Do not migrate if you are above the crossover
If your community does more than about $3,500/month in one place, Skool Pro is the cheaper platform and this page is not for you. Migrating a working community to save money you are not actually saving is the most expensive mistake in this category.
The people who should read on: anyone under the crossover, anyone paying $99 per community across several communities, and anyone whose members already live on Discord and never really moved to Skool in the first place.
Eight steps
Export your member list first
Before anything else, get every member's email into your own tool. The single biggest risk in this business is a member list you do not control. Do this even if you decide not to move.
Open a Whop and clear verification
Free, nothing to cancel. Identity and payout verification can take a day or two, so start it early rather than on announcement day.
Set up where the community will actually live
This is the real decision. Whop gates access — it does not replace Skool's community feed. Most people moving off Skool run the community in Discord or Telegram with Whop handling paid access. Build that space and make it good before you invite anyone.
Accept that gamification does not come with you
If your retention depends on points and leaderboards, replace them deliberately — weekly calls, a wins channel, cohort structure, whatever fits. Do not assume the engagement survives the move on its own, because it usually does not.
Price the new offer and test the checkout
Buy your own membership with a real card, confirm the access grant fires, then cancel and confirm access is revoked. Do this before a single member sees the link.
Grandfather your existing members
They have to re-subscribe manually, so give them a reason. Lock their current price for life, or offer a discounted first month. This is the step that decides how many you keep.
Announce with overlap, not a deadline
Run both for a full billing cycle. Keep Skool live, post the new link in it, and give people three or four weeks. A hard cutoff converts worse and burns goodwill with the members you most want to keep.
Cancel Skool only once migration plateaus
When new sign-ups on Skool stop and re-subscriptions flatten out, close it. Paying $99 for one more month is far cheaper than losing members to a rushed cutoff.
What you will lose
Some members, unavoidably
Every member has to make an active decision to pay again. Even a well-run migration loses a share of them — budget for it rather than being surprised.
Your gamification layer
Points, levels and leaderboards are Skool's strongest feature and there is no Whop equivalent. If that is what your community runs on, this is a real downgrade.
Automatic tax handling
Skool calculates and remits VAT and sales tax for you. Understand what changes for your own situation before you move revenue, and take proper advice if you sell across borders.
Your course content structure
Courses and modules do not export cleanly between platforms. Expect to rebuild the structure by hand, and use it as a chance to cut what nobody watched.
Post history and discussions
Years of threads stay on Skool. If your archive has real value, keep a read-only month of access or export what matters before you close the account.
Simplicity
Skool is one tool. Whop plus Discord is two, configured by you. You are trading money for setup work and ongoing moderation — make sure the money is worth it.
Start with the export
Get your member list out first, then open a Whop and clear verification. Both take an afternoon and neither commits you to anything.
Start selling on Whop →