• Annual Subscriptions

  What is an annual subscription? An annual subscription is a subscription that will charge a member for 1 year of access up front and then renew the following year as opposed to a month-to-month subscription. Annual subscriptions are beneficial to creators as it provides an immediate and set cash flow to the community so you can have more to invest into creating content. How do I set up annual subscriptions? Log into your Locals community Go to the Community Admin panel (locatedPopular

• How do I give free trials to members?

  Some people may be skeptical about paying for a subscription to your community, especially when you are only starting to get the ball rolling. In order to bring more people into your community, think about offering a free trial to get their foot in the door. It is one of our top recommendations to increase your subscriber base.Popular

• How do I delete my community?

  If you would like to delete your community, please send a request through https://www.locals.com/contact Make sure you select your community and you are sending it while logged in on Locals with the account that owns the community. Once we have deleted your community, this action cannot be reversed. So make sure to export any uploads or your members list beforehand that you would like to keep for yourself.Few readers

• How to moderate posts in my community

  How to Moderate? Every community owner is in charge of their own community and therefore is in charge of their own post moderation in their community. You can moderate all pending and flagged items in your creator admin. To get here: Log into your Locals community Go to the Community Admin panel (located under your username menu) Go to Moderation Review If there is something to review, you will usually sFew readers

• How do I give a discount code to members?

  You may want to provide a discount code to new users to allow them to subscribe at a discounted rate as a way to get them interested in trying out your community. Discount codes are applied in the Promo code input for users, similar to free trials. How do I generate a discount code?Few readers

• How do I set up moderation levels for my community?

  To set up the moderation level for your community: Log into your Locals community Go to the Community Admin panel (located under your username menu) Go to Moderation Limits on the left side menu Select the level of moderation you want Save your changes What are the different levels of moderation? Basic Moderation If you choose Basic Moderation, new Locals members who have made no or little interactions within communities will have their posts moderated. These posts wiFew readers

• What is a one-time live chat admission?

  This is currently only available for communities that have a Stripe account connected. Once you've started a live chat or a livestream, you will notice that only supporters can participate in a live chat. However, by enabling the one-time live chat or livestream admission settings in yourFew readers

• What are widgets?

  Creator Widgets are a way for creators to get a quick glance at their community in numbers. This tool is located on the left side of your community screen. Manage Widgets Available Widgets: Engagement Stats (includes all time, last 7 days and last 30 days) nFew readers

• What is moderation?

  There are 2 types of moderation - Pending and Flags Pending Posts This means that for new Locals members that join a community, their posts will be monitored initially to make sure the guidelines are being followed. When a post is submitted, the poster will be notified that their post will be reviewed. Pending Post The original poster will see their post in the newsfeed but for everyone else, it wilFew readers

• How can I measure and get insight on how well my posts do?

  Creators are known for thinking outside the box so it's not surprising that they have a lot of ideas they want to bring to their supporters. But what type of content works the best? This might seem like a cop out but different things work for different communities. What we encourage our creators to do is to explore and try different things in order to increase engagement and gain new supporters. An easy way to track what kind of posts work best for your community is through the Share StatsFew readers

• How do Share Stats work?

  What are Share Stats? Share Stats help creators track and monitor community and revenue growth from posts shared on other platforms. Share Stats work with the Share feature available on all posts and tracks the views, member sign-ups and supporters that result when an external user clicks on a shared post. Visitor data and actions are stored in the Share Stats in the Creator Admin Panel under Share -Stats Finding Share Stats in Admin Settings (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/wFew readers

• How do I enable post tipping?

  How to enable post tipping in your community To enable tipping, go to your Admin Settings Payment Setup. Scroll down a little and you'll see the heading "Community Tipping." By default, this setting is disabled. Select Yes to enable and click Save Changes. Enabled TippingFew readers

• How to collect mailing address?

  Creators who would like to send out items to their members can now ask members to enter their mailing addresses. How to enable collection of mailing addresses Go to your community admin panel Go to Settings Under Collect Mailing Address section, choose Yes for Show Mailing Input Collect Address Settings 4. If you enabled the collection of mailing address, you will also be asked to define who tFew readers

• How to add community tags?

  What are community tags? Community tags are words/terms you use often in your community that can be used to organize certain content. For example, you may write a hashtag like Comics on every post you post a comic strip in your community. Clicking on a community tag will automatically search that tag for your members and find all the results after clicking on this tag instead of requiring your members to manually search up something that they may or may not be aware of in your community.Few readers