Tracking discipleship in Planning Center, without updating it by hand.
Most churches track discipleship in Planning Center with a custom field or a Workflow that someone updates after every class. OnArk does that update for you. Your classes run online, and once you set it up for a class, everyone who finishes gets it saved to their Planning Center People profile and lands in the Workflow your team already follows up from.
How do I see who finished a class?
In OnArk, open Guests, pick the class, and set Status to Completed. That list is everyone who reached the end. Switch to In Progress to see who started and stopped, which is usually the list worth a phone call.
For anything more specific, such as everyone who finished and said they want to serve, build a report with conditions on any section or answer and download it as a CSV. Guests can leave and come back on any device, so a class taken over three weeks still counts as one finished class.
How does it sync to Planning Center People?
Connect Planning Center once in your church settings. After that, when someone checks in to a class, OnArk matches them to their existing People profile by email. If they are new, it creates the profile. Everything they do in the class writes to that same person, so a second class never makes a duplicate.
Guests never log in to anything. They enter their email, take the class in your church's branding, and Planning Center stays current in the background, usually within a few minutes.
What does OnArk write back to PCO?
You choose, per class, with automations that fire when someone checks in, finishes a section, or gives a specific answer:
- Save to a profile field. Write a value to a custom field on their PCO profile: a completion date on the last section, a spiritual gifts or DISC result, the ministry they picked.
- Add to a Workflow. Add them as a new card in the PCO Workflow you choose, so the pastor who owns that next step sees them in the queue they already work.
- Email your team. Send a staff member the person's name and what they finished.
A tip for tracking a whole pathway: give each class its own PCO custom field, like “Discipleship 101 completed,” and save the date into it from the class's last section. Then a PCO List filtered on those fields shows exactly where everyone is.
OnArk does not add tags, move cards between Workflow steps, or touch Services, Giving, or Calendar.
What does it cost?
Every plan includes the Planning Center integration and every other feature. Plans are annual and differ only in how many guest check-ins a year they include:
- Starter: $390/year, under 500 weekly
- Growth: $990/year, 500 – 1,500 weekly
- Scale: $2,490/year, 1,500+ or multi-campus
Start with a 21-day free trial, $0 today. See pricing for check-in allowances, or everything the Planning Center integration does.
Let Planning Center keep up with your people.
Connect Planning Center, build your first class, and watch the first finisher land in PCO. Free for 21 days.