How to Cancel Meetup

A 10-step walkthrough with real screenshots from the live cancel flow.

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Quick answer

Organizers: open Settings → Organizer Subscription, click Cancel subscription, then Continue to cancel, and choose the plain Cancel subscription link under the discount offer. Meetup+ members cancel separately at Settings → Meetup+ Subscription. Either plan runs until the end of the period you paid for, and closing your groups does not stop the charges.

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Step-by-step instructions

1

Work out which Meetup subscription is charging you

Meetup sells two separate subscriptions, each with its own page under Settings: Meetup+ Subscription for members, and Organizer Subscription for the Starter, Standard and Pro organizer plans. Canceling one leaves the other running. If you ever subscribed in the iPhone or Android app, check the App Store or Google Play as well, because Meetup says one person can hold separate web and app subscriptions.

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Open your Organizer Subscription page

In a web browser, sign in, click your profile icon in the top-right corner, choose Settings, then click Organizer Subscription in the left menu. The page shows your plan, what you pay and your next payment date, with a row of links underneath. Starter, Standard and Pro all cancel from here: click Cancel subscription.

Meetup Organizer subscription page, shown here on a Meetup Pro 1 month plan at $55.00 per group per month, with Contact billing support, Update credit card, Cancel subscription and Downgrade to Standard links, and separate Organizer Subscription and Meetup+ Subscription entries in the left menu
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Click Continue to cancel

Meetup opens a page headed "You're canceling your Pro subscription" (with your own plan's name), showing the date your current subscription expires and the features you lose. The losses start on that date, not when you click. Click Continue to cancel rather than Keep my current subscription. Meetup's help center calls this button Cancel my subscription.

Meetup page reading You're canceling your Pro subscription, with an August 25, 2026 expiry date, a list of Pro features that will no longer be available, and Keep my current subscription and Continue to cancel buttons
4

Turn down the discount offer

A pop-up offers to keep your plan cheaper for a month. On the Pro plan shown here it read "Stay Pro at our best price for 1 month – 50% off!". The large dark button is Accept offer. The way out is the plain-text Cancel subscription link underneath it, so click that.

Meetup retention pop-up headed Stay Pro at our best price for 1 month – 50% off!, showing Meetup Pro at $27.50 for the first month instead of $55.00, the offer terms, a dark Accept offer button and a plain Cancel subscription link below it
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Choose what happens to your groups

The cancellation is done at this point: a "Your subscription has been canceled successfully." notice appears. Meetup then asks "What would you like to do with your group?" Pick Invite someone from my Members to take over (you tick members from your group's list and Meetup asks them), Leave groups up for grabs, or Close groups, then click Continue.

Meetup Ask someone to take over your groups page with three options, Invite someone from my Members to take over, Leave groups up for grabs and Close groups, a greyed-out Continue button, and a Your subscription has been canceled successfully notice in the corner
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If this applies to you

Answer or close the reason survey

Back on the Organizer subscription page, a "Sorry to see you go – want to share why?" pop-up lists six reasons, from "I'm missing some features" to "Other (specify)". It's optional. Send feedback stays grey until you pick a reason, and you can close the pop-up with the X instead.

Meetup feedback pop-up headed Sorry to see you go – want to share why? with six reason options including The cost is too high for what I am offered and I don't organize events anymore, a greyed-out Send feedback button and a close X
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Check the page says (cancelling) and note the end date

The Organizer subscription page now shows your plan with "(cancelling)" after it and "Your subscription will end on" a date. That is when organizer access stops, and no renewal is charged after it. Turn it back on reverses the cancellation before then. The pink "Stay Pro at our best Price yet" banner with Redeem offer is the same discount as before, which puts you back on a renewing plan.

