Tap Discs for Churches Using Planning Center Services
If your church plans services in Planning Center Services, put a Tap.Giving disc on the seats and pews and point it at the pages your plan already produces: this week's service plan, the song set and lyrics, sermon notes, or the volunteer schedule. One tap of a phone opens the page. Discs cost $5.00 each at 100 to 199, $4.00 at 200 to 399, and $3.50 at 400 or more, one time, with free shipping and no monthly fees. Point them somewhere new whenever you want: the free Redirect Dashboard retargets the same discs in seconds, so they open the service plan one week and an event signup the next, with nothing to reprint.
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What a Tap Disc Does Next to Planning Center Services
Start with a plain definition of each half. Planning Center Services is where a church plans the service: the order of worship, the songs, the sermon, and the team scheduled to run each part, all held in one plan that the staff and volunteers work from all week. A Tap.Giving disc is a physical shortcut to a web page. It is a durable disc with an NFC chip and a printed QR code. A phone tapped to it, or a phone camera pointed at the code, opens the one web address your church set for that disc.
That is the whole mechanism, and it is why the pairing works without any setup inside Planning Center. There is no plugin to install, no connection to approve, and no account to link. The disc opens the link you give it, the same kind of link your team already texts, emails, and posts today. If a page is public, the tap opens it straight away. If a page is one your church keeps for the team, like a schedule, your team signs in there just as they do now. The disc simply gets them to the page faster. Our rundown of how the discs and the free Redirect Dashboard work covers the mechanics in full.
Planning Center holds the plan. The disc puts the plan within one tap of every seat, every team position, and every person who needs it on Sunday morning.
Put This Week's Plan on Every Seat
The plan your team built all week is usually visible to about a dozen people. The congregation sees the service happen, but not the plan behind it, unless someone prints a bulletin or reads every step out loud. A disc on the seat back or the pew changes who can see the plan: anyone in the room, at the moment they want it.
The service plan itself.
Point the seat discs at this week's plan and a guest can follow the order of the service as it unfolds: what is happening now, what comes next, and when the kids are dismissed. Visitors relax when they can see the shape of the morning.
The song set and the lyrics.
The same tap can open the week's songs with the lyrics attached, which helps new people sing along, helps anyone who cannot read the screen from their seat, and gives the congregation the words again on Monday.
Sermon notes and the follow-up page.
Point discs at the sermon notes page and the room can follow the outline, save the references, and land on the same page where you post discussion questions and next steps after the service.
None of this asks the congregation to download anything or create an account with you. The plan is already written. The disc just shortens the distance between the plan and the people it was written for.
Built for the Worship and Production Team Running the Plan
The team running Sunday morning already lives in Services: the worship team checking the song order and arrangements, the production team working the run sheet, hosts and section leaders confirming where they serve. Their problem on the day is rarely the plan itself. It is time. Someone is always hunting for the current version minutes before the doors open.
Put discs where the team works: the sound booth, the green room, the stage door, the welcome desk. A tap opens the plan or the volunteer schedule on the spot, which ends the screenshot-of-last-week's-plan problem, because the disc never points at a screenshot. It points at the living page, and the living page is always the current version. When the worship leader swaps a song on Saturday night, the disc on the booth opens the new order on Sunday morning without anyone reprinting, reposting, or retexting a link. Our Planning Center tap-to-give setup guide walks through choosing destinations disc by disc.
The team keeps one source of truth, and the disc is just a faster door into it. Nobody maintains a second copy of anything, which is the part that usually kills systems like this by the third week.
Retarget the Same Discs Every Week, Nothing to Reprint
A printed bulletin can only ever say what it said on print day. A disc is different, because its destination lives on our side, in the free Redirect Dashboard, and you can change it in seconds, as often as you like, for no fee. The disc on the seat stays the same. Where it points is a decision you can remake every week.
| The week | Where the seat discs point |
|---|---|
| A normal Sunday | This week's service plan, with the song set and lyrics |
| Signups open | The event or group signup page you want the whole room to see |
| A new sermon series | The series page, reading plan, and sermon notes |
| A special service | The special service plan, and your giving page during the offering |
That last row matters. The same discs that open the plan all month can open your existing giving page during the offering, then go back to the plan next week. The money still runs through whatever giving platform your church already uses. Tap.Giving sells the discs and hosts the redirect; it never touches a gift.
What It Costs
Discs are a one-time hardware purchase: $5.00 each at 100 to 199, $4.00 each at 200 to 399, and $3.50 each at 400 or more, with a minimum order of 100. Shipping is free, there are no monthly fees, and every order carries a 30-day money-back guarantee. Orders ship about 2 to 3 weeks from artwork approval, as an estimate, and there is no rush service, so order ahead of the Sunday you want them live. Full pricing is here, including what the optional extras cost.
I am a pastor, and I built Tap.Giving because our own church needed giving and information to be one tap away for the people in the room. Your Planning Center subscription stays exactly as it is. The discs sit next to it as hardware, pointing at the pages your plan already produces, and the Redirect Dashboard stays free whether you retarget weekly or never touch it again.
Because the destination can change, the purchase does not lock you into one use. A set of discs bought for the service plan this quarter is the same set that runs signups next quarter and the special services after that.
FAQ
Do Tap.Giving discs connect to Planning Center?
No connection is needed and none is offered. A disc opens a web page, the address your church sets for it. Point it at the plan page, song page, notes page, or schedule page your church already uses, and change that destination any time in the free Redirect Dashboard.
What can a seat disc open during a service?
Any page you choose: this week's service plan, the song set and lyrics, sermon notes, a volunteer schedule, an event signup, or your giving page. Most churches start with the service plan, because it is the page the whole room wants at the same moment.
Do people need an app or an account to use a disc?
No. Tapping a phone to the disc opens the page in the phone's browser, and every disc also carries a printed QR code for phones without NFC. If the page you point to is one your church keeps behind a sign-in, like a team schedule, your team signs in there just as they do today. The disc adds no new account of its own.
How much do the discs cost, and how fast can we change where they point?
Discs are $5.00 each at 100 to 199, $4.00 each at 200 to 399, and $3.50 each at 400 or more, with a minimum order of 100, free shipping, and a 30-day money-back guarantee. Changing where a disc points is free in the Redirect Dashboard, takes seconds, and can be done as often as you like.
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