Leaving Mighty Networks: your members come out, your content mostly doesn't
Mighty gives you your member data — including emails — provided you're on a paid plan. What it doesn't give you is a way to export your posts or your courses without an API that starts several tiers up. Here's the full picture before you move.
What moves out of Mighty Networks, and what stays
Mighty's exports are real but plan-gated, and the gates are the thing to plan around. Check which plan you're on before you make any decisions — it determines what you're able to take.
Comes with you
- Your member list with email addresses — downloadable as an Excel .xlsx file, including member ID, name, location, join date, space memberships, and active subscription plans. Note: this requires the Launch plan or higher
- Your subscription picture — the member file includes each member's active plans, so you land on Mateflow knowing exactly who was paying for what
- Your Stripe account — Mighty connects your own Stripe, so the payment relationship is yours and the payout history stays with you
- Your custom domain — you bought it, you own it, you point it wherever you go next
Mighty Networks keeps
- Posts and discussions — there is no export button for content anywhere in Mighty's documentation. The only documented route out is the Admin API
- Courses and lessons — same story. No host-facing export exists; courses are readable through the API and nowhere else
- The API itself, unless you're paying for Scale — Mighty's Admin API starts at the Scale plan and above. On Launch you get a Zapier integration, which is not a migration tool
- Member data, if you're on the free plan — full member data including email addresses unlocks at Launch. If you're below it, you may need to upgrade for one month simply to leave
- Your Stripe connection, if you ever deactivate payments — Mighty states that re-enabling payments requires connecting a new Stripe account, and that you can't reuse the previous one
Every claim above was checked against Mighty Networks' public documentation on 2026-07-11. Mighty renames and re-gates its plans regularly — if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
A four-step migration, run in parallel with your live Mighty Network
The sequence matters: what you can extract depends on the plan you're on at the moment you extract it.
- 1
Check your plan before you cancel anything
Member data with emails needs Launch or higher; content via the Admin API needs Scale. If you're planning to leave, the cheapest month of your life may be one month on a higher plan while you pull your data out. We'll tell you whether that's worth it in your case.
- 2
Pull the member file
Download the member list as .xlsx. We convert it to the CSV columns our importer takes — email, name, username, role, tags — and map the subscription plan column so paying members land in the right access group on Mateflow.
- 3
Rebuild content from your originals, not from Mighty
Because there's no content export below Scale, courses and key posts get rebuilt from your source files. This is the real work of a Mighty migration, and on Growth and Business plans, we help you decide which parts are worth it.
- 4
Reconnect Stripe, invite members, cut over the domain
You connect your own Stripe to Mateflow, we send batch invitations, members re-subscribe, and your domain points at its new home. Your price is locked for 12 months.
To be clear about what we are and aren't: there is no Mighty Networks importer — from us or anyone. Mighty's own Admin API is the only bulk route out of its content, and it's gated to Scale. What we have is a member importer that takes your .xlsx list, batch invitations, and a team that helps you plan the course rebuild rather than pretending a button does it. The same honesty about us, so you can compare like for like: Mateflow has no content export button either. Members export on every plan, posts and comments come out through our API on Growth and up, and course content doesn't come out at all yet.
The questions people ask before leaving Mighty Networks
Straight answers, based on what Mighty's own documentation says today.
Yes, on the Launch plan or higher. Mighty gives hosts a downloadable file including email addresses, member IDs, names, locations, join dates, space memberships, and active subscription plans. One detail that trips people up: it's an Excel .xlsx file, not a CSV. We handle the conversion — you don't need to. Mighty also asks you to confirm you'll follow its terms, which prohibit selling or sharing member data.
Not with a button. Mighty documents no content export for posts, discussions, or courses anywhere. The only documented way to extract them in bulk is the Admin API, which starts at the Scale plan. For most hosts that means content gets rebuilt from original files rather than exported — which is the honest, boring answer that most migration guides skip.
Not fully. Mighty states that full member data including email addresses unlocks at the Launch plan. If you're below that and want to leave with your list, you may need to upgrade for a single billing cycle to export it. It's an uncomfortable position to be in, and it's a good argument for choosing a platform that doesn't gate your own data behind a tier.
No. Mighty documents no way to port live subscriptions to another platform, so members re-subscribe on Mateflow through your own Stripe account. The upside is that your member export includes each member's active plans, so you know precisely who to re-onboard and into which access group — nobody gets lost.
It's yours — Mighty connects your own Stripe rather than acting as merchant of record, so you keep the account and its history. One warning from Mighty's own docs: if you deactivate payments and later re-enable them, you have to connect a new Stripe account and can't reuse the old one. Don't deactivate payments on Mighty until your migration is finished.
Usually the gates. On Mighty the things you need in order to run — your own member data, an API, a custom domain — each sit behind a different plan tier, and the plan you need keeps being one above the one you're on. Mateflow's answer: member export and custom domains on every plan, the API from Growth, a deeper admin and operations console, and an AI Copilot tied to your own knowledge base. The comparison page has the side-by-side.
Two to four weeks for most communities. The member import is quick because the export is genuinely good. The pace is set by rebuilding courses — which is why the 30-day extended trial exists, and why hands-on help is included on Growth and Business plans.
Thinking about leaving Mighty Networks?
Send us your member export and tell us what you've built. We'll tell you honestly what moves, what needs rebuilding, and whether it's worth a month on a higher plan to get your data out.