Chat Spaces

Start a free community chat on your portal

Open a free chat room on your portal where anyone can join, talk with you and meet each other.

When to use this

  • You want a warm, always-open place for your audience to gather between sessions.
  • You want to grow your community before you ask anyone to pay.
  • You want new visitors to feel the energy of your community before they subscribe.

Steps

Create the chat space

Go to Offerings → Chat Spaces and click Create Chat Space. If this is your first one, click Create Your First Chat Space.

Name it and say what it's for

Add a Title and a Description. Be specific about the purpose: "A daily check-in for anyone walking the grief path with me" invites more than "Community chat". Optionally add a Cover Image (16:9).

Set it to Public and Free

Under Visibility, keep Public ("Visible to everyone, can be joined by anyone"). Under Pricing, keep Free.

Create it

Click Create Chat Space. Soul opens the new room.

Write the first message

The empty room says "It's quiet in here". Write a welcome: who the room is for, how you'll show up, and one easy question to answer, like "Tell us your name and what brought you here."

Pin your welcome

Open the … menu on your welcome message and choose Pin. It stays at the top of the room under Pinned, so new members see it first.

Put it on your portal

Go to My Portal → Design and turn on the Chat Space section. Drag it near the top. See Help members find your chat space.

Tips

  • Seed it. People join rooms that already have life in them. Post a few prompts in the first week: a weekly intention, a reflection question, a photo from your practice.
  • Show up on a rhythm. A predictable "I'm in the chat every Tuesday morning" builds habit better than random bursts.
  • Keep the purpose narrow. Two focused rooms work better than one room about everything.
  • Soul only suggests your chat space to people browsing other portals once you've written in it, so post before you promote.

You can't turn a free chat space into a paid one later. If you might want to charge, create a separate paid space for that, or start paid from day one.

What your members see

The space appears in the Chat Spaces row on your portal and at https://bringsoul.life/portal/<your-handle>/chat-spaces. Visitors who open it see Join for Free and "Join this free chat space to start conversations with other members." If they're not signed in, Soul asks them to sign up or log in first. Once joined, the space appears under Chat spaces in their Messages.