The community engagement platform built for real organizations.
Kannect runs your events, messaging, members, payments, and discovery on one operating system — independent, verified, and free of the algorithms and ads that bury your community everywhere else.
7-day free trial. A card is required, which keeps Kannect spam-free. Cancel anytime.
Running a community on borrowed tools
Most organizations stitch together Facebook for discussion, Eventbrite for tickets, Mailchimp for email, a website builder, and a spreadsheet for members. None of it connects. And the channel you lean on most decides, by algorithm, how few of your people ever see you.
Posts almost nobody sees
On Facebook, organic reach averages a fraction of your members. You post an update. The feed quietly buries it.
Tools that never talk
Your event tool does not know your member list. Your email tool does not know who showed up. You re-enter the same people again and again.
Members you cannot reach
When the algorithm throttles you and inboxes overflow, your most important update simply does not land.
Everything your community needs. One home.
Kannect replaces the fragmented stack with a single platform. You run it all from one dashboard, and your members stay connected through the Kannect mobile app.
Events
Create events with RSVPs, tickets, reminders, and check-in. Free or paid, one-time or recurring.
Messaging and announcements
Reach every member who opted in. Push, email, and emergency announcements that still reach members who muted Kannect's in-app notifications.
Resources and content
Publish articles, documents, and guides so members always have what they need in one place.
Member CRM
One record per person with the full history. Members maintain their own info from the app, so your list never goes stale.
Memberships
A membership with multiple pricing tiers on every plan, or multiple membership types on higher plans. Custom application forms, approval flows, and branded onboarding.
Groups and programs
Organize people into chapters, committees, cohorts, and programs. Each one gets its own conversation, members, and analytics.
Fundraising and donations
Campaigns, sustainer giving, manual gifts, tax notices. Money settles directly to your account through Stripe.
Kannect mobile app
Your branded experience on iOS and Android. Members get your events, announcements, messages, and resources in one home.
Discovery
Your organization, events, and campaigns are discoverable on Kannect Discover, the verified community network.
The six tools you can retire on day one
Most community organizations are stitching together six to ten subscriptions to do what one community engagement platform should. Here is the stack Kannect quietly makes redundant, and the line item that replaces each one.
Instead of Eventbrite
Kannect Events runs free and paid events with RSVPs, tickets, reminders, and check-in at a 2% platform fee. Eventbrite charges 3.7% plus $1.79 per ticket on top of 2.9% processing, so a $25 ticket costs your attendee $2.72 vs. $0.50 on Kannect.
Instead of Mailchimp
Kannect Messaging sends unlimited announcements, triggered emails, and broadcast campaigns to opted-in members with the Reach Promise: 100% delivery, no algorithm, no per-contact overage bill at the end of the month.
Instead of Squarespace or Wix
Every Kannect plan comes with a community website that builds itself. Post an event or a resource once from your dashboard and it publishes to your public site, your mobile profile, and Kannect Discover. No page builder, no template drift.
Instead of Facebook Groups
The Kannect mobile app gives your members a real home, not a feed to compete with. No algorithm throttles your posts, no ads run between them, and members do not need to scroll past a stranger to see your update.
Instead of Meetup
Kannect Discover is the verified network where people find real organizations, not a directory of pop-up hobby groups. Every organization is credit-card verified, so members trust that your community is genuine when they land on it.
Instead of GoFundMe or Donorbox
Campaigns, sustainer giving, offline gifts, and tax-deductible receipts all live inside Kannect. Nonprofits keep 100% of every donation, minus standard Stripe processing. Nothing takes a platform cut on top.
Trading four to six subscriptions for one is why the average community organization on Kannect saves $200+ a month before counting the ticket-fee difference.
Three steps to a community that shows up
Create your community
Start a 7-day free trial and set up your organization in under five minutes. No technical work, no developer.
Bring in your people
Invite members, import your list, or let people find and join you through Kannect Discover.
Keep them engaged
Post events, send announcements, and share resources. Members get every update in the Kannect mobile app.
What actually happens in the first five minutes
Every setup story is basically the same on Kannect. Here is the minute-by-minute walkthrough so you know exactly what to expect before you start your free trial.
