ProductCommunities

A branded home for your customers,
built into your platform.

Spin up a community with channels, color-coded roles and real-time chat — then invite customers with a link and they join free, no paid plan needed. Unread badges, email highlights and staff DMs keep everyone looped in, and every invite and page wears your brand, not ours.

Members join free — no plan needed 7-day free trial

Acme Insiders

Channels · roles · real-time chat

Live
announcements2
general
help5
vip-lounge
Team DMs
DKdana.kAdmin

Welcome to Acme Insiders — introduce yourself below.

JMjordan.m

Just joined from the invite link — excited to be here!

ASa.silvaVIP

Quick question about the new dashboard…

dana.k Answered — walkthrough pinned in #announcements.

Message #general

2 link types

single-use emailed invites + open links that never expire

9 permissions

on color-coded roles — from pinning to private channels

25 MB

of attachments ride along on any message

Free for members

invited customers never need a paid plan

How it works

From empty space to living community — in four steps

Create it, invite people with a link, and let roles and unread emails keep it running. No plan required for the people you invite.

01

Name it — the space builds itself

Create a community and the default #general channel, an Admin role holding all nine permissions, and your own owner membership appear in the same breath. Add channels with topics whenever you need them.

#general + Admin role, auto-created

Acme Insiders

Channels · roles · real-time chat

Live
announcements2
general
help5
vip-lounge
Team DMs
DKdana.kAdmin

Welcome to Acme Insiders — introduce yourself below.

JMjordan.m

Just joined from the invite link — excited to be here!

ASa.silvaVIP

Quick question about the new dashboard…

dana.k Answered — walkthrough pinned in #announcements.

Message #general
02

Invite anyone — they join free

Email a single-use invite from your own address, or copy an open link that never expires and share it anywhere. Scope either one to a single channel and that's all the joiner ever sees. Accepting creates a free account and lands them inside.

Tokenized links · channel-scoped · atomic redemption

Invite anyone

Tokenized links — they join free

2 link types

jane@acme.com

Emailed from your own address

Single-use
1 redemptionExpires in 14 days

Open invite link

Share it anywhere, anyone can join

Copied
yourbrand.com/c-invite/9f2a4c…
Never expiresUnlimited uses

Scope either link to #vip-lounge — that's the only channel they'll ever see.

Accepting creates a free account — no paid plan needed

03

Members gather under your rules

Everyone picks a username scoped to this community. Color-coded roles decide who can invite, pin, delete, ban or run private channels — and DMs run between members and your team, never member to member.

Roles, bans, pins, private channels

Members

A handle per community, roles per member

128
DKJMASRBTW+123
DK

dana.k

Joined from an invite link

Admin
AS

a.silva

Joined from an invite link

VIP
JM

jordan.m

Joined from an invite link

Member

DMs run member to team — never member to member

04

Nobody misses a thing

Unread badges tick per channel and roll up into one number on the sidebar. Members who are away get an unread-message email — all, highlights or off — with a preferences link that works without signing in.

Badges + all / highlights / off emails

Nothing gets missed

Badges in-app, highlights by email

Unread
announcements2
generalcaught up
help5
wins12
Communities sidebar badge19

Unread emails

AllHighlightsOff
yourbrand.com/c-notify/7bd1…· no sign-in needed
Everything it can do

A real community platform, not a comment thread

Channels, roles, DMs, invites, moderation and notifications — the pieces a customer community actually needs, all inside the platform your customers already touch.

Channels, public and private

Spin up channels with topics and ordering. Private ones take per-member and per-role grants, and the default #general can't be deleted — so the space always has a floor.

Real-time, not refresh-based

Messages stream in live over websockets, and watching a channel marks it read as you go.

Replies & attachments

Answer under any message and attach images, PDFs, text files or zips — up to 25 MB each.

Staff ↔ member DMs

Direct messages run between members and your team only — customers always reach staff, never each other.

Roles with 9 permissions

Color-coded roles control invites, pins, deletes, bans, channel management and member-email visibility.

Tokenized invite links

Single-use emailed invites that die after one redemption, or open links that never expire — redemption is atomic, so two people can't burn the same invite. Scope either to a single channel.

Unread badges & email highlights

Per-channel counters roll up to one sidebar badge; unread emails go out in all / highlights / off modes with a no-sign-in preferences link.

White-label & isolated per client

Invite emails and the join page carry your agency's name, logo and color — and each client workspace's communities stay theirs alone.

Moderation built in

Ban members, soft-delete messages, pin the answers worth keeping, and @mention someone to rank it in their unread email.

Automations

A community doesn't sit still — it triggers everything else

Joins, messages, DMs, bans and channel grants are all workflow triggers, and workflows can invite members, create channels and post messages. These three recipes run out of the box.

New customer → invited & welcomed

Live

When a deal closes, Ivan emails a single-use invite, spins up a private #deal channel for their company, posts a welcome message and files them in the CRM. They join free — to a space that's already warm.

New customer closes

Any trigger — a won deal, a form, a signup

Ivan onboards them into your community

Email a single-use invite

Create #deal-acme channel

Post a welcome message

Add them to the CRM

They join free — to a welcome already waiting

No paid plan needed to participate

Invite to communityCreate channelAdd to CRM

Member asks → the team is pinged

Live

A question in #help triggers the moment it's posted: your team gets a push (throttled so a busy thread pings once), Ivan reads the message text for detection, and the answer posts back into the same channel.

Member posts in #help

Fires on every message, or just one channel

Ivan reads the question and routes it

Push the team

Detect what’s asked

Email unread highlights

Post the answer

Answered where the question was asked

Team push is throttled per community

Message triggerPushDetection

Announcement → every channel at once

Live

Post once in #announcements and let the workflow carry it — an email to your list, an SMS to opted-in members, a cross-post into your other channels. One post, full coverage.

You post in #announcements

Channel-scoped message trigger

Ivan carries it beyond the community

Email the list

Send an SMS

Cross-post to channels

Tag members in CRM

One post — in-app, inbox and phone

Members never miss the big news

EmailSMSCross-post

…and every community event — a join, a message, a DM, a ban, a channel grant — composes with any workflow you build across email, SMS and the CRM.

White-label

Your community wears your brand, end to end

Every touch a member sees — the invite email, the accept page, the sender address — carries your agency's name, logo and color. And because communities are scoped to each client workspace, one client's members never leak into another's.

  • Invite emails send from your own address, branded with your name, logo and color
  • The accept-invite and email-preferences pages wear your brand too
  • Communities stay isolated per client workspace — agency and client spaces never mix
  • Members join free, so any client workspace can fill its community

Invite anyone

Tokenized links — they join free

2 link types

jane@acme.com

Emailed from your own address

Single-use
1 redemptionExpires in 14 days

Open invite link

Share it anywhere, anyone can join

Copied
yourbrand.com/c-invite/9f2a4c…
Never expiresUnlimited uses

Scope either link to #vip-lounge — that's the only channel they'll ever see.

Accepting creates a free account — no paid plan needed

Your customers already have questions. Give them a home.

Create the community tonight, drop the invite link in your next email, and watch the first members arrive — free for them, branded as you.

FAQ

Community questions, answered

No. Accepting an invite creates a free account and lands them straight in the community — no paid plan needed to participate. Invited members keep access even if their own trial lapses; the community belongs to your workspace, not theirs.

Still curious? The fastest answer is seeing it run.

The next community your customers join should be yours.

Start your free trial, create the space, and share one link — your customers join free and land in a home that wears your brand.

7-day free trial · members always join free · cancel anytime during the trial.