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Render numbered steps as a numbered list, and drop the heading that repeats the page title
+ '''An organization is a private group inside Loopa: a room of your own, and challenges you run for the people in it.''' A gym, a running club, a team at work, a family, or six friends who want a step contest — it is the same thing every time, and starting one takes about a minute.
− '''An organization is a private group inside Loopa: a room of your own, and challenges you run for the people in it.''' A gym, a running club, a team at work, a family, or six friends who want a step contest. It is the same thing every time, and starting one takes about a minute.
[[joining-an-organization|Joining an organization]] is the same story from a member's side. [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]] is the day-to-day once people are in.
== What an organization gives you ==
Three things, and this is the complete list:
* '''A private room.''' A forum space for your members. It is not listed anywhere, it does not turn up in search, and nobody outside the organization can read it.
* '''Challenges.''' Contests you set up on one measure, with a leaderboard, for whoever wants to take part.
* '''An invite code and a link.''' The only way in, and yours to hand out or retire.
== Starting one ==
+ '''Loopa Premium is what starts an organization. Being in one is free for everybody, always.''' Your members never see a purchase screen to join, to post, to enter a challenge or to appear on a leaderboard — including members on Loopa Basic.
− '''Loopa Premium is what starts an organization. Being in one is free for everybody, always.''' Your members never see a purchase screen to join, to post, to enter a challenge or to appear on a leaderboard, including members on Loopa Basic.
1. Open '''Organizations''' in the app, or go to '''loopa.mobieus.io/organizations''' in a browser.
1. Choose '''New organization'''.
1. Give it a name, and a description if you want one.
1. Pick an accent color.
1. Create it. Loopa issues your invite code straight away and you are the owner.
+ A picture is the one thing you add afterwards rather than here — see below.
− A picture is the one thing you add afterwards rather than here (see below).
== Naming it ==
+ '''The name is what members see everywhere''' — on the join screen before they commit, at the top of the room, and on every challenge you run. Up to 120 characters, and you can change it later. Renaming the organization renames the room with it, so the two never disagree.
− '''The name is what members see everywhere''', on the join screen before they commit, at the top of the room, and on every challenge you run. Up to 120 characters, and you can change it later. Renaming the organization renames the room with it, so the two never disagree.
The web address for your organization is built from the name when you create it, and it '''stays put after that'''. A link printed on a poster keeps working even after you rename the group.
== The description ==
+ Up to 500 characters, and worth writing. Somebody who taps your invite link sees the name and the description '''before''' they join, so this is where you say who the group is for — "Members of Northside Barbell", "Tuesday run club", "the marketing team's step contest". It is the thing that tells a person they are in the right place.
− Up to 500 characters, and worth writing. Somebody who taps your invite link sees the name and the description '''before''' they join, so this is where you say who the group is for ("Members of Northside Barbell", "Tuesday run club", "the marketing team's step contest"). It is the thing that tells a person they are in the right place.
== The accent color ==
Eleven colors, and you pick one: '''Violet''' (the default), '''Plum''', '''Indigo''', '''Ocean''', '''Teal''', '''Forest''', '''Moss''', '''Rust''', '''Crimson''', '''Wine''' and '''Slate'''.
It colors your organization's screens, so a member who is in three groups can tell them apart at a glance. Every color in the set is checked for legibility, so whichever one you pick reads clearly for everybody.
== A picture ==
+ '''Set one from Manage, once the organization exists.''' The create form does not ask for a picture — make the organization first, then add its picture from the manage screen whenever you have one you like. You can change it as often as you want.
− '''Set one from Manage, once the organization exists.''' The create form does not ask for a picture. Make the organization first, then add its picture from the manage screen whenever you have one you like. You can change it as often as you want.
'''JPEG, PNG and WebP all work.''' Loopa squares the image off from the middle and stores it at up to 512 pixels a side, so a photo straight off a phone is fine and there is nothing to crop or resize first.
+ Two things to know before you pick one. '''The crop is taken from the center''', so a wide logo with words along the edges will lose them — a square-ish image, or a logo mark on its own, survives it best. And '''a transparent background comes out white''', so artwork drawn to sit on a dark surface is worth flattening yourself first.
− Two things to know before you pick one. '''The crop is taken from the center''', so a wide logo with words along the edges will lose them. A square-ish image, or a logo mark on its own, survives it best. And '''a transparent background comes out white''', so artwork drawn to sit on a dark surface is worth flattening yourself first.
'''Changing the picture removes the one it replaces''', and deleting the organization removes it too. Nothing is left behind.
== You are the owner ==
'''An organization has exactly one owner, and creating one makes you it.''' The owner can do everything: edit the profile, hand out and rotate the invite code, add and remove members, promote somebody to admin, run challenges, moderate the room, hand the whole organization to another member, and delete it.
One thing an owner cannot do is walk away. '''Leaving is for admins and members'''; an owner transfers the organization to somebody else first, or deletes it. That is what stops a live group ending up with an active code and nobody running it. [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]] covers both.
== Running more than one ==
'''You can create as many organizations as you want to run, and belong to as many as you like.''' They are completely separate: their own members, their own room, their own challenges, their own invite code. You can own one gym, help run another as an admin, and be an ordinary member of a third, all at the same time.
== What an organization is not ==
+ '''An organization never sees a member's health record — none of it, by any route.''' Not their food log, their weight, their workouts, their activity, their measurements, their progress photos, their cycle, their fasting or their vital signs. Not for an admin, and not for you as the owner.
− '''An organization never sees a member's health record. None of it, by any route.''' Not their food log, their weight, their workouts, their activity, their measurements, their progress photos, their cycle, their fasting or their vital signs. Not for an admin, and not for you as the owner.
'''There is no setting that would change that.''' What a role in an organization may do is a fixed list, anything outside it is refused, and there is nothing health-shaped on the list to switch on, ask for, or be granted by mistake. It is not a permission somebody could be given.
Running a group also does not make you anybody's coach. Working on an individual's training is [[loopa-coach|Loopa Coach]]: a person that member chose, who sees only the categories that member switched on, one at a time.
+ What you do see is what anyone in the room sees — the display name and photo on the posts people write, how many members there are, and the totals of the people who entered a challenge.
− What you do see is what anyone in the room sees. The display name and photo on the posts people write, how many members there are, and the totals of the people who entered a challenge.
== Where it works ==
'''iPhone, Android and the web.''' Your organization lives at '''loopa.mobieus.io/org/''' followed by its address, and the same group is on both apps under '''Organizations'''. There is nothing extra to install and no separate app for a group.
See also: [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]], [[running-an-organization-challenge|Running an organization challenge]], [[organization-forum-guidelines|Organization forum guidelines]], [[joining-an-organization|Joining an organization]], [[managing-your-organization|Managing your organization]].

