How to use Plugins?
1. Membership Questions (Hobby & Pro plan)
When to use it: To collect contact information and decide who to let into your group.
Best practices: For Q1, figure out who you want in your group, then ask a question to determine that information, e.g., "Why do you want to join this community?" or "What's your goal related to [topic]?". You can also use this information for sales if you have a paid offer. For Q2, ask for their email or social handle, so you can contact them if they're not active on Skool. For Q3, you can ask where they found you, so you know where people are finding your group. Harder membership questions = lower conversion rate = but higher quality members
(instructions here)
2. Unlock Chat at Level 2 or 3 (Hobby & Pro plan)
When to use it: Use this when the group gets over 1,000 members. It's mainly used to reduce spam and people joining your group just to try selling in the DMs.
Best practices: If you are a big group that is getting lots of new joins, we recommend turning this on right away. If you have a smaller group, this is probably not needed.
3. Unlock Posting at Level 2 or 3 (Hobby & Pro plan)
When to use: Similar to above. To reduce spam and low-quality posts.
Best practices: Best to use this for large groups only. It is a good way to encourage members to introduce themselves on your pinned post by commenting, and then start engaging in the community via posts.
4. AutoDM (Pro plan)
When to use it: Use this to welcome new members to your group. It's an efficient and easy way to reach out and start a conversation with them.
Best practices: Ask an open and a closed question. For example: “Hey #NAME#, welcome to #GROUPNAME#! Are you new at Skool? And what motivated you to join?” (instructions here)
5. Onboarding video (Pro plan)
When to use it: Use this to welcome new members and show them a preview of how Skool works. You can also upload your own video.
Best practices: Create your own group's overview and tour video to show new members where everything is, and how to use the community, describe a bit about Classroom, etc.
6. Zapier integration (Pro plan)
When to use it: When you want to automate membership and membership info.
8. Cancelation video (Pro plan)
When to use: Best to retain members who are on a monthly membership.
Best practices: Turn it ON, and upload a video of you explaining what they would lose once they leave the group. Keep it light (
instructions here)
9. Google Ads (Pro plan)
When to use: Specifically for people running Google/YouTube ads to their about page, who want to retarget visitors and track signups.
Best practices: If you want to run ads, or think you'll want to in the future, turn this on. Even if you don't use it straight away, it'll collect data that you can use for your ads later on. If you don't think you'll ever run Google ads, you can ignore this
(instructions here)
10. Links (Pro plan)
When to use: When you want to add external links for your members.
Best practices: Add your support email, product login email, and shareable docs. You can also add a link to the Rules page.
11. Instant membership approval (Pro plan)
When to use: When you want to automate approvals.
Best practices: If you are promoting lead magnets and or running ads to your free group, consider turning this on. It will help people automatically get accepted so they are more likely to view the lead magnet when they click and reduce waiting times. Or if you're getting tired of going through membership requests. NOTE: If you see a lot of members joining and spamming your community feed, then best to turn this feature off.
12. Webhook (Pro plan)
When to use it: This is to automate member invitations via an off-platform action. This is a developer-only feature.
Best practices: Used for sending a unique email invite link if people check out through an external processor.
How other group creators are using Plugins here 🙂