Groups & Chat
A group is your crew — the mates you ride with. It lasts for years, not for one ride. Being in a group never shares your location; that only happens during a ride you've joined.
Creating a group
On the Group tab, tap Create Group and give it a name — "Weekend Warriors", "Patagonia 2027", whatever fits. That's it. Creating a group and starting or leading any group ride require a Pro subscription (only the organiser pays); joining any group ride is always free. Groups can even be created with no signal — everything syncs when you're back in coverage.
Riding with part of an existing crew? On the web, open Groups, choose New group, and pick people you already share a group with — Start from an old group to tick its members, then untick anyone who isn't coming. The people you pick are added straight away (no invite to accept) and get a chat message from you saying so. Anyone can leave a group at any time.
Inviting your crew
Open the group, tap the gear icon, and choose Invite. You get three ways to bring riders in — use whichever fits the moment:
QR code
Best at the meetup. New riders tap Join Group → Scan QR Code and point their camera at your screen. Riders need a connection to join, so bring everyone in before you lose signal.
Share link
Best for the group chat you already have (for now). Send the link; tapping it on a phone with Stands-Up installed joins the group directly.
Invite code
Best over the phone or intercom. Read out the invite code; riders tap Join Group and type it in. Invite codes expire (default 7 days) — tap New Code in the invite sheet at any time and the old one stops working immediately.
Joining before you sign in
You can join a group straight away without an account — scan the QR code, tap the link, or type the code, pick a display name, and you're in. When you later sign in with your email, the app carries your place in those groups over to your account automatically.
Group chat has limits until you do sign in, and the app will tell you about each one when you hit it: you can send messages in one group (join a second and its chat is read-only), reactions and delivery ticks are off, and group activity won't reach you as a notification. Everything else — the map, the roster, riding together — works the same either way.
Occasionally it can't, and the group then says "You need a new invite". Your saved messages stay on your phone, but the group no longer knows you're in it, so anything you send won't reach the others. Ask anyone in the group for a fresh invite and tap the notice to enter it — the group picks up exactly where it was.
Group chat
Tap a group and you're in its chat — organise Saturday's ride, share photos afterwards, razz whoever ran out of fuel. The same chat is on the web at stands-up.app/groups, so planning from a keyboard works too. Group admins can turn on disappearing messages (24 hours to 1 month) in the group settings.
Admins and settings
Whoever created the group is its admin. From the gear icon → Group Settings, an admin can rename the group, remove a member, hand the admin role to someone else, and set disappearing messages. Anyone can mute a noisy group or leave it — and if the admin leaves, they pick a successor on the way out.
One distinction worth knowing: the group admin runs the group, but any member can start a ride and become that ride's leader. On a week-long tour, one person admins the group while a different rider might lead each day.
Next: Riding Together →