CommunitiesOS is a private community platform built around how nonprofits, churches, and associations actually operate. Every feature listed on this page exists because a church administrator, a nonprofit program director, or an association chapter chair needs it - not because it helps a creator retain subscribers. Private channels for committees and ministry teams. An announcement channel with guaranteed push notification delivery to every member. Live meetings with no participant cap and no time limit. CRM integration so your community data flows directly into your member management workflow. Everything your organization needs. Nothing you will never use.
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CommunitiesOS includes a private invite-only community with role-based access control, private channels for committees and ministry teams, a dedicated announcement channel with push notifications to every member, built-in live meetings with no participant limit and no time limit, 1-on-1 direct messaging, community events with calendar integration, CRM integration and Smart List member segmentation, workflow automation for granting and revoking access, white-label branding with custom domain, and full member data ownership with export. Every feature is available across all three plans - Foundation at $97 per month, Growth at $297 per month, and Authority at $497 per month - with zero transaction fees and no per-member fees on any plan.
Most community platform features pages list the same things: channels, events, live streaming, member management. What matters is not the list. It is whether each feature was designed for how your organization operates. A private channel on a creator platform was designed to gate premium content. A private channel on CommunitiesOS was designed for your finance committee, your building team, or your pastoral care ministry - with access controlled per member and no channel visible to anyone who was not specifically added to it. That distinction runs through every feature on this page.
CommunitiesOS does not include built-in course hosting, content monetization tools, or creator discovery features - features that a nonprofit, church, or association will never use.
CommunitiesOS is invite-only on every plan. Your members never see competing organizations, suggested content from other groups, or anything your organization did not put there. The entire community structure is designed around how organizations operate - with distinct roles, controlled access, and private spaces for every layer of your structure.
Every CommunitiesOS community is private by default. Only members can see posts and other members. All join requests require manual admin review even when a member uses an invite link. Switching a group from public to private immediately restricts all existing content to current members only. Your congregation, your donor community, and your dues-paying members are not a public audience.
Owner, Admin, Channel Manager, and Contributor - each role with distinct permissions defined for how organizations actually assign responsibility. Owners control everything including group deactivation. Admins manage members, content, roles, and invitations. Channel Managers have admin authority over a specific channel without group-level admin access - exactly the permission structure a committee chair or ministry team leader needs. Contributors participate based on the group's privacy settings and channel access.
Create private channels inside any group. Members who are not explicitly added cannot see the channel in the channel list at all - it does not exist for them. Channel managers are appointed at the channel level independently of group roles, so a committee chair has admin authority over their channel without any access to other channels or group settings. Channels can be converted between public and private at any time. A finance committee, a pastoral care team, a board of directors, and a volunteer coordinator group can each have their own private channel inside the same community with complete separation between them.
Configure questions that appear when a member requests to join a private group. Review answers before approving or declining access. Ensure every member who joins your community understands its purpose and meets your organization's criteria before they can see any content.
Connect your organization's domain, apply your logo and brand colors, and configure the community's name and identity. Your members experience the community entirely under your organization's brand. No CommunitiesOS branding visible anywhere. Custom CSS and JavaScript can be added for advanced styling beyond the built-in theme options. The community looks, feels, and functions as yours.
Transfer group ownership to another member when leadership changes. No community rebuild required. No data loss. Your organization's community continues without interruption when executive directors transition, senior pastors move on, or board chairs rotate.
Most community platforms rely on algorithms to surface posts to members. CommunitiesOS's announcement channel does not. Every post in an announcement channel sends push notifications to every member immediately. No algorithm. No engagement score. No member has to follow anyone or adjust notification settings to receive your organization's announcements.
The announcement channel is a specialized channel where only community admins and owners have posting access. Members see a read-only view with no input field. Every post triggers push notifications to all members via in-app, email, and push simultaneously. Important updates cannot get buried in active discussion threads because the announcement channel is structurally separate from all other channels.
Every announcement channel post sends notifications through three channels simultaneously: in-app notification, email, and push notification to the member's device. Members receive your announcements whether they are actively inside the community or not. A Sunday service reminder, a last-minute event change, an urgent pastoral communication - every member receives it the moment you post.
