How to build a Community on your app/website?

Communities enable you to better engage with your clients to achieve long-term and sustainable outcomes and relationships. 

IN THIS ARTICLE

1. Benefits of the Community Feature

2. How to set it up

3. How to create a channel

4. Community Moderation

5. Tagging/Mention Feature

6. Send & Receive Voice Messages

7. Advanced Features

8. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

 

 

1. Benefits of Communities

• Qualify and segment your clients better
  Ask them relevant questions to learn about their desires and anxieties.
• Drive the conversation better
  Impact client mindset by asking the right questions to motivate, make them reflect, and take action to upsell.
• Answer most frequently asked questions better
  Your clients often ask the same questions over and over again. Now, you can answer these without requiring product lessons or needing direct communication.
• Get started without products
  You can sell the community as a standalone product which gives them direct access to you. Therefore, you require no or fewer products to start.
• Upsell better
  Tease community access as an upsell to your free or low-priced offers. Prime the conversation within the community to upsell even further.

 

2. How to set it up

Here are the steps to enable Communities on your app.

• Log in to Passion.io.
• Go to the PassionProducts section. 
• Switch on Community.

• Login with your admin account on Passion.io App from the App Store or Google Play Store. Or login to your Web App yourappname.passion.io.
• Go to the Community tab and click the + sign in the top right corner. 

• Fill in the Community Name.
• Choose which Pricing Plans will enjoy using this Community. 
• Advanced Settings: choose whether you would like users to message you directly or message each other. 
• To edit a Community, "from mobile" long press on the Channel and choose edit. "From Web App" 

• You can enable the new Community to other plans.
• Go to the Pricing Plan you would like to activate the Community for and click Edit. 

Tick the Community option.

 

If you have already created communities, the page will show the communities that you can select from instead of just the Community box. Select the Community/ies you would like to be included in the pricing plan:

Note: Once Community is enabled for a specific Plan, the Community Tab will automatically appear for all of your clients who have an active subscription to the plan. 

• Continue creating your pricing plan by using this article Pricing Plans and Multipricing Feature or click Next Step, then Save Changes for those who already have an existing Pricing Plan.

 

3. How to create a channel?

Are you excited to write your first post? There are two ways you can do it.

 

From the Passion.io account

1. Go to PassionProducts Live Preview

2. Click on the Community tab

3. Click on the + sign to create a channel

4. Write the Title of your channel and the summary (optional), then click on the Create Channel button

5. To edit or delete a channel, long press on it and select edit or remove channel 

6. To add a photo or video as a comment to a channel, click on the attach icon and select the photo or video you want to add

 

From the App or Web app

1. Login into the App or Web app 

2. You need to log in using your passion.io email address

3. Once you're in, click on the Community Tab (at the top of the page for a web app, or at the bottom of your screen for branded apps), then click on the + sign to create a channel

4. Write the Title of your channel and the text (optional), then click on the Create channel button

5. To add a photo or video as a comment to a channel, click on the attach icon and select the photo or video you want to add

 

 

6. To edit or delete a channel, click the ellipsis and select edit or remove channel 

7. To rearrange the order of your channels, simply put a number below the title and choose your order:

 

8. To reply to a comment, long press on a message and select the Reply option (on mobile) or click the ellipsis (on Web App)

 

Mobile view:

4. Community Moderation

Before a community member can use the feature, they will be asked to agree to the Terms & Conditions.

If a community member finds a comment sensitive, they can report it to you and you can either approve or remove the comment. Any comment that has been reported 3x will automatically be hidden from all members, except you, the creator.

 

Members can also block or unblock a member. Once a member is blocked, you will see the "Message from a member you blocked" text. To reveal the content, simply tap/click the blocked content to reveal the message and the member's info. 

 

Blocked members will appear under the tab titled "Blocked" and you can unblock the member from here if you want to.

 

Once a member is blocked by you, all their comments will be hidden, and you will just see a “Message from a member you blocked” text instead.

 

5. Tagging/Mention Feature

To mention other community members in the thread, you can either type “@” or click on the @ icon, and the list of community members should be displayed in alphabetical order.

• Type "@" or click the @ icon.
• The member list appears in alphabetical order.
• Choose the user, press Enter, and type your message.

For app creators to tag everyone:

• Type "@channel" in the message.

When someone is tagged/mentioned, they will receive a notification if they have turned on the notification for this action.

Users will get notifications like this:

• A dot by the channels tab at the top.
• A dot by the Community tab at the bottom.
• The community and channel rows will have a notification number on the right side.

 

6. Send & Receive Voice Messages

Voice notes in Passion.io communities let users talk and connect more personally, making the community feel friendly and real.

• Tap and hold the microphone button in any chat.
• Let go to prepare the message for sending.
• Before sending, you can listen to your message and redo it if needed.
• After sending a voice note, delete it by holding the message and selecting Remove Message.

Maximum Message length is 5 minutes. 

* To Enable: Resubmit your App for Voice Messages on Android devices.

* Voice Messages are available on all iOS devices.

 

7. Advanced Features

You can choose whether your community can start conversations with you or engage with other members. Simply toggle on both buttons in the Advanced Settings when creating a new community or editing an existing one.

 

 

• If you toggle it OFF after the initial conversation, the message history will still be displayed but your client will no longer be able to see the input area and will instead see Message disabled text.

When the Members can send each other direct messages is toggled ON:

 

The Messages tab (if empty) will show a Create message button

• The Members Tab becomes enabled and your clients can send a direct message to anyone within the community by tapping on their name

When this functionality is disabled, the message history will still appear but the text input area will no longer be available.

 

8. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

 

• Why is the Community Tab not available for some of my clients?

The Community tab will only become visible to clients who have an active membership to the plan that has the community Feature enabled.  

• • Check the plan that your client is subscribed to. Make sure that the Plan shows active in PassionMetrics- How to give clients access to your app 
  • Check the Plan in the Pricing Plan section of the app builder and see if the Community Feature is enabled

 

• Why can't I post in my community? 

Make sure that you're logged into your app using your admin Passion.io email address

 

• Can I message my clients privately?

Yes! You can use the Messages tab to give personalized, 1-on-1 support to your clients on a whole new level. 

 

• Can my members see each other? 

The Member section is only available for you (PassionFighter) and not available for your clients. Your clients can only interact with each other on the threads. 

 

• What happens to Blocked members?

All blocked members will be listed in a new tab (next to Channels / Messages) called Blocked.

 

• How do I unblock a member?

You can go to the Blocked tab and press the Unblock button next to a blocked member.

 

• Can I use GIFs?

For now, you can only upload still images on the community. You can request this feature improvement through our Contact Us Form.

 

• My Community feature is missing. What do I do?

You must have deleted all the communities. This deactivates the Community feature. If you have accidentally deleted all communities, please contact us from here so we can request our Tech Team to activate the feature. However, please note that even if our Team can restore the Communities feature, previous community/conversations will not be restored. 

Below is the Contact Us form:

https://passion.io/help

 

• My Messages tab display seems to be cut off when viewed on mobile devices, particularly with the customer name, Anonymous Member, what do I do?

You may want to check your device's display settings as this can affect the contents you are viewing. Here are some external resources that can help:

• • Change text and display settings - Android Accessibility 
  • Adjust the display and text size on iPhone

 

• I can't seem to create a community from the Live Preview section. 

When logged into your Passion.io account, you should also be automatically logged into your Web App. If not, this could be the reason why your community/goal-tracking feature is not showing. Try refreshing your tab and log into your Web App using your admin account. That should fix the issue.

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