With RumbleTalk, you can easily monetize your group chat. InChatPay and PayConnect are two features that will help you do that.

Online donations, payments, and paid membership are trends right now. While creating a group chat is easy, managing those is another topic. It’s another task in itself.

Well, let us help you with that. InChatPay and PayConnect can make monetization easier. By using RumbleTalk, you can connect your PayPal account in one click. Then, you can proceed to set up your monetized group chat in just a few minutes.

Let’s talk about donations and private payments first. Then, let’s talk about membership fees and limited access.

All about donations and private payments

Now that almost everything can be done online, donations and private payments are a part of that. Taking it to the next step, you can easily collect donations and private payments in a group chat.

So, how can you do that? The answer lies in InChatPay. Over here at RumbleTalk, we call that as InChatPay.

InChatPay covers all donations and private payments. Churches and non-profit organizations can use the group chat to collect donations.

You can put your cause in the group chat as a welcome message or just a normal message.

For small businesses or entrepreneurs, you can use private payment requests to collect payments from your customers. The private payment request is only accessible in the private chat. Also, the admin needs to send a request before a user can pay.

Unlike donations, private payments have transaction fees. RumbleTalk keeps 10% of the commission, while you get 90%. Not a bad deal, right?

Access and membership fees

What do you do when you want to add access and membership fees? You use PayConnect. PayConnect is used for access and membership fees.

Firstly, you can add an access fee to let a user enter the group chat for a specific time. The time limit can be from minutes to weeks. This is limited paid access for chat members.

Next, membership fees are unlimited access to your chat members. It’s a special subscription for your members to have unlimited access to your group chat. If you choose this kind of PayConnect for your members, you can choose from monthly or annual membership.

When you monetize your group chat, you can add your chat terms and conditions. There are two choices:

• Terms text – You fully declare the terms before the users can enter your group chat. It will be shown on the payment popup.
• Terms link – You put a link where your terms and conditions can be found.

Members should always agree to the terms before entering the chat.

Once that’s all set up, you can check any payment that’s made on your chat. It will all be labeled on Monetize Records that you can find on your admin panel.

Records of any payment are shown. It will show the following:

1. Date
2. Payer
3. Amount
4. Status (new, paid, and refunded)
5. Country
6. Type

Here’s an example of how your records will look like when your members have paid.

You will see in the last section (Type) what kind of payment has been made.

Monetize your group chat

InChatPay and PayConnect are features that you should know if you want to monetize your group chat.

Monetization comes in different kinds of ways. From donations to membership fees, you have to know what you want for your group chat.

If you want to combine them all, you can also choose to do that. It’s up to you. Try all combinations and see what works best for your group chat.

You can check out the detailed information on this page. Since RumbleTalk has lots of monetization options, you can read about it. Then, you can use it on any kind of chat type.

Not familiar with RumbleTalk’s chat types? Sign up and you can choose a chat type for your chat.

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In the past few months, we have witnessed a rapid shift in eLearning. This made us think about how we used technology for the educational sector.

The online behavior of students is different from who they are in their classrooms. How will you use this shift to your advantage?

As an educator or parent, you’ve seen how technology has played its role as we shift to eLearning tools for a child’s education. Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, they all have contributed to education as they transformed the students’ way of communication.

Now that we’ve seen what those apps can do, it’s triggered a shift in the methods of traditional learning to a modernized one.

So, how can you make the same impact in times like these?

How can a chat be effective for eLearning sessions?

As we all know, chat platforms have been around for quite some time now. They are now gaining more attention since educators are thinking of ways how they can incorporate technology in their classrooms.

While a chat can provide real-time communication, it can also start discussions that can help in a deeper understanding of the course. With the different features of a chat platform, it can create an interactive learning experience just like in a traditional classroom setting.

eLearning websites and platforms are great examples of how chat platforms can be advantageous to eLearning sessions. They create a virtual classroom where teachers and students can connect globally.

What are the different chat features to use?

In the naked eye, it might seem that chat platforms are just your normal messaging apps. However, there’s more to it than that. Through updates and modern technology, chat platforms have created new features.

Let’s dive deeper and understand these key features that will help you in eLearning sessions.

Bridging the gap using the basics

Group chat is a basic feature of a chat platform. You basically chat with an entire group and there’s no moderating happening.

Using group chats can be helpful for group discussions. In every class, students should also be able to connect with their various groups. Therefore, teachers can create open group chats where anyone can join.

Audio and video calls are also basic features of chat platforms. For this, you can use the private chat on your group chat. Teachers can do one-on-one calls with any student in the group chat.

File sharing for a complete classroom experience

Without textbooks, what can be an alternative? Fortunately, ebooks are now a thing. You can send an ebook, document, or PDF through file sharing.

