Migrate from Skool: move your group to a platform you own

What comes with you, and what doesn't

Before you plan the move, it helps to be clear about what Skool lets you take. Most of what matters comes with you; some things you rebuild, and a few you leave behind.

Skool's member export is a basic list: names and email addresses. It doesn't include course content, community posts or payment details.

Before you start

• Pick your date, two to four weeks out, so there's time for two emails and a few days of overlap.
• Gather your course material: the original video files, slides, worksheets and anything members download.
• Decide your prices. Keeping each member's current price is the simplest way to make rejoining an easy yes.
• Set up the new home first. Community spaces, lessons, the calendar and prices should be in place before anyone moves.
• Check what you're allowed to do. Members joined your business, but read Skool's terms and your own privacy notice before you email them about a move.

Step by step

1. Export your members from Skool. In your group's settings, open the members list and export it as a CSV file.
2. Build the new platform. Add your first lessons, a welcome post, your spaces and your calendar. It doesn't need everything, just a good first week.
3. Bring your members in. Import the export so each member has access waiting for them on the day.
4. Send the first email, two weeks before: what's changing, why it's better for them (their own app, one login, everything in one place), and when.
5. Send the second email, a few days before, with the date again and what they'll need to do.
6. On the day, send their way in: each member gets an email with how to sign in. Pin a post in Skool pointing to the new home.
7. Move the payments. Ask paying members to rejoin at your own checkout before their next Skool payment, and to cancel their Skool membership so they aren't charged twice.
8. Run both for a few weeks. Keep the Skool group open, quiet, with the pinned post, until the last paid-up date has passed. Then close it.

The emails to send

Most people miss the first email. Plan on sending every important message twice, and post it in the Skool group as well.

Moving the payments without losing people

This is the part that decides how many members come with you. Skool runs its own payments, so their subscriptions can't be carried to your Stripe account. Every paying member has to choose to rejoin. Make that easy:

• Keep their price. Nobody should pay more for moving.
• Give them time. Let members use the new platform before they're asked to pay, until their Skool payment would have renewed.
• Make it one tap. Put the rejoin link in the email, in a pinned post on your new home and in the pinned Skool post.
• Follow up personally with the members who matter most to the group. A short note from you beats a third email.

Expect a few people not to move. They're often the least active members, and a fresh start with the people who do come usually makes the group livelier, not quieter.

How it works in Deedmade™

In a Deedmade^™ platform, you do the move yourself from your Owner's Portal, on the Bring members over page:

1. Pick Skool as where your members are now. The page shows where Skool's export button is.
2. Drop in the CSV. It's read on your own screen; only names, emails, plans and paid-up dates go to your platform. Cancelled members and rows without an email are left out, and you see who's coming over.
3. Say how they pay. Choose that their cards are with the old platform: each member keeps access until the date they've paid up to, or 30 days when the file doesn't say, and their invite asks them to rejoin before then.
4. Check, then bring them over. Checking compares the file with your members and changes nothing. Anyone already there is left as they are, and nobody is brought in twice. Then one button brings them over and, if you like, emails each member their access code and a link to the members area.

Skool's export usually has no paid-up dates, so members get 30 days. To give them longer, add a column called "Access until" with a date before you drop the file in. Your email list comes over too: email marketing imports Skool's export as subscribers, tagged "skool".

Your new home includes community spaces with levels and a leaderboard, courses with quizzes and certificates, live sessions, events and email marketing, in a members app with your name and icon. You pay $2,499 once (the early-bird price until December 31, 2026; the regular price is $3,900), with 0% of your sales and no monthly fee required. Build yours free and have it ready before you tell a single member: no credit card until you've tested it and approved it.

What usually goes wrong

• Closing Skool on the same day. Give people a few weeks of overlap.
• Telling members once. Most miss the first email.
• Moving before the new home is ready. An empty community on day one feels like a step down. Have the first week's lessons and a welcome thread waiting.
• Charging members twice. Remind paying members to cancel on Skool when they rejoin.
• Trying to copy every old post. Nobody reads them. Bring over the best few as a pinned resource instead.

Prices of other companies are approximate, from their own pricing pages on October 11, 2026, and they change. Where a page shows a monthly price that is billed a year at a time, we say so. Check their websites for today's prices.

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