On 20 June 2018 Facebook announced that it will trial the ability for Facebook group admins to charge a subscription fee for their groups. A small scale trial will help Facebook determine if this is a viable way for Facebook group admins to make money out of their groups, especially if they are running memberships and taking regular payments on an external platform.

Some may think that this will make custom built membership website obsolete, but is that really the case? Does the announcement seem too good to be true?