How to Manage a Community on Mobile

How to Approve Join Requests

• Whenever someone requests to join a community you are an editor of, you will receive a Shout notification in your inbox.

• Tap on the Followers tab within the Community
• Tap on Pending Request(s)

• From Pending requests, you can Decline All or Approve All Requests 
• Tap on the name of the user to view their request question responses

• From this page, you can Decline or Approve the user to follow the community

• From the Approved tab, you can view all approved requests.
• From the Declined tab, you can view all of the declined requests.

How to Automatically Add Users to a Community with Invite Links

• Go to www.shout.app from the web browser of your mobile phone

• Login to your Shout account

• Tap on Invite Links

• Tap on the name of the invite link you want to edit

• Next to Add to Community, tap on Edit

• Tap on the name of the community you want the user to be added to automatically 
• Tap Save

• Tap on Save & Exit

How to Automatically Approve a Group Chat Request to Join if Someone is Following a Community

• Tap on the Community
• Tap on the Group Chats tab
• Tap on the name of the group chat 

• From the Info tab of the group chat tap on Edit
• Tap on Edit Chat

• Tap on the Public Page

• Scroll down and tap to choose a community to auto-approve users to, if they are already following the community
• Tap on the name of the community
• Tap on Select
• Tap on Save

How to Automatically Add Users to a Community with Bot Actions

• Tap on Bots
• Tap on the name of the bot you want to edit
• Tap on Edit Bot - you will then be directed to Shout on the web browser of your mobile phone
• Choose a question to add an action to
• Tap on Add Action

• Tap on Add to Community

• Tap on the name of the Community you want to add contacts to
• Tap on Add Action

• Tap on Save

• Editors is the term used to describe the administrators of the community.
• Group chats have admins and communities have editors.