Yes! The community feature is available on all of our plans, including the 30-day free trial.

You can read more about it here: www.podia.com/pricing

Podia's Community feature allows you to have your audience and your content in the same place.

Where most other community platforms have separate logins and websites for your users, by creating a Podia Community, your audience only needs to log in once to have access to both your community and products!

You will be able to charge your members on a monthly and/or annual basis.

Stripe needs to be connected so you can set up subscription payments for your community.

You can add team members with community permissions to help you with your community.

There are several options available for customizing your community page, including adding a banner and default topic!

There are no currently extended options for customizing the look and feel of the page, such as through custom CSS.

Every Community comes with an open and default topic called General that is accessible to anyone in your community and automatically followed by everyone.

You can choose the name and setting on this default topic and add more topics if you would like.

When creating new topics, consider these 3 criteria:

Access to posts is controlled at the topic level as opposed to the post level and can only be assigned to a single topic.

When editing your topic, scroll down and check the "Default topic" box.

This ensures that members with access to the topic will automatically follow it when this option is enabled.
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We encourage you to find an over-arching topic that would cover multiple topics per post. For example, try using a topic with the name "Animals" as opposed to two separate ones like "Cats" and "Dogs".

That said, if you need to share the same post on more than one topic you can simply re-create it in the second topic.

When a new topic is added, everyone who has access can view and follow the topic for notifications. If the topic is set to "default", all members that have access.

We encourage you to post on any newly created topic to introduce your members to your new topic.

If a topic is deleted, all posts on that topic will be permanently removed and the Community will no longer be able to view any posts or replies on that topic.

You can customize the settings for each topic to allow members to post or restrict posting so only you, as the admin, can share updates.

You can also use the Pin feature to surface your most important posts at the top of the topic to all of your members.

Yes! You can control the privacy for each topic.

You will be able to add specific community members to private topics and limit topic access to members on specific plans.

Only those who are part of a subscription plan will be able to be added to a topic.

Yes, you can delete topics. However, deleting a topic will also delete any posts assigned to that topic.

If you don't want this to happen we recommend changing your topic's availability settings and modifying who is able to view it.

Yes, you can edit the name of your topics as well as their description, banner images, and availability!

We encourage you to find an over-arching topic that would cover multiple topics for a post.

For example, try using a topic with the name "Animals" as opposed to two separate ones like "Cats" and "Dogs".

Yes! Members can upload directly or embed links.

They can also decide to embed from over 1,900 websites, including Google Drive, Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, TypeForm, and many, many more!

Absolutely! They can access from the top bar either their community or products.

Members are able to communicate with each other in the comments section of your posts. At this time, we do not support member to member messaging.

If a community member is manually removed, or their subscription cancels, their posts and comments will remain. Clicking on their profile, however, will direct them to a "Page not found" error until they resubscribe.

Changing the URL of your community can be done directly from the Site builder.

Access the Site editor and click on the page navigation menu, in the left upper corner. From there, locate your community page and click on the “Page settings” icon next to it.