'''An organization is a private group inside Loopa: a room of your own, and challenges you run for the people in it.''' A gym, a running club, a team at work, a family, or six friends who want a step contest — it is the same thing every time, and starting one takes about a minute.

[[joining-an-organization|Joining an organization]] is the same story from a member's side. [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]] is the day-to-day once people are in.

== What an organization gives you ==

Three things, and this is the complete list:

  • '''A private room.''' A forum space for your members. It is not listed anywhere, it does not turn up in search, and nobody outside the organization can read it.
  • '''Challenges.''' Contests you set up on one measure, with a leaderboard, for whoever wants to take part.
  • '''An invite code and a link.''' The only way in, and yours to hand out or retire.

== Starting one ==

'''Loopa Premium is what starts an organization. Being in one is free for everybody, always.''' Your members never see a purchase screen to join, to post, to enter a challenge or to appear on a leaderboard — including members on Loopa Basic.

  1. Open '''Organizations''' in the app, or go to '''loopa.mobieus.io/organizations''' in a browser.
  2. Choose '''New organization'''.
  3. Give it a name, and a description if you want one.
  4. Pick an accent color.
  5. Create it. Loopa issues your invite code straight away and you are the owner.

A picture is the one thing you add afterwards rather than here — see below.

== Naming it ==

'''The name is what members see everywhere''' — on the join screen before they commit, at the top of the room, and on every challenge you run. Up to 120 characters, and you can change it later. Renaming the organization renames the room with it, so the two never disagree.

The web address for your organization is built from the name when you create it, and it '''stays put after that'''. A link printed on a poster keeps working even after you rename the group.

