Newbie question from a soon to be former YahooGroup owner.?

We currently have four YahooGroups. One could probably be a subgroup of another as there is a good degree of joint membership and similar topics. ?However, there are three distinct groups. ?Do I need three Group.io accounts??

I tried searching this (excellent) ?forum but did not see the answer. ?

Thanks?
Tim Ballering

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On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:49 AM, <tim@...> wrote:

However, there are three distinct groups. ?Do I need three Group.io accounts??

Tim -- I'm going to give you a second answer to your question, based on the way you worded your subject line.

Perhaps it will add more clarity...or not.

A single email address ("your account") can own any number of groups. Those groups can be in any combination of the different plans: Basic, Premium or Enterprise.?The account itself is not on any payment plan -- the groups are.

For example, I own/co-own four groups:

1. One is a Premium group that we use for our Astronomy club.
2. The club has a separate group on the Basic plan for our board of directors, which itself has a subgroup for club member management.
3. A third primary group on the Basic plan supports a particular type of telescope mount.
4. My final Basic group is for my extended family members here in Indiana to communicate with each other (at least in theory).?

Now, if I needed to transfer all four those groups here from Y!G, each primary group would have to pay a separate fee for Premium Yearly. I would not have to pay the fee for the member-management subgroup.

So it would cost me $440 to have the transfer agent do that.

In short, when you pay the $110 for a transfer, you are upgrading the destination?group to Premium Yearly, not your account.

Hope this helps,
Bruce

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 07:49:16 -0700, tim@... wrote:

We currently have four YahooGroups. One could probably be a subgroup of another as there is a good degree of joint membership and similar topics. However, there are three distinct groups. Do I need three Group.io accounts?

I just wanted to add to Joseph's reply.

You only need one GIO account and the account is not basic or premium,
it's just an account and it's free. The premium group subscriptions
are separate and are not the same as your GIO account that you can use
to join or create other groups with.

If you plan to use subgroups, be aware that for people to belong to a
subgroup, they will need to be members and join the main group. I
believe that (and someone here can correct me if I'm wrong) they will
see all the messages in the main group and only the messages in the
subgroup(s) they join. If that's a problem, then you will want to open
3 groups. Whether you need to get a year's premium group subscription
for the other groups if you do that is up to you (how important is it
to transfer everything over?). If it's OK for everyone to see the
posts in the main group, then maybe subgroups will work for you. If
you need everything to stay separated then you will want separate
groups.

One thing I don't know is if you would need to pay again to transfer a
separate Yahoo group to your main group. You might ask customer
service here. It would seem to me that Mark wouldn't transfer three
groups into one for just one payment. But you should ask before you
pay for a premium group.

I created several new groups a couple of days ago to make sure that
the old ones will continue on with some storage. It's also good to be
able to search past posts but only in two I've been asked if we can
take up a collection to get the money for a premium membership.

Donald


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