Creators leave Facebook Groups for four reasons: Facebook decides who sees each post, the group belongs to Facebook rather than to you, charging for a group is not open to most creators, and members are one tap away from the rest of their feed. The main alternatives are Skool, Circle, Mighty Networks, Kajabi and WithMe. WithMe puts a community next to your courses, coaching, email and checkout, with 0% WithMe commission.
WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. More than 8,000 creators use it.
Why do creators leave Facebook Groups?
- Reach: members see your posts when Facebook shows them. A post can reach part of the group and miss the people who most needed it.
- Ownership: the group lives on Facebook. You do not get members' email addresses, and if the group or your account has a problem, your community goes with it.
- Payments: a group has no checkout of its own. Paid groups usually mean taking money somewhere else and adding people by hand.
- Distractions: members open the group inside an app built to keep them scrolling, with notifications from everything else they follow.
- Selling: your course, coaching and community sit on different sites, so every offer is another link and another login.
Can you charge for a Facebook group?
On Facebook itself, only through Facebook Subscriptions, and only if your Page qualifies. Meta's Subscriptions page for creators, checked 11 November 2026, lists the countries where it is available, including the UK and the US. A Page needs 10,000 followers, or 250+ return viewers, plus 50,000 post engagements or 180,000 watch minutes in the last 60 days. A subscriber-only Facebook group is one of the benefits you can offer. That page does not state Meta's fee.
For most coaches starting a paid group, that bar is out of reach. The usual workaround is to sell access on another site, then approve buyers into the group by hand and remove them when they stop paying.
When should you keep your Facebook group?
Keep it if it is free, it is growing, and your audience already spends time on Facebook. A free group can still be a good place to meet people. Many creators keep the free group for discovery and run the paid community, course and coaching somewhere they control.
What are the best Facebook group alternatives?
Prices below are from each vendor's own pricing page, checked 11 November 2026, in USD.
- Skool: Hobby is $9 per month with a 10% transaction fee. Pro is $99 per month with a 2.9% transaction fee. Both list unlimited members, courses, videos and live calls, with 2 months free on yearly billing. Good if you want the points and leaderboard.
- Circle: Professional is $89, Business $199 and Scale $419 per month, based on annual billing, with transaction fees of 2%, 1% and 1%. Direct messaging and group chat are included.
- Mighty Networks: Launch is $79 per month or $950 a year, Scale $179 per month and Growth $354 per month. The transaction-fee row reads 2%, 1%, 0.5% and 0.5% across the plan columns.
- Kajabi: Basic is $143 per month billed annually ($1,716) or $179 monthly, Growth $199 or $249, and Pro $399 or $499. Basic and Growth include 1 community, Pro includes 3, alongside courses, email and a website.
- WithMe: $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), 0% WithMe commission. Courses, coaching, memberships, communities, digital products and email on one plan.
What does a community on WithMe look like?
It works like a private group, on your own hub:
- A feed where you and members post text, images, video, audio and PDFs, and reply, comment and like.
- Categories, starting with start here, announcements, wins, q&a and resources, plus search, so posts stay findable.
- Pinned posts, and scheduled posts that go live at a time you choose.
- Events as posts with a Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or other meeting link, a countdown and an add-to-calendar file.
- Approve new members, with your own checkout questions, like Facebook's membership questions.
- When you post, members get an email with your post, unless they turned those emails off. Facebook's feed does not decide who sees it.
- Free or paid: a single payment or recurring, weekly to yearly, a second price option, payment plans, or included with a course or membership. Buyers pay by card, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
- Members use it on the web or in the WithMe app on iOS and Android.
How do you move members from a Facebook group?
- Collect emails first. Facebook does not export members' email addresses, so ask for them: a post with a link to a free sign-up, or an email question in your group's membership questions.
- Create the community on WithMe, free or paid, and pin a welcome post in start here that explains what is new.
- If you have a list of emails from people who agreed to hear from you, open Customers, click Add Customer, then Upload CSV, and choose the community. Each person gets an access email.
- Post the join link in the Facebook group and keep it at the top of the group, with a date when new content stops being posted there.
- Run your first event in the new community in week one, so members have a reason to log in.
- After the date, post in Facebook only to point people to the new home, or keep the group as a free front door.
What is not included?
WithMe communities have no live chat rooms and no direct messages between members. There is no member directory, no moderator roles, and no points, levels or leaderboard. There are no polls, no free trial on communities, and you cannot go live inside a community: events link to Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or another meeting tool. WithMe cannot import posts or comments from a Facebook group.
How much does WithMe cost?
WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. One plan covers courses, memberships, community, coaching, webinars, digital products and email. Free migration of up to 10 GB of your courses and members comes with the yearly plan.
Facebook group alternative questions
What is the best alternative to a Facebook group?
For chat between members, Circle and Mighty Networks list it on their pricing pages, and Skool has Skool Chat plus points and a leaderboard. For a community next to courses, coaching and email at $25 per month billed annually with 0% WithMe commission, WithMe.
Can I move my Facebook group posts to WithMe?
No. Posts and comments stay on Facebook. You can import members' names and emails by CSV once you have them, and start fresh with a pinned welcome post.
How do I get my Facebook group members' emails?
Facebook does not export them. Ask members to sign up through a link, or ask for an email in your membership questions, and only import people who agreed to hear from you.
Can I charge for a WithMe community?
Yes. Set a single or recurring price, add a second price, offer a payment plan, or include the community with another product. WithMe takes 0% commission.
What does WithMe cost?
$25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial. WithMe takes 0% commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply.
Start your 14-day trial at https://www.withme.so/become-a-creator.