Sign up and verify
Create your account with the founder or executive director email. Add a card to start your 7-day free trial. The card is what keeps Kannect verified and spam-free. You are not charged during the trial and can cancel anytime.
Name your community
Add your organization name, your logo, your primary color, and the type of community you run. Kannect uses this to prefill your public community page at web.kannect.co/yourorg and your organization profile on Kannect Discover.
Invite your team
Add the other people who will run the community with you: co-founders, board members, event leads, communications staff. Every plan includes multiple admin seats with role-based permissions.
Post your first event or announcement
Create an event with an RSVP or a ticket, or post an announcement to your members. From this single action, it publishes to your community website, your mobile profile, and every opted-in member's Kannect app.
Import or invite your members
Upload a CSV of your existing member list, invite people one at a time by email, or share a public join link and let people find you through Kannect Discover. Your member CRM starts filling in from that first import onward, and every RSVP, message, and payment writes back to the same record. That is the last setup step. From here on, you are running your community, not configuring software.
Most community platforms manage content. Kannect mobilizes people.
Every other community engagement platform we looked at was really a content management system with a login wall. Kannect is the opposite. We start from the member, not the post, because a community is people who show up, not posts that never scroll.
Content-first, engagement optional
Post to a feed. Hope the algorithm shows it to enough people. Watch the engagement bar go down every quarter. Blame the audience. Buy an ads add-on. Post more content. Repeat.
- Reach measured in impressions, not people you know
- Success looks like a full feed, not a full room
- Members drift away and nobody notices for a quarter
- The tool decides who sees you, and it changes the rules whenever it wants
People-first, reach guaranteed
Post from your dashboard once. It lands in every opted-in member's Kannect mobile app, their email, and your community website at the same time. Attendance, RSVPs, donations, and messages all write back to a single member record so you know who is actually showing up.
- Reach measured in members contacted, not impressions served
- Success looks like RSVPs, attendance, and dollars raised
- Members who go quiet surface in analytics so you can act
- You own the channel end to end, always
That is why Kannect gets called a community engagement platform and not a community platform. The extra word is the whole product: a platform that measures itself in whether your people showed up, not in how many posts you managed to publish.
Independent. Verified. Built for you.
Two things set Kannect apart from the platforms communities have always settled for.
Independent and founder-run
Bending Spoons, a holding company known for buying consumer apps, raising prices, and cutting support, now owns both Meetup and Eventbrite. Kannect is independent. It answers to the communities it serves, not to an acquirer's returns.
Verified and spam-free
Every organization joins through a credit-card-verified trial. That card stops bots and fake organizations before they reach the network. No spam, no scams, no fake listings. When a member finds your community, they know it is real.
Reach every member. Every time.
A community organization is not a content algorithm. It is real people who want to hear from each other reliably.
100% delivery
Every announcement reaches every member who opted in. No algorithm decides who sees your message.
Your community, your members, your data
Yours to keep. Request a full export and we deliver within 30 days. Never sold. Never rented back to you as ads. Kannect runs the operating system; what runs on it belongs to you.
No ads, no algorithm
Your community is not a feed to monetize. No ads between your posts, no paying to boost your own announcement.
Which community are you running?
Kannect is used by nonprofits, chambers, schools, universities, government offices, and public safety agencies. Each one uses the same platform in a slightly different way, and each has a dedicated page that shows the exact playbook.
Nonprofits
Kannect is the community engagement platform for nonprofits that keeps donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries in one member record. 0% Kannect fee on nonprofit donations means every dollar you raise goes to the mission.
Chambers of commerce
The community engagement platform for chambers and business associations. Member directory, dues, event ticketing, newsletters, and a public business listing site, without stitching together six subscriptions.
K–12 and PTAs
The community engagement platform for K–12 and PTAs. Reach every family with one announcement. Replace the paper flyer, the Facebook parent group, and the sign-up sheet stapled to the front office wall.
Higher education
The community engagement platform for higher ed. Alumni, current students, clubs, and giving on one verified platform. Every event, RSVP, and donation writes back to a single member record.
