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Settings

Settings is where you configure your organization’s name, branding, contact details, custom domain, payment options, email notifications, and feature defaults. It’s split into six tabs: General, Contact, Domain, Features, Payments, and Notifications.

Change your organization’s name and branding

Go to Settings > General.

  1. Upload a Logo by clicking the file picker. Somiti accepts PNG, JPG, GIF, or WebP files up to 2MB. If you don’t upload a logo, Somiti shows your community’s initials instead.
  2. Update the Name field with your community’s display name.
  3. Add or edit the Description to tell members what your organization is about.
  4. Pick a Primary Color and Secondary Color using the color pickers. Primary is used for buttons, links, and highlights. You’ll see a live preview below the pickers.
  5. Click Save Changes.

Your name and colors appear throughout the member portal right away.

Note: You set these details during initial setup too. See Getting Started for the full setup walkthrough.

Update your contact details

Go to Settings > Contact.

  1. Enter your Contact Email. Members see this as your organization’s official email address.
  2. Add a Contact Phone number (optional).
  3. Enter your Address (optional).
  4. Choose your Timezone from the dropdown. Somiti uses this for event scheduling and automated emails.
  5. Click Save Changes.

Set up a custom domain

By default your community is at yourname.somiti.app. You can point your own domain at it instead.

Go to Settings > Domain.

  1. Enter your custom domain in the Custom Domain field (for example, members.yourcommunity.com).
  2. Click Save Domain Settings.
  3. Log in to your domain registrar (GoDaddy, Namecheap, Google Domains, etc.) and add this DNS record:
Type Name/Host Value/Target
CNAME @ or www yourname.somiti.app
  1. Wait for DNS to propagate. This can take up to 48 hours.

Once the domain connects, the page shows a green “Domain Connected” confirmation. Until then it shows a yellow warning that DNS configuration is needed.

Note: Your subdomain (yourname.somiti.app) is permanent and can’t be changed. Contact support if you need help.

Configure payment settings

Go to Settings > Payments to connect Stripe and set up offline payment options.

See Payments for step-by-step Stripe connection instructions.

Check your Somiti fee

The Payments page shows your current fee percentage. This is set by your plan and deducted from payments members make through Somiti. You can’t change it from this page. To reduce the fee, upgrade your plan.

Accept offline payments

If some members pay by check, cash, or bank transfer, turn on offline payments so you can record those payments manually.

  1. Go to Settings > Payments.
  2. Check Accept offline payments.
  3. Add instructions in the Offline Payment Instructions field. For example: who to make a check payable to, or where to send a bank transfer. Members see these instructions when they choose offline payment.
  4. Click Save Payment Settings.

Turn features on or off

Go to Settings > Features to control how registration and events work for your community.

Registration settings

Allow public registration: When this is on, anyone can visit your community’s signup page and create a membership. Turn it off if you want to add members yourself rather than letting people self-register. See Getting Started for how this fits into your initial setup.

Require membership approval: When this is on, new membership requests wait in a queue for you to approve before they activate. Useful if you want to vet new members before they get access.

To change either setting, check or uncheck the box and click Save Feature Settings.

Event settings

Require registration for new events by default: When this is on, every new event you create will default to requiring registration. You can still change it per event.

Allow guest event registration: When this is on, people who aren’t members can register for public events. Turn it off to keep events members-only.

Check or uncheck the boxes you want and click Save Feature Settings.

Your plan features

The bottom of the Features page shows what your current plan includes: your member limit (or unlimited), your event limit (or unlimited), and your Somiti fee. Click Upgrade to move to a higher plan.

Configure default notifications

Go to Settings > Notifications to control which automated emails Somiti sends by default. Individual members can override these settings in their own notification preferences.

Send welcome emails: New members get a welcome email when they join. Leave this on unless you’re importing a large batch of members and don’t want them all emailed at once.

Send membership expiry reminders: Members get a reminder before their membership expires.

Send event reminders: Registered attendees get a reminder before each event.

Send payment receipts: Members get an email receipt for every payment.

Check or uncheck the boxes you want and click Save Notification Settings.

Tip: Members can turn individual notifications on or off from their own account. Somiti shows them a link to their notification preferences directly on the notifications page.

See Notifications for more detail on notification types and email templates.