Sending an announcement to members

Open Announcements and choose New announcement. You write the message, choose who should receive it and send.

You can send to everyone, to one or more membership types, or to individual members you select from the list.

Before sending you see a summary of the recipients. Note that only active members receive the announcement — inactive ones are skipped at send time.

Use an announcement when something has to reach people — the notice for the annual meeting, a reminder about the fee, a cancelled rehearsal. It arrives with the recipient rather than waiting for someone to open the app.

Use the feed for things that are good to know but not urgent — photos from last week’s concert, a report from the board. The feed is chronological, so nothing is hidden by an algorithm.

When something really has to get through, turn on "Require read confirmation" while writing the announcement. Recipients then get an "I have read this" button in their inbox, an exclamation mark and "Please confirm:" in front of the title in the inbox and in the notification, and a prompt to confirm in the notification – and in the email, if the announcement is also sent by email.

The toggle is also there when you send a message to selected members straight from the member list.

On the sent announcement you see how many have confirmed and who has not, and you can send a reminder to those who have not confirmed. The announcements list shows, for each such announcement, how many have confirmed — for example “3 of 4 confirmed”. Read confirmation exists on announcements only, not on feed posts.

Administrators can always send. Leaders can send if you have enabled it — the toggle sits in the Announcements view and is off by default.

Every sent announcement is kept under Announcements with its date, status and recipient count. Open a sent announcement and tap the recipient count to see who received it. It is the easiest way to avoid sending the same reminder twice.