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Amplify — bring in posts and lives

With an Amplify subscription, pull posts and live streams shared by the main ESTAGE community into your own feed, and choose where they land. Amplify brings content from the main…

Badges, rules & paid access

Gate channels, posting, commenting and content by CRM tags or member level, show members badges for what they hold, and sell access with your products. Access in a community is…

Challenges

Run a day-by-day program — days that unlock in order, after a delay, by hand or by purchase — built from the same modules and lessons as a course. A challenge is a course…

Channels and feed topics

Split your community into channels with their own feed, members, About page and topics — and decide who can join each one and who can post. A channel is a space inside your…

Community analytics

Read how your community is doing — members, activity and engagement, growth and onboarding, top and unanswered posts, and which members are at risk. Analytics shows how your…

Community emails & signup notifications

The emails your community sends carry your name, logo and reply-to address — and you get an email when someone joins. The emails your community sends its members — the signup…

Community general settings

Name and logo, who can join and how, post approval, 2FA, sign-up links, the reply-to address and the autoresponder — everything on the General Settings tab. General Settings is…

Community on your domain

Serve your community at community.mysite.com — attach, rename, or detach the community subdomain on any of your custom domains. By default a community lives on a generic address.…

Community overview & creating one

Add a full community to your project — member feed, channels, courses, and events — running on its own address next to your site. The Community module attaches a complete social…

Community roles & permissions

Hand someone the moderation queue without handing them your settings — build roles for your community and decide exactly what each one can reach. A community role decides what…

Community toolkit — your community inside your own site

Render your ESTAGE community inside a site Genesis built for you — feed, courses, live and more, restyled to your brand and managed from Genesis. The community portal is a…

Connecting an existing (legacy) community

Built a community on the classic ESTAGE platform? Import the project into Genesis and keep it — members, content, and all. If you already run a community on the classic ESTAGE…

Course licences (IPS Management)

License your courses to other people's communities — generate a licence key, link the product and access tags, and approve, reject or revoke licence requests. IPS Management is…

Courses

Create a course, organize it into modules and lessons, decide who can open it or sell it, and track members' progress. A course is structured learning inside your community…

Deploying hub content into your community

Copy a course, resource, opportunity or video from an ESTAGE hub into your own community with its Secret key, and pull in later changes with Check for Updates. Some content in an…

Joining and signing in

How visitors create an account in a community, confirm their email, answer join questions, wait for approval or buy access, and sign in again. This page walks through a…

Levels, points & leaderboards

Decide how many points each action earns, build the levels members climb and what each one unlocks, and see who leads. Members earn points for taking part — posting, commenting…

Live streams, stages & events

Go live to your community from a webcam or OBS, run an interactive stage with members, schedule events, and manage recordings and replays. Going live is the quickest way to get…

Look, navigation & about page

Theme colors and logos, the top menu and landing page, sidebar widgets and the promo banner, custom emojis, and the About page for members and guests. These are the settings that…

Member Blaze, affiliates & the mobile app

Member Blaze referral milestones and giveaways, the Affiliate Center where affiliates promote offers and get paid, and the community's mobile app. Three extras that sit around the…

Member profiles

What a member's profile shows, following and unfollowing, starting a chat from a profile, and the admin options in a profile's menu. Every member has a profile in the community…

Members & join requests

Find members, approve or decline people waiting to join the community or a channel, give someone a role, and remove a member. The Members page is the list of everyone in your…

Messages and calls

Chat one-to-one or in groups, send photos, GIFs and voice notes, react, forward and pin, call a member, and block someone. Messages is the private chat inside your community.…

Moderating posts and members

Approve held posts, act on reports, pin, edit or remove posts and comments, ban a member for a set time, and block someone from buying. Moderation is the everyday work of keeping…

Posts, polls and scheduling

Write a post with photos, video and a poll, schedule it, comment, reply and like, and search the community for posts, members and courses. A post is how members and admins start a…

Resources, videos & opportunities

Publish downloadable resources, build a video catalogue from feed posts, links or your video library, and list partner opportunities. Besides courses, a community has three…

Running your community — the admin settings

Where every admin tool in your community lives, who sees it, and which page explains each one. Everything you manage in a community — its look, who gets in, what's published, the…

SEO, custom code & legal pages

Control how your community appears in search and when shared, add tracking or chat scripts, and edit the Terms and Privacy pages. Three settings that change things members don't…

Stories

Share a photo or short video as a story with text, a link and a poll, see who viewed and liked it, and decide whether people can reply. A story is a photo or video that sits above…

Your account in a community

Your profile, handle and theme in a community, your notifications, two-factor authentication, and your own orders and subscriptions there. Every member of a community — admins…