What members do
A group with a healthy member count looks like a community worth joining; one with 40 members looks like it has not started yet. Members change that first impression.
They will not post, comment or answer questions. A group lives on conversation, so members are a starting point for a community, not a substitute for one.
Where people see your member count
Facebook shows the member count right under the group's name, and again when the group turns up in search results or as a suggested group. For many people deciding whether to tap Join, that number is the whole of the decision.
Once they open the group, they see more: the most recent posts, how often people post, and whether anyone replies. A large count with an empty feed is visible straight away, which is why members work best alongside a group that already has some life in it.
Public, private, visible and hidden
Facebook groups are either public or private. In a public group anyone can see the posts and the member list. In a private group only members can see posts, and the group itself can be visible, meaning anyone can find it and ask to join, or hidden, meaning only members and invited people can find it.
Members can be delivered to a public group, or to a private group that is visible and can be found and joined. Hidden groups cannot be delivered to, because there is no way to reach them from outside.
If your group is private, the member count is still shown to people who find it, so a private group benefits from members just as much as a public one.
Membership approval
If your group requires admins to approve new members, each join arrives as a request waiting for approval. Either switch approval off for the length of the order, or approve the requests as they come in — unapproved requests are not delivered members.
Membership questions work the same way: a required question holds each join until someone answers it. Turn required questions off while the order runs, and turn them back on once delivery completes.
If you allow members to approve requests as well as admins, make sure someone is watching the queue. Requests left waiting do not count toward the order.
Members, followers and Pages
A group's members and a Page's followers are separate numbers. Joining a group does not follow your Page, and following a Page does not join its group. If you run both, decide which one visitors look at first and start there.
A Page can own and post in a group, which is a common way for a business to run a customer community. In that setup the group's member count shows how big the community is, while the Page's follower count shows how many people keep an eye on the business.
Turning a member count into a community
Members are most useful when the group already has a reason to exist: a clear name and description, rules, and a few posts that show what people talk about there. Set that up before ordering, so the people who arrive through your own sharing find something worth staying for.
After delivery, keep posting. Questions, polls and welcome posts give genuine members something to respond to, and a group where conversation is building looks right at any size. A large member count with nobody talking is the one combination visitors read as bought.
How many to buy
Enough to lift the group past the empty-room stage, in proportion to how much happens in it. A group with steady daily posts can carry a larger count than one with a post a week.
If you are unsure, start with the smallest pack and look at the group as a newcomer would. Adding members in a few steps while the group gets busier looks more like a group being shared than one large jump.
Link and group requirements
Send the link to the group, the address shown in your browser when you open it, which starts with facebook.com/groups/. It must be a public group, or a private group that can be found and joined. Secret or hidden groups cannot be delivered to.
Keep the group's privacy, approval settings and web address the same until delivery completes. Changing any of them mid-order can stop delivery.
No password, no admin role. Only the link is used.
Delivery, drop-off and refill
Delivery is spread out after the order starts rather than arriving in one jump, so the group grows the way a group that is being shared grows. The tracking page shows progress.
Facebook removes inactive and inauthentic accounts from time to time, and members leave groups for their own reasons, so some drift is normal. High Quality and Premium are both refilled for 30 days if the count falls below what you ordered.
Refill does not cover members removed by an admin, a group that has been archived, deleted or made hidden, or joins left waiting in an approval queue.
High Quality or Premium
Both tiers deliver members to a public or findable private group, use only the link, and carry the same 30-day refill. The order card shows the current price and order range for each.
For buyers in India, Premium delivers Indian members, which suits a local or Indian-language group where a member list from the same country looks natural.
Who this suits, and who should skip it
It suits a new group with a clear purpose and an admin who posts, a business starting a customer community, or a group being relaunched after a quiet spell.
It is a poor fit if you need people to post and answer each other, if nobody will be running the group day to day, or if the group must stay hidden. In those cases members add a number without changing anything that matters.
Ordering, step by step
Copy the group link, check the privacy, approval and question settings, choose a tier and one of the packs on the order form, add an email and pay.
You get an order number straight away for the tracking page. Place one order per group so each is tracked and refilled on its own.