Create as many announcement channels as your organization needs. A general announcements channel for all members, a leadership channel for board and admin updates, a ministry-specific channel for a particular team. No limit on the number of announcement channels. Each can be set to public or private visibility, and can be converted back to a regular discussion channel at any time.
Pin critical messages at the top of any channel so they remain visible for every member who opens it. Event reminders, organizational policies, onboarding instructions, or any update that needs persistent visibility stays pinned until you remove it. Pinned announcements appear above all other posts for all members regardless of when they join.
Choose whether each post invites discussion or remains read-only. A policy update, a board resolution, or a schedule change may not require member responses - disable comments and members see a clear message instead of an input field. Comments can be re-enabled on any post at any time. Applies to all post types including announcements, discussions, resources, and updates.
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CommunitiesOS includes native live meetings and live streaming directly inside the community. No external tool required. No Zoom account. No separate broadcast software needed for most use cases. Two modes cover every live session a nonprofit, church, or association runs.
Meeting Room is an interactive many-to-many live session. Every participant can speak, share their screen, raise their hand, and react. Host controls include managing speaking permissions, removing disruptive participants, and controlling dynamic layout. No participant cap. No maximum session length. Invite guests and assign host or speaking permissions during the session. Recording is available with optional replay saved as a post after the session ends. Board sessions, committee meetings, small group gatherings, and leadership calls all run natively inside your community without members leaving the platform.
Stream Software mode connects to OBS, StreamYard, Zoom, or any RTMP-compatible encoder. Broadcast your Sunday service, your annual membership meeting, or your organization-wide all-hands event to your entire community. A persistent stream key means you reuse the same setup across sessions - no reconfiguration required. No participant cap. No time limit. Members receive push notifications when the stream goes live and join directly from the community without needing a separate streaming link.
Zoom's free plan limits meetings to 40 minutes. CommunitiesOS live meetings have no time limit on any plan.
Enable the replay option before going live and the session is automatically saved as a post in the channel after it ends. Members who could not attend watch on their schedule. The replay lives inside the community where it belongs - not in a separate video library, not in a shared Google Drive folder, not in a YouTube link shared via email.
CommunitiesOS is designed to be administered by a two-person nonprofit staff team, a church office manager, and an association chapter chair working simultaneously. Multiple admin roles, workflow-automated access, and CRM integration mean your organization does not need a dedicated community manager to keep membership structured and current.
Invite individual members by email with administrative privileges toggled on or off. Share an invite link for bulk onboarding. All join attempts on private groups require manual admin review even when using an invite link - so a shared link never accidentally opens your community to unreviewed members.
Review pending requests from a dedicated tab and approve or decline each one individually. Remove a member from the group - they can request to rejoin in the future. Ban a member permanently - they cannot rejoin under any circumstances. All three actions are available from the member's profile with a single click.
Connect CommunitiesOS to your CRM workflows to grant or revoke group access automatically based on any trigger - a dues payment completed, a donation processed, a membership expired, a subscription cancelled. Grant access to specific private channels automatically when a member completes a purchase or reaches a milestone. If a member is not yet in the group when the workflow fires, they are added to the group and the channel simultaneously. Membership access stays current without manual review.
Filter your CRM contact list by community group membership. Build targeted messaging segments based on which groups members belong to - active members of one chapter, members pending renewal in another, new members who joined in the last 30 days. Launch community-based email campaigns, segmented outreach, and targeted follow-up sequences directly from the member data your community generates. Your community is not a separate system from your CRM. It is part of it.
Every member profile, every conversation, every piece of community data belongs to your organization. Export your full member list and community content anytime in formats you can use. Your community data flows into your CRM and your reporting tools. Nothing is locked inside a platform you do not control.
CommunitiesOS includes the full communication stack a membership organization needs to reach every member reliably - direct messages, member mentions, channel tagging, comment controls, and automated email digests. No add-on required. No separate Email Hub subscription. Communication tools are included on every plan.
Any member can start a private conversation with any other member of a group they both belong to. Messages support photos, videos, documents, files, emojis, and GIFs. Push notifications with sound for new messages keep conversations active even when members are not inside the community. A church member reaching out to a pastor, a committee chair coordinating with a colleague, a nonprofit donor asking a follow-up question - all handled privately inside the platform.
