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Jemmanew
New Member
October 23, 2024
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How can I reduce the number of seats in the professional plan?

  • October 23, 2024
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Please searDue to my mistake, I increased the number of seats in Figma, I want to reduce it, I only need 10 seats, now it has increased to 17 seats, my annual fee will be updated tomorrow, can anyone tell me How to deal withch for existing topics before posting! Press 🔍 at the upper right to search.🥺🥺🥺

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mcl33
New Member
February 24, 2026

Hi ​@mcl33, thanks for chiming in here! 

Unexpected monthly seats usually occur when there are seats added outside your original annual agreement.

You can downgrade team members to a free seat at any time during your billing cycle:

  1. From the file browser, click Screenshot 2024-07-10 at 15.53.45 Admin.
  2. Select the Members tab.
  3. From the dropdown menu next to someone’s Design or FigJam seat, change the seat type to Viewer-restricted.


As a professional team admin or owner you can manage who can edit team files and manage who will be billed to the team’s subscription.

 

From the Members tab of your team page, set the “Design role” filter to Full to display all billed users. From there you can downgrade any Full seat to “Viewer - restricted” on Figma Design files. Repeat this step with the FigJam role filter if you want to prevent this user from editing FigJam files as well.
 

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Restricted viewers will no longer be able to edit any files belonging to the team, and will be removed from all future invoices unless explicitly re-upgraded to a full seat role by a team admin. Note that full seats for Figma Design and FigJam are managed independently – to remove a user from the team’s subscription altogether, both roles will need to be downgraded.
 

For more information, check out our Help Center article here: Roles and permissions in teams.

 

I have not done that. I have not added any other users. I’m the only one on my “team” and I have not ever added anyone else besides myself.

 

Managing licences is so frustrating. I just want to click + or - next to the number of subscriptions and chose which tier and which payment schedule (yearly/monthly).

Adding seems easy. But removing a license nearly impossible.

djv
Figmate
Community Support
February 24, 2026

I understand your frustration, ​@mcl33. There are different ways to upgrade a seat in Figma. Normally, you either get a notification inside the file browser or receive an email notification, depending on the pathway that was followed for the upgrade request.

 
If an action requires a seat upgrade, you’ll receive a prompt or notification informing you about the upgrade. This ensures that you are aware of any seat changes before they occur. It looks like support was able to fix your seats on ticket #1761721. If you have any further questions or concerns, please reply to support directly via email.