Zoom webinar one month license usage

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2024-02-12 04:54 AM
I want to host a webinar in June but want to setup the whole thing from now. I want to ask if I take the webinar one month option, will it allow me to setup webinar from now for the 3 days event in June? Normally I setup a meeting and then later on convert it to webinar before few days of the webinar event. I don't want to do this way and want participants to directly register for the webinar and also I dont want to pay every month of webinar license when Im not using it.
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2024-02-18 08:29 AM
Welcome to the Zoom Community, @DrHanadi.
Interesting approach – and I think the way you did it before will work just fine. Here’s the steps I think you’re talking about:
- Create a Meeting now with Registration enabled. Make the registration URL available to others so they can sign up in advance.
- Less than 30 days before the last day of your planned Webinar, purchase a one-month non-recurring Webinar license.
- In the Zoom Web Portal, view your Meeting and click the Convert to Webinar link.
- Check your Webinar settings to ensure they are set the way you want.
This Zoom Support article has details you might want to read:
https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0067900
For example: After converting from Meeting to Webinar, the registration URL will change slightly, but the old registration link will automatically forward to the newer link, so there shouldn’t be any issues.
I don’t know if the option to convert is affected by the fact that you have a recurring session planned. The article doesn’t address the issue, but it seems like it should work fine.
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2024-02-18 08:52 AM - edited 2024-02-18 08:53 AM
@DrHanadi, I’ve created a test scenario, and it works as expected.
To initiate the change process, you click the name of the event on the Zoom Web Portal:
Then, this message appears:
Click Convert and it’s done. I did find that the registration URL listed was the same as the registration URL for the Meeting, but after clicking the URL in a browser, it does forward to another URL that is quite different from the original. I made a registration when it was a meeting, and that registration persisted after the conversion.
I hope this helps!
