Keep Planning Center. Close the Gaps.
GivFlow vs. Planning Center Giving
Planning Center tracks pledges and notifies on failed gifts. GivFlow closes the loop: smart pledge forms, fulfillment follow-up, failed-gift recovery, and cohort emails with tracked dollars.
Built On Top of Planning Center
Why churches add GivFlow
to Planning Center Giving
This is not a rip and replace. Donors keep giving in Planning Center. GivFlow closes the gaps PCO leaves open: more pledges collected, more pledged dollars fulfilled, and more failed gifts recovered without your team living in exports.
GivFlow automatically helps find and resolve failing online recurring donation issues, and so much more. GivFlow was a complete net positive for us because no one was monitoring lapses or failures.
We love Planning Center.
Collecting pledges is table stakes. Fulfillment is the leak.
Planning Center is your giving system.
Planning Center Giving is excellent at the core job: accept gifts, run pledge campaigns, track progress, and notify donors when a recurring gift fails. Your people already give in Church Center. That should not change.
But here's the reality most churches live in: Commitment Sunday is strong, then fulfillment follow-up thins out. PCO records the pledge and shows progress. It does not run a smart form with personalized links, size a recurring gift to the pledge, or systematically chase behind-pace pledgers. A failed gift gets a system email. It does not get a multi-step recovery sequence from your church's domain.
GivFlow is the layer that acts.
GivFlow connects to Planning Center Giving and People. Donors still give in PCO. We turn the moments in that data into action: pledge form and fulfillment, failed-gift recovery, recurring growth, and cohort emails with 30-day tracked outcomes.
You still get dashboards and donor statuses. Statuses sync back nightly into a GivFlow custom tab on Planning Center profiles so lists and workflows stay in the tools your team already uses.
The top reasons churches add GivFlow on Planning Center.
Keep the ChMS you chose. Stop leaving pledged dollars and failed gifts on the table.
Smart pledge form + fulfillment follow-up after Commitment Sunday.
Planning Center lets you record pledges and track them. GivFlow helps more people say yes and follow through. A branded form with donor lookup or personalized links from bulk email (no login hunt). After they pledge, we invite the monthly amount that fulfills it. When a first gift lands without recurring, or pace falls behind, we nudge with a clear next step. Pledges can stay in GivFlow or sync into Planning Center.
Failed-gift recovery beyond the single PCO notification.
Planning Center emails the donor when a recurring gift fails. That is important, and it is not enough for many people. GivFlow runs a multi-step recovery sequence from your verified church domain, with a clear ask to update the payment method. Our churches average a 67% failed gift recovery rate, and many recover $10,000+ a year that would have otherwise vanished.
Cohort emails with personalized pledge links and 30-day tracked outcomes.
Mid-campaign, plenty of people are giving but have not pledged. GivFlow helps you send a cohort email with a direct path into the form, then track what happened in 30 days: more pledges, first gift to pledge, more recurring. One midpoint nudge produced 14 new pledges / ~$120K on a multi-year campaign. Frame it as cohort to tracked dollars, not percent of a mega goal.
Recurring growth and pastoral moments on autopilot.
Recurring donors give 30–60% more dollars annually and donate 4x the number of gifts. GivFlow tracks new, second gift, active, and lapsed status. When someone reaches active without a recurring gift, we invite the switch. Same engine covers new donor welcome, second gift, lapsed re-engage, ACH fee nudges, and plateau reignite, so follow-up does not depend on whoever remembered to export this week.
Two-way sync into a GivFlow custom tab on Planning Center.
Donor status, donation status, and tiers sync nightly into a GivFlow custom tab on Planning Center profiles. Your team can drive lists, workflows, and automations inside PCO with statuses GivFlow already figured out. Giving stays in Planning Center. Context comes back where staff already work.
Dashboards without living in Excel.
You still get giving dashboards, fund and campus filters, year-over-year comparisons, and shareable links for leadership. You're not giving up PCO reports to get automation. You're adding the action layer most churches never staff fully.
Planning Center alone vs Planning Center + GivFlow.
| Capability | Planning Center Giving | + GivFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Accept gifts (card, ACH, recurring) | ✓ | Donors still give in PCO |
| Record & track pledges | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart pledge form (lookup + personalized links) | Manual / cards | ✓ |
| Invite recurring gift sized to the pledge | ✗ | ✓ |
| Fulfillment / behind-pace campaign nudges | Manual | ✓ |
| Failed gift: system notification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Failed gift: multi-step recovery from church domain | ✗ | ✓ |
| Bulk cohort email with personalized pledge links | ✗ | ✓ |
| 30-day tracked outcomes on cohort sends | ✗ | ✓ |
| Donor status sync to PCO custom tab | ✗ | ✓ |
| Recurring-growth, new donor, lapsed, ACH fee flows | ✗ | ✓ |
| Giving dashboards & YoY comparisons | ✓ | ✓ |
| Setup in about 30 minutes | N/A | ✓ |
A baseline GivFlow experience.
*recurring donors donate 4X the number of gifts and 30%-60% more dollars annually
Loved by church leaders.
See what pastors and administrators are saying about GivFlow.
"We immediately saw it working. The first donor not only fixed their recurring gift — they made a manual donation to cover the one that failed. That one donor covered our entire GivFlow cost."
Church Administrator
GivFlow Customer
"GivFlow is amazing! We can thank our first time givers, check in on our lapsed givers and consider more ways to connect with those that help fuel our mission!"
Kristeb Cobb
Finance & Operations Director, Salty Church
"GivFlow provides powerful metrics that give a snapshot of the financial health of our congregation. Moreover, their integration with Planning Center has improved how we follow up with individual congregants."
Erik Scottberg
Lead Pastor, Cornerstone Church
"Love GivFlow! Combined with PCO, GivFlow gives me the data I need as an XP, reports far faster than I could produce on my own, and charts to help me better communicate with my board!"
Walt Pitman
Executive Pastor, Ridgewood Church
Is GivFlow right for you?
GivFlow is a great fit if...
- ✓ You run (or are about to run) a pledge campaign on Planning Center
- ✓ Commitment Sunday is strong but fulfillment follow-up is thin
- ✓ Failed gifts still slip even though PCO emails the donor
- ✓ You want cohort outreach with a clear dollar outcome in 30 days
- ✓ Staff should not live in spreadsheets to chase pledges
- ✓ You want two-way status sync into Planning Center lists and workflows
Native Planning Center may be enough if...
- – You only need to record pledges and track progress
- – Your team already runs a tight manual fulfillment process
- – You do not want another product in the stack (even one that leaves giving in PCO)
See what happens when giving is handled well.
We would love to walk you through how GivFlow sits on Planning Center — pledges, failed gifts, and recurring growth — so your team can focus on ministry.