== The description ==

Up to 500 characters, and worth writing. Somebody who taps your invite link sees the name and the description '''before''' they join, so this is where you say who the group is for — "Members of Northside Barbell", "Tuesday run club", "the marketing team's step contest". It is the thing that tells a person they are in the right place.

== The accent color ==

Eleven colors, and you pick one: '''Violet''' (the default), '''Plum''', '''Indigo''', '''Ocean''', '''Teal''', '''Forest''', '''Moss''', '''Rust''', '''Crimson''', '''Wine''' and '''Slate'''.

It colors your organization's screens, so a member who is in three groups can tell them apart at a glance. Every color in the set is checked for legibility, so whichever one you pick reads clearly for everybody.

== A picture ==

'''Set one from Manage, once the organization exists.''' The create form does not ask for a picture — make the organization first, then add its picture from the manage screen whenever you have one you like. You can change it as often as you want.

'''JPEG, PNG and WebP all work.''' Loopa squares the image off from the middle and stores it at up to 512 pixels a side, so a photo straight off a phone is fine and there is nothing to crop or resize first.

Two things to know before you pick one. '''The crop is taken from the center''', so a wide logo with words along the edges will lose them — a square-ish image, or a logo mark on its own, survives it best. And '''a transparent background comes out white''', so artwork drawn to sit on a dark surface is worth flattening yourself first.

'''Changing the picture removes the one it replaces''', and deleting the organization removes it too. Nothing is left behind.

== You are the owner ==

'''An organization has exactly one owner, and creating one makes you it.''' The owner can do everything: edit the profile, hand out and rotate the invite code, add and remove members, promote somebody to admin, run challenges, moderate the room, hand the whole organization to another member, and delete it.

One thing an owner cannot do is walk away. '''Leaving is for admins and members'''; an owner transfers the organization to somebody else first, or deletes it. That is what stops a live group ending up with an active code and nobody running it. [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]] covers both.

== Running more than one ==

'''You can create as many organizations as you want to run, and belong to as many as you like.''' They are completely separate: their own members, their own room, their own challenges, their own invite code. You can own one gym, help run another as an admin, and be an ordinary member of a third, all at the same time.

== What an organization is not ==

'''An organization never sees a member's health record — none of it, by any route.''' Not their food log, their weight, their workouts, their activity, their measurements, their progress photos, their cycle, their fasting or their vital signs. Not for an admin, and not for you as the owner.

'''There is no setting that would change that.''' What a role in an organization may do is a fixed list, anything outside it is refused, and there is nothing health-shaped on the list to switch on, ask for, or be granted by mistake. It is not a permission somebody could be given.

Running a group also does not make you anybody's coach. Working on an individual's training is [[loopa-coach|Loopa Coach]]: a person that member chose, who sees only the categories that member switched on, one at a time.

What you do see is what anyone in the room sees — the display name and photo on the posts people write, how many members there are, and the totals of the people who entered a challenge.

== Where it works ==

'''iPhone, Android and the web.''' Your organization lives at '''loopa.mobieus.io/org/''' followed by its address, and the same group is on both apps under '''Organizations'''. There is nothing extra to install and no separate app for a group.

See also: [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]], [[running-an-organization-challenge|Running an organization challenge]], [[organization-forum-guidelines|Organization forum guidelines]], [[joining-an-organization|Joining an organization]], [[managing-your-organization|Managing your organization]].

'''An organization is a private group inside Loopa: a room of your own, and challenges you run for the people in it.''' A gym, a running club, a team at work, a family, or six friends who want a step contest — it is the same thing every time, and starting one takes about a minute.

[[joining-an-organization|Joining an organization]] is the same story from a member's side. [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]] is the day-to-day once people are in.

== What an organization gives you ==

Three things, and this is the complete list:

* '''A private room.''' A forum space for your members. It is not listed anywhere, it does not turn up in search, and nobody outside the organization can read it.
* '''Challenges.''' Contests you set up on one measure, with a leaderboard, for whoever wants to take part.
* '''An invite code and a link.''' The only way in, and yours to hand out or retire.

== Starting one ==

'''Loopa Premium is what starts an organization. Being in one is free for everybody, always.''' Your members never see a purchase screen to join, to post, to enter a challenge or to appear on a leaderboard — including members on Loopa Basic.

