Get your first members in
There is no invite-by-email button, and that is deliberate. Here is how people actually join, and what they see when they do.
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Joining Drry is link based. You share a link, someone opens it, and they join. There is no button that emails an invitation to a list of addresses.
That is on purpose. Mail sent to people who never asked for it lands in spam folders and generates complaints, and those complaints follow the sending reputation of everyone on the platform. So we do not offer a tool for it.
What you get instead is a set of links you can put wherever your people already are.
Your join link
The main one is your community address followed by /join, for example rachel.drry.com/join. There is a copy button for it in the console sidebar and on your Members page.
What someone sees when they open it depends on how you have set things up. If your community is free, they see a short welcome and a button that says Join for free. If you charge, they see your price, what they get, and a button that takes them to checkout.
Either way they sign in first. Drry has no passwords: they type their email, we send a six digit code, they type it back. Then they join.
The other ways in
A funnel page. A proper landing page with your pitch on it, ending in a join button. Your first one automatically becomes what visitors see at your community address.
A form. Collect an email in exchange for something free, then follow up. This is the route for people who are not ready to join yet.
A payment link. A private link for one client, for a package or a deposit, optionally with an agreement to sign.
Free access. If someone should be in without paying, you can grant them access directly from the Members page. They need a Drry account first, so ask them to sign in once.
Common questions
Can I import my members from another platform?
You can import their email addresses as contacts, and then email them your join link. You cannot import them as members directly, because a membership on a paid community carries a subscription that only they can start.
Someone says they never got their sign-in code.
Ask them to check spam first. The code comes from an address at notifications.drry.com and expires after a few minutes. There is a resend button on the sign-in page after a thirty second wait.
I am signed in to my dashboard but my own community asks me to join.
That is expected. Your dashboard and your community are separate addresses, and signing in to one does not sign you in to the other. Sign in again on the community side with the same email.
How many members can I have?
100 on the free plan, 500 on Creator, 2,500 on Growth. Your own team seats do not count against it. You get a warning when you are close, and an email if someone is ever turned away.