Skool Export: How to Download Your Member List and Move It to Whop

Before you start

The member CSV is where every move off Skool begins, and our Skool to Whop migration plan shows how it fits with courses, community and payments. Before you click Export, check these five things.

• Sign in as the group's owner. The steps below describe the owner's view.
• Use Skool in a desktop browser. We haven't confirmed whether the mobile app shows the Export button.
• Either plan should work. Skool's articles on the export don't mention a plan requirement, so Hobby and Pro both qualify.
• Keep your Skool plan running. Skool doesn't pay out archived groups, and you'll want to export again later to catch people who join during the move.
• Skip scrapers and browser extensions. Skool's terms ban accessing the service "with any robot, spider, web crawler, extraction software" to scrape or copy content, and the built-in export is all you need.

Plan how you'll tell members before the file is in your hands. Our migration announcement templates have copy-paste emails and posts you can adapt.

Step 1: Open your group's Members tab

Sign in to Skool on the web, open the group you're moving and click the Members tab. Skool's help center describes the Export button as sitting on this tab (checked October 2026).

You should see your member list, with a MEMBERSHIP SETTINGS button next to each person. If you run more than one group, check the group name before you export; exporting the wrong group is the easiest mistake to make here.

Step 2: Click Export and save the CSV

Click the Export button on the Members tab. Skool downloads your member list as a CSV file.

Save the original somewhere safe and work on a copy. Opening the file in a spreadsheet and saving it again can reformat dates and break special characters in names, so always upload the untouched original to the converter.

Step 3: Check which columns you got

Skool confirms two things about the file: paid groups include emails, and your membership-question answers are in it. Other columns are reported by third parties, and we haven't verified them against a live export.

Column status as of October 2026. Sources at the end of this page.

No published description of the export mentions card details, subscription status, next billing date, points, levels or course progress, so plan as if those are missing.

Then count how many rows have an email. The same third-party write-up reports blank email cells for members who hadn't shared their email with the owner, so the number of usable emails can be lower than your member count.

Step 4: Clean and segment the list

Split the list into groups you'll treat differently before you import anything. The free member CSV converter does this in your browser: it removes duplicates and turns a Skool export into a Whop-ready list.

Sort members into these groups:

• Monthly paying members, who join a hidden plan on Whop with a free trial.
• Annual paying members, whose renewal dates you look up in Skool (MEMBERSHIP SETTINGS, then the Payments tab).
• Free members, who get a free claim link.
• One-time buyers, who get a free claim link to the product they paid for.
• Members without an email, whom you'll reach inside Skool with a pinned post.

If your file has no Tier or LTV column, check paying members in the Payments tab before you send links, so nobody who paid ends up with a free-member message.

Step 5: Use the file to bring members to Whop

Whop's API can't add members for you, so the file's job is to get the right link to each person.

Upload the cleaned file to the free Skool migration wizard. On Whop it creates a hidden "Existing members" option: free claim links for free members and one-time buyers, and for subscribers a matching plan with a free trial that lines up their first Whop charge with their next Skool renewal.

Send each group its link. As paying members join Whop, cancel their Skool billing: click MEMBERSHIP SETTINGS next to their name and choose Cancel subscription, which Skool ends at their billing date. Our guide to moving paid subscriptions to Whop covers deadlines, reminders and tracking who has joined.

Check that everything came through

Run these checks before you announce a closing date:

• The number of rows matches the member count Skool shows for your group.
• Every paying member has an email, or a plan to reach them inside Skool.
• Every Skool tier has a matching plan on Whop at the right price.
• Your claim link and trial plan work when you test them from your own account.
• One more export, right before your closing date, catches anyone who joined Skool during the move.

Troubleshooting

Most export problems come from free groups, missing emails or a spreadsheet that changed the file.

What you can't export from Skool (and workarounds)

The member CSV is the only export Skool gives owners. Everything else needs a workaround.

• Payment details and subscriptions. Skool is the merchant of record and processes payments on its own merchant account, so cards and subscriptions can't leave Skool. Members re-subscribe on Whop with a free trial that covers the time they've already paid for.
• Billing dates. Look them up per member in the Payments tab, or skip the lookup and give every monthly member a 30-day trial.
• Courses and videos. Skool has no course export or bulk video download, and course keys only copy a course into another Skool group. Rebuild from your original files: paste the outline into the wizard, upload videos to Whop, and keep YouTube or Loom links as embeds.
• Posts and comments. There's no export. Copy your most useful posts by hand into a pinned forum post on Whop.
• Points, levels and course progress. None of these move. Thank your most active members publicly when you relaunch.
• People who join during the move. On Pro, Skool's Zapier plugin can send each new paid member's name and email to another tool, so nobody slips through while you run both platforms.