Create a learning community where your audience can come together to build meaningful relationships and share interests and common goals. This article explains how to configure your community to ensure the right appearance, access, and pricing.
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New to communities and want to learn more? Start with this article: Get Started with Thinkific Communities.
Create your Thinkific community by following these steps:
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From the Admin Dashboard, go to Products
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Select Communities
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Click + New community
You will be brought to the default community space, and the newly created community will have a default name (My Community), which you can change later.
Once you've created your new community, you can update community settings. To access community settings:
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From the Admin Dashboard, go to Products
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Select Communities
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Click the ellipses (3 dot icon) next to your desired community and click Edit
Navigate between different tabs to update settings.
Follow these steps to update the name of your community: How to Rename Your Product.
In this space, you will be able to update the community landing page URL, the main community image (this will show on your community card on your community landing page), and the description of your community.
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Need help coming up with the perfect community name? Check out our free AI Creator tools! Simply enter your product description and get a list of viable options for you to consider.
For more, see: Build Your Community Landing Page.
Your community will inherit the branding settings of your learning content. For more, see: The Thinkific Course Player.
Upload an image to appear as your community's banner on the community's Homepage. For best results, upload a PNG or JPEG file under 250 KB. Recommended aspect ratio - 4:1. Suggested dimensions: 640 x 160.
The access setting will allow you to select what groups are able to access your community, and how. Learn more here: Communities: Access and Enrollments.
Enable private, real-time conversations between members, peers, and admins across all communities in your organization. Learn more here: Communities: Direct Messaging.
Enable the Weekly Digest Email feature to send community members an email every Tuesday featuring the three most popular and three most recent community posts. Learn more here: How Do Community Notifications Work?.
Visibility allows you to decide who can view your community. If you have chosen anything other than Students that purchase this community via the checkout as the access level for your community, the default visibility option will be set to Private. Learn more here: Private and Hidden Products.
Add or edit search engine optimization (SEO) settings to help improve your community's visibility in searches. Learn more here: SEO - Search Engine Optimization.
This is the code that will be placed on the landing page of this community. Insert code here if you need something unique to run on your community landing page. This is commonly used for page redirects. Learn more here: How to Redirect Your Product Landing Page.
Add, edit, or remove Revenue Partner and Affiliate settings for this specific community.
For more, see: Revenue Partners · How to Use Affiliates.
From this section, you will be able to set the initial pricing option that will be displayed on the community landing page. Learn more about the pricing options here: Set Your Product Pricing (Guide). You can also set additional pricing. Learn more here: Set Additional Prices For Your Products.
Create unique after purchase flows for each price for your community. After Purchase Flows allow you to decide where a customer will land after they purchase a product on your Thinkific site (rather than sending them directly to the default Thank You page). Learn more here: After Purchase Flow.
Your community landing page is a webpage on your site where you can showcase your community! Potential students can learn about what your community has to offer and, in the case of a purchase-only community, this page can be used to direct students to your checkout.
Learn more here: Build Your Community Landing Page.
Learn how to do it here: Organize and Navigate Your Thinkific Community.
If you are ready to make your community available for purchase or access, you can publish it! Learn more here: Publishing Your Products.
There are two different community links you can provide your audience with:
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The direct link to the Community, or
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The link to your Community Landing Page
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From the Admin Dashboard, go to Products
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Select Communities
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Locate the Community you want to start posting in
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Click the ellipses (3 dot icon) and select Copy product link