You teach classes, run workshops and share what you know, and your people follow you across a few different places. Posts go on social media, lessons live on one site, the chat is in another app and payments go through a fourth. It mostly works. But each one sets its own rules, and your members have to remember where everything is. Able2 puts it all in one app with your name and logo, so your members always know where to find you.
Reach your members every time
“Only some of my followers see what I post”
Social media decides who sees each post. Some weeks a post reaches most of your followers, other weeks only a few. Nothing about your work changed. It’s just how those apps work, and it makes a class or a launch hard to plan around.
In your own app, people join you directly. When you send a notification, it goes to their phone, not into a feed next to ads. Choose who gets it, like one class or everyone, and see how many people it will reach before you send. Keep posting on social media to meet new people, then bring them into your app to stay in touch.
Be on your members’ home screen
“My members mean to log in, then forget”
Most community sites are a web page. Members bookmark it, mean to come back, and life gets busy. It doesn’t mean they’ve lost interest. An app on their home screen is just easier to remember than a link.
Your community is a real app on iOS and Android from day one. It runs inside the Able2 app, so there’s nothing to build and no app store review to wait for. Members can join from a share link or a QR code, and anyone who’d rather not install an app can use it in their browser.
Nobody forgets an icon on their home screen, and native push notifications help keep them engaged.
Keep lessons, chat and events together
“My course is on one site, the chat is on another, and members get lost”
Each tool does its job, but members need a different login for each one. A question about lesson four ends up in whichever app they had open, so only one person sees the answer, and you answer it again next month.
Everything lives in one app with one login. Build courses from modules that unlock one after another, with videos and a certificate at the end. Around them sit group chats, events, a library of resources and a news feed. A question asked in the group helps everyone who’s stuck on the same lesson.
Grow without your bill growing
“A good launch means a bigger bill”
Lots of community tools charge by the number of members. So every time you grow, you move up a price bracket, and a great month can end with a bigger bill.
Every Able2 plan includes as many members as you like, and the free plan is free for good, not a trial. You only move up a plan when you want to set up more, like more courses, groups, events or storage. New members never cost you extra.
Your best month should feel like a good month, not a bigger bill.
Take payments in your own app
“I want to sell my workshops without adding another tool”
Usually the checkout lives somewhere else. Members leave your community to pay, then come back, and you keep track of who has paid in yet another place.
Connect your own Stripe account and sell memberships, event tickets, one-to-one sessions as bookings and products from your shop, each with its own page you can share anywhere. Payments are deposited directly into your account, and Able2 charges a 2% platform fee. Memberships are for a set time, like a term or a year, and don’t renew automatically.
When we are not the right answer
Worth saying plainly, because signing up for the wrong reason helps nobody and we would rather you knew now.
- You want a marketplace that finds students for you. Able2 doesn’t send you an audience. Everyone in your app is there because you invited them.
- People can’t find you yet. A website and an email list come first. An app is great for the people who already follow you, not for strangers.
- You mostly sell digital downloads. Digital products sold through the app cost 30%, not 2%, because the app stores take a cut. Sell those on your website instead.
- You want to design every screen yourself. Able2 is made of finished parts you can set up in lots of ways, not a blank page. If the design is the product, a custom build is the better fit.
- You need your own App Store listing on day one. That’s our white-label option. It sits on top of a Pro plan and goes out under your own Apple and Google accounts, so it takes some planning.
If any of those describe you, we would rather point you somewhere better. If none of them do, the free plan will tell you the rest without costing you anything.
