Invite people to a group
There are two ways to grow a group: invite friends directly, or share an invite link. A link works even for people who've never used Latte before.
Inviting needs the right privileges — you'll see the invite controls if your role in the group allows it.
- 🖥 Web
- 📱 Mobile
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Open the group from Groups. The invite controls sit right in the group's header.
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The fastest way: click Copy invite link in the header — one click, and a ready-to-use invite link is on your clipboard (Invite link copied to your clipboard). Paste it anywhere.
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To invite friends directly: open the ⋮ menu next to it and choose Invite friends…, pick the friends you want, then confirm the prompt asking whether to invite them.
Screenshot coming soonThe Invite friends… dialog with a friend selection list, opened from the group space header's overflow menu -
For a link with settings: in the same Invite friends … dialog, Create invite link still makes a link with an optional expiry date and a maximum number of uses.
Screenshot coming soonThe Create a group invitation url dialog with the generated invite link and optional expiry and use-limit fields (inside the Invite friends… dialog) -
To invite with a code people can scan: that dialog shows a Scan to join code under the link. It points at exactly the link above it — anyone who scans it with a phone camera lands where the copied link would take them.
Screenshot coming soonThe Create a group invitation url dialog after the link is generated, showing the Scan to join QR code above the Print button -
Print puts that code on a clean sheet on its own, with the group name and the written-out link under it — ready to pin on a door or hand out in class.
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Open the group from the Groups tab, open the navigation drawer with the button at the top right, tap Members, and start an invite.
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To invite friends directly: pick the friends you want and confirm.
Screenshot coming soonThe mobile invite screen with the friend selection list -
To invite by link: create an invite link, set an optional expiry and use limit, then share it. The screen also shows a Scan to join code for the same link, so someone standing next to you can join by pointing their camera at your phone.
Screenshot coming soonThe mobile group invite link card showing the QR code above the tappable link chip that opens the share sheet
An invite link can bring in people who don't have Latte yet — they'll be guided to sign in and land straight in the group. This holds even when signing in opens a new tab or window: the invite is remembered for an hour after the link is opened, so whichever tab finishes sign-in still joins the group. You can cap how many times a link works and when it expires.
If a link stops working
Invite links don't last forever: they can expire, be used up to their limit, or be turned off by whoever manages the group. When someone opens a link that is no longer good, they see This invite link no longer works with a Go to Latte button, rather than an error — nothing is broken on their side and nothing was joined.
If someone tells you they saw this, create a fresh invite link and send that one instead. The old link stays dead.
They may instead see We couldn't check this invite, with a Try again button. That one is temporary: it means Latte itself couldn't be reached for a moment, not that the link is bad. The same link should work on a retry.