Create a community
Set up a community hub for your recurring events and members.
Turn your host profile into a community hub. Add memberships, a discussion feed, and a member directory to keep your audience engaged between events.
What Are Community Features?
Community features extend your host profile with tools to build and engage a membership base. When enabled, your host page becomes a hub where members can join, discuss, and stay connected — not just a list of events.
Enable Community Features
From your host settings, enable community features on your existing host profile. This adds:
- A member directory (open to all your subscribers, or to paying members only)
- A discussion feed for posts and conversations
- Membership tiers (free and paid)
Your host page URL stays the same: eventship.com/host/your-slug
How People Join
When someone attends one of your events or follows your host profile, they become a member. You can also invite people directly to join. By default, joining is instant. If you enable Require approval, new members go to a pending state until you approve them.
Membership Questions
Add custom questions that new members must answer when they join. Go to your community settings and add questions (text, select, multiselect, etc.). Mark questions as required so members can't skip them. When members join, their answers are visible in the People tab of your dashboard — both for pending approval and for all members.
Membership questions support the same conditional Add logic rules as event registration questions — show a question only when an earlier dropdown, multi-select, or yes/no answer matches (e.g. only ask "Company name" when professional status is not Student). Hidden questions appear and disappear live as the member answers, and a required question that's hidden by its rule is not required.
Customize Visibility
Control who sees what:
- Discussion feed: Off, all subscribers, or members only
- Member directory: Off, all subscribers, or members only
Neither setting makes anything public. "All subscribers" means everyone who has
joined or subscribed to you, and people who have not joined see a prompt to do
so first. On the member directory, the level you pick also sets who appears in
the list: "All subscribers" lists everyone who joined, "Members only" lists your
paying members. The "Members only" option appears once you have a paid tier.
Adjust these settings anytime from your host settings.
Member Benefits
Members get:
- Access to your discussion feed
- Visibility in the member directory
- Email updates about community news
Enable paid membership tiers to unlock premium benefits for subscribers.
Add Paid Tiers
Create membership tiers with monthly or annual pricing. Gate specific ticket types to certain tiers. See Memberships and tiers for details.
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