Welcome to the Groups.io Owners Manual
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Updated: June 16, 2023
Contents
- Conventions used in this documentation
- Introduction
- Creating a group
- Customizing group settings
- Using the sponsorship feature to defray Groups.io hosting costs
- Customizing settings for Premium and Enterprise features
- Setting default email options and user settings for group members
- Changing the home page image and group icon
- Managing moderator notifications about group activity
- Managing member notices
- Overview
- Creating, editing, or deleting member notices
- Banned Member notice
- Direct Add notice
- Goodbye notice
- Group Guidelines notice
- Group Sponsorship notice
- Invite notice
- Locked Group notice
- Locked Topic notice
- Message To Member notice
- Monthly Reminder notice
- Pending Subscription notice
- Rejected Message notice
- Rejected Subscription notice
- Removed Member notice
- Welcome notice
- Inviting people to join a group
- Managing members
- Working with the member list
- Adding or updating members’ display names
- Handling members marked as Not Confirmed
- Handling pending members
- Adding moderator notes about individual members
- Moderating individual members
- Removing members
- Banning and unbanning members
- Checking for bouncing members
- Reviewing members who were removed because of reported spam
- Syncing group members with Slack teams
- Premium and Enterprise member management options
- Managing moderators and additional owners
- Sending and receiving group owner email messages
- Managing group topics and messages
- Managing hashtags
- Pinning topics and wiki pages to the Topics page
- Reviewing the group’s activity log
- Viewing and managing your group’s storage space
- Managing integrations with outside services
- Promoting your group
- Exporting or downloading your group’s data
- Taking donations and reviewing payment activity
- Locking and unlocking groups and subgroups
- Banning domains from the group
- Creating group aliases
- Using subgroups
- Renaming groups
- Upgrading or downgrading groups
- Deleting a group
- Features available for Enterprise groups only
- About Groups.io billing
- Additional information
- Acknowledgements
- Revision history