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Admin Settings

Navigate and understand your admin settings like a pro.

Updated over a year ago

General Settings

Setting

Description

Community Name

Your community name can be changed.

Community Support Email

This email is where members will be directed if they have questions about your community. Also, this email is used as the reply-to email for community notifications. Your community support email can be changed.

Weekly Digest

You can opt to turn the weekly digest on or off. You can also choose what time and day the weekly digest is sent, and you can preview it.

Hide User Emails

Toggling this button on will make it so that the email addresses are not shown on a user's profile.

Enable Abuse Reporting

Toggling this on will allow members to report other member's DMs. Reports are sent to the email provided.

Prevent DMs

Toggling this on will prevent members from direct messaging each other.

GIF Content

Select a content rating to limit the content members can view in the Giphy popup within your community. Choose between No restrictions, G, Y, PG, and PG-13. Learn more here.

Disable Profile Editing

This will disable members ability to edit their profile in Heartbeat. Instead, you can make it so that members can manage their profile on your site.

Custom Domain

Setting

Description

URL Slug

Unfortunately, this cannot be changed. Learn more here.

Custom Domain

You can custom domain your community by toggling this button on. Learn more here.

Homepage Link

Direct users to your homepage from Heartbeat. If set, your logo in the top left will navigate users to the link you provide.

Custom Login Page

Customize the landing page of your custom domain by adding a Title, rich text description, video, and call to action button.

Default Invitation

If you select an invitation link here, anyone that visits your home page will have the option to sign up. Clicking on sign up will direct them to this invitation.

Email Settings

Setting

Description

Email Domain Settings

Email Domain Settings allows you to choose a custom domain for your community emails to come from. By default, community emails sent to members are from the Heartbeat domain. Learn more here.

Email Customization

After you set up your custom email domain, you can customize parts of your Weekly Digest and New Member Invitation emails.

Integrations

Setting

Description

Google Calendar

You can connect Heartbeat to your GCal to create, manage, and update events from your community. It is a one way sync from Heartbeat to your Google Calendar. Learn more here.

Outlook

You can connect Heartbeat to your Outlook calendar to create, manage, and update events from your community. It is a one way sync from Heartbeat to your Outlook Calendar. Learn more here.

Zoom

Connect to Zoom to auto-create and sync events, live-display zoom events in Heartbeat, track attendance, and save zoom recordings in Heartbeat. Learn more here.

Salesforce

Connect to Salesforce to sync event attendance, matchup emails, and voice channel activity. Learn more here.

Notion

Connect to Notion to sync Notion pages or sections in Heartbeat. Learn more here.

Zapier

Connect to Zapier to set up automations between Heartbeat and other tools. Get started here.

Circle

Import data from Circle. Learn more here.

Slack

Import data from Slack. Learn more here.

Community Theme

Setting

Description

Logo

Add a logo to your community here.

Colors

Set your community's custom primary and background colors.

Onboarding Setup

Setting

Description

Onboarding Profile

Create a customizable onboarding flow for specific groups in your community by asking onboarding questions, giving them the option to join other groups, asking their socials, and more. Learn more here.

Questions

Customize how you want your members to introduce themselves. You can make questions required, optional, included in user bio, or private. Learn more here.

Groups

Prompt users to join groups as they onboard.

Intros Channel

Automatically post newly onboarded member's introductions to a channel.

Social Links

You can ask for their LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Website, and Calendar.

Video

Show a video to new members to introduce them to your community.

Code of Conduct

Use a knowledge base article as your Code of Conduct that new members must read and accept. Learn more here.

Profile Picture

Choose whether you'd like to require, make optional, or skip a user adding a profile picture on onboarding. Learn more here.

Community Sidebar

Setting

Description

Threads

The main communication channel for your community: threads, chats and direct messages. This section cannot be toggled off.

Courses

Create courses with lessons, assignments & completion tracking for your members. Give the section a custom name or toggle off to remove it from the sidebar.

Docs

A community knowledge base to share writing, content, links, and saved threads that the community can use as a reference. Give the section a custom name or toggle off to remove it from the sidebar.

Events

Manage live community events -- including invitation management, attendance tracking, event reminders, and feedback collection. Give the section a custom name or toggle off to remove it from the sidebar.

User Directory

Full member search within your entire community. Give the section a custom name or toggle off to remove it from the sidebar. You may also limit access to this section by user role or group.

Matchups

Set up and automate match ups between community members. Give the section a custom name or toggle off to remove it from the sidebar. You may also limit access to this section by user role or group.

Analytics

Only visible for admins. View stats for how your members are using Heartbeat. Give the section a custom name or toggle off to remove it from the sidebar.

Kickstart

Only visible for admins. A getting started checklist to help you set up your community. Toggle this section off when you're done setting up your community.

Add Link

Add your own custom link to the left sidebar. You may also limit access to this custom link by user role or group. Learn more here.

API Keys

Setting

Description

Create API Key

Create API keys to connect to integration managers, like Zapier, or use Heartbeat's webhooks. Anyone with an API key is able to take admin actions in your community. Only share API keys with people you can trust. Learn more here.

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