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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
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Click the name of a group.
- On the left, click Members.
- At the top, click Add members.
- At the bottom, next to Directly add members, click Turn off .
- Enter the email addresses of the people to invite.
- (Optional) To include an invitation message, enter a message.
- Click Send invites.
- To manage invitations:
- On the left, click Pending members.
- 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 .
- To resend a single invitation, point to the invitationon the right, click
Add people to your group directly
When you add people directly, you can assign them the member, manager, or owner role.
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Click the name of a group.
- On the left, click Members.
- At the top, click Add members.
- Enter the email addresses of the people to invite.
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(Optional) To add a welcome message to the email notification for new members, enter a message.
- 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.
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Click the name of a group.
- On the left, click Pending members.
- 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.
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Click the name of a group.
- On the left, click Members.
- 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:
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Click the name of a group.
- On the left, click Members.
- Check the box next to each member you want to remove.
- Click Remove member .