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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:37

The Little Known INVITE-ONLY Feature

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One is if you are interviewing somebody and you want to make sure you are able to ask all your questions before you allow others to join in. Another use case is when you are doing a longer piece of content and want to add multiple replies before you want anyone to reply

#SwellTipsFromSwell this is a little known, yet powerful feature of Swell.

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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:32

Create an Invite-only Swell

You can create an invite only Swell by clicking on the Invite Only button in the second page of the new Swell form, so you can see that in the attached image here. Remember, if you create an invite only Swell, make sure you invite some people by using the Invitations field above that. Otherwise nobody will be able to reply. And sometimes people end up accidentally toggling this switch. You may not realize it, and you'll end up preventing anyone from being able to reply to your Swell
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:23

Check if a Swell is Invite-only

So if you have made a swell invite, only you swell get this little group of people icon right next to the title of the swell in the Swell page. And this tells you that only invited guests can reply. If this isn't your swell and you are not one of the invited guests of the swell, then the reply button will also be missing and you won't be able to reply in it
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:06

Change the Invite-Only status

Okay. Finally to change the invite only status of your swell, either to make an invite only swell to become an opentoall swell, or to convert an open to all to an invite only, you simply tap on the triple dot menu and choose the invite only menu option to change it. Then tap on the Open to all button to make an invite only swell and open swell
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