Features

Everything it does, and what it will not do.

33 things, in five groups. Most communities use a handful of them and switch the rest off. Nothing here is a roadmap: it is all built, and it is all running for somebody today.

Included
In the Standard plan. Switch it on when you want it.
Add-on
Priced separately. The rates are on the pricing section.
We set this up with you
Not a toggle. These touch money, private documents or somebody else’s staff, so we set them up together.
01

Communicate

Both products:MyPeople CommunityMyPeople Workplace

Say something once and know it arrived, without anyone having to scroll for it.

  • News your community reads

    Included

    Post an update to everyone. People can comment, and you can pin the ones that should stay at the top. It is a noticeboard, not a feed that reorders itself while somebody is reading it.

  • A notification to every phone, with a confirm step that means it

    We set this up with you

    Write it, and before anything is sent the server tells you exactly how many people it will reach. There is a daily limit. Between 21:00 and 07:00 it offers to send at 07:00 instead of waking everyone up. You can see everything you have sent, and cancel one you scheduled.

  • Email that comes from you

    Included

    Your sender name and your own address. Pick everyone, one group, or the people coming to a particular event. Save an audience you keep reusing, save a template, send yourself a test first. The send button does not send: it asks you to confirm the subject and the exact number of people.

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  • Three emails that send themselves

    Included

    A welcome when someone joins, a reminder before an event, and a note to people you have not seen in a while. Set them up once.

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  • Login codes and updates over WhatsApp

    Add-on

    Reach people where they already are. Where WhatsApp is not available for someone, their code goes by email instead, per person, without anybody having to choose.

02

Rewards and perks

Both products:MyPeople CommunityMyPeople Workplace

Recognise the people who turn up, and make the membership worth paying for.

  • Partner offers and member benefits

    We set this up with you

    Real offers from real partners, in the app. It needs a budget and the partner side arranged before anything can appear, so we do that with you rather than leaving an empty section in front of your members.

  • Points for the things you want more of

    We set this up with you

    You decide what earns: coming to an event, finishing a course, bringing somebody in. The rules are yours and you can change them when they turn out to be rewarding the wrong thing.

  • A ladder people can climb

    We set this up with you

    Set the thresholds and what each tier is called. Points carry from one period into the next, so nobody goes back to zero because a quarter ended.

  • A gift a person approves

    We set this up with you

    Nothing is issued automatically. A reward is requested, somebody approves or refuses it, and then somebody issues it. Three steps, because a gift that goes out on its own is the one you end up apologising for.

  • A perk that unlocks when somebody earns it

    We set this up with you

    Gate an offer on a tier, on having been to an event, on being in a group, or on having confirmed a policy.

03

Learning

Both products:MyPeople CommunityMyPeople Workplace

The policies people have to read, and the things you want them to know.

  • Required reading, and proof it was read

    Included

    Write the policy, publish it at a version, and see who has not confirmed it yet. The confirmation is attached to the exact wording that was on screen, so the record says something a year later.

  • You decide whether a change means people read it again

    Included

    When you edit a policy we ask one question, and we ask it in terms of what happens to people rather than by the name of a setting: does everybody confirm again, or do the confirmations you already have still stand. Fixing a typo is not the same as changing what somebody agreed to.

  • A list of who has not read it, as a spreadsheet

    Included

    For one policy, or for all of them at once.

  • Require it of one group rather than everyone

    Included

    The safety policy for the warehouse, not for the whole company.

  • Courses, one module at a time

    Included

    Modules in order, each confirmed before the next opens. A question at the end of a module, and somewhere to write a reflection in their own words.

  • Points when somebody finishes

    Included

    A course can carry a reward. Once it has been awarded it is never taken back, including when you go back and correct the course afterwards.

  • A follow-up that arrives later

    Included

    Ask a question a set number of days after somebody finishes, when what they learned has either stuck or it has not.

  • Build the course yourself

    Included

    Write the modules, put them in order, preview it the way a member will see it, then publish. Once a course is published its syllabus is fixed: changing which modules it contains means a new course, because a completion record should describe the thing that was actually completed.

04

People and HR

Only in:MyPeople Workplace

For workplaces. It reads the systems you already run rather than asking you to move off them.

  • A reporting line, and an org chart off it

    Included

    Who reports to whom, once, and then the chart, the approvals and the team screens all key off the same answer.

  • Leave requests and approvals

    Included

    Request, approve, decline, and keep balances. Worth saying plainly: most companies already run leave in their HR system, and we would rather read theirs than give your staff a second place to book the same day off. This is here for the ones who want it.

  • Read-only sync with the HR system you already run

    We set this up with you

    BambooHR today. You agree the field mapping, you see a dry run before anything is written, and there is a list of fields we will never fetch at all, which is code with a test behind it rather than a sentence in a contract. We only ever read, and we never write back.

  • Leave balances and who is out, read live from your HR system

    We set this up with you

    Each person sees their own annual balance. Managers see who is away. The leave type is never shown to anybody, because on sick leave next to a colleague's name on a team screen is health information about that colleague.

  • Work anniversaries and new starters

    We set this up with you

    Both arrive on the weekly digest that already goes out, so nobody has a new thing to remember to check.

  • Mentorship

    Included

    Cohorts, a questionnaire, a shortlist and pairing, and then a thread between the two people.

05

Admin and brand

Both products:MyPeople CommunityMyPeople Workplace

It should look like your community and read in your words, because it is yours.

  • Arrange your own Home

    Included

    Put a notice, a banner, a button or a grid of quick links on the Home screen, alongside the fourteen cards already there. Each block has a size, an audience, and dates to appear and disappear between. You preview it the way a member will see it before you publish.

  • Rename anything

    Included

    Around forty words. If your people are colleagues, or members, or alumni, call them that. You see the change on a mock of the real tab bar before you save it, because fourteen characters is where a tab label stops fitting on a phone.

  • Switch features on yourself

    Included

    Where it is safe to, there is a switch. Where it is not, there is a sentence saying why, instead of a greyed-out button that tells you nothing.

  • Groups with their own people, organisers and events

    Included

    A committee, a year group, a department, a chapter. Each with its own roster and its own organiser, who can run it without being an admin of everything.

  • A public page at your own address

    Included

    Your logo, your colour, your events, and nothing at all about your members. It refreshes itself from the same events the app shows, and you can leave it switched off.

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  • Your own domain

    Included

    A community that would rather have its own web address than a page on ours can have one.

  • A private vault for the documents that matter

    We set this up with you

    Contracts, payslips, IDs. Electronic signing, and fill-in fields sealed into the signed copy. The storage rules underneath it are not something we can check from a screen, and for files like these we would rather verify by hand before switching it on.

  • Sell tickets, and sell things

    Add-on

    Paid events and a storefront, both with payments built in. Commission applies on transactions, and it is on the pricing page rather than in a footnote.

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  • Two products, one price

    Included

    MyPeople Community for networks, associations, alumni and member communities. MyPeople Workplace for companies, which starts with the reporting line, the policies people confirm and groups already switched on. Same setup fee, same monthly: the difference is what is on when you start, and you can change any of it afterwards.

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You will not use all of it, and that is the point.

A membership network and a company want a different half of this list. Tell us which one you are and we will switch on the part that is yours.