Subcommunity Launch Check List

When launching a Subcommunity, it is important to have a few settings in place and completed before linking to your Parent community and welcoming members in!

Check List - Required Items

Name, Description & Subtitle

Ensure that the name, description and subtitle of the subcommunity are accurate and complete as they will appear on the Subcommunities page in the Parent community.

Make changes to the name or add a description and a subtitle in the dashboard, in Settings —> Community.

Logos

Upload all logos to your Subcommunity dashboard as it will appear in the link to the Parent community, and you want your Subcommunity to be branded and complete before launching.

Upload logos in Settings —> Community

Learn more about the branding opportunities in Gradual and logos here.

Email Sender

Customize the email address that automated system messages come from to your subcommunity members. This is important as it improves email deliverability and gives familiarity to your members and to your brand. This email address can be the same as your parent community's email sender but must be updated before launching.

Learn more about how to set up the email sender name and address here.

Custom Domain

Work with the Gradual team to ensure that the domain to your subcommunity is correct and if customization is needed, is handled before launching and connecting to the Parent community.

Learn more about setting up a custom domain here.

Check List - Recommended Items

Profile Questions

If you'd like your subcommunity to have unique profile questions, you can customize what's prompted to those members. Once you're ready to add unique questions, work with the Gradual team to have those loaded and live in your subcommunity before it is launched to members.

Learn more about profile questions here.

Members

If you'd like to have some users already loaded into the subcommunity as members before launch you can manually add them in the dashboard, or have the Gradual team bulk upload their data for you.

Assets

If you'd like to have some engagement opportunities and assets available for your initial members, add content like videos or blogs for them to read, and upcoming events for them to register for.

If you are utilizing Forum you will want to generate boards and have some initial posts in the Forum. If you will be utilizing Channels, start some conversations and prompts in the Channels feature for members to continue the conversation.