Take a look at the features we provide our guilds! After you've checked these out, be sure to take a look at our testimonials page to see what the real people who use GuildPortal's community services have to say.

Keep in mind that the features we cover here are only a small percentage of the features that we offer. Here we're focusing on the "standard" features of community hosting packages, such as forums, polls, events, and rostering. There are over 40 different types of content you can have on your guild pages, and we're adding more all the time!

Community Management

• No programming required!  We've spent over three years building point-and-click tools that provide everything an online gaming community needs so that you'll never have to see a single line of HTML, CSS, or server-side script.  Of course, for those with techy types in the guild, you have the option of using some of these elements to further customize your web pages.
• The most powerful community management features combined with the friendliest tools, and that's no exaggeration.  Compare our community management tools with any content management system on the market, all the way up to those that cost up to $30,000 per processor, and you'll know how GuildPortal became the Leader in Guild Hosting!
• You decide what content you want, where you want it, and how it is displayed using the Community Control Panel, a fast, dependable and user-friendly web application that runs on IE, Mozilla, Opera and most updated browsers.
• Edit existing pages, delete existing ones, modify sort order and name. No limit to the number of pages, or to the amount of content available on each page. *
• Specify whether a page is viewable by the general Public, Associates, Members Only, or Officers only.
• Provide images to use in place of "tabs" for page navigation. Supports both Active and Inactive images.
• Add one of over 40 different content types to a tab, choosing whether it appears in the left, center, or right content pane. *
• Extensive display options that allow you complete control over how content is displayed.
• Upload and have us host your banner image. **

Transparent and Ethical Pricing

• Three product pricing options: Free, $30 every 6 months, or $45 every 6 months (higher price is for guilds who want subdomains, such as myguild.guildportal.com).  Base paid product works out to $5 per month -- try beating that with GuildPortal's functionality!
• No hidden charges, no bandwith metering.  Whether your guild has 60 or 600 members, you pay the same price.
• No "community chest" that keeps extra funds for itself.
• While charges are handled by PayPal and are re-occuring every six months, if your guild is no longer active and you forgot about the re-occuring charges, we will refund your most recent payment if your request is made within a week of the charge going through.
• We retain clients with a superior product and superior service, not by pointing at small print.

Forum Features

• Images indicate whether a forum has had new topics or replies added since the user last visited the forum.  Features "Next Unread," "Mark All Read," and other features you expect from a stand-alone foruming system.
• Security is by guild security level, being Public, Associates, Members, and Officers Only. People who do not have the proper rights to participate in a forum do not see the forum listed.
• Extended Security allows for Guild Administrators to specify that certain users may have access to moderate individual forums, without giving them administrative rights to other areas of the site. *
• Forum View shows forum titles, descriptions, topic count, post count, date/time of last post, and name of last poster. Also displayed are the most recent five posts, making navigating to the newest posts easy.
• Topics and all associated replies can be moved to a different forum with two clicks.
• Topics can be made sticky, meaning that regardless of activity, they will always appear first in the sort order of all topics for a forum.
• Topics can be locked, meaning no replies can be added to it after the initial post.
• Topics that are hot, meaning they have a certain number of replies or greater, get a "burning folder" icon.
• Topics track the last reply and the last view for the current user, showing different icons for topics that are either new or have new replies since the last time the user viewed them.
• Posts show the user name, their "title" as assigned by guild administrators, the number of posts that the user has made on guild forums, their "participation rating", and customizable rank images based upon how many posts they've made.
• Posts are editable by the poster or forum moderators.
• Thumbnail images appear under the name of the poster.
• Signatures appear under the body of posts based upon the poster's settings.
• A "mail" icon appears next to the user's name and, when clicked, incorporates the messaging system to provide an easy way to send private messages to members of a guild.
• Forum Pruning allows forum administrators to remove topics that have been inactive for a specified number of months.
• Mark all Topics Read lets users single-click to mark all topics within a given forum read.
• Share selected forums with other guilds in your alliance!

Voting Features

• Voting polls are truly stand-alone, meaning you do not need to bury them inside a forum post.
• People can comment on the polls available, if they have the access to see and vote on them. *
• Polls can be set to allow votes/viewing by the Public, Associates, Members Only, or Officer Only.
• Results are visible from the poll itself, and a pie chart is available from each poll to provide a graphical representation of the results.
• Once a poll has closed (meaning the Close Date has passed), the winning poll choice is displayed on the main Voting Polls screen.

