Add people to your group

If you're signed in to a work or school account, the options you see might be different. To learn more, contact your administrator.

If you're a group owner, or if you have permission to manage members, you can add people to your group in three ways:

• Invite someone via email
• Add someone without getting their approval
• Approve people who applied to join

Limitations on adding people to groups

• Maximum group members—A group can have unlimited members, so there’s no limit to the number of people you can invite, add directly, or approve to join a group.
• Child accounts—You can’t add a user with a child Google Account to a group through any method.
• Non-Google accounts—You can invite but can’t directly add users without a Google Account to groups ending in @googlegroups.com.

Invite people to your group

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Members.
4. At the top, click Add members.
5. At the bottom, next to Directly add members, click Turn off .
6. Enter the email addresses of the people to invite.
7. (Optional) To include an invitation message, enter a message.
8. Click Send invites.
9. To manage invitations:
   1. On the left, click Pending members.
   2. Take one of the following actions:
      • To resend a single invitation, point to the invitationon the right, click
        Resend invitation .
      • To cancel a single invitation, point to the invitationon the right, click
        Cancel invitation .
      • To resend or cancel multiple invitations, check the boxes next to the invitationsabove the list on the right, click Resend invitation  or Cancel invitation .

Add people to your group directly

When you add people directly, you can assign them the member, manager, or owner role.

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Members.
4. At the top, click Add members.
5. Enter the email addresses of the people to invite.

6. (Optional) To add a welcome message to the email notification for new members, enter a message.

7. Click Add members.
   The members are added to the group, even if their names don't appear on the group member list immediately.
   Note: If you try to add a user to a group and get an error message saying that their email address is the primary, secondary, or alternate address of an existing member, that user is already a group member.

Manage requests to join your group

You can view requests to join your group and accept or deny them on an individual basis.

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Pending members.
4. Take one of the following actions:
   • To approve a single request, on the right of the request entry, click Approve request .
   • To reject a single request, on the right of the request entry, click Reject request .
   • To accept or reject multiple join requests, check the boxes next to the requestsabove the list on the right, click Approve request  or Reject request .

View all members of a group

You can view all group members as well as people who have been banned from a group.

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Members.
4. To view people who have been banned from the group, on the left, click Banned users.

Remove members from your group

If you're a group owner, you can remove members from your group:

1. Sign in to Google Groups.
2. Click the name of a group.
3. On the left, click Members.
4. Check the box next to each member you want to remove.
5. ​Click Remove member .