Your community. Your members. Your rules.

Start gives you a full community with the social features that get members posting. Launch adds the BuddyBoss Theme, every LMS integration, and the messaging, notifications and access controls a growing community needs. Scale is for established communities, adding gamification, media offload, member blogging and domain restrictions.

They were renamed. Platform Pro is now Launch and Platform Plus is now Scale. If you are already a customer nothing changes: the same features, the same renewal price, just a new name.

Only on our own Memberships and Courses, and only on Start. If you sell through BuddyBoss Memberships and Courses with Stripe, we take 2.9% on the Start plan and nothing at all on Launch or Scale. We never take a cut of sales made through LearnDash, MemberPress, Tutor LMS, LifterLMS, WooCommerce or any other plugin or payment gateway.

Yes. BuddyBoss is WordPress software: a set of plugins and a theme you install on your own WordPress site. That is the point of it. You own the site, the data and the member relationships, and you are never locked into someone else’s platform.

Yes. BuddyBoss is self-hosted, so you bring your own WordPress hosting and it is not included in any plan. We recommend a managed WordPress host with dedicated resources rather than budget shared hosting, which tends to struggle once a community gets busy.

Yes. Launch and Scale include integrations for LearnDash, MemberPress Courses, Tutor LMS and LifterLMS, so you can keep the LMS you already run. Both plans also include BuddyBoss Memberships and Courses built in, so a second plugin is optional rather than required. Sales you make through a third-party LMS carry no BuddyBoss fee.

If you are already on WordPress, yes, and the tools are built in. BuddyBoss Platform includes migration tools for BuddyPress, PeepSo, Fluent Community, wpForo, bbPress, phpBB, XenForo and more. Moving across from a SaaS platform such as Circle, Mighty Networks or Skool is a bigger job and is not part of the Done For You Web service, but our agency team can take it on. Contact us and we will scope it with you.

Yes. ReadyLaunch gives you the demo look straight out of the box with no setup, and we provide a demo import tool if you would rather start from one of our full demo sites and edit from there.

Not on decent hosting. We work on performance continuously, and a well-resourced host runs a busy community comfortably. The thing to watch is PHP workers: a community is dynamic, so every active member uses one. If your host caps workers and your traffic is highly concurrent, that is where slowdowns come from, which is why we recommend a host with dedicated resources rather than shared hosting.

One BuddyBoss licence covers one production site. Additional site licences are $99 each, so a second community costs far less than a second full plan. Running 5 or more sites, such as an agency managing client communities? Contact us about bulk licensing.

Absolutely. You can change plans or cancel your account at any time. When you upgrade you only pay the difference for the remainder of your billing period.

It renews automatically at the renewal price shown on your plan and everything keeps working exactly as it did. You can change plan or cancel at any time from your account.

It is separate. Web plans cover your website; the native mobile app is its own subscription on top. App plans start at Solo for a single platform (iOS or Android), with App Launch covering both and Managed adding a fully done-for-you build and ongoing maintenance. See the mobile app tab above for pricing.

You own it. BuddyBoss runs on your own WordPress site, so your members, your content and your data stay yours, and nobody can change the rules or the pricing underneath you. Your community can also ship as your own native app, published under your own name in the App Store and Google Play, rather than living inside somebody else’s.

You’re protected by our 100% No-Risk Guarantee. If you don’t like BuddyBoss over the next 14 days, we’ll happily refund 100% of your money. No questions asked.