Meetup Migration - Guilds - Guild Documentation

Guild provides a modern alternative to Meetup for running community Events. If you're looking to move your community off Meetup, Guild offers a comprehensive set of tools to manage your group — with more control over your content, branding, and member experience.

Meetup migration settings page with options for importing community data from Meetup to Guild — The Meetup migration settings help you move your community to Guild

Why Switch to Guild?

Compared to Meetup, Guild includes several features that give Organizers more flexibility:

Ticketing & Payments

— Create paid Events with multiple ticket tiers, powered by Stripe. Set different prices for early bird, general admission, or VIP access.

Presentations

— Share recorded talks, slide decks, and session content alongside your Events. Build a permanent library of your community's knowledge that Members can browse anytime.

Member roles

— Fine-grained roles and permissions with Organizer, Editor, and Member tiers. Delegate content management to trusted co-organizers without giving them full admin access.

Embeds

— Display your Guild's Events on your own website with an embeddable widget.

Integrations

— Connect to Bluesky for automatic Event announcements and Google Calendar for personal Event syncing.

Each Guild gets its own customizable profile page with a shareable URL — your community's permanent home on the web.

How to Migrate

Moving your community from Meetup to Guild is straightforward. Here's the recommended approach:

1. Create your Guild

— Follow the steps in Creating a Guild to set up your new community home. Choose a name and short name that matches your Meetup group so existing members can find you easily.

2. Set up your profile

— Add your cover photo, profile photo, and description. You can reuse the same branding from your Meetup group to make the transition feel familiar to your members.

3. Create your upcoming Events

— Add any upcoming Events to your Guild. See Creating an Event for a step-by-step guide.

4. Invite your community

— Share your Guild's URL with your existing Meetup members. You can announce the move on Meetup and include the link in your next Event description or group message.

5. Set up integrations

— Connect Bluesky for social announcements, Calendar Feeds for calendar subscriptions, and Stripe if you plan to sell tickets.

What Transfers

Guild does not offer an automated import from Meetup, but migration is simple because the most important parts of a community are its people and its upcoming Events — not historical data. Your existing members join your Guild individually, and you recreate your upcoming Events on the platform.

Past Event history from Meetup does not transfer. However, once you start hosting Events on Guild, all attendance records, Presentations, and community history are preserved going forward.