Getting Started
Navigating MemberZone
A guide to the HQ sidebar: its groups (People, Fulfillment, Inventory, Rewards, Financials, Marketing, Storefront, Settings), where Redemptions and Loyalty live, and how permissions and badges affect what you see.
Navigating MemberZone
The sidebar on the left of HQ is your main navigation. Some items are single pages; others are groups that open to show their pages. Your business's words are used throughout: the first item is Clubs, Memberships or Programs, to match what you offer.
Sidebar Structure
Home
Home sits at the top: your dashboard with metrics, action items and activity.
Main Items
| Item | What's there | Who sees it |
|---|---|---|
| Clubs (or Memberships, Programs) | Your programs and their plans: create, edit, submit for review, close signups. See How to Create, Edit, and Manage Your Programs. | Any program permission |
| Inbox | Messages with your members, AI reply drafts you approve, and messages with the MemberZone team. See Inbox. | View Inbox or Manage Inbox |
| People > Contacts | Members, prospects, staged members and customers | View CRM, View Customers or Manage Customer Notes |
| People > Notes | Customer notes across your business | Manage Customer Notes |
| Fulfillment > Orders | Every order: program orders, store orders, enrollment and imported orders | Process Orders or Manage Fulfillment |
| Fulfillment > Runs | Your fulfillment cycles and releases. New release in the header creates a release (with Edit Programs, when you have a release program); see Creating a Release | Process Orders or Manage Fulfillment |
| Inventory > Items | Your catalog and stock levels | Any inventory permission |
| Inventory > Tags | Tags for inventory items | View Inventory or Manage Inventory |
| Inventory > Templates | What goes into each delivery | View Templates or Manage Templates |
| Rewards > Rewards | Every reward: discounts and benefits. See Rewards and Discounts. | Any rewards permission |
| Rewards > Redemptions | Every reward redemption, with sorting, filtering, sales associate attribution and CSV export. See Reward Redemption. | View Customers |
| Rewards > Loyalty | Your points-based rewards program, when it's available on your account. See Rewards Program. | View Rewards or Edit Rewards |
| Financials > Payments | Payouts and your payment account | Any financial permission |
| Financials > Transactions | Payment history | Any financial permission |
| Financials > Invoices | Invoices, when available on your account | Any financial permission |
| Marketing | Campaigns, Discounts (promo codes), Transactional emails, email Templates, Suppressions and Email settings | Manage Marketing (Transactional and Email settings: Manage Email Templates) |
| Storefront > Products | Which of each location's products are in your online store, with their categories and tags. See Storefront Products and Store Settings. | View Inventory or Manage Inventory |
| Storefront | Your public storefront: Store settings (online store and store shipping switches), Theme, Content, Home, Sections, Footer, Shipping and Sharing | Manage Group Settings |
| Reviews | Customer reviews | View Customers |
| Analytics | Performance dashboards | View Analytics |
| Reports | Reports and exports | View Analytics or Export Data |
| Settings | Profile, Communication, Point of Sale, Taxes & fees, Shipping & Compliance, Locations, Team and Integrations | Each page needs its own permission (for example Manage Group Settings for Profile, Manage Team Members for Team) |
Under Settings, Communication holds the card email settings and Point of Sale holds Show member ID at the register. See Member ID and Member Details at the Register.
Footer
Pinned to the bottom of the sidebar:
- View storefront - Opens your public storefront in a new tab.
- Sign-up QR - Opens your sign-up QR code in a new tab.
- Ask Zoe - A filled button in your brand color that opens Zoe, the help assistant, where it's available.
Every Storefront page header shows Store is live or Store is off and a View store button that opens your shop (/b/your-page/shop).
- Updates - Platform announcements and feature updates.
- Help - The help center and support.
Sidebar Behavior
- Groups - Click a group (such as People or Rewards) to open or close it.
- Badge counts - Items show a badge when something needs attention: Contacts when members owe a balance, Runs when fulfillment or a release needs action, Templates when enrollment templates are missing, Rewards when a reward isn't configured at the register, and Inbox for unread conversations. Hover over a badge to see what it's about.
- Permission gating - You only see the items your permissions allow, and a group with nothing in it for you is hidden.
- Locations - Pages that belong to a location, such as inventory, templates and rewards, follow the location you're working in. With more than one location, switch from your account menu.
- Before your account is activated - Until your account is activated, the sidebar shows only Home, the Settings pages Profile, Locations, Team and Integrations, and Updates and Help.
- Collapsing - The sidebar can be collapsed to icons. On screens 1024 pixels wide or narrower, it collapses after you pick a page.
Sidebars
Creating and editing things in HQ opens a sidebar on the right rather than a window in the middle of the screen; quick confirmations (such as deleting something) still ask in a small confirmation. Press Escape to close the sidebar in front. A sidebar that's busy saving (or creating a shipping label) stays open until it finishes. On a phone, sidebars opened from Zoe's full-screen panel, such as Talk to a human or Save as template, open in front of it.
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