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title: Basic Community Settings Overview
description: Learn how to configure basic Centercode community settings, including branding, time zones, email preferences, and Google Analytics integration.
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# Basic Community Settings Overview

## Configure foundational details about your community

The community's *Basic settings* page allows you to define the core identity and foundational configurations for your community. These settings influence how your community is presented to users and how certain defaults function for your projects. 

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### Accessing Basic Community Settings

1. Click the **Community logo** in the top-left navigation menu
2. Click **Community configuration**
3. Select **Basic settings**

### Configuring Basic Community Settings

#### Community Name

The name displayed to users within the site and on the login page

#### Company Name

Represents the organization associated with the community. This field is referenced in only a few places, like the copyright link on the footer of the page.

#### Community Time Zone

Generally, times are displayed in the viewer's time zone (per their Account Settings), but some system functions leverage this default time zone for scheduled tasks, date transitions, and communications. Your default time zone in your community will also be used as the default time zone on any projects you create.

#### Google Analytics Key (optional)

Allows integration with Google Analytics to track site traffic and user behavior. Each page in the site will be tracked using your GA key allowing you to monitor your community's use of your testing platform. Simply leave this blank if not integrating Google Analytics

- This can take up to a couple of hours, but after this period of time Google Analytics should show this it is successfully tracking (receiving data)

#### Visual Theme

Controls the appearance of your community, including colors and branding. If only one visual theme is available, this option won't be visible on the project configuration page. Projects that opt to use the community default theme will also use this theme.

- Learn more: [Visual Themes Overview](https://help.centercode.com/en/visual-themes-overview?hsLang=en)

**Options:**

- `Default Themes`: Pre-configured visual styles
- `Custom Themes`: Tailor colors and branding to fit your organization

#### String Set

Enable customization of the language and terminology used throughout the community. If only one string set is available, this option won't be visible on the configuration page.

- Learn more: [Guide to Custom Strings](https://help.centercode.com/en/custom-string-set-overview?hsLang=en)

#### Contact Us Email Address

The email address used to send notifications when a user requests help from the community's Contact Us form.

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When a user submits a "Contact Us" form, the information will be sent to this address with the subject line "Web feedback". To respond to the user you can either click on their email address to respond directly from your email client, or click their Full Name to be taken to their user summary, where they can be emailed from within Centercode.

⚠️ *Since emails will be sent from our servers to your community administrators, using a reliable email domain is crucial. Make sure your SPF is set up to ensure delivery of emails using your domain.*

- Learn more: [General technical information, SPF, DMARC, and DKIM](https://help.centercode.com/en/general-technical-information-spf?hsLang=en)

#### Community Reply-To Address

This is the **default “From” address** used for **all system-generated emails** sent by Centercode.

⚠️ *To prevent emails from being flagged as spam, ensure your email domain’s SPF settings allow Centercode to send emails on your behalf.*

- Learn more: [General technical information, SPF, DMARC, and DKIM](https://help.centercode.com/en/general-technical-information-spf?hsLang=en)

### Community Landing Page Settings

These settings control the visibility of features used for recruitment and account creation.

#### Allow visitors to see open recruitments

Enables public visibility of recruitment campaigns on the login page (including non-community members). Open recruitments are essentially "public", so displaying them on the homepage is often core to their value. 

- Learn more: [Recruiting Overview](https://help.centercode.com/en/centercode-recruiting-overview?hsLang=en)

#### Include site in central sign-in on Centercode.com

Links your community to Centercode’s centralized list of a user's available communities. If a user is a member of multiple testing communities they'll each show up on their central sign-in page.

- Learn more: [Central sign-in page](https://help.centercode.com/en/centercode-central-sign-in?hsLang=en).

#### Hide landing page from search engines

Prevents the page from being indexed by search engines. This is essential for private communities that don't want to be searchable by common search engines like Google, Bing, etc.

#### Enable Betabound promotion

The community homepage features a banner at the bottom giving a brief description of and link to Centercode's Betabound testing community. This banner is enabled by default upon the creation of a Starter edition implementation but can be disabled on any of our paid editions (Impact, Pro, or Team).  
Note:  After disabling the banner the page may need to be refreshed/reloaded to properly reflect your changes.

 

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