Work your club queue: petitions, affiliations, and the start-a-club link

The number beside Clubs in the sidebar adds up three things waiting on your organizers: open petitions, clubs asking to join or leave, and overdue club reports. Open Clubs and the strip across the top breaks it down. The Open petitions and Affiliation requests tiles link straight to their queues, and the Clubs tile flags any club without an accepted agreement or with a report overdue. The buttons along the top (Petitions, Affiliation, Policies, Reports, Settings) are where everything in this section lives.

Clubs → Petitions lists every proposal to start a club in your neighborhood. Awaiting a decision holds the open ones, each showing its signatures against the goal, who proposed it, and whether their address is inside your boundary. A "Ready to form" badge appears once a petition reaches its goal. Click Review to open the petition's own page, where you form the club or decline it. Resolved keeps the history: petitions that became clubs (marked Automatically if your settings formed them), were declined, or were closed. Club petitions depend on your neighborhood's plan; if you need them and they aren't available yet, email [email protected].

A petition still short of its goal shows an Email neighborhood button. It sends the petition to your residents and past attendees, skipping people who opted out of community emails and people who already signed. You can send it only once per petition, so wait until the proposer's pitch is final. After it goes out, the row shows the date it was announced and the button is gone.

The "Share the start-a-club link" card on the Clubs and Petitions pages gives you a short link to paste into a newsletter or text. Use it rather than a generic link: it opens the petition form already committed to your neighborhood, so the proposal lands in your queue instead of becoming an independent club. Open "More ways to share" for the full link, a custom short code (letters, numbers, dashes), and a QR code you can download as PNG or SVG with your logo and a line of text. Scans count toward the short link's clicks.

Under "More ways to share", Open banner studio makes flyers, social posts, and vinyl banners for the start-a-club link in your neighborhood's theme, with the QR code built in. Change the headline, colors, and which details show, then download from the Downloads panel. The design you save is also the preview image people see when the link is shared in a message or on social media.

Clubs → Affiliation lists existing clubs that want to join your neighborhood, and your clubs that want to leave it, with who asked and their message. Each card spells out what approving does. A club that joins gets your boundary and your locations and facilities, you start overseeing its photo gallery, and its billing rolls into your plan. That means your plan decides what the club can use, including whether it can collect member dues, and your plan's limit on how many clubs your neighborhood can hold applies here and when a petition is formed; if you need dues or room for more clubs and they aren't available yet, email [email protected]. A club that leaves keeps its members and events but loses those, and starts paying for itself. Add an optional note back, then Approve or Decline. The club's organizers are emailed either way.