Dev mode only sharing (WITHOUT PAYING FOR SEATS)

^ This.

We are a design-only agency and development comes solely from our clients or external software houses that we collaborate with. It’s a big deal for us not being able to just utilize paid account that our clients have and pay for just to give them access to dev mode in our files.

Being forced to pay for design seats for all devs that my team collaborate with across 7-8-9 different clients at the same time makes managing seats in Figma impossible and we simply refuse to our clients to use Dev Mode until that is solved somehow.

I got the same problem 😕

when are they going to take are of this issue? does anybody know?

Hey All, thanks for the feedback!

We’ll pass this onto the Dev mode team for consideration.

I got the same problem

I have same experience. I work a web project where I’m responsible for the design handoff.
The developer team is external in india.

I have share the figma file with them and they are requesting dev-mode access (the had free figma).
This seem to trigger an action where I’m gonna be responsible for all their figma cost.

I strongly thought that I would be able to share my figma file if they just upgraded their figma licence to a pro version. 

Its simply outrageous that the designer should be responsible for paying an extra “dev-seat” licence if the figma user in a another team already pays for its own Figma seat.

This is just getting more crazy. Figma team please stop this!

 

Not to mention the Dark UX practice of giving NO warning when giving editing access.
The cost involved should be clearly stated BEFORE we provide access.
AND there should be a very obvious notification that members have been added after.

I thought Figma was designed for UX Designers and you can’t apply a basic UX principle. 

As others mentioned above, I also don’t understand why I should have to pay an EXTRA seat on my end for a dev who already pays for their own pro license - this is charging people twice for the same service - it’s ludicrous. 

It is incredibly short-sighted of Figma that it is not possible to share designs between two paid accounts. Dev mode should be available to anyone with a paid account—I would love to hear a relevant reason why this might not be the case?

As an agency, we work with external designers, and currently it is not possible for us to access dev-mode, even though both parties have paid versions of Figma. This is completely nonsensical, and it is the reason why we will no longer pay for Figma if this does not change soon.

It is possible now. Guide to connected projects

This is so outrageous to me especially when the other developer is a full time paying figma subscriber...WTF are we doing?