Managing billable collaborators in Airtable

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Plan availability

All paid plans

Permissions

Workspace Owners and Owner permissions

Platform(s)

Web/Browser, Mac app, and Windows app

Adding and removing billable workspace collaborators

Note

  • Business and Enterprise Scale admins can access additional collaboration tools on the Users page of the admin panel..

  • If you are an admin on a Business or Enterprise Scale plan, consider using the admin panel to manage user or group access.

To add billable workspace collaborators:

  1. Open your Airtable account overview.

  2. Select the workspace you want to add collaborators to from the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Add or manage workspace collaborators from the “Billable collaborators” section.

  4. Enter your collaborator’s email address, select their permission level.

  5. Click Invite.

To remove billable workspace collaborators:

  1. Open your Airtable account overview.

  2. Select the workspace you want to remove collaborators from in the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Add or manage workspace collaborators from the “Billable collaborators” section.

  4. Click Manage access.  

  5. Select the checkbox next to the collaborator name(s) you want to remove.

  6. Click Remove collaborator.

Adding and removing billable base collaborators

To add billable base collaborators:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base where you want to add a billable collaborator.

  3. Click Share.

  4. Enter your collaborator’s email address, select their permission level.

  5. Click Invite.

To remove billable base collaborators:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base where you want to remove a billable collaborator.

  3. Click Share.

  4. Click Manage access.

  5. Select the checkbox next to the collaborator name(s) you want to remove.

  6. Click Remove collaborator.

Adding and removing billable interface collaborators

To add billable interface collaborators:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base connected to the interface where you want to add a collaborator.

  3. Click Interfaces.

  4. Click Share in the top-right corner.

  5. Enter your collaborator’s email address, select their permission level.

  6. Click Invite.

To remove billable interface collaborators:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base connected to the interface where you want to remove a collaborator.

  3. Click Interfaces.

  4. Click Share in the top-right corner.

  5. Select the checkbox next to the collaborator name(s) you want to remove.

  6. Click Remove collaborator.

Upgrading and downgrading billable workspace collaborator permissions

To upgrade, downgrade, or confirm workspace collaborator permissions:

  1. Open your Airtable account overview.

  2. Select the workspace you want to change collaborator permissions in the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Add or manage workspace collaborators under the “Billable collaborators” section.

  4. Click Manage access.  

  5. Select the checkbox next to the collaborator name(s) you want to upgrade or downgrade.

  6. Click the ˅ icon under the “Permission” column, then select your preferred permission for that collaborator.

Upgrading and downgrading billable base collaborator permissions

To upgrade, downgrade, or confirm base collaborator permissions:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base you want to change collaborator permissions.

  3. Click Share.

  4. Click Manage access.

  5. Select the checkbox next to the collaborator’s permission you want to upgrade or downgrade.

  6. Click the ˅ icon under the “Permission” column, then select your preferred permission for that collaborator.

Upgrading and downgrading billable interface collaborator permissions

To upgrade, downgrade, or confirm interface collaborator permissions:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base connected to the interface where you want to change collaborator permissions.  

  3. Click Share.

  4. Click Manage access

  5. Select the checkbox next to the collaborator’s permission you want to upgrade or downgrade.

  6. Click the ˅ icon under the “Permission” column, then select your preferred permission for that collaborator.

Removing yourself from bases, interfaces, and workspaces

Note

  • Business and Enterprise Scale admins can utilize the Users, Interfaces, and Workspaces page in admin panel to understand and modify user access on each of those surfaces.

  • If you are a workspace-level collaborator, you cannot remove your base access, as workspace collaborators have access to all bases in a workspace. Instead, in the “Permission” column, click the link next to your permission level to access the workspace permission settings.

To remove your access from a workspace:

  1. Open your Airtable account overview.

  2. Select the workspace you want to remove yourself from the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Add or manage workspace collaborators from the “Billable collaborators” section.

  4. Click Manage access.

  5. Select the checkbox next to your name.

  6. Click Remove collaborator.

To remove yourself from a base:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base where you want to remove yourself.

  3. Click Share in the top-right corner.

  4. Click Manage access.

  5. Select the checkbox next to your name.

  6. Click Remove collaborator.

To remove yourself from an interface:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base connected to the interface where you want to remove yourself.

  3. Click Interfaces.

  4. Click Share in the top-right corner.

  5. Click Manage access.

  6. Click Remove collaborator.

FAQs

How are individual plans priced, and how much do collaborators per month or year?

Who is considered a billable collaborator?

How do I review my workspace collaborators?

  1. Open your Airtable account overview.

  2. Select the workspace with collaborators you want to review from the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Add or manage workspace collaborators from the “Billable collaborators” section.

  4. Click Manage access.

    1. From this screen, you can review both billable and free collaborators, update permission levels, and remove collaborators.

How do I review my base collaborators?

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Open the base with collaborators you want to review from the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Share in the top-right corner.

  4. Click Manage access.

    1. From this screen, you can review both billable and free collaborators, update permission levels, and remove collaborators.

Can my workspace collaborators invite additional collaborators?

Any collaborator you have added can also add collaborators at the same or a lower permission level.

For example, a collaborator with commenter permission can only invite collaborators with Commenter or Read-only permissions.

How do I limit what workspaces and bases my collaborators can access?

To limit what your collaborators can access:

Who can create workspace and base share links?

  • Collaborators with Owner and Creator permissions can create workspace and base invite links.

  • Collaborators with Creator-level bases can create and remove base invite links for the base(s) the owner shared with them, but they cannot create workspace invite links for the workspace in which the base is located.

How do I delete share links?

To delete workspace share links:

  1. Open your Airtable account overview.

  2. Select the workspace with share links you want to delete from the "Workspace settings" menu.

  3. Click Add or manage workspace collaborators from the “Billable collaborators” section.

  4. Click Manage access.

  5. Click Create link.

  6. Click the trashcan icon next to the share link you want to delete.

To delete base share links:

  1. Open your Airtable home screen.

  2. Select and open your preferred base.

  3. Click Share in the top-right corner.

  4. Click Manage access.

  5. Click Create link.

  6. Click the trashcan icon next to the share link you want to delete.