How to Transfer or Sell a Skool Community

You can hand a Skool community to someone else, but only on the Pro plan, and only to a person who is already an admin of the group. This guide shows how to transfer Skool community ownership, what happens to the group and its billing straight after, and what to sort out if you are selling or buying one. Every Skool fact was checked against Skool's help centre on 3 October 2026.

Can you transfer ownership of a Skool community?

Yes, on the Pro plan. Skool's transfer article says group ownership transfer "is supported only on the Pro plan." If your group is on Hobby, you upgrade to Pro first.

The admin row matters because the new owner has to be an admin before they can become the owner. Everything else Pro adds is in our Skool pricing guide.

How do you transfer Skool group ownership?

These steps follow Skool's transfer article and its article on making a member an admin.

1. Check your plan. If the group is on Hobby, upgrade it to Pro. Skool says the upgrade is a charge.
2. Add the new owner as a member, if they are not in the group already. Click SETTINGS in your community and invite them by email. Once they join, they show up on the Members tab.
3. Make them an admin. Click MEMBERSHIP settings (the gear) next to their name and change their role to admin. Skool says they must be an admin to become the owner.
4. Make them the owner. Click their MEMBERSHIP settings again and make them the new owner.
5. The new owner reactivates the group. They add their payment info to bring it back.

Check everything before step 4. Once you click, the group is archived and you are an admin with no access to billing.

What happens after you transfer a Skool group?

Skool's transfer article lists what happens next:

• The group is archived. It stays that way until the new owner adds their payment info to reactivate it. From then on, the new owner pays for it.
• You become an admin. Skool's member roles article says admins have access to everything except the Billing settings. You can still help run the group, but the billing is no longer yours.

The archive step has a money side. Skool's payout article says a payout only starts when the group subscription is active, and archived groups do not start one. So the new owner should be ready to add their payment info the same day.

What does it cost to transfer a Skool community?

Skool's article names no separate transfer fee. The costs are plan charges:

• Already on Pro: the new owner adds their payment info to reactivate the group. Pro is $99 a month on Skool's pricing page.
• On Hobby: you pay to upgrade to Pro, and Skool says the new owner reactivating the group is a second charge.

For a Hobby group, Skool suggests doing the transfer at the end of your billing cycle, one day before your billing date, to keep the charges as low as possible. It says these charges are non-refundable.

What happens to payouts and members' billing?

Skool's transfer article does not cover payouts or members' subscriptions. Here is what Skool's payout articles do say:

• One owner, one bank account. Skool's Payments FAQ says that if you have several communities, all their payouts go to the same bank account. Outside the US, Skool's newer payout setup adds the bank account to your Skool account, not to one group.
• Payouts run every Wednesday. The Payments FAQ says a first payout goes through extra checks and might take up to 14 days to reach the bank. A new owner who has never been paid by Skool should expect that wait.
• Existing members keep their price. If the new owner changes the price, the Payments FAQ says existing members are grandfathered on what they pay now.

So before the handover, the new owner should set up their own payout method, and you should both ask Skool support to confirm where the group's next payout goes. Our guide to contacting Skool support covers how. Payout timing in full is in our Skool payouts guide.

Can you sell a Skool community?

Skool's help centre explains how to transfer ownership. It does not cover selling a community. So if you sell, the deal is between you and the buyer, and the transfer above is how the group changes hands.

Skool moves the group. The price, the payment and the paperwork are yours to sort out.

Before you hand over a group you sold

These are common-sense points, not Skool steps. This is not legal or tax advice.

• Agree the price and payment outside Skool. Decide whether the buyer pays before or after you make them the owner.
• Put it in writing. A short signed agreement can cover the price, what is included, the handover date, and what role you keep. Skool makes you an admin after the transfer, so agree whether you stay.
• Settle the money in flight. Check your Payouts tab for any balance still waiting, and agree who keeps payments members make around the handover date.
• List what lives outside Skool. An email list, a website, a domain or a Zapier account may need handing over on its own.
• Tell your members, and move the contact details. Say who is taking over and when, and plan when the support email members use switches to the new owner.

What to check before you buy a Skool community

Ask the seller to share their screen and walk you through these. The definitions come from Skool's analytics definitions:

• MRR, read carefully. Skool's MRR leaves out members on a free trial, but it includes members whose payment is failing and who are still inside the retry window.
• Member count. It includes people on a free trial, and paid members who cancelled but still have time left.
• Retention. Skool defines it as the MRR from the start of last month that is still active at the end of last month.
• Real payouts. Each payout has a reverse invoice under Settings, then the Payouts tab. The owner and the billing manager can see them.

Should you transfer ownership or add a billing manager?

If a partner needs full access but you want to keep the group, Skool has a middle step. Its member roles article calls billing managers "essentially co-owners" with access to everything, and suggests the role for a co-founder, a partner or an accounting head. From Skool's billing manager article:

1. Make the person an admin first.
2. Go to the Members tab and filter by admins.
3. Click MEMBERSHIP SETTINGS next to their name and give them billing access for the group.

You stay the owner, and they see every billing and payment item in the admin settings.

Taking over a group? Failed cards and cancels come with it

Whoever owns the group next inherits members whose card fails and members who cancel. Skool handles part of this. Its card declines article says it retries the card, marks the member "Declined" in red, prompts them to update their billing method, and lets the owner or billing manager retry the charge by hand. Skool also lets you add a cancellation video that members see when they go to cancel.

What Skool does not send is a personal note. Backpack is a Chrome extension plus our servers for Skool owners. Payment Recovery messages a member when their card fails, and Cancellation Recovery messages a member who cancels. You write the messages and Backpack sends them, even with your computer off. It is $9 a month for every Skool community you admin, with 7 days free. Backpack is not affiliated with Skool.

The short version

To transfer Skool community ownership, put the group on Pro, make the new owner an admin, then make them the owner. The group is archived until they add their payment info, and you stay on as an admin. If money is changing hands, agree it in writing first, and ask Skool support where payouts will go.

FAQ

Can you transfer a Skool group on the Hobby plan?

No, not on Hobby. Skool supports group ownership transfer only on the Pro plan, so a Hobby group must upgrade to Pro first. Skool says that upgrade is a charge, and the new owner's reactivation is another. It suggests transferring one day before your billing date to keep the charges low.

What happens to a Skool group after you transfer ownership?

It is archived. Skool's transfer article says the group is archived once ownership moves, the previous owner becomes an admin, and the new owner adds their payment info to reactivate it. Skool's payout article adds that archived groups do not start a payout, so the new owner should reactivate the group quickly.

Can you sell a Skool community?

Skool's help centre explains how to transfer ownership, not how to sell. If you sell, you and the buyer agree the price and payment between you, ideally in writing, and the seller then transfers ownership on the Pro plan. Plan who keeps pending payouts and when contact details change. This is not legal or tax advice.

How do you buy a Skool community?

Find a seller, check the numbers, agree terms in writing, then let the seller transfer ownership to you. Ask to see the group's MRR, member count, retention and payout invoices, and remember that MRR includes members whose card is failing but still in the retry window. The group must be on Pro for the transfer.

What happens to Skool payouts when a group changes owner?

Skool's transfer article does not say, so ask Skool support before you hand over. What Skool does say: an archived group does not start a payout, payouts run every Wednesday, and one owner's communities all pay out to the same bank account. The new owner should set up their own payout method first.