# A community platform for coaches and group coaching programs > Give your clients one private place between sessions. Start from the Coaching or Mastermind template, let people in by approval, run Q&As, workshops and office hours as events, go live inside the community, and sell the program as a membership with subscriptions or installments. ## Everything your clients need between sessions Spaces for goals, questions and resources, a private door to the community, and direct messages: the parts of a coaching program that happen between calls. - **Coaching and Mastermind templates**: Coaching sets up Start here, Goals & check-ins, Q&A and Resources, so clients share goals, ask questions between sessions and celebrate progress. Mastermind sets up Hot seat, Accountability and Resources for a small group of peers. Rename, add or remove spaces after. - **Clients join by approval**: Set Who can join to By approval and ask membership questions: short answer, multiple choice, email or phone number. Each request shows the answers, and you approve or decline requests one by one or all at once. - **One-to-one chat with clients**: Message a client directly between calls and send the worksheet they asked for, with photos and files. In Chat settings you set your preference for who starts chats: everyone, paid members, members from a level or admins only. ## Run group coaching inside your community Every call, workshop and course lives where your clients already talk, so the program and the conversation stay in one place. - **Q&A sessions**: A Q&A event keeps a question queue for the session, where you mark each question answered or hide it. - **Workshops with homework**: Give a workshop an agenda of up to 30 parts, materials from content linked to the community, and homework for after the session. - **Office hours**: Drop-in time split into slots: set a slot length and a gap between slots, and repeat the session every week. - **Co-working sessions**: Focus blocks and breaks you set, a check-in prompt, and a Vonza video room with everyone on camera. - **Live sessions and recordings**: Go live from a post in the space you pick. Clients join from the feed, and you can post the recording for anyone who missed it. - **Courses in the Classroom**: Link a course, product or bundle to the whole community or one space. Clients find it in the Classroom, grouped by space. - **Points and levels**: Clients earn 1 point for each post, comment and reaction, climb levels you name and see where they stand on the leaderboard. - **Reminders on any phone**: Reminder emails 24 hours, 30 minutes and 5 minutes before each event, in-app notifications, and a community that works on any phone, in the browser. ## Sell your coaching program as a membership Add plans to the community or to a single space, so the group program and a smaller mastermind can each have their own price. Clients pick a plan on the community’s sales page and pay at checkout. - Subscriptions billed every week, month or year - Installment plans of up to 100 payments - A free trial of 1 to 365 days on subscriptions and installments - Paid spaces for a mastermind or VIP group - Checkout through Stripe and Paystack ## How to start a coaching community on Vonza From a blank page to clients in the feed, in four steps. 1. **Start from the Coaching template**: Create a community and pick Coaching or Mastermind, or describe your program and let Vonza AI draft the spaces. AI credits are included on every plan, with top-ups available. 2. **Decide who gets in**: Set Who can join to By approval, add membership questions, and add a plan if the program is paid. 3. **Put sessions on the calendar**: Create office hours, a Q&A or a workshop, make it repeat, and paste a meeting link or go live inside the community. 4. **Link your course and invite clients**: Link a course to the community or a space, then share the community link or QR code, or invite clients by email. ## Questions about coaching communities ### What is a community platform for coaches? It is a private online space where a coach’s clients meet between sessions: they post goals and check-ins, ask questions, join group calls and find course material. On Vonza it is a community on your own site, with spaces, events, live sessions, one-to-one chat, courses and paid plans in one place, and it works on any phone, in the browser. ### Which templates suit a coaching community? Two of Vonza’s six community templates are made for coaching. Coaching sets up Start here, Goals & check-ins (with weekly-goals and check-ins rooms), Q&A and Resources. Mastermind sets up Hot seat, Accountability (with commitments and follow-ups rooms) and Resources. You can also start blank, or describe your program and let Vonza AI draft the spaces; AI credits are included on every plan, with top-ups available. ### Can I keep my coaching community private? Yes. Set Who can join to By approval: people ask to join and you approve them. With By approval you can add membership questions as a short answer, multiple choice, email or phone number, and each request shows the answers. You approve or decline requests one by one or all at once, and nothing is public until you publish. ### How do I run group coaching sessions in the community? Create them as events. A Q&A keeps a question queue you mark as answered, a Workshop adds an agenda, materials and homework, Office hours split the time into slots, and Co-working adds focus blocks and a Vonza video room. Events can repeat on a schedule, and members RSVP and get reminder emails. A Zoom, Google Meet or Teams link is pasted into the event as its location; to host the session inside the community, go live from a post instead. ### Can I record live coaching sessions? Yes, when you go live inside the community. Choose Go live in the post composer, pick a space, and Vonza starts the stream and posts it to the feed, where members join with Join room. The recording appears about a minute after the stream ends, and you can post it to the feed for clients who missed the call. ### Can clients message me one to one? Yes. Chat in a Vonza community is one-to-one, with photos and files, mute and an unread badge; group chats are not offered yet. In the community’s Chat settings you choose who can start chats: Everyone, Paid members, members From a level, or Admins only, and a space can have its own rule. Admins can always start chats. ### Can I sell my coaching program with a payment plan? Yes. Add plans to the community or to a single space: subscriptions billed every week, month or year, installment plans of up to 100 payments, one-time purchases and more. A free trial of 1 to 365 days can apply to subscription and installment plans. Clients pay at checkout through Stripe or Paystack. ### Can I put my coaching course inside the community? Yes. Link a course, product or bundle to the whole community or to one space. Members find it in the community’s Classroom, grouped by space, and an item set to Open is theirs as soon as they join. ### Can clients book one-to-one sessions with me? Use Vonza appointment scheduling for one-to-one sessions. It gives you a booking link you can share with clients, for example in a post in your Start here or Resources space. Office-hours events in the community cover group drop-in time. ## Related pages - [Online Community Platform](https://vonza.com/best-community-platform): Everything in Vonza Community: spaces, posts, members, chat, paid plans, events and live streams in one place. - [Community Events and Live Streaming](https://vonza.com/community-events): Q&As, workshops, office hours and co-working sessions, with RSVP, reminder emails and live streams in the feed. - [Community Chat and Messaging](https://vonza.com/community-chat): One-to-one messages between members and hosts, with photos, files, mute and unread counts. - [Paid Community Platform](https://vonza.com/paid-community-platform): Subscriptions, installments, paid spaces and free trials, with checkout through Stripe and Paystack. - [Appointment Scheduling](https://vonza.com/free-online-appointment-scheduling): A shareable booking link for one-to-one coaching sessions. - [Online Courses](https://vonza.com/free-online-courses-platform): Build the course your clients work through, then link it to your community.