🍔 Content Structure

Core Principles of tchop

tchop is designed to give you maximum flexibility in how you organize, publish, and manage content and users in your community, your employee app or your frontdoor intranet. To make this possible, we rely on a clear structural model built on four layers:

1. Organisation

2. Channel

3. Mix

4. Content Card

Understanding these layers is key to understanding how tchop works and how you can use it most effectively.

Organisation

The organisation is the top-level structure in tchop.

• It holds all your content, settings, and users.

• Each app is connected with one organisation.

• Organisations are strictly separated for security and privacy reasons.

Within an organisation you find the Organisation Dashboard, which provides:

• General settings

• User management

• Push Notifications

• Analytics

• Features that apply across all parts of your app

👉 Only the owner and organisation admins can access the organisation level. Organisation admins are the highest role with the most default permissions.

Channels

Each organisation can have any number of channels. Channels are flexible spaces where you define structure, users, and content.

• Every channel can have its own content, settings, and users.

• Users are assigned to channels, so you control exactly who sees, who can read, comment or post what.

• If a user has access to multiple channels, they can easily switch between them inside the app.

• Channels can serve many purposes:

  • Target groups

  • Departments or regions

  • Topics or special interests

  • Events or temporary projects

Channels are fully dynamic:

• You can launch, archive, or delete them at any time, they will be live in your app instantly.

• Each channel can have its own set of editors and administrators.

• Through the Channel Dashboard, editors and admins can manage content, community features, and rights.

Mixes

Inside every channel, content is structured with mixes.

Think of a mix as a section, feed, or topic — similar to categories on a news site or sections in an intranet.

• Every piece of content in tchop must belong to a mix (though it can be synced across mixes if needed).

• Each channel can have unlimited mixes.

• Mixes can be dynamically created, unpublished, or deleted by editors.

• Mixes can have their own settings and permissions, e.g. deciding who can post content into a mix.

• Mixes help structure your app, making it easier for users to find content and understand the layout.

👉 The News Feed (usually the first screen users see) often consists of multiple mixes, providing a rich and structured flow of content. Of course the News Feed can also just consist of one mix, but in any case there must be one mix connected

🔗 Learn more: Mixes

Content Cards

Finally, all content in tchop is published as cards, which live inside mixes.

• Cards are the atomic unit of content — text, images, links, videos, polls, or more.

• 10 different card types allow you to engage your users in different ways.

• By combining cards inside mixes and channels, you create the unique content experience of your app.

🔗 Learn more: Card Types
🔗 Learn more: Mobile App Navigation

Summary

• The Organisation is the top level, holding everything together.

• Channels let you separate target groups, topics, or regions.

• Mixes structure each channel and form the basis of your news feed.

• Content Cards are where your actual content lives.

Together, these four layers create the flexible but structured system that makes tchop so powerful.