A: Thanks for your question and for taking the time to check us out!

Here’s a clear breakdown of how this works in Brilliant Directories:

👥 Adding Members / Businesses
You can add members in multiple flexible ways:
• Self-signup: Businesses register, choose a plan, and complete their own profiles.
• Admin-added: You can manually add members at any time.
• Instant Business Records (optional): For business directories, you can import pre-filled listings by category and location, which creates live listing pages that businesses can later claim and manage.

🧩 Full Control Over Profile Content & Upsells
You have granular control over what appears on a member’s profile:
• Customize profile fields and sections.
• Unlock additional profile features by membership plan (photos, videos, links, downloads, extended descriptions, etc.).
• This makes it easy to offer tiered memberships and upsells for enhanced visibility or features.

📅 Events & Site-Wide Calendar
Brilliant Directories includes a site-wide events calendar:
• Events can be created by admins or members.
• All upcoming events are displayed together in a central calendar and events listing.
• Events support dates, descriptions, images, pricing, and external or internal registration links.
• This works great for recurring events, community calendars, workshops, meetups, and more.

Overall, BD is designed to give you structured control while remaining easy for members to use and manage their own content.

Please let us know if you have any more questions – always happy to help!