Managing Members & Groups

You manage everyone who can sign in to your site from Content → Users. The Users area mirrors the tabs you may know from Softr: Members, Authentication, Groups, Data Restrictions, and Notifications.

Members

The Members tab is your roster. From here you can:

  • Invite a member by email. They receive an email invitation; once they accept and set a password (or sign in with SSO), they become an active member.

  • Group a member when you invite them, or change their groups later.

  • Ban / unban a member to revoke or restore their access immediately.

  • Change a member's role.

Your plan sets how many members you can have; the tab shows your current usage against that cap.

Groups

Groups are how you give different members access to different pages.

  • Built-in groups are automatic (for example, "all logged-in members").

  • Custom groups are ones you create. A group can be a simple named bucket you add members to, or a rule-based group whose membership is decided automatically by a condition.

Once you have a group, set a page's Visibility to Group restricted and choose which groups may see it. A member sees the page only if they belong to one of the allowed groups.

Data Restrictions

Page-level gating controls which pages a member can open. Data Restrictions go one level deeper: they control which records a member sees on a page that shows live data.

For example, on a members directory or a deals list, you can add a rule like "members of the sales-west group only see records where region = West." The filter is applied on the server before the data ever reaches the browser, so members can't see records they aren't entitled to — even by inspecting the page.

You define these rules in the Data Restrictions tab: pick the data source, the group, the field, the operator, and the allowed values.

Notifications

The Notifications tab controls the emails your members receive — the sender identity and the transactional templates (invitations, password resets, and so on).

A note on managing members

Today, member management lives in the dashboard and the SpiderPublish API. If you build sites with an AI agent, the agent can set a page's visibility and read your access configuration; full member-management tools for agents are on the roadmap.

Next steps

  • Site Members & Gated Pages — the access model and how to turn gating on.

  • Single Sign-On (SSO) — let members sign in with Google, GitHub, or your identity provider.