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

Penpot is gaining traction. Maybe it will be a good alternative in the future.

This is a major issue that needs addressing. As people before have suggested, implement a mechanism something like Slack Connect, otherwise you’ll lose the users that heled your company grow.

Hi guys, let me get this straight: I work for a software company and we have 5 full licenses for Figma.
I am not the account administrator, so I don’t have access to the billing information (or other super admin info), but I do have full designer-dev-FigJam access.
When i share a file with another account, for example a collegue that doesen’t have a paid account, and i need some edit permission this account became autoimatically a paid account? Without any kind of approval from admin account?

Yeap for sure!

This issue seems unlikely to change, but it is forcing us to search for an alternative product.

Figma is useful primarily because it promises collaborative workspaces. Unfortunately, collaboration is only built for collaborating within a single team. Clearly, Figma is betting the farm on the enterprise (intra-organizational collaboration). But Figma is killing the ability for companies to work with agencies (the ability to collaborate across organizations).

Why does Figma punish the agency/client model? For agencies and companies hiring agencies, this pricing model is a disincentive to work together in Figma – why would an agency have to pay for a license for each new collaborator at each new client they bring on? Why would a company have to pay for a license for each new creative at each agency they work with?

A Figma license should act like a license – meaning “I can use this tool to share and collaborate with other people who use this tool.”

This is very frustrating and we are looking not only to move all of our files away from Figma as it completely disrupts our ability to work with our clients and other designers and developers we are also going to start promoting using the open source incredibly brilliant application Penpot. 2.0 just came out and it’s worth taking a look at if your stuck and locked into Figma dirty game. Penpot 2.0 release is out now! CSS Grid Layout, Components and a new UI

I’m also going to do some research into the legal ramifications Figmas ability to do what they are doing here. And will post back as soon as I find out more.

@figma I’m chiming in to state that if you have a Figma Pro account, you should be able to access files shared by other Figma Pro account holders at no additional cost.

I cannot believe this still hasn’t been addressed. It’s an outrageous way to operate, milking paying customers. As someone rightly mentions, how can this be legal? Automatically charging an account twice with no warning.

This issue is becoming more and more frustrating. Might have to look into XD or dust off Sketch.

Hi there, we would like this to be addressed. Thank you.

Julien Palliere
Business Development Lead

Upvoting this to also be resolved. This is not transparent and agencies need to be able to share files with other paid accounts without additional fees. I know of no other software that follows this model.