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Migrate from Circle to Mobieus: a Circle Alternative
Circle is polished, but you pay per member and live on their domain. Here is how to move to one suite you own, with a 0% fee on what you sell.
Why teams move
Circle charges by member and gates features behind higher tiers. Mobieus bundles the suite into one plan and takes 0% of what you sell.
Circle spaces are flat feeds and posts. Mobieus gives you real threaded forums, live chat, and a marketplace — not just a feed. And your community runs on your own domain with full branding, export, and an API. No platform sits between you and your members.
What moves from Circle to Mobieus
Your community does not start over. Here is where each piece lands.
| From Circle | To Mobieus |
|---|---|
| Circle spaces | Threaded forums and live chat |
| Courses | mobieusLearn courses with certificates |
| Live streams and events | Native events and RSVPs |
| Members and profiles | Users with mobieusID SSO |
| Paywalls (with Circle fee) | mobieusGate on your own Stripe, 0% fee |
| Direct messages | Native DMs and chat |
Six steps from Circle to live on Mobieus
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Audit the Circle community
List spaces, courses, paid memberships, events, and the members in each.
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Map spaces to Mobieus
Decide which spaces become forums, courses, private areas, or support workflows.
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Prepare exports
Pull member and content exports. Keep authorship, dates, and links intact.
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Stage the tenant
Stand up a Pro trial on your domain, set branding, and rebuild the structure first.
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Cut over
Announce, connect your Stripe, migrate active subscriptions, and guide members in.
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Settle in
Monitor for two weeks with the help desk ready and a follow-up to catch stragglers.
What you gain
Moving to Mobieus replaces a meter that runs on every member with one suite on one login and one bill.
- Forums and live chat. Threaded discussion and real-time chat as the core, on your own domain and branding.
- Courses that finish. mobieusLearn lessons, quizzes, certificates, drip, and cohorts. Sell them on your own Stripe.
- A real help desk. mobieusHelp tickets, SLAs, and canned replies. Support that does not vanish into a feed.
- Payments at 0% fee. Direct Stripe for memberships, courses, and products. Mobieus never takes a cut of your revenue.
- Market and knowledge base. mobieusMarket listings and a moderated knowledge base your members build together.
- One login, one bill. mobieusID single sign-on across everything. Replace four subscriptions with one suite.
0% platform fee on what you earn. Five products in one suite. 100% your data, your domain. Free for 14 days, no card.
Get the Circle migration runbook
The runbook covers what exports from Circle and what you rebuild, the full from-to mapping for every feature, a dated cutover sequence and rollback plan, and the member announcement and onboarding script. Request the runbook and the Mobieus migration team will send the PDF and can help you scope the move.
FAQ
Do paid memberships transfer?
You connect your own Stripe and rebuild the membership in mobieusGate. Active members move at cutover and you keep 100% of revenue.
Are my courses preserved?
Course content rebuilds in mobieusLearn, with SCORM import if you have it and certificates reissued as Open Badges.
How much is Mobieus?
Pro is $99 a month for the full suite, billed flat, not per member. See pricing for all tiers.
Community, courses, a help desk, chat, a marketplace, direct Stripe, and zero platform fees. Start free trial — 14 days, no card. Or browse all migration guides.