See the gaps early
Open the week with volunteer needs, overdue follow-ups, and work waiting for a decision.
Founding beta for churches using Planning Center
Know what needs attention before it gets missed.
Pews gives your team one clear weekly view of volunteer gaps, guest and care follow-ups, and unfinished work—without replacing the tools you already use.
$39/month or $399/year · No setup fee · Cancel before the next billing period
Good morning
3 need attentionThis week at Riverstone
Needs attention
Sunday hospitality gapOne position still needs an owner
UnassignedWelcome the Martin familyGuest follow-up due Thursday
AssignedPastoral care check-inWaiting on a response
In progressConfirm Sunday service detailsOrder and team notes ready to review
ReviewWeek at a glance
9open follow-ups
3need an owner
6ready for Sunday
Planning Center staysNo forced migration or volunteer retraining.
One place to checkStart the week with priorities, owners, and next actions.
Built around your workflowBegin with one real handoff your team needs to fix.
A calmer church week
Less chasing. Fewer dropped handoffs.
Your team should not need five tabs, two spreadsheets, and somebody’s memory to know what still needs to happen.
Know who owns it
Give every next action an owner, due date, status, and enough context to move.
Keep the tools people know
Use Pews beside Planning Center and your current systems. Replace nothing on day one.
Follow-through that keeps the person in view
From “someone should” to “Sarah has it.”
Pews keeps the person, the reason, the owner, and the next step together—so a care request or guest follow-up does not become another forgotten note.
✓
Guest and care follow-upsTrack the conversation without losing the human context.
✓
Clear ownershipSee what is new, assigned, waiting, overdue, or complete.
✓
Weekly service visibilitySurface volunteer gaps and unresolved details before Sunday.
Care & follow-ups
Sample boardNEW
Welcome new familyGuest follow-up · Due Thursday
Prayer request responseNeeds an owner
IN PROGRESS
Pastoral care check-inSarah · Waiting on response
Membership follow-upJames · Due Friday
COMPLETED
Meal train coordinationCompleted Tuesday
Illustrative interface. Not live church data.
Founding Ops Beta
Simple pricing for the first churches in.
One church-wide price for the beta. No per-seat charge and no Pews transaction fee.
$39 / month
or $399 prepaid for one year
Join the founding betaIncluded
Weekly operations view, owners and due dates, guest and care follow-ups, and service and volunteer-gap visibility.
Your current tools
Planning Center stays in place. Pews connects to selected Planning Center information when your account and setup allow.
Additional usage
No Pews transaction fee in this phase. Messaging, payment processing, and third-party costs are only added if separately agreed.
Not included yet
Full Planning Center replacement, native worship planning, check-in hardware, donation processing, accounting, mass messaging, broad migration, or a finished member app.
Built by someone who knows the church week. Petie Clark spent years as a worship pastor before moving into technology. Pews starts with the handoffs church teams feel every week—not a checklist of software modules.
A small first group
Fix one weekly handoff first.
The beta starts with one problem your team already feels. If Pews cannot make that workflow clearer, it has not earned a larger role.
Best for churches already using Planning Center plus spreadsheets, forms, inboxes, or task tools.
Choose one church-side owner and one workflow to improve.
Keep control of your source records and current systems.
See if your church is a fit
Answer a few questions about your current tools and where follow-through breaks down. We will review it and contact you if the beta looks useful for both sides.
Start the fit checkBy submitting, you ask Pews to contact you about early access. See the privacy notice. Product previews use sample data and illustrate beta direction; they are not customer results or a promise that every connection is production-ready.
Questions
What churches usually ask first.
Is Pews replacing Planning Center?
No. Planning Center stays in place during this beta. Pews adds a weekly view and carries follow-up work beside it. Any future replacement decision would be made one workflow at a time.
What do we get for $39/month?
The Founding Ops Beta includes the weekly operations view, owners and due dates, guest and care follow-ups, service and volunteer-gap visibility, normal staff and volunteer access, and guided onboarding. The annual option is $399 prepaid.
What will we need to change?
Start with one real workflow and name one church-side owner. Your existing systems and source records stay in place. The exact connection work depends on your setup and available source access.
What is not part of the beta?
Full migration, donation processing, accounting, check-in hardware, native worship planning, mass messaging, and a finished member app are not included in this phase.
What happens after the fit check?
We review your answers. If the beta looks useful for both sides, we schedule a short conversation about one workflow, confirm the boundaries, and agree on scope, timing, billing, data access, and exit terms before anything begins.