Web-Based Mail

• Tight integration with most other sections of the site. In most areas, if you see a user's name, there's an icon next to it that you can click on to send a private message.
• New mail notification at the top of all guild pages, with a flashing icon indicating when you have new mail waiting.
• Inbox shows all mail waiting for you, with icons showing whether you've read each message, a subject header, who it was from, and when it was sent.
• Sent Items shows messages you've sent that haven't been deleted. Messages indicate whether the person you sent it to has read it yet and, if so, when they read it.
• Custom Folders help keep your messages organized.
• Address Book shows all members of all guilds that you're a member of, providing a central location to send web-based mail.
• Checkboxes next to each item and a "delete selected" button to make cleaning up your mailbox easy.

Events Management

• Events set to Public, Associates, Members Only, or Officers Only to view/attend/sign-up.
• Date/Time appear to the user based upon their time zone settings, showing them at what time the event occurs by their time zone.
• Attendance level allows event administrators to specify five levels of participation requirements, ranging from totally optional to mandatory attendance.
• Tight integration with the game your guild plays, allowing events to be associated with zones, or areas, within the game your guild plays. If available, links to external systems with maps for the locations are provided!
• Event Sign-up, allowing participants to specify ahead of time whether they will be attending the event, giving event coordinators/raid leaders a good idea of the balance of people they'll have available for a given event.
• Event/Raid Points, giving event administrators the ability to reward points for attending events.  Integrated with the Bank content type to manage awarding items based upon raid point standings.  This system is totally optional, and does not require that your guild implement a raid point/DKP system.
• Share events with allied guilds also using us to host their guild's site.
• Commenting available for members that have access to view the event. *

Community Participation Rewards

• Graphical indicators for people who participate regularly, encouraging your members to stay active on your site and keep up on guild happenings.
• Post counts, titles, "stars."
• Participation rating based upon posts, event sign-ups, voting, and other activities. Can be reset at any time the administrators decide to "level the playing field."
• Top 5, Bottom 5 member content types that can be placed anywhere on your guild pages.
• Raid/Event Attendance Points, integrated with Events Management

Guild Banking/Vault

• Categories of items custom to the game your guild plays, with custom fields based upon the item type in the game (ie, Range may apply to Missle Weapons but not to Melee Weapons.
• Items provide standard fields for quantity, current location (in-game), comments.
• Ability for guild members to request an item , which is integrated with the web-based mail system by sending requests with single-click approve/deny for bank administrators.
• Guild Funds tracking , with currency types defined by the game your guild plays. Transaction history to track where guild funds go, what they're used for, and associated comments.
• Import items that others have already entered detailed information for, saving yourself time!

Rostering

• Standard roster showing all members of the guild, their access level, title, thumbnail image, participation rating, and member-supplied field values custom to the game your guild plays.
• Member-entered and maintained data shifts the burden of keeping guild roster information up-to-date from a single administrator to the individual members!
• Multiple views, including Event Participation and Flag/Key tracking (where applicable to the game your guild plays).
• Tradeskill listing, where applicable to the game your guild plays, shows who has proficiency in various tradeskills.
• Detailed Character Profiles, showing game-specific data for the characters the members of your guild play.  Journal entries provide a way for players to keep track of and publish the ongoing life tales of their characters.
• Medals can be configured with custom images, or imported from one of our pre-configured templates.  Community Control Panel allows quick awarding of medals to one or many members, all at once!
• Where available, integration with game publisher-provided rosters (currently available for DAOC and AO guilds.

Quest Tracking

• Quest categories custom to the game your guild plays.
• Specify title, category, and what the reward is for completing the quest.
• Add, delete, edit, reorder steps necessary to complete the quest, providing a summary and full walk-through.
• Members specify which steps of a quest they have completed.
• Import pre-entered quests to save time!

Real-Time Chat

• Conduct meetings or strike up a conversation with people online with our java-based chat.
• Chat client is licensed and java-based, providing multi-platform support for all browsers with an up-to-date Java runtime (available from Sun Microsystems).

Other Features (not a comprehensive list!)

• News small and large versions keeps your members up-to-date with the top 5 most recently added news items, and includes a built-in news archive viewer.
• Fan-Fiction/Stories content type allows your members to enter and edit stories, broken up by chapter.
• Quotes with random display.
• Who's Online box shows who's been active on the site within the last 45 minutes -- integrated with the Web-Based mail system.
• Information Sections to store things such as raid/loot policies, membership request information, recent brags.
• Links to other web sites.
• Embedded Pages allow loading of a remote web page within a page.
• Custom Text/HTML content with WYSIWYG editing.
• XML/XSL transforms will take a remote XML document and apply an XSL stylesheet to display remote data withing your guild pages.
• Over 40 different types of content!
  
  

* - Some aspects of this functionality may vary or be reduced for non-supporter guilds.
** - Supporter guilds only.