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Mike_Clark

I’m trying to understand the process of sharing a Figma project file with another agency that I’m collaborating with.

I’m a sole designer, working on my own professional plan. I don’t want to incur additional editing fees for someone needing to edit or work on my file. So, I want to understand how I can allow someone else the ability to edit or utilize my design without incurring additional costs to me personally.

Is there no ability for someone outside of my plan who has a paid subscription of their own the ability to edit or use my project file without adding them to my account?

How does someone go about sharing a project file without incurring costs personally?

Best answer by djv

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.

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djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • November 9, 2023

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.


Sy_Crampton

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?


djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • September 23, 2024

A post was merged into an existing topic: Unclear Figma billing practices


mayte
  • October 10, 2024

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


Nellya
  • Power Member
  • October 10, 2024

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.


mayte
  • October 11, 2024

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!!


Nellya
  • Power Member
  • October 11, 2024

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.


mayte
  • October 11, 2024

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?


Nellya
  • Power Member
  • October 11, 2024

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.


Lloyd_Steven

I agree, it absolutely ridiculous.

How did you go with Lunacy?


Sasha6
  • New Member
  • January 13, 2025

Very wild how Figma still does is despite promises “to fix this” for years. Such scumbaggery


Jan_Haeck
  • New Member
  • February 14, 2025

Truly outrageous and gouging behavior on Figma’s end — this is wildly complicating being able to collaborate with clients as a 1 person studio.


Sankel
  • New Member
  • March 20, 2025

What the actual donuts is going on here? I’m seeing 1000+ dollar subscription for 3 designers. 

 


Carolin M.

I just came across the same issue:
Figma released their new Figma Buzz feature, that is specifically designed for marketing teams.

Our agency is collaborating with multiple firms on their design assets - so naturally the feature sounded like a dream come true.
Currently our clients don’t have access to Figma, as it’s too complex of a tool. But with Buzz templates, they could easily switch our texts or images for their most common assets. For this,  our clients would be willing to pay seats for their inhouse marketing teams.

However, because there is no way to collaborate on files, we can not do it.

The workarounds don’t work for us:
1. Option: The client marketing team invites us to their team. We have a set of multiple designers working on client projects. They would need to pay for every single editor, which is not feasible.
2. Option: We invite them to our team. Every marketing team member from our clients would need to have access, which means a huge increase in subscription fees. Additionally, they would also not really own their templates that we created for them, because they would always be housed in our templates.

I understand that Figma is originally focused on inhouse teams. But this seems like a huge missed opportunity to spread Figma to inhouse marketing teams of agency’s clients.


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