The mental model
How Organizations Work
Groups are free. Giving links and a public board are optional. Reveal Premium is personal.
First principle
A group is a group
There is no “free group” and no “paid group.” Every group in Reveal is the same thing: a gathering with a name, members, and a home — free to create and free to join.
What differs from one group to the next is which capabilities the leader chooses to enable. Nothing is turned on by default.
Think of it like a church building. The building is always the building. The lights, the sound system, and the offering plate are all optional — you switch on the ones you actually use.
Optional capabilities
What a group can turn on
1. Giving links (optional)
Paste any external donation destination — Cash App, Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, Givelify, a Stripe Payment Link, or a custom URL. Add up to five. Members tap the heart on your group page and pick where to give. Reveal never touches this money — 0% fee, 100% goes to your organization.
2. Public board (optional)
An @handle page you can share publicly. Off by default. Turn it on from your group settings when you’re ready to have a public face.
Reveal Premium
Always available, always personal
Reveal Premium is a user capability, not a group one. Every person on Reveal can subscribe to Premium directly from the Pricing page, regardless of what any group they belong to has enabled.
Joining a group does not grant Premium. Member subscriptions that once shared Premium access are retired — Premium is only available through Pricing (or an existing personal subscription).
Support through the heart button is always giving — never Premium. Premium lives on Pricing.
Where support goes
Giving vs Premium
- On a group page, leaders can offer optional giving links. Those gifts go to the organization — Reveal keeps 0%.
- On the Reveal Pricing page, the primary action is Subscribe to Reveal Premium. Support flows to Reveal directly.
- The heart button anywhere in the app opens giving — either Reveal or the group you pick — and it is always separate from Premium.
Joining a group
How members get in
- 1Leader shares an 8-character invite code, a link, or a QR from the Group Hub.
- 2A member opens /join (or the link) and enters the code. If they don’t have a Reveal account yet, one is created inline.
- 3They’re in. Joining is free. If they want Premium tools, they can unlock Reveal Premium anytime from Pricing.
Summary
The whole picture, in five lines
- A group is always free to create and free to join.
- Giving links are optional. Reveal keeps 0%.
- A public board is optional. Off by default.
- Reveal Premium belongs to the user — subscribe from Pricing.
- Support (the heart) is independent of Premium and independent of everything else.
Ready to start? Create a group — it takes about 30 seconds, and every capability is off until you turn it on.
Eligible organizations can also learn about optional Ministry Partnership — separate from Reveal Premium; members are never required to buy Premium.