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Invite your waitlist

Bring people from the top of your waitlist into your product, one wave at a time.

About 10 minutes · Admins · Each time you have room for more people

Before you start

  • A launch with verified signups
  • Your production app connected. See Connect your product.
  • The address of your app's sign-up page

This unlocks

  • Invite emails with a personal link into your product
  • Who signed up and who finished onboarding, for every wave
Sending can't be undone. Each person leaves the waitlist as their invite goes out. Start with a small wave, and send a test to yourself first.

Unlock invites

At the top of your launch, Invite waitlist to product stays locked until your product is ready. The reason shows under the button. These steps clear the usual ones.

  1. Open Products and open your app. A sandbox doesn't count.
  2. Go to its Settings tab. Check Environment isn't Staging. Invites only go to production.
  3. In Allowed link domains, add your app's domain, such as app.yourproduct.com.
  4. In Sign-up link, paste the page where new people sign up. It must start with https:// and be on an allowed link domain.
  5. Press Save settings.

Used Learn from repo? Its Your app's web address field adds the domain for you. You still add the sign-up link yourself.

Send a wave

  1. Open your launch and press Invite waitlist to product.
  2. Press New invite wave.
  3. Choose the Product. The line under it shows where people land.
  4. Set How many people. They come from the top of the waitlist, best rank first.
  5. Leave Skip people who already use the product ticked.
  6. Check Invite links work for (days), the Subject and the Email. Keep {{invite_link}} in the email: it becomes the button.
  7. Press Preview to see how many people it would invite. Press Send a test to me to check the email.
  8. Press Send invites, then confirm.

Only verified people are invited. A wave skips anyone already invited from this launch and anyone without an email address. Vizzy can draft a wave for you: it shows as Drafted by Vizzy and waits for you to send it.

Check it worked

  • The wave shows how many people were invited, signed up and activated.
  • The funnel at the top counts Invited, Signed up and Activated. The last two come from your product's events, so your product must send them.
  • Invited people move to Offboarded on the launch's Signups tab.
  • On the Overview, the checklist ticks "Invite your waitlist when the product is ready".

If you see this

If you seeWhat to do
"Connect your product first."Connect your app on Products. See Connect your product.
"Connect your production app"Your only connection is staging. Connect your live app, or set its Environment to Production on its Settings tab.
"Add your app's sign-up link in Products › Settings."Follow the Unlock invites steps above.
"Invite links aren't set up yet."Whoever runs your YouGrow needs to set an invite link signing key (INVITE_LINK_SIGNING_KEY). If you run it yourself, see the setup guide in the repository.
"This launch is archived."On the launch's Settings tab, press Restore launch.
"Nobody left to invite: everyone verified has been invited or already uses the product."Wait for more people to join and verify, or untick Skip people who already use the product.

Next: Onboarding journeys