The Station

Let users submit their own events while you retain full publishing controls on your calendar.

Empower users to submit events

Users submit their own listings through a form on your site—no more manual entry.

Publishing Control

You decide whether user-submitted events get published immediately or go into a queue for review.

Built-in quality control

Accept submissions from all users or restrict them to registered users. Rest easy with reCAPTCHA to protect you from spam.

Event submission form

Add a simple form to your site where users can submit their events—no admin access required. Users can input the event title, description, date, time, and more.

Registered user settings

Let users submit events anonymously or require registration.

Editing listings

Decide whether users can edit or delete events after submission.

Categories and Tags

Users can choose from a list of existing categories and tags on your event submission form.

Saved venues and organizers

Prioritize the product features important to you and your members. Collect and manage user feedback via a Feature Request board and showcase upcoming products & programs via a Roadmap.

Voting

With voting and discussion for every idea, you can quickly identify trends in feature requests to help guide your product development.

Roadmap

Transparency in business can go a long way. With the Roadmap feature, it's easy to let users know what's coming next.

Multiple Boards

Multiple boards allow for further organization of your requests. Set up a board per product or purpose, like bug collection or member suggestions.

Community Voting

Provide users with a limited amount of votes, allow users to retract their votes, or lock voting for fair ballot counting.

Anonymous Voting

Allow users to stay anonymous when voting, while keeping track on the administrative portal for fair ballot counting.

Filter, Sort, Search

It's easy for your users to find and vote on requests.

Categories

Organize requests into categories - perfect when you sell multiple products.

Statuses

Use the standard statuses or create your own to cover all the possibilities.

Image Uploads

Allow users to upload images with their feature requests.

Custom Labeling

Create discussion forums to allow members to communicate in a structured, bulletin-board style fashion.

Group Forums

Each group can create its own discussion forum. Several groups can optionally be attached to the same discussion forum.

Posts, Media uploads, Gyphys and Emojis

Allows users to embed photos, gyphys, emojis along in their forum posts and replies.

Up and Downvoting

Members can organize themselves into public, private or hidden social areas with separate activity feeds and member listing.

Group Type

Every community is unique. Create public, private or hidden groups and set different rules and settings depending on the group type.

Group Invites

Allow all group members, organizers, and/or moderators to invite other users to the group.

Group Organizers, Moderators

Create organizers or moderators within a group to control who can administrate and edit the group, post activity, or invite users.

Group Activity

Allow all group members, organizers, and/or moderators to post photos, gyphys, emojis, and share ideas into the group activity feed.

1-on-1 Private Message To Group Members

Have a message to request feedback from all members of a group but want to keep discussions private? The group messaging feature lets you create a private 1-on-1 message to all the members of a social group in a single click. Get more things done quickly!

Member Profiles

Everything in a community website revolves around its members. Customize your community with fully editable profile fields that allow members to share details about themselves.

Custom Profile Types

Every community is unique. You can create as many profile types as you want, name them however you want, and set different rules and settings depending on the profile type.

Custom Profile Fields

Depending on the type of user, you can gather and display different information on their profile that allow members to share details about themselves.

Private Messaging

Allow members to send private message. Messages can be sent to one member or a group of members.

Thread-based Group Messages For All Members

Send out a message with photos, GIFs, and emojis to all members of a social group to collaborate on a single task together. Get your marketing teams to collaborate effectively, facilitate collaborative processes between team members and across departments, with group messaging.

News Feed (Facebook Style)

Global, personal, and group activity feeds with threaded commenting, direct posting, @mentions, and email notification support.

Network Search

Allow members to search the entire network, along with custom post types of your choice, all in one unified search bar.

Directory Listing

Use the automatically generated simple directory or create a complex profile directory with custom fields and filtration.

User Invites

Allow members to send email invitations for non-members to join the network.

Notification (Facebook Style)

Notify members of relevant activity with a toolbar bubble and/or via email and allow them to customize their notification settings.

