You can save a lot of staff time through our Automated Permissions feature. Automated Permissions let you set permissions, based on a search of your membership database, of who is allowed to subscribe to each forum. Whenever someone attempts to subscribe to a forum, our system checks their email address against the criteria you have specified for that forum before allowing them to join. This means you do not have to devote a staff member to approve every subscriber. Some common criteria are:

• They must be an active member;
• They must be on a certain committee; or
• They must have registered for the annual meeting

You can set a separate permissions of who is allowed to browse or search the archives of a forum, making it easy, for example to create a forum for which only Committee members can post messages, but any active member can see what has been posted.

Of course your designated Moderators of each forum can override the automatic permissions.