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CONNECT APP

Build with Planning Center

A flexible system to meet the needs of your church Planning Center is a set of software tools to help you organize information, coordinate events, communicate with your team, and connect with your congregation.

Business Management

  • OAuth

MCP

Give your agent Planning Center tools

Every Planning Center action is exposed as an MCP tool on Pipedream's remote server. Point a client at it with your end user's ID and Connect resolves that user's Planning Center account for each tool call — you store no tokens.

// accessToken: mint a short-lived token with the Connect SDK — see the MCP guide
const transport = new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(
  new URL("https://remote.mcp.pipedream.net/v3"),
  {
    requestInit: {
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
        "x-pd-project-id": "{project_id}",
        "x-pd-environment": "production",
        "x-pd-external-user-id": "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
        "x-pd-app-slug": "planning_center",
      },
    },
  },
)

const mcp = new Client({ name: "my-agent", version: "1.0.0" })
await mcp.connect(transport)

const { tools } = await mcp.listTools()

// e.g. run List List ID Options:
const result = await mcp.callTool({
  name: "planning_center-list-list-id-options",
  arguments: {
    page: 10,
  },
})

API PROXY

Call the Planning Center API directly

For an endpoint with no pre-built tool, the Connect proxy forwards your request to the Planning Center API with the connected user's credentials attached. You store no tokens and write no refresh logic.

const resp = await pd.proxy.get({
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  accountId: "apn_xxxxxxx",
  url: "https://api.planningcenteronline.com/people/v2/me",
})

// Any allowed Planning Center endpoint works here. Pipedream attaches the
// connected account's credentials to the outgoing request.

SDK

Run Planning Center actions from your backend

Connect a user's Planning Center account once, then run List List ID Options on their behalf from your own code — TypeScript, Python, or plain HTTP.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "planning_center-list-list-id-options",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    planning_center: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    page: 10,
  },
})

TOOLS

Planning Center actions

On-demand operations your product or agent can configure and run on behalf of a connected user.

REFERENCE

App details

Reference metadata for the Planning Center connector in the Pipedream registry.

App slug
planning_center
Authentication
OAuth
Categories
Business Management
Actions
1
Triggers
3
API proxy
Available

OAuth scopes

These are the scopes Pipedream's managed Planning Center OAuth client requests when one of your users connects an account. Supply your own OAuth client to request a different set.

  • calendar
  • check_ins
  • people
  • giving