Club settings: alerts, emails, and dues

The first field on Settings is the address your club's alerts are sent to. Leave it blank and they go to the club's first organizer, so a new club is never silently unreachable — fill it in when you'd rather they went somewhere else, like a shared committee inbox.

Switches under the address, one per kind. New members fires whenever someone joins. Memberships needing review fires when a join lands outside the boundary and is waiting on your decision. Members leaving or pausing tells you when someone steps back, which otherwise you'd only notice by counting. And if you charge dues, Dues activity covers payments, failed cards, and refunds.

Below the switches you can add people outside the club who should stay in the know — an HOA treasurer, a board liaison, a bookkeeper. Each one gets their own set of checkboxes: Members, Money, and Events. A treasurer who only ticks Money sees dues and refunds and none of your membership approvals, which is usually what everyone wants.

If your club is affiliated with a neighborhood, one more switch adds that neighborhood's organizers to whichever of those streams you picked. It's off to begin with, on the principle that your club's business is your club's until you decide otherwise.

Sent to a member when they join, or when you approve them. It comes with sensible wording already in place, so this is about making it sound like your club. The placeholders fill themselves in: use {{member_name}} and {{club_name}} and they become the real thing at send time.

This one goes out the first time you publish an event, to members who haven't already registered and haven't opted out. It takes more placeholders than the welcome email: {{event_title}}, {{event_date}}, and the rest. Set it once and it quietly does most of your communicating from then on.

Switch on Charge membership dues, then set the amount and whether it's monthly or annual. The minimum is one dollar. Turning this on is only half the job, though — see the next step, because nothing is charged until both halves are done.

Finances is where your club connects its own payout account — separate from your neighborhood's, so the money lands with you. First ask NeighborlyEvents to approve the club for payments (a one-time check, answered by email); the Stripe connect button unlocks on approval. Dues become collectable only when the account is connected AND an amount is set. A half-finished setup is harmless rather than broken: members simply aren't held up and nothing is charged.

At the bottom of Settings. Closing takes the club out of the directories and stops new members and new events, while its page and history stay readable. Nothing is deleted and reopening is the same button, so this is a pause as much as an ending — the natural move for a club that's between seasons or between organizers.