Hey @Mike_Clark, thanks for reaching out!
You can invite guest editors to collaborate on your files, but even if they have a plan of their own, it does not transfer their editor role in their plan to another’s plan.
If you still want this external collaborator to edit your file, they will be billed as such to your plan. However, two weeks before the end of your quarter, we will send you an email asking you to confirm any new editors. This will give you the opportunity to determine who you want to include in your billing. You can then downgrade or remove them as an editor before confirming and being billed for the quarter.
This is a dishonest money-making scheme and I’m shocked Figma do this.
We have 100+ clients, once we’ve added a client (who already has their own paid Figma plan) to a document, we are lumped with paying monthly for them to have editor access. We can’t retrospectively restrict their access to viewing only as it makes us look unprofessional.
Maybe it’s time to look at another product, I hear Lunacy is great at importing Figma files!
I need to understand how to share my final Figma design file with my client, without being charged by Figma.
I have a subscription. My client already has a subscription. I do not want to add them to my account. How do I do this?
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I am having the same issue here. I have set the “share settings” to “anyone with link can edit” and when I share the link, the other person still cannot edit and it wants me to upgrade their account (which I will be billed for). Has anyone been able to share a file (in their projects, not drafts) and the other person was able to edit? Even in the share settings it shows a little message that the person can edit due to the share permissions but the truth is that the other person cannot do anything on the file. This is super frustrating as I need to use this with my clients
If you don’t want to pay for extra editor seat, create a new team with Starter plan, move file there and share it with edit access. It will be free.
well I have a paid plan and if I go to the starter plan I will only be allowed to have 3 files. I have many clients and thus need to have more files. I thought that if you simply changed the file´s settings to “anyone with link can edit” then anyone with the link would be able to edit…is this not the case? because if its not then I will have to cancel my suscription. Thanks a lot for your response!!
Well, that’s correct, if you share the link with anyone can edit access — anyone can, but you will need to pay for each one.
The Professional plan price $15/month is a price for one editor seat, not for the whole team.
so even with those settings (anyone with link can edit) you still need to pay? the settings say “even people outside your organisation”. I also watched some youtube tutorials where teachers shared their boards with many students and they used this feature. So basically you cannot share your boards even with those settings, with anyone to edit without having to pay for them?
Yes, you need to pay for every editor in Pro plan.
But all options of Professional plan is free for teachers and students after verification.
Probably people in youtube tutorials used Education plan.
I agree, it absolutely ridiculous.
How did you go with Lunacy?
Very wild how Figma still does is despite promises “to fix this” for years. Such scumbaggery
