Inviting new members to join your group: Go to "My Account > Group", click on "View members", and then "Invite new members."
Prosper provides a pre-written subject and message that you can forward to your invitees, or you can personalize it to meet your needs. A link will automatically be included at the end of the pre-written message, which will start the sign-up process for invitees interested in joining your group.
When you click "Send Invitation," an email will go out to each invitee separately, inviting him or her to join your group. This means that each invitee will receive their own message, and will not be able to see the email addresses of the other invitees.
When you invite members to your group using Prosper's invitation system, they will be automatically approved to join your group.
Responding to "group membership requests": These are membership requests from borrowers who want to join your group.
You'll get an email in your inbox and a message in your Prosper "Messages" box each time someone makes a request to join your group.
As a group leader, you have seven days to respond to any group membership request. You may accept or reject the membership request, or you may extend the timeframe to make a decision by another seven days.
Limits on the criteria you can use to accept or exclude people from your group: Prosper is an inclusive credit marketplace that fully supports and promotes equal credit opportunity for all people, regardless of their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, sexual orientation, military status or source of income.
Because people access Prosper through your group, group membership criteria cannot exclude anyone in these protected classifications. You can use criteria to include people in these protected areas, but not to exclude them. Your criteria must also adhere to the Prosper policies that apply to Prosper members as well as group leaders.
Group leaders may not obtain or use a credit report, require prospective members to provide a credit report, or to provide authorization to obtain a credit report, as a condition to group membership. Group leaders who want to use creditworthiness as criteria for membership should use the individual's self-evaluation of their credit grade, in order to avoid running afoul of state and federal credit reporting statutes or restrictions on loan solicitation. When a borrower creates a listing, Prosper obtains their credit report and determines their credit grade, which is displayed in the listing. That is the only credit grade relevant to investors placing bids on Prosper.
As long as your criteria meet these standards, you can use any lawful criteria you desire.
How to see all of the members in my group: Go to "My Account > Group", and click on "View members". You will see a list of the screen names of all your group members.
To view each member's profile information, click the "Details" link next to their name.
To contact one group member, click the "Contact" link next to their name.
To remove a group member, click the "Remove" link next to their name. Only group members who do not have active listings can be removed from a group.
Contacting all of the members in my group at once: Go to "My Account > Group", click on "View members", then "Contact all members."
You will then be able to compose an email to all of the group members. When you click "Send Message," an individual message to each group member will be sent.
Removal of members from your group? You may remove a member from your group if that member does not have an active listing on Prosper.
To remove a member from your group, go to "My Account > Group", and click on "View members". Then click the "Remove" link next to the member's name.
