Can a file be edited by an account from another team without charging the owner team?

This a bonkers system.

If we were doing this work using Adobe Creative Cloud (god-forbid!) and sharing files with a client also paying for Creative Cloud, that would be it – no further charges for either side.

Having to take out an additional Creative Cloud subscription to edit a shared file would not be okay, and that’s what’s happening here.

Imagine if Adobe started doing that - people would lose their S*** over it.

I don’t understand the rationale for this model other than to increase Figma revenues.

It feels counter to frictionless collaboration between client / agency / freelancer.

And the worst part is the lack of warning that you’ll be billed extra until it’s too late.

At the very least we need a “You will be billed $ per month for inviting this user” warning.

But really two paying users shouldn’t have to pay again to collaborate.

We’re not the only ones…

And another, see “Collaborating with other teams should cost nothing”

This is absurd, we are running into this problem too. I am out of seats on our account, but working with an external client that already has their own figma license. So we are both paying for figma, but can’t collaborate without paying for more than one license per user… That’s a scam. So, if we each want to collaborate on each others teams we’d be paying for four user licenses between the two of us.

Not saying anything different than others have… but I noticed this today because figma showed an upcoming bill despite me having recently paid for an annual account. I realized it’s because I added two editors to a project, but they are folks at another agency who have their own accounts. I don’t throw around the word scam much, but I must agree with others that it feels like a serious scam. It would make sense if you were inviting people who didn’t have their own accounts, and the cost implications were clear, but the fact that it just happens no matter their account status is bananas.

This is absolutely ridiculous, just got charged on my account for someone I added and came here and read this, it’s terrible.

Whoaaa 😮 I can’t imagine the bills. No response from Figma after months, is this Adobe spirit?

I’m an indy consultant needing to work with one other person for some client work coming up so I’m doing the workaround by creating a new free team separate from my pro account team . Once we’ve done our work I’m going to copy/paste the relevant bits to my pro team/file to share with the client.

Don’t need any of the pro features for this body of work so in my case the workaround does the job needed.

Doesn’t solve the core problem here and doesn’t work in many other use cases, but for those like me I thought I’d reiterate the workaround.

Ya’ll in this thread are badaces. Keep changing the game and making it happen.

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Here we are quite chocked to realise this billing structure as well…

And even more chocked that there was no warnig that this would happen, solely by sharing a document with a client.

This makes absolutely no sense, and needs a fix ASAP.

They same happend to me… I was expecting a $15 monthly billing, and got $120 in the first month due this bizarre issue.

I’m really thinking in cancel my account cause the benefit I tought I would have (share with other editores), doesn’t exist…