Local government
The community engagement platform for local government. Reach residents with meeting notices, public events, and emergency announcements without waiting on a city hall newsletter cycle.
Public safety
The community engagement platform for public safety. Fire, police, and emergency management agencies use Kannect to keep neighborhoods, partner agencies, and volunteers on the same page in a moment that matters.
Communities see the difference fast
Organizations across nonprofits, schools, chambers, civic groups, and faith communities run on Kannect. New ones join every week.
More event attendance
Communities see a 30%+ lift in event attendance within 90 days of moving to Kannect.
To launch
Most organizations set up their community and go live in under five minutes.
Events created
Events hosted on Kannect by organizations of every size, and counting.
Trusted by real communities on Kannect
Nonprofits, chambers, schools, and civic groups run on Kannect. New organizations join every week and thousands of people discover them through public events, programs, and Discover pages.
Honest pricing that starts at $23 a month
Four plans, billed monthly or yearly, each with a 7-day free trial. Every plan includes events, messaging, the member app, and discovery. Payments are a simple 2% platform fee, and 0% on nonprofit donations.
Starter
$23/mo
Up to 500 people
Launch
$55/mo
Up to 2,000 people
Growth
$119/mo
Up to 5,000 people
Scale
$239/mo
Up to 15,000 people
The questions buyers ask before switching
How is Kannect different from Facebook Groups or Meetup?
Facebook Groups and Meetup are social products with algorithms that decide which of your members ever see your post. Kannect is a community engagement platform: every announcement reaches every opted-in member through the Kannect mobile app and email, with no feed, no ads, and no boosted posts. Your community is not competing with dog videos for attention.
What is the Reach Promise?
The Reach Promise is our contract that every opted-in member receives every announcement you send. No algorithm throttles it, no ad spend controls it, no feed buries it. Push, email, and emergency alerts land the same way for every member on your list.
Does Kannect work for a small organization or only for enterprise?
Both. Starter is $23 a month for organizations under 500 people, and Scale supports 15,000 people at $239 a month. Enterprise adds sub-communities, a fully branded native app, and a 0.5% platform fee for national organizations and networks with chapters. Every plan is the same community engagement platform underneath.
Do members have to download an app?
No. Members can join and participate from your community website on any browser. Downloading the free Kannect mobile app on iOS or Android unlocks push notifications, direct messages, ticket check-in, and task assignments, but it is never required.
What makes Kannect independent?
Kannect is founder-run and privately held. It has not been rolled up by a holding company, unlike Meetup and Eventbrite which are now both owned by Bending Spoons. Kannect answers to the communities it serves, not to acquirer returns, and its pricing and roadmap reflect that.
How long does it take to launch a community on Kannect?
Most organizations go live in under five minutes. Sign up, name your community, add your team, invite or import your members, and start posting events the same day. There is no developer, no plugin store, and no launch project.
What does Kannect actually replace on our stack?
The average community organization that switches to Kannect retires four to six subscriptions: Eventbrite for event ticketing, Mailchimp or Constant Contact for email, Squarespace or Wix for a website, Facebook Groups or Meetup for discussion and discovery, a member spreadsheet or Airtable for CRM, and Donorbox or GoFundMe for fundraising. One login replaces the whole stack, and the shared member record replaces the copy-paste between them.
Who owns the members, events, and content on Kannect?
You do. Members, events, posts, payments, and analytics are yours. Kannect runs the operating system underneath, but the community that runs on it belongs to your organization. Request a full data export by email at any time and we deliver within 30 days. Kannect never sells, rents, or trains models on your community data.
What does Kannect charge for events and donations?
A 2% Kannect platform fee on paid events, programs, and memberships on Starter and Launch, dropping to 1.5% on Growth, 1% on Scale, and 0.5% on Enterprise. Nonprofit donations to a registered 501(c)(3) run at a 0% Kannect fee. Standard Stripe processing (2.9% + $0.30) applies on top, because that is what the card network charges Stripe.
Bring your community onto an operating system built for it
Start your 7-day free trial today. A card is required, and it keeps Kannect spam-free.
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