Creating a community

How to create one

Sign in and open Communities in the top bar, then select New community. Give it a name — that is all it asks for. You land on the community's manage page, where everything else is set up.

You can create a community from the mobile apps as well. Editing a community stays on the web.

Setting it up

The Settings tab is what you land on. Everything on it saves as you go:

Name and description — what kind of events to expect and who the community is for
Logo (square) and banner (wide) — the banner becomes the header of the community page
Address — the field under the name, cloomba.com/c/…. The community starts with a generated one; type a readable one and select Save, and the page moves to the new URL
Location — the city the community is based in; it links to that city's page
Let others submit events — off by default; see Submitting an event to a community
Links — your website and social profiles
People & sponsors — organizers, speakers, and partners shown on the community page
Admins — people who can edit the community, add events, review submissions, and write to your audience; see Community admins and ownership

Communities are always public — anyone can open the page and follow it. Public events are shown to everyone. An unlisted event shows only to the community's members, when it offers memberships, and private events never appear.

Adding events

When you create an event — the community you pick above the title becomes its home. New events start in your default community; star a community on your Communities page to make it the default. To put an existing event in the community, select Change community on the Community card at the bottom of the event's Overview — see Moving an event to another community.
From the community page — Submit Event offers owners and admins three options: create a new event in the community, add an existing Cloomba event (yours, or any public event by link), or add an external event that happens outside Cloomba. Your additions go live immediately; they never wait in a queue.
From other organizers — turn on Let others submit events and review what comes in. See Submitting an event to a community.

The manage page

Open Manage on the community page, or the pencil on your Communities page. The tabs:

Events — every event in the community, with the submissions queue behind a button on the toolbar
People — everyone the community reaches: followers, guests of every event whose home is this community (whoever organized it), and contacts you import; tag them, export them, and manage memberships
Newsletters — write to those people; see Community newsletters
Payments — the community's payment accounts and its discount codes
Reports — traffic and guests of the community's events, summed
Settings — everything above, plus the embed snippet and the Danger zone: Leave community for admins (and for an owner while another owner stays), Delete for owners

Deleting a community keeps its events: an event whose home it was moves to its organizer's personal calendar, and an event that was only listed in it stops being listed. A community can't be deleted while any of its membership tiers has a price, or while an upcoming event in it has members-only tickets. See Community admins and ownership.