Meetup Organizer subscription page showing Meetup Pro: 1 month (cancelling), Your subscription will end on August 19, 2026, a Turn it back on button, and a Stay Pro at our best Price yet 50% off banner with a Redeem offer button
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If this applies to you

Cancel Meetup+ on its own page

Meetup+ is billed separately from any organizer plan. On the web, click your profile icon, then Settings, Meetup+ Subscription and Cancel subscription. In the Meetup app, open your profile, tap the Settings gear, then Meetup+ subscription and Manage your subscription, and choose to cancel. Meetup+ features stay on until the end of the current billing period. On a free trial, cancel before it ends: Meetup says the paid plan "begins and is billed automatically at the end of the trial."

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If this applies to you

If you subscribed through the App Store or Google Play

Meetup says subscriptions started in the iPhone or Android app are managed through the App Store or Google Play. Its help center also lists an in-app route: profile icon > Account Settings > Organizer subscription or Meetup+ Subscription > Cancel subscription > Proceed to cancel. Afterwards, confirm the plan is gone from the store's own list: on iPhone, Settings > your name > Subscriptions; on Android, Google Play > profile icon > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions.

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If this applies to you

If you already closed or handed off your groups

Stepping down, transferring a group or closing every group you run does not cancel the organizer subscription, and Meetup keeps billing until you cancel it on the Organizer Subscription page. On Pro, deleting your last group brings up a "Minimum billing applies" warning: the plan stays active with the minimum billing for one group until it is canceled.

Frequently Asked Questions

Not for another renewal. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for, and the end date shows on the subscription page. Meetup lists the usual reasons a charge still appears: the renewal went through before or on the day you canceled, another Meetup account of yours has its own subscription, an earlier failed payment is being retried, or you belong to a group that charges member dues (the invoice names the group). A Meetup+ plan you never canceled is billed separately too.

Yes, if you ask in time. Meetup's refund policy (updated November 13, 2025) accepts requests within 20 days of the plan period start for weekly and monthly plans and within 60 days for yearly plans, and covers only the most recent charge. There is no refund if you had one in the previous 8 months, if you downgrade, or if you paid through the Apple App Store, where Apple handles refunds. EU residents can also withdraw within 14 days with the Withdraw now and get a refund button on the subscription page. Canceling alone only stops the next renewal. The policy doesn't say where to send a refund request, but the Organizer subscription page points payment and billing questions to its billing support form, so start there.

You stay the organizer until your paid period ends. Meetup then allows a 15-day grace period, during which you can pay to keep the plan or nominate a new organizer. When it ends you are stepped down automatically: Meetup invites your leadership team, then all members, to take over, and if nobody does, the group closes within 15 days. Closed groups cannot be restored. Your account becomes a non-paid member account, so the Meetup+ features that come with Standard and Pro end as well.

Meetup says app subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play. On iPhone, go to Settings > your name > Subscriptions > Meetup. On Android, open Google Play, tap your profile icon, then Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions. The Meetup app also has a cancel route under Account Settings > Organizer subscription or Meetup+ Subscription. Refunds for App Store purchases go through Apple, and because web and app subscriptions are separate, check both if you are charged twice.

Yes, if you cancel before it ends. Meetup+ trials usually last a few days, and the paid plan starts and bills automatically when the trial ends. For the one-week Meetup Pro trial, Meetup says it will not charge you if you cancel during the trial, but asks you to finish canceling at least one day before the next billing cycle starts. Organizers should also know the free Starter plan is only for people who have never had a paid organizer subscription, so don't count on falling back to it after a trial. One organizer on Reddit reports that canceling an organizer trial removed them as organizer right away and locked them out of the group they built, so hand the group to a co-organizer before you cancel one.

Yes. Before the end date, click Turn it back on on the Organizer subscription page. After it, start a new plan from Settings > Organizer Subscription. Meetup says a stepped-down organizer can go to the former group page and click Become the organizer, unless someone else has taken over in the meantime. A closed group cannot be reopened, and once you have paid for an organizer plan you cannot return to the free Starter plan.
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