Planning Center Giving API: export donation records
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Steps
Authenticate with OAuth 2.0 or a Personal Access Token with Giving read access.
Resolve the donor's Person record first via People search (GET /people/v2/people?where[search_name_or_email]=...), since every Donation is tied to a Person or explicitly marked anonymous.
List donations with GET /giving/v2/donations, scoping large pulls with date-range filters — Planning Center explicitly asks integrators to avoid unbounded queries returning tens of thousands of rows.
Include related data in one call with include=designations,payment_source to get fund allocations and originating payment system per donation.
For a full historical export, paginate sequentially through /giving/v2/donations; for ongoing sync, prefer subscribing to Giving webhooks over repeated polling.
Known gotchas
Donations live inside Batches; donations in an uncommitted Batch won't appear in donor-facing history or admin logs yet, which can make an export look incomplete.
Avoid unfiltered, high-volume queries — Planning Center calls this out as a performance concern and may degrade or throttle heavy pulls.
A Donation with no Person relationship is intentional ('Anonymous Donor'), not a data integrity error.
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