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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 (visible to everyone or 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, everyone, or members only
  • Member directory: Off, everyone, or members only

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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