FARU Groups
FARU Groups gives a club a live hub for the night: who has seats, who needs a ride, when people arrive, when they leave, and a QR at the door so members can post without hunting a chat thread. Groups Pro adds Command — the officer board that shows who is still out, who is Driver on Duty, and what still needs a seat before the leave window.
The club pays. Members still ride free. FARU does not dispatch a driver to the door and does not take a cut of seats.
Club-billed
Start from Club → Groups in the app. Host or president can redeem a club code if one was issued. A campus license can grant Groups or Pro to every club at a university; club IAP still works and the higher tier wins.
Club plan
$9.99/mo · billed to the club
For officers
Club plan
$24.99/mo · billed to the club
Everything in Groups, plus the tools that run the night.
Deep walkthrough with screens: FARU Groups Pro
Two primary actions. Officers keep the rest under Run this hub. Members never see gap numbers.
Use cases
These are the real loops Groups is built for — not a city rideshare, not a dispatched bus.
Athletics
Outing posts a hub for JQH Arena: arrive 6:30–7:15, leave 10:00–11:30. Members tap I have seats or I need a ride. Listings stay on that club. Browse → Events can filter to Outing so the game night does not drown in hometown trips.
Formals
A joint hub lets Outing and Dance open the same send-off. Both clubs see the night. Each seat or need still belongs to the club that posted it. Officers still run their own roster. It is not a merged membership.
Weekly rhythm
Friday trailheads, Tuesday service, Sunday rehearsal — a series is a club-owned weekly post, not a member hoping someone remembers to repost. Members offer seats or need a ride against that series. It shows on Clubs and on Browse.
At the door
Tape the hub QR on the table, the bus sign, or the door. Members land on this hub and post seats or a need in two taps. No “what’s the GroupMe again” at 10:40.
At the door, then as you leave
Hub check-in is the night roster, not Safety “I’m OK.” I’m here is attendance. It opens 2 hours before arrive, not days ahead. Officers see you on the roster. Later, Check-out plans asks how you are leaving. Only Need a ride home stays on still-out. Walking, driving alone, or offering seats drops them off that list. Offering seats opens I have seats on this hub — it does not auto-assign Driver on Duty.
Member view
Members see arrive/leave, the QR, and their seat. They do not see officer gap numbers, leftover-seat tools, or Command. I’m here, then Check-out plans when they leave. That’s the point.
Groups Pro
Officers and the advisor keep Hub history for 18 months (or until an officer deletes a hub — that delete is logged). Night-ops buttons — I have seats, I need a ride, I’m here, waitlist, reminds, seats needed — dither 12 hours after the hub date. Chapter records stay open. FARU does not file any of this with the university.
Student Affairs paper
Door headcount is the count at the door — guests included — separate from named I’m here. Financial accounting is the hub’s books: budget remaining, category spend, receipt scan, purchase log. Officers can compare this hub to other hubs still in history and export the same charts to PDF.
Tag the hub to a campus event. Members filter Browse → Events by the club and post seats to that venue only.
A Saturday series to the site. Same club-owned post each week. Needs and seats stay on the org, not a personal listing that expires in a chat.
Dance, band, club sport — a recurring leave window after late practice, with I’m here plus check-out plans so officers know who still needs a ride.
Arrive wave for the lot, leave wave after overtime. Pin the hub so it stays on top of the club board.
Groups hosts the hub. Pro adds waitlist + leftover-seat fill when a car opens up at 10:45.
Joint hub. Council Command (Pro) rolls both nights onto one board without merging memberships.
Two different layers. Mixing the names is how clubs get confused — so Groups does not use “DD.”
| Free student | FARU Groups | Groups Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who is billed | Nobody | The club · $9.99/mo | The club · $24.99/mo |
| Post seats / need a ride | Yes, on campus rides | Yes, on club hubs + series | Yes |
| Event hubs + QR + series | — | Yes | Yes |
| I’m here / check-out plans | — | — | Yes · opens 2h before arrive. Only need-a-ride is still-out |
| Command, still-out, duty | — | — | Yes |
| Hub history / door headcount / books | — | — | Yes · 18 months; night-ops dither after 12h |
| Advisor digest / campus packet | — | — | Yes · export / tap-send only |
| FARU+ required? | No | No | No — a student can hold both |
A $9.99/month club plan for event ride hubs and club ride series. Billed to the club on the Play / App Store. Members still post seats, request rides, and join a sober-ride network for free.
Officer roles and Command: I’m here attendance, check-out plans, still-out, Driver on Duty, reminders, waitlist, rain plan, hub history, door headcount, Financial accounting, advisor digest, campus packet, council, and officer transition. Full walkthrough on the Groups Pro page.
Yes. A Home game send-off on Outing is Outing-only. Joint hubs let a second club open the night; each listing still belongs to the club that posted it.
No. FARU is a campus message board. Students post seats and needs. We do not send a driver to you and we do not take a cut of the seat.
No. I’m here is attendance. “Driving and can take others” on check-out plans opens I have seats on that hub. Officers assign Driver on Duty as a duty slot. Profile Designated Drivers stay on the Safety / Profile flow.
FARU Groups How-To — member, officer, advisor, and host. Same night, four perspectives.
No automatic campus email. The packet is an officer export. Send to Student Affairs is a tap only when a campus license stores that inbox.
Groups How-To Groups Pro — Command, duty, packet Download FARU