Multimedia Posting

Let your users upload photos and organize them into albums, from any device.

@ mentions

Users can @ mention other registered users on the site. The mentioned user will receive a notification of the post.

Privacy

Manage registration for in-person and online events.

Own your ticket sales

Create tickets right from your Station dashboard—no third-party websites, no extra ticket processing fees (other than the CC fees).

Tickets wherever you want them

Add tickets and RSVPs to any event, page, or post on your site.

Custom Ticket Tiers

Share stock between ticket types or allow unlimited attendees.

Ticket Stock Countdown

Let customers know how many tickets are left with automatic ticket counts.

Robust Ticket Management

Each ticket has its own price, stock, and SKU. You choose when sales open and close.

Zoom Integration

Sell tickets to virtual events with the option to email the event link after purchase.

Attendee Registration Forms

Collect key details from name and email to T-shirt size and food preference.

Ticket Insights

Generate sales and attendee reports for your events and tickets.

Email Confirmation

Keep attendees in the loop with automatic ticket confirmations.

Display Attendees

Increase engagement by publicly showing who is attending an event.

Attendee-Only Content

Offer physical and digital products with SKUs, order management, instant downloads, and options such as sizes, colors, and more.

Product Merchandising

Easily sort, organize, and manage your products with our drag-and-drop sorting tool, tags and categories, and visibility and scheduling settings.

Custom Forms for Products

Set up custom checkout forms for gift messages, special delivery instructions, or comments to optimize the checkout experience for your business.

Order Management

Track outstanding orders, resend customer update emails, and print packing slips from a single interface.

Shipping Labels

Buy and print USPS shipping labels for your orders directly from Station and provide Shipment Tracking Numbers and Customer or Internal notes that trigger email notifications.

Shipping Calculations

Set up the shipping methods that best fit your business, and add as many options as you’d like. Choose from flat rate, depending on weight, carrier calculated, or add a shipping extension.

Local Pickup

Offer in-store or on-site pickup to your customers with local pickup. Easily set up your pickup locations and details, and give customers the option to select pickup at checkout.

Order Email Customization

Customize the message and other elements of the default order emails.

Product Reviews

Display product reviews on your product listing pages for physical, digital, and service products. Product reviews can give shoppers confidence and can increase your sales.

Limited Availability Labels

Increase urgency and encourage conversion by letting customers know the current inventory level of any product with a Limited Availability Label. As a merchant, you can customize how, when, and where the label appears to customers on your site.

Inventory Management

Manage your inventory with an easy-to-use interface and quick views into your variants and stock levels. We’ll send you an email alert when your stock levels are low.

Flexible Product Variants

Use a unified inventory management interface with unlimited SKUs, multi-dimensional product variants (such as size and color), and sale prices. Add images to each product variant so customers can see what different options look like.

Digital Gift Cards

Customers can easily share your products with their family and friends. Customers can redeem digital gift cards online.

Tax Rates

Manage your tax rates for countries and regions where you are required to charge tax. With support for VAT, HST, GST, we help you comply with local tax requirements, set prices inclusive or exclusive of tax, and provide customizable invoices to suit your needs.

Import and Export Products and Data

Move your existing products from Shopify, Big Cartel, Etsy, or any other platform to Station with our .csv importers. You can always export your order data to .csv format for accounting and spreadsheet tools.

Commerce APIs

Build custom integrations to third party systems to handle your back office and ecommerce needs, from order fulfillment to inventory management to much more.

Commerce Marketing Tools

Build high-converting checkout pages and sales funnels with 2-step checkouts, upsells and order bumps.

Upsells

Turn one sale into 2 or 3 with order bumps and 1-click upsells.

Coupons & Discounts

Promote sales and create discounts that can be applied via coupon code or by visiting a special URL

Multiple Payment Options

Use the Global Store Checkout or setup multiple pay options including one-time payments, installment plans and subscriptions, and let customers choose the pay arrangement that works best for their budget.

