Create a group

Create a free or paid group, give it a cover and a description, and publish it so members can join.

A group is a smaller room inside your community, with its own feed and its own files. Your community needs at least one published group to go live.

Before you start

Only Community Admins can create groups. Moderators can see the Create group button, but the save fails.
A paid group is sold through a plan or product. To publish a paid group, you need a published plan or product first, and that needs Settings → Payments ready. You can save a paid group as a draft at any time.

In Studio, go to Groups and click Create group.
On the Basics step, fill in Group name (3 to 60 characters).
Fill in Description (at least 50 characters, at most 1,000).
Under Cover image, click Click to upload a cover image and pick an image. Use 16:9, ideally 1600 × 900 px.
Leave Web address empty. Studio makes it from the name.
Click Next: Access.
Pick Free or Paid.
- Free: "Any member can join with one click. No payment." To add every new member to this group, turn on Add new members automatically. It adds people when they finish onboarding.
- Paid: "Members get in when they subscribe to a plan or buy a product." Pick plans in Subscription plans, products in One-time products, or both. You can also click Create a subscription or Create a one-time product.
Click Next: Resources. To share files with the group's members, drop them in the box. This step is optional.
Click Next: Publish. Turn Recommended on to highlight the group across the community. Show in Google search is on by default.
Check the summary under Before you publish, then click Publish group. You see "Group published. Members can see it now."

To finish later, click Save as draft at any step. You see "Saved as a draft. Members can't see it yet." Only admins can see a draft.

Item	Rule
Group name	3 to 60 characters
Description	50 to 1,000 characters
Cover image	Needed to publish. JPG, PNG, WebP or GIF, up to 10 MB
Web address	Small letters, numbers and dashes, up to 80. It stays the same when you rename a published group.
Add new members automatically	Free groups only. Switching the group to Paid turns it off.
Paid group	Needs a published plan or product to be published

A group has no price of its own. To charge for it, make it Paid and include it in a plan or product.

Go to Groups and open the group.
Click Edit. The steps are now tabs: Basics, Access, Resources and Visibility.
Make your changes, then click Save changes. You see "Changes saved."

To unpublish or archive, pick Draft or Archived in the status menu next to Save changes.

Message	What to do
"Group name is required (min 3 characters)."	Type a longer name.
"Write at least 50 characters, so members know what it's for."	Add to the description.
"Please upload a cover image."	Add a cover. You can save a draft without one.
"Fix the highlighted fields to continue."	Fix the fields marked in red on this step.
"A paid group needs a plan or product before you publish it. Add one in Access, or save it as a draft."	Pick a published plan or product on the Access step, or save a draft.
"This is the only published group in your community…"	A live community needs one published group. Publish another group first, then archive or unpublish this one.