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Can you put Planning Center groups on your own domain?

Yes. Planning Center publishes a Groups API, and a few third-party tools use it to put group content on your site rather than on Church Center.

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Yes. Planning Center exposes Groups through its API, and third-party tools use that to publish group content on your own website instead of leaving it on Church Center.

Planning Center itself doesn't offer this. Church Center is the destination they provide, it lives on a Planning Center domain, and there's no first-party option for hosting that content under your own address.

What the options actually give you

Widgets paste a script into a page and inject groups after it loads. The groups appear on your domain visually, but the HTML your server sends doesn't contain them and individual groups usually have no URL of their own.

Sync tools import groups into your site as real content. On WordPress that means a custom post type, so each group gets a permalink, an entry in your sitemap, and a page that exists before any JavaScript runs. PCO Bridge works this way, and also generates archives by group type, meeting day, and campus.

One thing stays put

Joining hands back to Church Center either way. Planning Center owns membership, so what moves to your domain is the browsing and the deciding, not the roster.

PCO Bridge is in beta and applications are open to churches, developers, and agencies.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you put Planning Center groups on your own website?
Yes. Planning Center exposes Groups through its API, and third-party tools use it to publish group content on your own domain rather than only on Church Center.
Does Planning Center offer a custom domain for Church Center?
Church Center is hosted on a Planning Center domain, and there's no first-party option for serving that content under your own address.
Will visitors still go to Church Center to join?
Yes. Joining hands back to Church Center because Planning Center owns membership. Browsing and deciding can happen on your site.