Promotions

Schedule order page access and on-sale promotions

Team Notifications

Customize new order notification emails for different members of your team

Waitlist

Send traffic to a waitlist page the moment you sell out

After-Purchase Mailing list

Add new customers to a mailing list for communicating next steps.

Store Integration

Create Funnel-related products or tap into the Retail Store Catalogue products.

Free Trials

Customize Referral Rates

Choose flat or percentage commission rates. Optionally set per-affiliate or per-product rates.

Subscription Renewal Commissions

Award commissions for subscription signups and recurring renewals. You can set one commission rate for the initial signup, and another for renewals.

Product Specific Commission Rates

Override your site wide commission rate for any individual products.

Affiliate Cookie Life​

Choose affiliate’s cookie expiration to set how many days the referral tracking cookie remains valid.

Coupon Referrals

Affiliate supports Store coupons. Simply link a coupon to an affiliate.

Refund Protection

Paying commissions for purchased that then get refunded is a pain. Minimize this by setting a refund grace period.

New Customer Commissions

This optional setting ensures that affiliates are only awarded commissions for referring new customers (those making their first-ever purchase from your online store).

Easy Affiliate Registration

Accept affiliate registrations through a simple form with custom fields.

Affiliate Dashboard

Once an affiliate registers and is approved, they can access their affiliate dashboard and account settings.

Affiliate Approval​

Affiliate registrations are set to pending until they're approved by an admin, ensuring high-quality affiliates.

Referral Link Generator ​

Affiliates can generate their own referral links from the Affiliate Portal with the built-in referral link generator.

Automatic Payouts

You can pay your affiliates with just a few clicks, directly from your Station dashboard with 0% additional fees. (just PayPal fees)

PayPal Integration for Payouts

Station Affiliate comes with a PayPal integration built-in. Connect your PayPal Business account and automate payouts.

Manual Payouts

Quick Invoice

Send custom invoices that your clients can easily pay online using any device.

Deposits, Payment Plans & Schedules

Set up custom payment plans for your clients with installments, due dates, and auto-reminders.

Recurring Billing

Send recurring invoices and set up auto-deductions for subscription-like services.

Subscriptions & Memberships

Link all Funnel or Store products to Subscription payments and Membership content.

Overdue Reminders

Send automatic reminders to your clients if a payment is missed.

Gratuity

Give clients the option to add a tip when making a payment.

Donations

Edit or add suggested contribution amounts, and visitors can select from the suggested amounts or donate any amount.

Payment Processing

Connect with your Stripe, Square, or PayPal account for simple payment processing.

No Extra Fees

Station does not add any additional fees to the standard transaction fees: 2.9% + .30 cents per card transaction; 0.8% for ACH with a max $5 fee.

Digital Download

Easily attach files to be instantly delivered upon purchase.

Customizable Checkout

Customize the checkout experience to reflect your brand by choosing your own color scheme and adding your logo.

Checkout from Anywhere

Floating cart button allows for easy-to-notice checkout function, even without leaving their current page.

Express Checkout Mode

Customers can bypass the shopping cart and jump straight to checkout, a great way for single-product stores to streamline checkout.

Thank You Pages

Customize Thank You pages with customer name and order information or redirect to any website page or external URL.

Cart Abandonment

Both Store and Funnel functions can capture lead information and automatically trigger Cart Abandonment emails & push notifications.

Coupons

Offer free shipping, create random coupons codes, schedule coupons & sales, and associate codes to specific affiliates.

User Account Creation

Any commerce purchase via Funnels or Store automatically creates user accounts with generated password sent to customer, along with password reset link.

Customers

Newsletter Opt-In

Build your mailing list by adding a newsletter block or promotional pop-up to your site or a subscribe option at checkout.

External Email Integration

If you're on the Lite tier, or already happy with your marketing tool, bring the power of your beloved marketing tools right inside Station, with these available integrations: MailChimp, SalesForce, AWeber, Hubspot, MailerLite, and Drip

Email Layouts/Customizable Templates

Take a great design and make it yours with a simple editing experience. Add an image to grab attention, link to relevant content, or use a button to drive clicks and engagement.

