Create a Group

Before you start

You need:

• A name for your Group
• A short description of what the Group is for
• An EnDAO account (see Create Your Account)

The form

From your workspace choose Create a group (it sits in the rail, the navigation and the mobile bar), or go straight to create a group. The form asks for:

Name

The display name everyone in your Group will see.

Description

A short summary of what your Group is for. Visible to members and, for Public Groups, to anyone browsing the platform.

Visibility

Public: anyone on the platform can find the Group and see its description. Private: the Group is hidden from people who aren't members.You can change this later.

How members join

Open: anyone can join freely. Request: anyone can ask to join; admins approve each request. Invite only: admins must explicitly invite each new member.Set the rule that fits how your Group operates.

Submit the form. Your Group is created with sensible default governance settings. You become its first admin.

What happens next

Once the Group exists, configure the rest from Settings. Each area has its own guide:

• How decisions get made: turnout, the share needed to pass, and how long voting stays open.
• Treasury setup: add Signers and set the approval threshold for your shared account.
• Managing members: invite people, assign roles, grant permissions.
• Managing decisions: create your first Decision and walk the Group through it.

What can't be changed later

Most settings can be adjusted any time. Two main exceptions members notice:

The Group's treasury address

Once you deploy the treasury (a separate step after creation), its address is permanent. Signers and the approval threshold can be changed afterwards, but not from a settings screen: each change is itself a transaction the current signers have to sign. The threshold can't equal the signer count. A treasury requiring every signature cannot be repaired if one of them becomes unreachable.

Who holds the keys to the treasury

The people who can sign for the money are chosen when the treasury is deployed, and that set is fixed on-chain from that moment. You pick them on the deploy screen, which names everyone who is about to hold a key before you confirm. Changing it later is the signed transaction described above.

After your Group exists

Practical first steps:

1. Invite your first members: three or four is enough to start testing the flow.
2. Tune the governance defaults: most Groups want to adjust quorum or approval percentages from the defaults.
3. Create your first Decision: even a small test one. The first vote is when the Group starts feeling real.
4. Deploy your treasury so the Group can hold and manage its money and shared assets. This one comes last on purpose: a new Group is rehearsing in Sandbox with simulated money, and the control to deploy a real account appears only once you leave it.