A charge on your payment method can refer to several different Meetup services: automatic renewal of your organizer subscription to ensure you don’t lose access to your groups, renewal of your Meetup+ subscription to keep your benefits active, dues to keep being part of a group as a member, or fees to attend an event.
For these reasons, the payment made can be related to one of the following options:
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An Organizer subscription is still active
As an organizer, if you received a Meetup charge mentioning a Standard or PRO organizer plan, that means that an organizer subscription is still active on your account. If you have more than one account on Meetup, make sure you log in to the right one to verify your subscription status.
Additionally, take into account that prices for Standard and new PRO organizers were increased starting June 2024. If you noticed a higher charge than the one you were expecting for your plan, the recent price increase is most probably the cause behind this change. You can find out more about the price increase initiative in the dedicated article My subscription got increased.
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A Meetup+ subscription is still active
To get additional benefits on Meetup, a member can subscribe to Meetup+.
Meetup+ subscriptions renew automatically as all the organizers subscriptions on Meetup.
Additionally, if a Meetup+ subscription has been started before switching to one for organizers, it’s possible that the first plan was never canceled before starting a new one, causing an additional Meetup charge.
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Charge related to a group
Organizers can set recurring member dues to sustain their groups.
If you received charges relating to a specific group you’re part of, don’t hesitate to reach out to the organizer of said group to get further clarifications.
If you don’t want to receive charges for a specific group, you can leave the group.
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Charge related to an event
Organizers can also set up event fees to offset organization costs.
If you received charges relating to a specific event you RSVP’d to, it’s likely that the event you’re taking part to requires a fee to be attended.
If you believe that the charge was incorrectly received, don’t hesitate to follow these instructions.
If none of the scenarios above applies to you (you have no active subscription and you aren’t participating to any group or event), but you still received a Meetup charge, it is possible you may have another Meetup account.
To find out, double-check the email address you received the charge at and try logging in with it as it might be tied to a different account.