Offer your community free or paid — how to set up access

In short

You decide how new members join your community. Whether as a free freebie community or a paid membership — you control how access works.

Link your community to an ablefy product and automate access, billing, and member management. This article shows you how.

🔐 How to set up community access

There are two ways for members to join your community.

1. Direct join via foroom

Simply share your community link or send an email invitation. Members can join your community directly, or send a join request through your landing page first.

This works especially well for:

• private communities

• first tests with foroom

• free communities without an ablefy integration

Member management is handled manually.

2. ⭐ Automated community access via ablefy (recommended)

Create a new ablefy product or link one of your existing products to your foroom community. This automates community access and lets you control monetization at the same time.

Through your ablefy product's pricing plan, you define how members join:

• 🆓 Free (€0)

• 💳 One-time payment

• 🔄 Monthly or yearly subscription

This lets you offer the same community flexibly as a free lead magnet, standalone membership, or add-on to an online course.

Automatic member management after linking

Once your community is connected to an ablefy product, foroom handles member management automatically:

✅ Product purchase → instant community access

✅ Subscription cancellation or expiry → access is revoked automatically

✅ No manual invites or activations

👀 What visitors see

Every community automatically gets its own landing page with a personal link. You can share it wherever you promote your community — for example on social media, in newsletters, podcasts, on your website, in freebies, or directly in your ablefy products.

Depending on your settings, visitors can register directly or send a join request first. Here is how the two variants look on the landing page:

🌱 The right community access for your business

Whether a free lead community, an exclusive member community, or a paid community offer — with foroom, you decide how people become part of your community.

The direct ablefy integration handles purchase, community access, and member management automatically, so you can focus entirely on building your community.