# Invite team members

Invite teammates to your workspace, choose their role in each project, and manage pending invitations, seats and removals.

Invite teammates to work on your projects. Teams are available on Premium and Business, and only the workspace owner can invite people, change their roles or remove them.

1. **Open the Team page**

   Click your profile picture in the top-right corner, choose **Workspace settings**, then click **Team**. If your plan doesn't include teams, you'll see **Team collaboration** and an **Upgrade to Premium** button instead. If your plan does include teams but its payment is overdue, you'll see **Your team is paused until the payment is fixed** with an **Update payment method** button: nobody was removed, and access returns once it's paid. Teammates from a plan you had before are listed under it: see [Teammates kept from an earlier plan](#teammates-kept-from-an-earlier-plan).

2. **Add the person**

   Click **Add member**. Enter their **Email address** and choose a **Default role**: **Admin**, **Member** or **Viewer**.

3. **Choose their projects**

   Under **Assign to projects**, tick the projects they should work on. Each one gets the default role. To share the projects you create later too, tick **Automatically add to future projects**.

4. **Send the invite**

   Click **Send Invite**. If the email address already has a ReTestimonial account, they join your team right away. Otherwise, they get an email with a link to join, which works for 7 days.

## Roles

Each teammate has a role in each project, and it can differ from one project to the next.

| Role          | In that project, they can                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Admin**     | Do everything except manage the team or billing, or delete the project                                                                                                                    |
| **Member**    | Add, edit, approve and reject testimonials, and see analytics. They can't delete a testimonial, import or export, or change widgets, Wall of Love pages, forms, Smart Invites or settings |
| **Viewer**    | See testimonials and analytics                                                                                                                                                            |
| **No Access** | Nothing: the project doesn't appear for them                                                                                                                                              |

As the **Owner**, you have full access to every project. To change someone's role in a project, pick a new one in that project's column on the **Team** page. Click their name to change their **Default role** or turn **Add to future projects** on or off.

A role doesn't hide a customer's email address from someone who can open the project; see [Who in my team can see testimonials and customers' email addresses?](/help/account/security-and-privacy-questions#who-in-my-team-can-see-testimonials-and-customers-email-addresses)

## Pending invitations

Until someone accepts, their row shows **Pending**, the date you invited them and when the invitation expires: 7 days after you sent it. You can set their project roles once they've accepted. Each pending row has two buttons (on a phone, tap the row to see them):

- **Resend invitation** (the circular arrows) sends the email again, with a new link that works for another 7 days. The link in the earlier email stops working.
- **Revoke invitation** (the bin) cancels it. Click **Revoke** to confirm, and the link in the email stops working.

Once the 7 days are over, the row's badge changes from **Pending** to **Expired**, and a note above the list says how many invitations have expired. An expired invitation stays on the list and still uses a seat, so resend it or revoke it.

## If the invitation link doesn't work

The page the link opens says why:

- **This invitation has expired. Ask the team owner to resend it.** The 7 days are over. Click **Resend invitation** on their row.
- **This invitation was sent to a different email address**. They're signed in to an account that doesn't have the address you invited. They sign in or sign up with that address, or you revoke the invitation and invite the address they use.
- **This invitation link is no longer active**. You resent or revoked the invitation, or they've already joined: someone who has joined finds your projects on their dashboard. After a resend, only the link in the newest email works.
- **This workspace's current plan no longer supports team access.** Your workspace isn't on a plan with teams at the moment. See [What happens to my team if I downgrade, cancel or miss a payment?](/help/account/billing-questions#what-happens-to-my-team-if-i-downgrade-cancel-or-miss-a-payment)

## Remove a teammate

Click **Remove member** (the bin) on their row, then **Remove**. They lose access to all your projects, and their seat is free again.

## Seats

Everyone on the team uses a seat, you included, and so does each pending invitation. Premium includes 3 seats and Business includes 6.

When every seat is taken, **Add member** says **You've reached your team seat limit.** Click **Add a seat** to buy more on the **Billing** page, or use **Manage seats** at the top of the **Team** page. See [Change your plan, project licences or seats](/help/account/change-your-plan-licences-or-seats). An extra seat costs $5 a month, or $50 a year with yearly billing, and a workspace can have up to 25 seats, counting the ones your plan includes. Before you move to a plan or seat count with fewer seats, remove teammates or revoke invitations until the team fits. For what cancelling or a failed payment does to your team, see [What happens to my team if I downgrade, cancel or miss a payment?](/help/account/billing-questions#what-happens-to-my-team-if-i-downgrade-cancel-or-miss-a-payment).

## Teammates kept from an earlier plan

When your workspace leaves a plan with teams, for example after you cancel, nobody is removed. Your teammates and pending invitations are kept: they can't open your projects meanwhile, and their access returns by itself when the workspace is on a plan with teams again (Premium and Business).

Until then, the **Team** page lists them under **Team collaboration**, on a card named **Team members kept from your earlier plan**. An invitation nobody accepted is marked **Pending invitation**, or **Invitation expired** once its 7 days are over.

Each of them still counts as a seat, on top of your own. On the **Billing** page, while the plan you've picked has fewer seats than that, **Team seats** says, for example, **1 team member is kept from your earlier plan, so 2 seats are taken**, and **Continue to secure Checkout** answers **Remove 1 team member or pending invitation before changing to the selected plan** (with your own numbers). You have two ways forward:

- **Choose a plan with enough seats,** adding **Team seats** if you need more than it includes. Your teammates' access returns with it. See [Upgrade to a paid plan](/help/account/upgrade-to-a-paid-plan). An invitation that expired meanwhile needs **Resend invitation**.
- **Remove the people you no longer need.** On the card, click **Remove** on a teammate's row, or **Revoke** on an invitation's, then confirm. Pro has 1 seat, your own, so the card must be empty before you can buy it.

Removing is all the card does. Inviting, resending and changing roles come back with a plan that includes teams.

## See who can open a project

Open the project, click the gear icon next to its name at the bottom of the sidebar, and choose the **Team** tab. **Project Team** lists everyone who has access and their role. As the owner, click **Manage Team** to open the **Team** page with that project highlighted.

## What happens next

The invitation works only for the email address you entered. If the person has no account yet, the link takes them to sign up. Once they've joined, the projects you shared appear on their **Projects** page, next to their own workspace's. If they signed up without the link, they can click **Accept** under **Pending team invitation** on their **Projects** page, until the invitation expires.

Someone who signs up with an address that has a pending invitation doesn't get the usual welcome email. Someone who signs up after their invitation has expired gets it like any new account.

Teammates can't manage the team, even as an **Admin**: everyone has their own workspace, and the **Team** page only ever manages yours.

- [Plans and pricing](/help/account/plans-upgrades-and-cancelling)
- [Approve, reject and archive testimonials](/help/manage/approve-reject-and-archive)