Invitations
How clubs invite people to apply, and how invite-only sign-ups work
An invitation is a personal, single-use link that lets someone apply to your club. Invitations are how you bring people in when your club is invite-only, and how guests and visitors are added.
Types of invitation
There are three types, matching the account types someone can apply for:
Standard — to apply for full membership.
Guest — to attend as a guest.
Visitor — for a visiting certificate holder.
Standard invitations use one of your billable member seats, so you can't send one if you're already at your plan's limit — upgrade your tier or remove a member first. Guest and visitor invitations are free and don't count towards your limit.
Sending an invitation
Open Invitations from the admin menu.
Choose New Invitation.
Enter the recipient's email address and pick the type.
Send it. Range Mate emails them a unique link to apply.
Each invitation has its own unique code built into the link, and it can only be used once. Unused invitations expire after three months. The Invitations page lists invitations that haven't been used yet, so you can see what's still outstanding.
Invite-only sign-ups
Whether people need an invitation at all is controlled in Club Settings → Memberships:
Invite-only membership — when on, nobody can apply for standard membership without a valid invitation. When off, anyone with your club's
/applylink can apply.Invite-only guests/visitors — the same control, applied separately to guest and visitor sign-ups.
This is why, when onboarding all your existing members at once, the usual advice is to temporarily turn off invite-only so everyone can sign up from the shared link — see Onboarding Existing Members.
Guests and the member who invites them
Guests are typically tied to the member who invited them (their referrer). When a guest comes to book a guest event, they usually can only book once their referring member has booked, and a member can normally bring up to two guests to an event.
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