If that’s not enough, you can also share copies of the class curriculum via PowerPoint. With this feature, teachers can send images, audio/video recordings, or any usual file in the chat room. As a result, review materials are made easily available for your students to access.

Managing user roles

Why do you need role-based access to your group chat? The implementation of user roles is to distinguish who’s to be the admins and the members.

For example, in a virtual classroom, it’s obvious that the teacher should have administrative rights. While this is true, the teacher can also assign other students to be an admin, preferably the class president or a class representative.

The administrators can make sure that the chat is in an orderly fashion. Also, this is to ensure that the correct information is delegated and used efficiently.

Using educational links

Did you notice the underlined keywords in the example photo above? That’s what happens when you add InText Keywords in your chat.

InText keywords are words or phrases that will show in real-time during a chat as a dashed hyperlink. When clicked, users will be taken to the set URL in a new tab. This is a highly effective way to direct users to relevant content, docs, files, or links.

For this instance, it’s used as an educational link where the words ‘SVA agreement‘ lead to a link that students can use as a review material.

eLearning chat + YouTube Live

Have you thought of this combination? If you think that a group chat is not sufficient for your eLearning session, then you could add YouTube Live in the mix.

By creating a minisite via Rumble Pages, you can achieve a leveled-up connection.

Using a chat for eLearning sessions

A one-to-all technique is not effective for eLearning. You have to diversify and adapt to the newer generation.

Instead of just using one feature for all your eLearning courses, try mixing it up by combining the above features. For example, you can try using a group chat for one group and a moderated chat for the other.

See what works best for each group.

If you want to get started with your eLearning chat, sign up now.

When you create live events on your website, you make sure that everyone can join in. In every live event, you need a group chat to communicate with your audience.

Your audience is key to a successful live event. If you embed a group chat next to your live event, your audience can share the live event with their friends and family. This will lead to more traffic to your website and potential audience.

With a group chat platform that can help you, participants from anywhere in the world can join in the conversation. You can turn any small live event to a large-scale one.

Let’s talk about how you can add a chat directly on your website.

Embedding a group chat next to your live events

If you have a website that you currently use for live events, then it’s easy to embed a group chat. RumbleTalk has a pre-made code for embedding.

To embed your group chat next to your live event, follow these simple steps.

1. In your admin panel, go to Embed.
2. Generate a code that you want for your website. You can choose from an embedded chat or a floating chat. For live events, it’s better to choose an embedded one so it’s next to your live stream.
3. Click Get Code.
4. Copy and paste the code on your website.

If you have a WordPress website, then you need a chat plugin. Fortunately, RumbleTalk also has a WordPress plugin. For instructions on how you can use RumbleTalk as a chat plugin, read this.

White labeling your group chat

First, let’s discuss why people want to remove a brand name.

• Most website owners, developers, or webmasters want to use third-party software/services on their sites. This saves time, money, and all the stress that comes in developing a product.
• Customers want to see a coherent website. If there are different services or platforms combined, it takes away from the overall look and feel of the website.

With this, there is the option of white labeling. White labeling is an act of removing a product’s brand name from its platform. In this example, you can remove the RumbleTalk name from your group chat.

Besides, not all individuals are open to branding or having the platform name in the chat. Therefore, you can also remove it from your chatbox.

RumbleTalk allows you to design your chat with your own custom look for both mobile and web.

Once a customer will purchase a plan with us, he will not have any logo of RumbleTalk.

White label exceptions

As said above, you can white label the RumbleTalk chat. However, there are two places that RumbleTalk will still show.

• If you open the mobile version in full screen, you will see the RumbleTalk chat URL. What can be done is to disable the fullscreen option (opening the chat in a separate window) in the chat menu. Therefore, it will not open the chat in fullscreen with the RumbleTalk chat URL.
• Users can change their profile avatar in profile.rumbletalk.com. This is part of the GDPR requirement that users will be able to know what we information we keep and also allow them to change some of their settings.

Since this cannot be changed, they can hide the option to change their profile button in the chat.

Hosting live events with a white-labeled group chat

Streaming live events has been a part of social media trends since the 2000s. And since then, it has never left. It’s becoming larger by the year.

Live events cover sports, entertainment, gaming, and more. You name it. Now, almost all live events have a chat in parallel. That’s where you take advantage of chat platforms.

Embedding a chat platform like RumbleTalk can enhance your viewer count, site traffic, and brand recognition. So, you make the audience feel that they’re in the event itself. It’s more than just a live coverage.

Everything is strengthened by communication. This can be with yourself or others. Letting your audience have the ability to talk to you or others is one of the reasons that makes your live event successful.

Interested in embedding a group chat next to your live event? Talk to us.