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The 5 Biggest Clapper Group Chat Updates

2024 is a big year for Group chats – and this update is just the beginning! Version 11 is full of exciting changes for your favorite feature, including a new way to monetize your content.

In this article, we’ll be going over some of the biggest Group chat updates and walking you through how to use them.

🛑 But First 🛑

Groups have moved! Well, kind of. Instead of having the name of your Group displayed on your profile, you’ll now see a “Groups” button. Tap on it to be taken to a landing page listing all your Groups.

Multi Groups đź’Ą

You can now create up to 10 Groups! Instead of having one mega Group to encompass all your content, or narrowing your interests down to one niche, you can have a Group for all your passions. Now you can have one chat for content updates, another for your Clapper besties, a third for your favorite niche, and another for your Fam Tiers supporters. Or whatever your heart desires!

Setting Up Multi Groups

  1. Go to your Creator Space.
  2. Tap the My Groups button. You’ll be taken to your Groups list, where you can view and edit all your Group chats. There should be a plus sign in the top right corner.
  3. Tap the plus sign to create a new Group. Here, you’ll tell us more about your Group. We’ll get into the individual settings in a minute, but you can add a name, a cover photo, and tell us more about your Group. Once you’re happy with your Group…
  4. Hit the “Create” button at the bottom. And that’s it! You’re good to go!

Paid Group đź’¸

Make your Groups even more exclusive my setting a monthly entry fee. You can choose from a range of price points, and people interested in joining will pay an entry fee. If you’re looking to have an exclusive hub for your most loyal followers, a paid Group is the perfect spot! You’ll know a Group has a fee because of the little dollar sign in the top right corner, seen above.

Setting Up a Paid Group

  1. Go to your Creator Space.
  2. Tap the My Groups button. You’ll be taken to your Groups list, where you can view and edit all your Group chats. There should be a plus sign in the top right corner.
  3. Tap the plus sign to create a new Group. The last option, underneath the place to adda  description, will be the Group fee, which will be set to free by default.
  4. Tap the Group fee and set it to your desired price. We recommend starting with something small, like $1 or $5, depending on the content you provide.
  5. Hit the “Save” button in the top right!

Members will be charged the entry fee each month, and their entry in the Group chat will “renew” based on when they first paid to enter. As a Group chat subscriber, you can cancel your subscription at anytime. You’ll have access to the chat until your subscription ends.

Group Invitations đź”—

Invite people to join your Group literally in your Group! Instead of trying to direct people to your chat, you can just send them a quick invite. You can also share a direct link to your Group chat with your community outside Clapper!

Sending an Invite

  1. Open your Group chat.
  2. Tap the three buttons in the top right corner. This will take you to the Group chat information page, shown above, where you can edit or share your chat.
  3. Underneath your Group chat picture and description, there will be three buttons. The middle button is the “Share”. Tap it and a menu will pop up, showing you all the ways you can share it.
  4. Under Members, there will be a button that says “Invite”. Tap it and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can either save the link, search individual Clapper users, or invite creators you’ve recently messaged.

Delete Messages 🗑️

With our newest update, Group chat owners can now delete messages for everyone in the Group! Previously, you could only delete messages for yourself, but now the host can easily delete messages for the whole Group.

Plus, messages with autodelete after 7 days. This will free up some storage and keep your chats feeling a lot less cluttered.

How to Delete Messages

  1. Find the message that you want to delete from your chat.
  2. Hold down on it, and the small menu shown above will pop up.
  3. Tap select the option to delete for everyone.

Mute Chats 🔕

Creators can now mute any of the chats they’re in. Because, we get it: sometimes they get a little crazy. We’ll use this month’s Clapper Sisters chat for reference. 

How to Mute a Chat

  1. pen your Group chat.
  2. Tap the three buttons in the top right corner. This will take you to the Group chat information page.
  3. Underneath your Group chat picture and description, there will be two buttons. The one on the right is the “Mute” button. Tap it to mute notifications for this Group.
  4. To unmute, repeat the steps!

Freeze Groups 🧊

To help our hosts better control their chats, Groups hosted by inactive creators will be frozen. This means that if the creator does not come onto Clapper and interact with their community for a period of time (roughly a few weeks) their chat will be frozen. No one will be able to join or send messages, and monthly fee payments will be halted. This update will also help users in paid Groups. It will keep them from paying a fee for an inactive Group chat.

Update Clapper today and start your next Group chat! Keep an eye out for future updates, because we’ve got some exciting announcements you won’t want to miss.