With more than 30 starter templates to choose from, you can announce a product, send an invitation, or share updates with your subscribers. Organize and format content any way you want with customizable drag-and-drop sections.

Dynamic Email Content

Create compelling emails with your existing products, blog posts, and design elements so your branding is consistent and recognizable.

Email Broadcasts

Send one-time email broadcasts to your entire list or segmented users. Easily add images and call-to-action buttons to give your emails life.

Triggered Emails

Trigger emails based on purchase. Or site visits. Or engagement. Automatically send emails when your contacts are most interested.

Sender Profiles

Make your email stand out with a custom “From” field to ensure that each email’s message aligns with who it’s from. Domains purchased from Station are already verified, so you can immediately start sending emails from the domain you own.

Integrated Analytics

Push Notifications

Send important news, latest updates, special offers and more to desktop and mobile devices, without additional apps or invasive permissions.

Banners and promotions

Highlight important announcements like seasonal sales or holiday hours with intuitive banners and promotions.

PopUp Builder

Create interactive modals that are beautiful, engaging and easy to set-up, triggered by simple clicks on elements in your page, or automated by specific conditions.

Cookie Banner

Add social links to display social icons to your visitors, helping them find you wherever you maintain a presence on the web. Connect with a wider audience and increase your site’s reach by taking advantage of Station's social sharing tools and integrations.

Social Links

Easily display social network profile links, letting your visitors follow you on every major network. A variety of presentation styles help keep your site design consistent.

Social Embed

Embed Facebook Page Feeds, Facebook Group cards, Twitter Feeds, and more

Simultaneous Posting

Station can authenticate with your social profiles, letting you auto-post your content to Twitter, Facebook pages, or Tumblr. All post entries and images are optimized and tagged properly, so descriptions and titles will be correctly referenced.

Auto-Import Social Content

Pull content from Instagram, Medium, and more to back-up your content into your Station Site and truly "own your data".

Deep Data Integrations

Station has integrations with all of the leading social platforms so your customers can keep up-to-date with the latest from your website and even buy your products directly from Instagram.

Sell on Instagram

Give contributors selective access to your site, depending on their permissions. Use the built-in user roles or create your own and set highly customized permissions.

User Accounts

Users can create their own accounts or be provided by admins - with username, email, password, and 2FA.

Access Levels

Use Station's Access levels or create your own by fine-tuning permissions. Access levels include Administrator, Website Editor, Billing, Analytics, Scheduling Editor, Reporting, Email Campaigns Editor, Comment Moderator, Viewer, and Store Manager.

Block Lock for Members

Content can be fine-tuned and restricted at page or even at block level.

Contributors

Create member-contributed content without giving them Admin Center permission and allow content owners to edit their own content - with auto-publishing edits, or pushing to a queue for approval.

Construction Mode

Lock your entire website with a password while you are under construction.

Passwords & Page Locks

Lock individual pages behind a password to create private areas on your site. Customize the page that displays to visitors whenever a website or page is password-protected.

Store Manager Permissions

Designate store managers who have control over inventory and orders, but not the rest of your site.

Email Campaigns Editor Permissions

Cut out the repetitive work with automated workflows, recurring payments, confirmation emails, payment reminders, and trigger unique actions and tasks for any contact

Triggers

Customize workflow actions to be triggered by a contact form or newsletter opt-in, conditionally through a user/member action or at a specific day and time.

Automatic Email Sequences

Welcome subscribers to your mailing list, send them a new-member discount, and more with automated emails. Stay top-of-mind and build relationships with your audience without ever pressing send.

Smart Fields

Gather data from your leads & clients, and use that data to auto-fill fields in your contracts, documents, and emails to eliminate the need for manual entry.

Form Reminders

Send automatic reminders to notify your clients about incomplete forms.

Visual Journey Builder