Connect your ChMS

Planning Center connects with your Planning Center login — no API key needed.

1. Open Integrations and click “Connect with Planning Center.”

2. Sign in to Planning Center.

   Use an account with access to People and Services — People is where volunteers sync, and Services is only used if you later link a sheet to a Services team. (Connected before Services was an option? Click Reconnect once to grant it.)

3. Approve the access request.

   Planning Center shows what SignUpChurch will be able to do; click allow and you're sent back with a green Connected badge.

MinistryPlatform runs on your church's own domain and uses an API client (a client ID + secret) that your MP administrator creates.

1. Create an API Client in MinistryPlatform.

   In MinistryPlatform, go to Administration → API Clients and add a new client (ACST's API Clients guide covers the details). The client is tied to a user account and inherits that account's permissions — it needs to be able to read and create Contacts.

2. Gather three things.

   • Your MP domain — the address you use MP at, e.g. my.gracechurch.org
   • The API client's Client ID
   • The API client's Client Secret

3. Enter them in SignUpChurch.

   On the Integrations page, fill in the domain, client ID, and client secret on the MinistryPlatform card and click Connect.

Church Community Builder (Pushpay) connects with your CCB login — no API key needed. You'll just need your church's CCB subdomain first.

1. Find your CCB subdomain.

   It's the first part of the address you use CCB at: if your church signs in at grace.ccbchurch.com, the subdomain is grace. (Pasting the full address into the form works too.)

2. Enter the subdomain on the CCB card and click “Connect with CCB.”

3. Sign in to CCB and approve.

   Use a Master Administrator account — CCB only lets a Master Admin authorize an integration. Approve the access request and you're sent back with a green Connected badge.

Breeze and Tithe.ly (now one platform under Tithe.ly) no longer offer public API access, so both syncs are built and waiting on partner API access from Tithe.ly. Realm (ACS Technologies) has no API at all, so there's nothing to connect to; instead, Export for Realm on any sheet or the People page gives you a file in Realm's own import layout — see Import sign-ups into Realm. All three show as “Coming soon” on the Integrations page. Want a heads-up when they go live? Drop us a note.

• Connection error badge? The key didn't work — it may be mistyped, revoked, or missing permissions. Paste a fresh key and click Reconnect; the new credentials replace the old ones in place.
• Your keys are safe. API keys and secrets are encrypted before they're stored, and we never display them back to you.
• Disconnect any time. Only the account owner can disconnect (admins can connect and reconnect). Disconnecting deletes the stored credentials. People already synced stay in your ChMS — SignUpChurch never deletes anything there.
• You can connect more than one ChMS — every sign-up syncs to all connected systems.