How to hide "Connections Menu Link" for free registered users (Canvas Menu)

I have created a "Free Registered" User Group as well as a "Paid Member" User Group. I only want the Paid Member Group to have access to any of the Connection features.

I figured out how to hide the Connections Tab (CB Connections) - set to "Paid Member Group" level. But then I saw that if I simply make the CB Connections plugin itself set to "Paid Member Group" level it hid the tab as well. Though I am not sure if this means no other higher level can access.

I can't seem to figure out how to hide or not make available the Connections menu option next to the edit profile menu (Canvas Menu position). Is this something that I would need to set on a per Plan basis possibly?

You'd need to use CSS to do that. In the future we won't have that menu anymore as we're going to completely remove CB Menu. The below CSS can hide that. If you need it conditioned based off viewing users usergroup you'd need to use CB Auto Actions and a Code action for conditional CSS.

Thanks Kyle.

Even if the menu is there, does setting the CB Connections access to the paid member group prevent the non member from using connections (i.e. returns a "no access to resource message"? (Just trying to determine if I need to change the CB Connections access level

No, connections functionality does not depend on the connections plugin. The connections plugin is just responsible for some display aspects and does not control whether connection requests can be sent or not. There is no ACL for connections at this time. You'd have to try and block that behavior using CB Auto Actions using onBeforeAddConnectionRequest trigger.