Airtable workspace permissions

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Plan availability

All plan types

Permissions

  • Admins - Can perform the actions noted below in workspaces/bases where they are added as collaborators. Otherwise, admins can manage user permissions from the admin panel.

  • All users - Can take various actions in Airtable — detailed below.

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, Windows app, and mobile apps

How do I upgrade and downgrade workspace collaborator permissions?

Check out our Billable collaborators article to learn how to upgrade and downgrade workspace collaborator permissions.

Workspace collaborator actions by permission level

Note

We recommend having 2 workspace Owners when managing a larger team to ensure workspace management can be performed if one Owner is unavailable or leaves the company.

Action

Owner

Creator

Editor

Commenter

Read-Only

Access all bases within a shared workspace at your assigned permission level

Invite users at the same or below your permission level

Rename shared workspace

Add and delete bases in the shared workspace

Rearrange bases within the shared workspace

Move bases from the shared workspace to another workspace

✅*

Adjust shared workspace’s billing settings; upgrade the workspace

Assign Owner permissions

Workspace Owner dependencies

Owner Permission Depencencies  

Workspaces can have multiple Owners

The workspace Creator is the Owner by default

The workspace Creator is the only individual with permissions who can update that workspace's Owner. After those changes are implemented, either Owner can update the original owner's permissions

Only Owners can grant owner permissions

Workspace Owners have access to all of the bases that make up the associated workspace

Sole workspace Owners with multiple collaborators must transfer ownership to another collaborator before deleting their account

Only account Owners receive notifications when potential collaborators request access to a particular base