different Planning Center products.

Product	Multiple Campus Features	Links for More Information
Services	You can associate folders and tags with a campus and run Services LIVE for more than one location.	Working with Multiple Campuses
Giving	You can use labels and funds to designate donations for a specific campus.	Labels Funds
People	Campuses are listed on a person’s profile and used in lists and workflows.	Using Campuses to Organize Lists and Workflows Assigning People to Campuses
Registrations	Assign specific campuses to Signups so congregants can easily find events at their campus.	Signup Settings
Check-ins	Campuses that have the same times can use separate folders in the same event. If campuses have different times, separate events need to be created.	Folder Settings in Events
Calendar	You can set up a folder structure to keep track of your room and resources and add tags to events for each campus.	Multi-Campus Setups
Groups	You can use tags to designate groups and set locations for specific campuses.	Setting Locations Using Tags
Publishing	Add specific campuses to your settings to make your church easier to find on the web and Church Center app. Use custom pages to display campus-specific information.	Publishing Settings Add Custom Pages