# Inviting your team

You can give a colleague access in two ways: invite them to the whole workspace, or add them to a single project. Either way, what they can see is decided by the projects they are on.

**Before you start:** you need the **Owner** or **Admin** account role. The **Invite** button is hidden from members.

> **Warning:** Everyone who joins your workspace or is added to one of its projects occupies a paid seat, including people from outside your workspace. See [Members and seats](/docs/members-and-seats/).

## Invite someone to the workspace

1. Open **Workspace settings** with the gear icon in the top bar, or from the workspace switcher menu. Settings open on **General**.
2. Go to **Members**. The page is titled **People**.

![The People page in workspace settings, showing the member list and the Invite button](https://workover.io/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.wpdocsync.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F09%2Ffig1-scaled.png)

![The People page in workspace settings, showing the member list](https://workover.io/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.wpdocsync.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F09%2Fthe-people-page-in-workspace-settings-showing-the-member-lis-scaled.png)

1. Click **Invite**. The **Invite to your account** dialog opens.

![The Invite to your account dialog with email, account role and project choices](https://workover.io/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.wpdocsync.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F09%2Fthe-invite-to-your-account-dialog-with-email-account-role-an.png)

1. In **Email address**, enter their email.
2. In **Account role**, choose **Member** or **Admin**.
3. Optionally, under **Projects**, tick the projects they should work on. They are added to those projects the moment they accept.
4. Click **Send invite**.

![The invite dialog: email address field, account role choice, optional project list and Send invite button](https://workover.io/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.wpdocsync.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F09%2Ffig2.png)

They get an email inviting them to join. Until they accept, they appear on the People page marked **Pending**. Someone who already works with you on a project shows **Invited** instead.

![A pending invitee's row on the People page, marked Pending](https://workover.io/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.wpdocsync.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F09%2Ffig3.png)

An invitation expires after 7 days. There is no resend button: to send a fresh one, open the pending person’s menu, choose **Remove from account**, and invite them again.

> **Note:** If you did not tick any projects, joining the workspace puts them on no project, and their row shows “No project access yet.” Add them to projects from the **People** page once they have accepted, or from a project’s settings before then.

You can also invite people during sign-up, on the **Invite your team** step.

## Add someone to a single project

Use this when a colleague only needs one project.

1. Open the project and click **Project settings**.
2. In the **Members** card, type their email address into the field that reads “Add member by email”.
3. Click **Add**.

This works for anyone who already has a Workover account, and for anyone with a pending invitation to your workspace, whose project access is applied when they accept. Otherwise Workover shows “No Workover account or pending invitation found for” the address. Invite them to the workspace first.

Someone added this way becomes a member of your workspace and takes a seat, even if they came from another workspace.

They join the project with the **Member** role. To change it, go to the **People** page, find their row, and choose a different role in the dropdown next to the project: **Owner**, **Admin** or **Member**.

### From the People page

On the **People** page, click **Add to project** on a person’s row to add them to any project they are not on yet. It does not appear on rows that are still **Pending**.

![A person's row on the People page showing the Add to project control](https://workover.io/api/proxy-image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.wpdocsync.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F09%2Fa-person-s-row-on-the-people-page-showing-the-add-to-project.png)

## Roles in brief

Roles work at two levels: an **account role** for the workspace, and a **project role** on each project.

- **Account roles:** the **Owner** is whoever created the workspace. An **Admin** can invite people and remove them from the account. A **Member** cannot manage people. An account role on its own opens no project.
- **Project roles:** the person who creates a project is usually its **Owner**. One exception: when someone who is not the workspace **Owner** creates a project by connecting a WordPress site, they get the **Admin** role on it. The last **Owner** of a project cannot be removed or given another role. A project **Admin** can manage who is on the project and its connection settings. A project **Member** works on the project’s documents but cannot manage access or the connection.

An account Owner or Admin can manage membership on any project, even one they are not on. [Roles and permissions](/docs/roles-and-permissions/) has the full detail.

## Remove access

Removing someone from the workspace and removing them from a project are separate actions.

> **Warning:** **Remove from account** does not take someone off the projects they were added to, and they keep occupying a paid seat until they are removed from those projects too.

- To remove someone from one project, on the **People** page click the remove control (**×**) next to that project in their row.
- To remove someone from the workspace, open the actions menu on their row and choose **Remove from account**. Then remove them from each project they are still listed on.

## Related

- [Roles and permissions](/docs/roles-and-permissions/)
- [Members and seats](/docs/members-and-seats/)
- [Guests and external collaborators](/docs/guests-and-external-collaborators/)
- [Sharing a document](/docs/sharing-a-document/)