# Product Overview

> Courses, challenges, coaching, live events, chat, and gamification in one branded community you buy once and own.

## What Is Seedly Communities?

Seedly Communities is a complete branded community space built for course creators, coaches, and community operators. Members get one login to consume courses, join challenges, book coaching sessions, attend live events, chat with peers, and track their progress through a gamified points and badge system. Admins get a single workspace to build programs, host live sessions, moderate discussion, and grow retention - a source-you-own alternative to Skool, Circle, and Mighty Networks.

Instead of renting a seat on a hosted community product and paying per member, per month, forever, you buy the source code once and run your own instance. Your community, your data, your infrastructure, your margins.

## Who Is It For?

- **Course creators** selling memberships, cohorts, or certifications
- **Coaches and consultants** running 1:1 or group programs with milestones and accountability
- **Community operators** running paid or free membership communities
- **Agencies** launching branded communities on behalf of their clients

## Why Seedly Communities

**One place for everything.** Feed, chat, calendar, courses, challenges, coaching, live events, and member profiles all live in one branded space. No stitching together Discord, Zoom, Teachable, and Slack.

**Real-time by design.** Chat messages, live events, event RSVPs, notifications, and leaderboards update instantly across every connected device.

**Gamification out of the box.** Points, levels, streaks, and badges are wired into every meaningful action - commenting, completing lessons, attending events, finishing challenges - so members stay engaged without extra configuration.

**Built for mobile.** Every screen is responsive, with dedicated mobile layouts for chat, feed, live events, and account management. iOS and Android app shells are included, wrapping the responsive web app for App Store distribution.

**Branded end-to-end.** Custom domains, your logo, favicon, design tokens, and full control over colors, typography, and spacing - including branded transactional emails that match the site palette.

**Buy once.** $399, one time. No per-member fees, no seat fees, no revenue share; member payments run through your own Stripe account. Buying Seedly CRM too? Add Seedly Communities for $150 in the same checkout. [See what is included](/purchase).

**Designed to connect with Seedly CRM.** Built on the same modern stack as Seedly CRM, with a shared component library and design language, and an architecture that keeps a clean separation between community data and CRM data while making cross-product features (unified contacts, joint automations, consolidated billing) a straightforward extension.

## Platform Capabilities

### Feed and Posts
Threaded discussion feed with rich text, image uploads, polls, @mentions, drafts, pinned posts, bookmarks, and a featured posts carousel. Real-time comments and likes.

### Chat
Real-time direct messages and group conversations. File and image sharing, emoji reactions, reply threading, message search, edit/delete, read receipts, and mute.

### Calendar and Events
Shared community calendar with recurring events, RSVPs, waitlists, reminder emails, timezone-aware scheduling, and per-instance editing for recurring series.

### Live Events
Go live with integrated video, audio, screenshare, and live chat. Recordings are automatically processed and a recap post is created with the video embedded inline.

### Classroom (Courses)
Multi-lesson courses with video, text, live session, quiz, and assignment lesson types. Drip scheduling, assignment submissions with grading, quiz engine with retries, completion certificates, course bundles, and student reviews.

### Challenges
Daily habit, accountability, and phased/team challenges with templates, recurring cohorts, streaks, badges, prizes, paid access, and custom CSS theming.

### Coaching Programs
1:1 or group coaching with milestone tracking, session scheduling, session notes, intake forms, waitlist auto-promotion, client payments, and client testimonials.

### Gamification
Points, levels, streaks, and badges earned across every activity. Admin badge builder, points history per member, and a community leaderboard.

### Members
Public member directory with search and filters, rich profile pages, cover/banner images, custom profile fields, and a follow system with privacy-aware direct messaging.

### Notifications
In-app, email, and push notifications with per-type preferences, daily and weekly digests, @mention alerts, transactional guarantees for billing events, and a full notification center.

### Moderation
Automated keyword filtering, member-submitted reports queue, suspend/ban controls, content takedowns, and a consolidated admin review workflow.

### Billing and Membership Tiers
Subscription tiers with monthly/annual pricing, free trials, coupon codes, multi-currency support, invoice history, payment failure notifications, and self-service billing.

### Admin and Branding
Design token editor (colors, typography, spacing), logo and favicon upload, custom domain with automatic redirect, API key management, member invite system, and community settings.

### Developer API
REST endpoints for members, posts, events, courses, and more. API key authentication, rate limiting, cursor-based pagination, and outbound webhooks with automatic retries.

### Mobile
Responsive layouts tuned for mobile, dedicated mobile nav, safe-area / Dynamic Island support, mobile live-event chat drawer, and iOS/Android app shell configuration.

### Rich Content
Modern rich text editor with formatting, links, images, polls, and @mention autocomplete (including `@everyone` broadcasts for admins).

### Email System
Branded transactional emails built from a block-based template engine with design token inheritance. Password reset, verification, invites, notifications, and digests all match your community's look and feel.

## Platform at a Glance

| Metric | Count |
|--------|-------|
| Members, seats, and admins | Unlimited |
| Notification types | 44 |
| Notification channels | 3 (in-app, email, push) |
| Lesson types | 5 (video, text, live session, quiz, assignment) |
| Challenge formats | Daily habit, accountability, phased/team |
| REST API endpoints | 8 |
| Platform transaction fees | 0% (member payments go through your own Stripe) |
| Currencies | Multi-currency (USD, GBP, and more) |
| Mobile platforms | Responsive web, plus iOS and Android app shells |
| License | $399 one time, source included |

New here? Start with [Getting Started](/docs/getting-started), then see the [Features](/docs/features) page for a detailed module-by-module breakdown.

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Source: https://seedlycommunities.com/docs