Paths

Get members to join your path

Joining a path is a separate step from joining your membership. Here's how to make sure people actually start.

When to use this

  • You've published a path and want people on it.
  • Members have signed up to your portal but aren't receiving your prompts.
  • You want to move a group, such as a course cohort, onto a path yourself.

Joining your portal doesn't put anyone on a path. Paths have their own Try This Path step. Unless you use Auto-subscribe or add people yourself, members need a nudge to join.

Option 1: Show it on your portal

Publish the path

On the path's page, click Publish.

Turn on the Soul Paths section

Go to My Portal → Design and switch on Soul Paths. Drag it higher if paths are central to what you offer.

Copy the link

Open the path and click ⋯ at the top, then Copy link. You can also use Share to X, Share to Facebook, Share to LinkedIn or Share via device. On Offerings → Paths, published paths also have a quick share button on their card.

Send it where your people are

Put the link (https://bringsoul.life/portal/<your-handle>/paths/<path-id>) in your welcome email, an announcement, a course lesson, an event description or your social posts.

Visitors who aren't in your audience yet sign up from the path page ("Join <path name>") and are enrolled right after.

Option 3: Enroll new sign-ups automatically

On the path's Schedule tab, switch on Auto-subscribe under New subscribers. Everyone who signs up to your portal from then on is enrolled, unless they're already on another path. See Welcome new members with a path.

Option 4: Add people yourself

Open Add subscribers

On the path's Subscribers tab, click Add Subscriber.

Pick people

Search your audience and tick the people to add. Anyone already on this path shows "Already on this path".

Decide about other paths

People already on another path can't be added unless you tick Force switch ("move selected people off any other path of mine they're currently on"). You can only move people off your own paths, not another Luminary's.

Add them

Click Add N subscribers. On a Self-Paced path, "They'll receive prompts starting day 1 of this path." On a Scheduled path, "They'll receive prompts scheduled after today."

Good to know

  • Only people in your audience can join. Visitors can see a published path, but must sign up to your portal first. Signed-in people who aren't in your audience see Subscribe to Access.
  • One path at a time. A member on another path, yours or someone else's, sees Switch to This Path and a warning that the other path will pause.
  • Phone numbers. If a member's preferred contact method needs a phone number they haven't added, Soul asks them to add one in their settings before they can join.
  • People who left can be re-added. Left and Removed subscribers can be added again with Add Subscriber.
  • Tell people what to expect. Say how many days it runs, what time messages arrive, and that they come by text.

What your members see

The path page with its cover, description, status line ("Starts when you join." or "Next message: …") and the Try This Path button. After joining, a confirmation that they're enrolled, and their first message at the scheduled time.