1. Open '''Organizations''' in the app, or go to '''loopa.mobieus.io/organizations''' in a browser.
1. Choose '''New organization'''.
1. Give it a name, and a description if you want one.
1. Pick an accent color.
1. Create it. Loopa issues your invite code straight away and you are the owner.

A picture is the one thing you add afterwards rather than here — see below.

== Naming it ==

'''The name is what members see everywhere''' — on the join screen before they commit, at the top of the room, and on every challenge you run. Up to 120 characters, and you can change it later. Renaming the organization renames the room with it, so the two never disagree.

The web address for your organization is built from the name when you create it, and it '''stays put after that'''. A link printed on a poster keeps working even after you rename the group.

== The description ==

Up to 500 characters, and worth writing. Somebody who taps your invite link sees the name and the description '''before''' they join, so this is where you say who the group is for — "Members of Northside Barbell", "Tuesday run club", "the marketing team's step contest". It is the thing that tells a person they are in the right place.

== The accent color ==

Eleven colors, and you pick one: '''Violet''' (the default), '''Plum''', '''Indigo''', '''Ocean''', '''Teal''', '''Forest''', '''Moss''', '''Rust''', '''Crimson''', '''Wine''' and '''Slate'''.

It colors your organization's screens, so a member who is in three groups can tell them apart at a glance. Every color in the set is checked for legibility, so whichever one you pick reads clearly for everybody.

== A picture ==

'''Set one from Manage, once the organization exists.''' The create form does not ask for a picture — make the organization first, then add its picture from the manage screen whenever you have one you like. You can change it as often as you want.

'''JPEG, PNG and WebP all work.''' Loopa squares the image off from the middle and stores it at up to 512 pixels a side, so a photo straight off a phone is fine and there is nothing to crop or resize first.

Two things to know before you pick one. '''The crop is taken from the center''', so a wide logo with words along the edges will lose them — a square-ish image, or a logo mark on its own, survives it best. And '''a transparent background comes out white''', so artwork drawn to sit on a dark surface is worth flattening yourself first.

'''Changing the picture removes the one it replaces''', and deleting the organization removes it too. Nothing is left behind.

== You are the owner ==

'''An organization has exactly one owner, and creating one makes you it.''' The owner can do everything: edit the profile, hand out and rotate the invite code, add and remove members, promote somebody to admin, run challenges, moderate the room, hand the whole organization to another member, and delete it.

One thing an owner cannot do is walk away. '''Leaving is for admins and members'''; an owner transfers the organization to somebody else first, or deletes it. That is what stops a live group ending up with an active code and nobody running it. [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]] covers both.

== Running more than one ==

'''You can create as many organizations as you want to run, and belong to as many as you like.''' They are completely separate: their own members, their own room, their own challenges, their own invite code. You can own one gym, help run another as an admin, and be an ordinary member of a third, all at the same time.

== What an organization is not ==

'''An organization never sees a member's health record — none of it, by any route.''' Not their food log, their weight, their workouts, their activity, their measurements, their progress photos, their cycle, their fasting or their vital signs. Not for an admin, and not for you as the owner.

'''There is no setting that would change that.''' What a role in an organization may do is a fixed list, anything outside it is refused, and there is nothing health-shaped on the list to switch on, ask for, or be granted by mistake. It is not a permission somebody could be given.

Running a group also does not make you anybody's coach. Working on an individual's training is [[loopa-coach|Loopa Coach]]: a person that member chose, who sees only the categories that member switched on, one at a time.

What you do see is what anyone in the room sees — the display name and photo on the posts people write, how many members there are, and the totals of the people who entered a challenge.

== Where it works ==

'''iPhone, Android and the web.''' Your organization lives at '''loopa.mobieus.io/org/''' followed by its address, and the same group is on both apps under '''Organizations'''. There is nothing extra to install and no separate app for a group.

See also: [[inviting-and-managing-members|Inviting and managing members]], [[running-an-organization-challenge|Running an organization challenge]], [[organization-forum-guidelines|Organization forum guidelines]], [[joining-an-organization|Joining an organization]], [[managing-your-organization|Managing your organization]].