Community settings

Community settings control how your community looks and works. Open them from Settings at the foot of your admin panel's menu, and it is split into four tabs: General, Social Media, Payment and Advanced.

General

On the General tab you edit the information that makes up your community's identity:

• Banner Image and Logo Image: The banner is a wide band (3:1) and the logo is square (1:1).
• Community Name (required) and Username: The username is your community's address on Gathin.
• Community Description (required): A short introduction of at most 200 characters. The counter under the field shows how many you have used.
• About: The longer story of your community, with formatting such as bold, italics, lists and links.
• City and category: Your community has one category.

People see these first when they find your community, so keep them up to date.

If a description entered earlier is longer than 200 characters, nothing is saved. Gathin takes you to the General tab and shows "The description can be at most 200 characters." under the description field. Shorten it, then save.

Social Media

Here you add your community's links: website, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Threads, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Spotify and an e-mail address. The links you add show up on your community page, so members can follow you elsewhere too.

You can paste a full address or only a handle: @yourcommunity in the TikTok field becomes your TikTok address, and a phone number in the WhatsApp field becomes a WhatsApp link. An address without https:// gets it when you save. Leave a field empty to remove that link. If a link can't be saved, the reason shows under its field, for example "This link was refused as unsafe."

On a Pro or Premium plan, the top of this tab also has the Links page switch, which opens a page for the link in your bio. See Links page.

The same tab has a LinkedIn Company ID field. Add it, and when attendees put their certificates on LinkedIn, your community shows as the issuer.

Payment

On the Payment tab you enter the bank details where money from paid events is sent: Account Holder Name, IBAN, and Account Number.

These details are visible only to admins. For how payments work, see the Getting Paid section.

Advanced

Be careful with the options on the Advanced tab:

• Privacy Status: Make the community Public or Private. A private community can only be entered by invitation.
• Activate on Huddin: Turn it on and your community is published on Huddin as well as Gathin.

Two actions are shown only to the community's owner:

• Transfer Ownership: Pick a member from the list and hand the community over to them. After this, your own admin access is removed.
• Delete Community: Permanently delete the community. Every event, member, sponsor, and record goes with it and cannot be recovered. So you can't do it by accident, the confirmation asks you to type the community's name.

Saving your changes

When you change something, the Save Changes button becomes active. If you try to leave the page without saving (by the menu, the community switcher, the search, the logo, your account menu or the browser's Back), Gathin asks first. Save and Continue saves and goes on; if the save doesn't go through, you stay on the page with your changes. Discard Changes drops them and goes on, and closing the window keeps you where you are.

The username and the category don't wait for that button: the username has its own Save button beside it, and a category is saved as soon as you pick it.

In the app

In the app the same settings are separate screens: General, Social Media, Payout account and Privacy Status, each with its own Save Changes button. Transferring ownership and deleting the community are still shown only to the owner.