Posts, replies, and messages under your community's name.
Every post goes in a category you name, so a new member can read the welcome post and find the older threads. When someone replies to a member, the notification email shows your community's name as the sender, with your own reply address on it.
Free plan, no card.
A post can include images, a video, a poll, or a GIF.
A post has a title and a body, and it can include up to four images, an uploaded video, a YouTube embed, a poll, or a GIF. Members like and comment. Staff can pin a post to the top of its tab, and search covers the whole feed. Each post goes in one of the categories you named.
Paste a link and the post gets a preview card.
Paste a link into the composer and Lockers builds a preview card from the page, with a choice of which image the card uses. The same composer accepts a GIF from GIPHY, a poll with two to six options, an image or video upload, or plain text. The category is chosen in the composer before the post goes out.
Pin a welcome post to the top of any category.
Categories appear as tabs across the top of the feed, with the names you gave them. A pinned post stays at the top of its tab, which is where a welcome post for new members belongs. Any category can be limited so that only moderators, admins, and owners post in it, which limits that tab to announcements from staff while the others stay open to members.
Members find each other by name and message privately.
The directory lists each member's name, photo, role, and whether they are online now, and each profile has a short bio. From a profile, a member opens a one-to-one message. Messages also holds private groups of up to 50 people in the same Locker, and an unread count shows when a message is waiting. Blocking and reporting are on the same screens.
You decide who joins, and approve a page of requests at once.
A free community can require approval to join. Each request is then listed in Admin with Approve and Decline beside it, oldest first, and a page of requests can be approved at once. People arrive through an invite link or through individual invitations sent from the same screen. Roles are changed from the member list, and member reports arrive in Moderation.
Members follow replies and messages from one account.
Most members never open Admin. The parts they use are the feed, their notifications, and their own profile.
One account for every community
Signing in passes through lockers.social and comes straight back, on your own domain if you have one. The same account works in every Locker a member belongs to, so they keep one password.
A notification when someone replies
A member gets a notification when someone replies to them. Browser push for those replies is optional and off until the member turns it on. Email goes out as your community name via Lockers, and a reply to it goes to your Reply-To address.
Members message one-to-one or in private groups of up to 50
Two members can message each other, and a member can start a private group with up to 50 people from the same Locker. Neither person has to share an email address. A member can block someone on their own, which stops a one-to-one chat and stops either person from adding the other.
Run the whole community on Free and add video, selling or your own domain
Free includes the feed, the directory, and direct messages, with no member count cap. Basic adds unlimited video and selling. Pro adds paid memberships, Live, and your own domain.
Free
per Locker, forever- Unlimited membersYour community on a lockers.social address.
- Community feedPost updates and run polls, with categories and pinned posts to organize discussions.
- Direct messagesLet members have private one-to-one and group conversations.
- Member directoryHelp members find one another and identify your community's owners and admins.
- In-app notificationsLet members see when someone replies to them inside Lockers.
Basic
$7a month or $70 a year per Locker- Unlimited hosted videoHost course and community videos in Lockers, with no cap on your library or on viewing.Each uploaded video can be up to 25 GB, four hours and 1080p. Members watch signed in, inside your Locker.
- Sell courses and event tickets5% fee plus Stripe processing, in a free-to-join Locker.
- 1 GB of file storageFor images and other files. Hosted video is separate.
Pro
$67a month or $670 a year per Locker- Live hosting with recordingGo live from the event page for up to 100 people, with 200 attendee-hours included each month.After a session, keep the recording as a replay on the same timeline post, or discard it.
- 25 GB of file storageFor images and other files. Hosted video is separate.
- Your own domainRun your community at your own web address, with a secure connection managed for you.Connect one domain to each Pro Locker. Its lockers.social address forwards to your domain.
- API and webhooksConnect other tools to member, course, event, and post activity.
Each uploaded video can be up to 25 GB, four hours and 1080p. Pro includes 200 Live attendee-hours a month, with sessions up to four hours.
Full pricing pageGet the details before you start your community.
Can I organize the feed into channels?
You name your own categories and they appear as tabs across the top of the feed, with every post in one of them. A pinned post stays at the top of its tab, and search finds older posts.
Do people need approval to join?
That is your setting. A free community can be open to anyone holding the invite link, or set to approval, in which case each request waits in Admin until an owner or admin approves or declines it. You can also skip the link and send individual invitations from the same screen.
Can I charge people to be in my community?
Selling is available after the Locker owner connects a Stripe account and completes payment setup. Paid membership runs on Pro at a monthly or annual price and includes every course in that Locker. We take 1% of each membership payment, plus Stripe processing, and a member who cancels keeps access until the paid period ends.
Can I move a community I already have?
Members, yes: share an invite link, or invite people one at a time from Admin. On Pro, a connected tool can send invitations for you through the API. You recreate posts and courses in Lockers, and the course studio turns a batch of videos or documents into lessons.
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Start your community on the free plan
Start on your own lockers.social address and name a few categories. Then invite the people who will post in the first week.
