Add people to your group

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.

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 👁 Image
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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 invitation👁 and then
        on the right, click
        Resend invitation 👁 Image
        .
      • To cancel a single invitation, point to the invitation👁 and then
        on the right, click
        Cancel invitation 👁 Image
        .
      • To resend or cancel multiple invitations, check the boxes next to the invitations👁 and then
        above the list on the right, click Resend invitation 👁 Image
         or Cancel invitation 👁 Image
        .

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.

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 👁 Image
     .
   • To reject a single request, on the right of the request entry, click Reject request 👁 Image
     .
   • To accept or reject multiple join requests, check the boxes next to the requests👁 and then
     above the list on the right, click Approve request 👁 Image
      or Reject request 👁 Image
     .

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 👁 Image
   .