Approve forum memberships

---
title: Approve forum memberships
description: Manage forum membership approvals when registered community users request membership to a forum.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/customer-service-management/communities/approve-forum-memberships.html
release: australia
product: Communities
classification: communities
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Configure community forums, Configuring communities, Communities, Customer Service Management]
---

# Approve forum memberships

Manage forum membership approvals when registered community users request membership to a forum.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_communities.admin or sn\_communities.forum\_admin

**Important:**

Starting with the Brazil release, Communities is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the [Deprecation Process \[KB0867184\]](https://support.servicenow.com/kb_view.do?sysparm_article=KB0867184) article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

## About this task

There are two ways of approving forum memberships.

## Procedure

1.  Perform one of the following actions.

    -   Navigate to **Community** > **Forums**.
        1.  Choose a forum from the list that has been configured for membership.
        2.  Click the **Membership Approvals** related list.
    -   Navigate to **Self-Service** > **My Approvals.**
2.  Accept or reject the membership requests.

    Only one approval is required for each task.

    Once the task has been approved or rejected, an email notification is sent to the user.


**Parent Topic:**[Configure community forums](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/configure-forums-topics.md)