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I "accidentally" created a full seat when trying to share a file. How do I get refunded?

  • May 27, 2026
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julianalara

So… I wanted to add a video to Slides, and because it wouldn’t let me on the free plan, I upgraded to a collab plan. Then proceeded to add the video -- all good.

Then, I went to share a figma presentation, and I got the popup saying “you’re about to get a full seat”. I genuinely don’t understand what this thing about seats is (please hire a content designer to explain things better!) and because I needed to share the presentation (which I was able to do on the free plan), I clicked on Continue, because it was the ONLY available option. 

Then Figma immediately proceeded to create a new invoice charging me for Figma and god knows what, when I had that feature (sharing files) for FREE before.

I immediately sent a ticket to request a refund, because it’s hilarious that you don’t charge for a feature on a free plan, but the minute I upgrade the plan to collab, then you want to charge me for features that were free before. This makes absolute zero sense. For a design company, this is pretty terrible UX. I saw there’s other forums talking about this issue as well.

 

I didn’t receive any email confirmation saying my ticket had been created, except for a tiny banner on figma.com saying you would reply one day.

How do I contact support? I want a refund for this, it’s incredibly deceiving.

2 replies

Jaycee Lewis
Figmate

Hi, ​@julianalara Thank you for your honest feedback. I located your support ticket (ID 1928077) and see that Vic was able to get this resolved for you.

Thanks for your patience while we got this squared away. Please let me know if you need anything else!

Best — Jaycee


julianalara
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  • May 27, 2026

@Jaycee Lewis how was this resolved for me? I got ZERO emails/notifications/whatsoever on the resolution.

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I see my plan went back to Collab, which I’m assuming it’s what Vic did (would have been nice to get a notification).

However, the people who I shared the slides with cannot see them. Does sharing slides ONLY work with the Full seat plan??