Organizations Organization profiles, following them, and what plans cover. Organization profiles and badges Every event on Involvo belongs to an organization, and every organization has a page: its name, what it does, and the events it has listed. From there you can follow it — see Following organizations. Two markers can appear on an organization, and they mean different things. Claimed and unclaimed This is the one that affects you as a reader. An organization is claimed when somebody from it has access to the page on Involvo. Someone is there. Their events are posted by them and kept up to date by them. It is unclaimed when the page exists but nobody from the organization has access to it — usually because somebody else shared one of their events and the page was created along the way. Nobody there is maintaining it, and they may not know it exists. The practical consequence is about how current the information is: an unclaimed organization's events are a snapshot from whoever added them. See How event information on Involvo works. Verified Some organizations also carry a verified badge. Verification is applied by Involvo. It is not something an organization can switch on, request through the app, or obtain by filling anything in. Getting access to your own organization If you represent an organization on Involvo and want to manage its page and publish its events, contact Involvo and ask for administrator access. It is granted by hand — there is no claim button, and following the organization does not do it. Once you have access, you can publish events for it directly and they go live without review. See Publishing your organization's event. If your organization does not have a page yet, one is created the first time an event of theirs is added — including by you. See Sharing an event you found. Following organizations Following an organization is how you say "tell me when these people run something." It is the opposite of hunting through the feed hoping to catch an announcement. You need an account. See Do I need an account? Following and unfollowing Open an organization's page and follow it. Unfollow from the same place at any time. Each organization shows how many followers it has, and the people running it are told when someone new follows — so following a small organization is a visible, mildly encouraging act rather than an anonymous one. The organizations you follow are listed on your profile, which is also the quickest way to prune the list later. What you actually get Organizations can send an announcement about an event to their followers. This is strictly limited on their side: once a day per event, and only a small number of times in total for any given event, depending on their plan. So following does not open a tap. An organization that spams its followers runs out of allowance almost immediately, which is the intended design. In practice, following means you hear about the events an organization considers worth announcing, not everything it does. How many you can follow There is a cap on how many organizations one account can follow, and it depends on your plan. See Plans and limits. The cap is high enough that it is not a constraint for normal use. If you reach it, you are probably following organizations you no longer care about. Follows that disappear If an organization becomes inactive on Involvo, its followers are removed. You will not be told individually. Nothing has gone wrong with your account — the organization is no longer active. Following is not membership Following an organization does not make you part of it, does not give you any access to its events, and does not let you publish anything on its behalf. Getting the ability to act for an organization is a separate thing entirely — see Organization profiles and badges. Plans and limits Most of Involvo is free. Plans exist for people and organizations who run into the limits of the free tier. Current prices and what each plan includes are on the pricing page in the app. They are not repeated here, so that this page cannot go out of date while the app is right. Two separate kinds of plan This trips people up, so it is worth stating plainly. Personal plans apply to you as an individual. They affect things you do: how many events you can share in a day, how far back you can page through what your friends are going to, whether you get the detailed analytics view. Organization plans apply to an organization. They affect what the organization can do when running events: how many people an event can take, how many members it can have, how many announcements it can send to followers, how many tracking links per event. Buying a personal plan does not upgrade an organization you belong to, and an organization's plan does not upgrade you. If you want more capacity for your events, the organization needs the plan. What "limits" means here Two different shapes: Switches — a feature is either included or not. Detailed analytics, data export, animated avatars. Allowances — a number. Participants per event, organization members, tracking links per event, daily shares, follower announcements, organizations you can follow. Some allowances reset daily, some monthly, and a few are simply a ceiling on how many can exist at once. Where you are against a limit is shown in the app rather than something you have to count yourself. Free is a real tier, not a trial You can find events, register, attend, check in, network, publish events and run them on the free tier. Nothing expires, and publishing is free regardless of plan. The free tier's limits are sized for a person going to events and an organization running a few of them. They start to bind when you run events often, take large numbers of participants, or want the analytics. How you get a plan Plans are bought with Impact Stars. Stars are earned by using Involvo, so a higher plan is something you work up to rather than something you pay for. Plan time is sold in stretches rather than as a rolling subscription, which makes short bursts practical — a few days on a higher plan around one busy event, rather than committing to a month. See Earning and spending Stars.