# What is the correct process for custom automation?

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How are users added to the vip group? Or probably makes sense to have whatever adds them to the group to also remove them. That’s what the subscription plugin does, for example.

Automations are not removed, but editing code in your container is.

You need a trigger for when a user is added to a group, and an action to remove them from a group after a period of time. I’m not sure how easy that is to do.

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