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Guest Access is an event-level setting that lets anyone outside your Academy register for and attend a public Community Event through a shareable link, without joining the Academy. Guest Access

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Overview

Guest Access turns a public Community Event into a promotable asset you can share on social, email, a website, or any other channel. Non-members who register through the share link attend that one event and nothing else, giving prospective Members a low-commitment way to sample your Academy before joining. It is also useful for hosting external attendees such as a guest speaker, a partner, or a colleague from another team, without provisioning them a full account. Guest Access only applies to Community Events. Events inside a Program are reserved for registered Members of that Program.

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Enable Guest Access on an Event

Guest Access is configured inside the event itself. You can enable it when creating a new event or when editing an existing one.
  1. Open the Academy calendar or go to Admin → Events and open the event you want to share externally.
  2. In the event form, scroll to Event Access.
  3. From the access dropdown, select Public. The other options, All Community Members and Private, do not support guests.
  4. In the radio group that appears, select Grant limited “guest access” (Recommended). This is the default for Community Events once Public is selected.
  5. Optional: set a Guest Capacity on the event to cap how many guest registrations are accepted.
  6. Save the event.
The alternative radio option, Grant full member access, turns non-member registrants into full Members on sign-up rather than guests. Use it when you want every registrant to become a Member automatically.
Default to Grant limited “guest access”. It lets you capture external registrants as Leads, measure interest, and follow up with a tailored invitation rather than auto-creating accounts for people who may never engage again. Reserve Grant full member access for fully public Academies where you want everyone who registers to join outright.
Once Guest Access is enabled, the event has a public share URL.
  1. Open the event on the calendar.
  2. Click the share arrow in the top right of the expanded event card.
  3. Click Copy link.
The URL looks like acme.disco.co/share/o/abc123 and can be posted anywhere. Anyone who opens it lands on the event registration page. If they do not already have a Disco account, they enter their first name, last name, email, and verify the email before clicking Attend as Guest to complete registration. On a public Academy, the registration page also shows Attend & Join Academy alongside Attend as Guest, letting a registrant upgrade to a full Member in one step. On a private Academy, only Attend as Guest appears.

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Manage Guests from the Admin Area

Every guest across your Academy is listed on the Guests page. To open it, go to Admin → Members → Guests. From this page you can:
  • Search for a specific guest by name or email.
  • Filter by whether a community invite has been sent.
  • Sort the list. The default shows the most recently joined guests first.
  • Export the full list as a CSV.
  • Send a direct message, invite the guest to join the Academy, or remove their guest access from any row.
  • Select multiple rows to perform the same actions in bulk.
Each row shows the guest’s identity, the events they have registered for, when they first joined as a guest, and whether a community invite has been sent. Until anyone registers, the page shows an empty state confirming no guests have joined yet.

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View Event-Specific Guests

To see who has registered for a single event, open the event drawer and select the Attendees tab. The tab shows two tables separated by a divider: Members who RSVP’d and guests who registered. The badge on the tab counts both combined, so open the tab itself to see the two tables broken out. The guest table offers the same actions as the organization-wide Guests page (message, invite, remove) plus a per-event CSV export scoped to that event’s guests. Once the event ends, the table also records whether each guest attended and when. Removing a guest from the Attendees tab only unlinks them from that event. Removing a guest from Admin → Members → Guests revokes their guest access across the entire Academy.

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Invite a Guest to Join the Academy

You can convert a guest into a Member through the standard invitation flow.
  1. Open Admin → Members → Guests, or open the event drawer’s Attendees tab.
  2. On the guest’s row, click the invite action.
  3. Send the community invitation.
The row is marked Sent once the invite goes out. The guest remains a guest until they accept the invitation and complete sign-up, at which point they become a Member.

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FAQ

No. A guest’s view is limited strictly to the event they registered for. Enabling Guest Access on one event does not expose the rest of the Academy.
Yes. From Admin → Members → Guests, removing a guest revokes their guest access across the whole Academy. From an event’s Attendees tab, removing a guest only unlinks them from that event; if they are registered for other events they remain a guest elsewhere.
No. The Feedback toggle on an event only collects responses from Members who RSVP’d and attended. Guests never see the feedback form, so feedback counts will be lower than total attendance when guests are present.
Guests receive the same reminders as Members at the same cadence. There is no setting at registration time and no notification-preferences page for guests. A guest’s only way to opt out is clicking the unsubscribe link in a reminder email.
Yes. Guests enter a name and email and verify that email before completing registration. There is no fully anonymous attendance path.
The guest registration flow returns “Event is at capacity” even if the event’s overall capacity still has room for Members. Guest Capacity is a separate cap from overall event capacity.
No. Guest Access only appears on Community Events. Events inside a Program are available only to registered Members of that Program, even if the event’s visibility is set to Public.
Yes. Enable Guest Access on the event, share the link with the speaker, and have them register as a guest. They attend that event without gaining access to the rest of the Academy.
Yes. A single guest record can be linked to multiple events in the Academy. Their row in the Guests page lists every event they have registered for.