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Create user groups

User groups offer a flexible way to manage permissions in your organization. Most permissions in Zulip can be granted to any combination of roles, groups, and individual users.

Many organizations find it helpful to create groups for:

  • Each team, e.g., “mobile”, “design”, or “IT”.
  • Leadership roles, e.g., “managers”, “engineering-leads”.

Groups provide an easy way to refer to multiple users at once. You can:

  • Mention a group of users, notifying everyone in the group as if they were personally mentioned.
  • Compose a direct message to a user group. This automatically puts all the users in the group into the addressee field.
  • Subscribe a user group to a channel. This individually subscribes all the users in the group.

How to create a user group

  • Desktop/Web

  1. Click on the gear () icon in the upper right corner of the web or desktop app.

  2. Select Group settings.

  3. Click Create user group on the right, or click the plus () icon in the upper right.

  4. Fill out the requested information, and click Continue to add members.

  5. Under Add members, enter groups and users you want to add. You can enter a #channel to add all subscribers to the group. Click Add.

  6. Click Create to create the group.

Note: You will only see the Create user group button if you have permission to create user groups.

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