---
title: Create your paid community
description: Fill in the handle, name, description, category and images that make up your community page — and learn how drafts, edits and deletion work.
---

Creating a community sets up the page people land on, the membership they buy, and the shell your
Telegram group hangs off later. You're made the community's **owner** automatically and can manage
everything from the moment it's created.

## What you fill in

1. **Pick a category**

    Choose the one category that best describes your community — the list runs from Trading and
    E-commerce to Selfcare, Sport and more. It's how people browsing Insy find communities like
    yours, so pick the closest fit, not the most flattering.

2. **Set a handle**

    Your handle is the short, unique word in your community's web address (its "slug"): 5 to 25
    characters, lower-cased and cleaned up automatically, and it has to be free — Insy tells you on
    the spot if it's taken. It goes on every link you share, so pick something stable and memorable.

3. **Name and describe it**

    The **name** is the display title shown to buyers (up to 50 characters). The **description** is
    the longer pitch on the page (up to 1000 characters) — what members get, who it's for, why it's
    worth the price. You can add a short list of questions and answers to head off the usual
    "what's included?" messages.

4. **Add a cover and an avatar**

    Upload images to make the page yours: background/cover images, a separate avatar, and optionally
    a short video. One image is marked as the main picture — the large one at the top of the page.

5. **Set the price**

    Every community needs at least one paid plan. Set a single monthly price during creation, or
    build out several plans — see [Pricing plans and how members pay](/communities/pricing).

> **You don't have to finish in one sitting**
>
> Insy saves your work as a **draft** — private to you, not shown anywhere public. Come back later and
> publish when it's ready. You can keep more than one draft.

## Editing after it is live

Almost everything here — name, description, category, images, questions and answers — can be changed
after the community is live, from its management screen. Two exceptions:

- **The handle is meant to stay put.** It's baked into every link you've shared, so treat it as
  permanent even where the interface lets you touch it.
- **The member cap has a catch.** If your community is running a limited drop (a fixed number of
  spots), you can't change the member limit while that drop is active. Finish or cancel the drop
  first. The everyday member cap is in [Managing members and expiry](/communities/members).

## Deleting a community

Deletion is deliberately slow and two-step, because it removes the community and cuts off its
members.

1. **Request deletion**

    From the community's settings, ask to delete it. Insy emails a single-use confirmation link to
    the owner's address rather than deleting on the spot. If members are still active, you're told
    how many before you go ahead.

2. **Confirm from your email**

    Open the link and confirm. It's valid for a limited time and works only once — the safety catch
    that stops a community being deleted by accident or by someone who isn't you.

3. **Wait out the grace window**

    After you confirm, deletion is scheduled about 24 hours ahead, not immediately. During that
    window it can still be undone. Once it passes, the community is removed.

> **Deletion is not a refund tool**
>
> Removing a community does not refund anyone or unwind their payments. To stop selling but keep
> existing members, close the community to new members or deactivate its plans instead — see
> [Pricing plans and how members pay](/communities/pricing).