The workspace for private communities
Run your community and charge for access, in one app
Groupanda brings organized real-time chat, roles and access control, and built-in membership billing into one place. Here is what you can do with it.
Conversations that stay organized
Your community talks in real time, and nothing gets lost. Channels keep topics apart, a reply quotes the message it answers, and you can search messages within a channel.
- Organize talk into channels per topic, and reply with a quote to answer a specific message.
- Share photos (up to 10 per message), documents up to 10 MB, and voice messages up to 2 minutes.
- Pin the messages that matter, so newcomers find them first.
- Search messages within a channel, across its whole history.
- Mention people and channels, and react to keep the back and forth quick.
- Message anyone one to one with direct messages.
For channels, search, roles and joining in detail, read how Groupanda works as a group chat app.
Membership and payments, built in
Charge for access without a separate membership tool. Members pay, access turns on by itself, and you never touch a spreadsheet.
- Set up to 5 plans, each a monthly subscription or a one-time payment. Members pay through Stripe, in the browser.
- Access opens automatically with the payment. A monthly subscription ends when its paid period runs out, and a one-time payment has no renewal date.
- Keep some channels open to every member, and limit others to the plans you choose.
- Receive payouts through Stripe Connect. Members on a subscription get their own portal for cards and invoices.
- See how many members are on each plan, and your balance, with full history in your Stripe dashboard.
For plans, access and fees in detail, read how Groupanda works as a membership platform.
Monthly price
Payouts
Payments handled by Stripe.
You decide who is in, and who can do what
Control without micromanaging. Set roles, limit channels to the plans you choose, and let admins carry the load.
- Set how people join: open, by invitation (the group's invite link), or after approval.
- Keep roles simple: one owner, admins and members.
- Choose who can post in each channel: the owner, the owner and admins, or everyone.
- Ban or mute members, and delete messages, when you need to.
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- Ethan ColeAdmin
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- Noah ParkerMember
Keep your people coming back
A community lives on the daily habit. Notifications bring people back, and the same workspace is on every device they use.
- Reach members with push notifications they control, including quiet hours.
- Give everyone the same workspace on web, iOS, and Android.
- See who is around and, in direct messages, whether your message was read.
- Help members find people they already know in the iOS and Android apps, with no phone number shown to anyone.
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Members-only conversations, and yours
No ads, and no feed ranking your messages. Only members see the conversations, and you choose how people join. The app also speaks your members' language.
- Only members see the conversations. Open groups are listed in Groupanda search, and invite-only or approval groups are not.
- No ads between conversations, and no feed ranking your posts.
- An interface in 8 languages.
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Feature questions
Can I have private channels?
Yes, once your group has at least one plan. Limit a channel to the plans you choose, or to admins only. Other members see its name with a lock. The owner and admins always see every channel.
Does it have voice messages and file sharing?
Yes. Send photos (up to 10 per message), documents up to 10 MB, and voice messages up to 2 minutes. They work in direct messages and in any channel where you can post.
Can I keep some channels free and others paid?
Yes. Keep some channels open to every member, and limit others to the plans you choose. A group can offer up to 5 plans, side by side, and each plan opens its channels.
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See it with your own community
Create your workspace and set up your first channels. It is free to start.