Tag any community member in a post or comment using @. The tagged member receives an email notification with a direct link to the post. Tag multiple members in a single post or comment. @mentions keep the right people in the right conversations without requiring them to monitor every channel constantly.
Type # in any post or comment to insert a clickable, permission-aware link to a specific channel or event. Members see only the channels and events they have access to in the picker. A post announcing a committee meeting can link directly to the committee's private channel. An event reminder can tag the event registration directly. Navigation from post to destination in one click.
Search across every post and comment in the community from a single search interface. Find a board resolution from six months ago, locate a resource posted in a specific channel, retrieve a conversation thread from a committee meeting. Everything searchable from one place without navigating through individual channels manually.
Set a newsletter cadence once - weekly, biweekly, or monthly - and CommunitiesOS automatically generates and sends a personalized email digest to every member. Each digest includes the active threads the member participated in, top posts from public channels, posts from members they follow, and upcoming events. Every item links back directly to the originating post inside the community. Permission-aware - members only receive content they are authorized to see. No manual newsletter production required.
Community Events live inside CommunitiesOS alongside all other content - no external event tool, no third-party registration form, no separate calendar to maintain. Members register, get reminders, and add events to their personal calendars without leaving the community.
Build events with a title, description, banner image, date, time, and meeting link. One-time or recurring on a weekly or monthly schedule. Set visibility to all community members, specific groups, specific private channels, or specific courses - so a board-only meeting stays board-only and an all-hands event reaches every member. Members register directly inside the community and receive automatic email and in-app confirmation.
Every event includes Add to Google Calendar and Add to iCal buttons. Members add the event to their personal calendar in one click without leaving the community. Attendance rates increase when members can sync community events directly into the same calendar they use for everything else.
Configure reminder emails to go out before an event begins. Members receive a reminder in-app, by email, and by push notification - timed to reduce no-shows without any manual follow-up required from your team. Reminder emails are brandable so members receive your organization's name and visual identity, not CommunitiesOS.
Set any event as free or paid with Stripe-based payment processing. One-time ticket fees or subscription-based event access. Members complete registration and payment inside the community without being redirected to a third-party event tool. Payment confirmation and event access details are sent automatically after registration.
Creator platforms like Circle and Mighty Networks have many of the same feature names - channels, events, live meetings, member management. The difference is in what each feature was designed to do. Circle's Email Hub is an add-on because member communication was not a founding assumption of the platform. CommunitiesOS includes email and push communication on every plan because reaching your members is the point. Mighty Networks' engagement tools are built around activity streaks and leaderboards because keeping a creator's audience engaged is the business model. CommunitiesOS's announcement channel is built around guaranteed delivery because your congregation and your dues-paying members should not need a streak to receive your organization's updates.
CommunitiesOS connects your community to your broader CRM and marketing automation workflows. Access grants, access revocations, channel assignments, and member segmentation all trigger and respond to CRM events automatically. Your community stays synchronized with your organization's operations without manual intervention.
Set up workflow triggers to grant group access when a contact completes a dues payment, makes a donation, registers for an event, or meets any CRM condition. Revoke access automatically when a membership expires, a subscription is cancelled, or any condition is no longer met. Granting access to a private channel within a group works the same way - the workflow adds the member to the group and the channel simultaneously if they are not already a member.
A workflow trigger fires when any member's level changes in the community's points system. Configure the trigger to specify which group and which level. Use it to send a congratulatory email, grant access to an exclusive channel, or unlock a resource automatically when a member reaches a milestone. Member progression becomes an automation trigger, not a manual tracking task.
CommunitiesOS sends automated notifications for every relevant community action: membership approved, membership declined, added to a private channel, new member request pending, event reminder, and course unlock. Every notification type is configurable and delivers across in-app, email, and push simultaneously. Members stay informed without your team manually tracking who received what.
Most important for churches: guaranteed push notification delivery to every congregant on every post - no algorithm, no engagement score required.
Most important for nonprofits and associations: board sessions, committee meetings, and all-hands events run natively inside your community with no Zoom account required.
Most important for associations: automate dues-based access grants and revocations so your member roster stays current without manual admin work.
Private channels for committees and ministry teams.
An announcement channel that reaches every member - no algorithm.
Live meetings with no participant cap and no Zoom required.
CRM integration so your community and your member data stay in sync.
$97 per month. Everything included. Zero transaction fees.
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