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Member Portal

The Cobot Member Portal allows members to manage their plan, bookings, and payments while staying connected with you and other members.

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Written by Amanda
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The member portal is where your members can access their invoices, update contact details, interact with other members, make bookings, and more.

Screenshot of a coworking platform dashboard showing a welcome message, user profile, event updates, and options to manage bookings and time passes.

If you would like to provide a guide to your members so they can familiarize themselves with the Member Portal and how to use it, check out this guide.


Giving Members Access

There are two ways for your members to access their member portal:

  1. They register themselves using your Homepage.

    1. If you have 'New members have to be approved' active in the plan settings, members will only have access once you confirm them.

    2. If you do not have 'New members have to be approved' active in the plan settings, members will have access immediately.

  2. You add them as a member and manually connect them by sending a connect request.


Giving Admins Access to Their Member View

The best and easiest way to see how the member view will look to your members is to add yourself as a member. Check out this guide for details on how to do this.

Once connected, you will be able to toggle back and forth between both the admin and member views in the top right of your screen.

Screenshot showing two external link options labeled “Homepage” and “Member Portal.”

Now, anytime you make changes, such as editing brand colors or adding a welcome message, you can see how they will look to your members.


Member Portal Overview

Dashboard

The Dashboard is what your members first see when they login to their account.

Screenshot of the Member Portal dashboard showing announcements, time passes, upcoming events, and user profile info on the right.

They will see:

  • A snapshot of their community bio.

  • Their plan name, invoice preview, and any unpaid invoices.

  • Welcome message and any messages sent from admins.

  • Upcoming bookings.

  • Upcoming Events and internal communications sent by you and other admins.

On the left of the screen is their navigation menu, where several core feature tabs are available. These include:

  • Bookings

  • Community

  • Events

  • Help Desk

  • Membership

  • Space Information

Bookings Tab

Here your members will see:

  1. An overview of their past and upcoming bookings.

  2. A portal to create a booking; all prices are reflective of the members plan settings.

This screen shows booking options for September 7, 2025, from 8 to 11 p.m. The Event Space is unavailable because it only allows three-hour bookings during the day. The Meeting Room is available for thirty dollars per hour and can use credits. The One-on-One Room is unavailable because the maximum booking time is one hour.

3. Daily, weekly or monthly calendar view with optional category toggles.

You can hide certain resources per member so they are unable to create bookings. To do this, check out this guide.

Community Tab

The Community section allows your members to add information about themselves and see who else is in your space. Check out this guide to learn how you and your members can interact with this section.

This is the community section showing member profiles. Beck Liu is an English teacher and copywriter with a Ph.D. in linguistics, focusing on sci-fi languages. Elle Wojcik is a physicist and science writer interested in artificial intelligence, robotics, and nanotechnology, and she is also an archery teacher.

Events Tab

In addition to your Calendar, Cobot also gives you a separate Events page so you can manage your Space's events from start to finish. Members are able to see and attend any published events from this tab.

Members will be able to attend events only. They are not able to create events. They can filter by Event type, upcoming or past events and see a calendar overview.

Any events with a ticket price will be automatically added to their next invoice. For more details on Events and how they work, check out this guide.

Screenshot of the Past Events tab displaying previous community events, including an online karaoke party and a Zoom quiz, with filters like “Free,” “Food,” and “Yoga” visible at the top.

Help Desk Tab

The help desk is your communication center to your coworkers/members. It allows you to do two things: publish How-To's and respond to support issues.

From this section, members can read your How-To's and submit issues. To read more on setting up the Help Desk, refer to this guide.

This is the Help Desk section in Cobot. It provides guides for members, including whether the phone booth needs to be booked in advance, what to do if the internet goes down, how to view the floor plan of the space, how to access the parking lot, and instructions for when the coffee machine is broken.

Membership Tab

This section gives your members an overview of their billing details & payment method, membership plan and invoices (both past invoices and their next invoice preview).

This is the Membership section in Cobot. It shows your invoices, with the next invoice due on October 1, 2025. Past invoices are listed with dates, amounts, and payment status. On the right, you see your time passes to check in and booking credits, such as hours remaining for the Event Space and Meeting Room.

Space Information Tab

If you have your space information, such as opening hours, social media links and contact information populated in your Space Settings, then your members will see an overview of your information in this section.


Hiding Core Features/Tabs

You can hide some of the navigation tabs and overview details visible to your members. It is not possible to hide the Dashboard.

Under Customize » Features, you can:

  • Hide the Calendar

  • Hide the Help Desk

    • Make Help Desk issues private by default

  • Make it so members can't cancel their membership

  • Make it so members can't change their membership

Upon request, we can hide:

  • The Events Tab

  • The Community Tab

  • Make it so members can't change their billing address

  • Make it so members can't post How-To's in your Help Desk

  • Hide the issues section on the Help Desk

Within their member profile, you can hide:

  • Certain resources so they are unable to create bookings. To do this, check out this guide.


Additional Features/Tabs

Cobot allows you to add as many custom tabs as you want! Just reach out to Cobot support and we will add it for you.

For example:

While Cobot doesn't have a 'chat' function built in, you can easily request that we add a link in your member portal to another location. 'SLACK CHAT' and 'STORE' are examples:


What's next? Check out other feature switches that allow you to customize your member's registration journey and more!

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