# Invite your team

> How owners and admins invite people to a workspace, which role to give them, and what the invited person sees.

Accounts in Audience are created by invitation. Nobody signs up on their own: a workspace owner or admin invites a person by email, and the invitation is the door in. This keeps a product that spends money on your behalf behind people you chose.

![Workspace settings with the members list and pending invitations](/docs/screens/settings-workspace.png)
_Members, their roles, and the invitations still waiting to be accepted._

## Sending an invitation

1. Open the workspace menu in the sidebar (click the workspace name) and choose **Workspace**.
2. Under **Workspace members**, press **Invite member**.
3. Enter the person's email address and choose a role: **Admin**, **Editor** or **Viewer**. Owner is not assignable here.
4. Send. The invitation appears under **Pending invitations** until it is accepted, and you can cancel it from there.

Only owners and admins can invite. Editors and viewers see the members list but not the button.

## Which role to give

| Role   | Give it to                                     | What they can do                                                                                                                            |
| ------ | ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Admin  | A second person who runs the workspace         | Everything except deleting the workspace: setup, integrations, the playbook and company profile, the AI visibility panel, members and roles |
| Editor | The people who decide topics and review drafts | Approve and reject opportunities, research topics, approve outlines and drafts, comment, add topic exclusions                               |
| Viewer | Stakeholders who need to see, not decide       | Read everything, comment on drafts                                                                                                          |

Every member can read everything in the workspace. The full matrix is in [Who does what](/start-here/who-does-what).

## What the invited person sees

The email carries a link. What happens next depends on whether they already have an account.

- **A new person** is taken to **Create your account**. Their invitation is attached to the sign-up, so when they finish they land in your workspace. Without a valid invitation link, the registration page says: _Accounts are created by invitation. Ask a workspace owner to invite you, then open the link in that email._
- **Someone who already has an account** signs in and sees a **Pending workspace invitations** window on Home: _Accept or decline the workspaces you have been invited to join._ Each row names the workspace and who invited them, with **Accept** and **Decline**.

Once accepted, the workspace appears in their switcher and they can move between workspaces from the sidebar.

## Managing members afterwards

From the same **Workspace** page:

- Change a member's role from the dropdown on their row. Owners' roles are fixed.
- Remove a member with the remove control on their row. Owners cannot be removed.
- Cancel an invitation that has not been accepted from **Pending invitations**. Expired invitations are deleted automatically.

A person can leave a workspace they belong to from **Settings → Workspaces**, using the leave control on its row. Owners cannot leave; a personal workspace cannot be left either.

## Related

- [Workspace and members](/settings/workspace-and-members) for workspace name, rebuild cadence and deleting a workspace.
- [Account and security](/settings/account-and-security) for the invited person's own profile, password and two-factor settings.