If you want to build anticipation for an offering, you can easily create a waitlist using our Plans feature.
Want to build excitement for the launch of a new subscription you’re offering, or a new paid course?
Wish you could temporarily close your cart and pause payments, while still building interest?
It’s easy to set up a waitlist using Member Approvals.
To make a new Plan, go to Admin > Plans > Plans List and select the “+” icon.
Here you will decide if you want the plan to include the Network (full membership) or only include a Space (limited membership).
You will set up a plan according to what you want the members on your waitlist to get access to after they are approved.
Next, choose whether or not to add gates to the Plan.
Start by toggling on Approval so that prospective members must wait for you to approve them before they can join – or until you’re ready to open the doors.
Enabling Screening Questions allows you to also ask prospective members up to 5 questions. This can be useful if you want to know the answers to questions like, “How did you hear about us?” or if you need to verify that members have taken additional training before they can gain access.
To learn more about Screening Questions and Approvals, check out this article.
The next choice you need to make is whether or not to charge for your Mighty Network. If you do, then toggle on Payments. Your prospective members won’t be charged until you approve them.
If you don’t want to charge, just keep the Payments toggle off.
To learn more about creating a Plan, check out this article.
After you create the Plan, you will choose where you want it to be visible.
Then it’s time to let people know about your community! You can use our invite feature and upload a CSV of contacts.
In your message, we recommend giving people a date when the doors will open. We’ve found that 2 weeks is a good amount of lead time, since it allows word to spread and excitement to build!
During this time, your prospective members will be directed to your plan.
Clicking on the Plan will prompt them to create an account, answer questions (if you have them enabled), and request approval.
Be clear about how the waitlist process will work in your messaging to ensure that when people get to this screen they know they’re on the list.
Here is a video of a plan appearing on a landing page and what that member experience is:
When you’re ready to open your doors, go to Admin > Plans > Plans List and click on the plan you created.
You’ll see a list of people waiting to be let in.
All you need to do is approve them!
They’ll receive an email notification that they were approved so they’ll know that the doors are now officially open.