People tab access and permissions
The tab is visible to every workspace role except external collaborators. What each role can do inside it varies.- External collaborators do not see the People tab.
- Viewers can browse the member list, search, filter, sort, view any active member’s profile (if public), and export the CSV. They cannot take any management action.
- Editors can do and see everything viewers can, plus:
- Invite and remove viewers and external collaborators
On Enterprise plans, you can choose to only allow admins and owners to invite people by email. Go to Settings → Privacy & security → Restrict workspace invitations.
- Approve project-level access requests.
- Invite and remove viewers and external collaborators
- Admins can do and see everything except adding, removing, or promoting owners.
- Owners can do and see everything.
Only owners can invite and remove owners, and promote existing members to owner.
The member list
The list shows all current members, including external collaborators, along with any pending invitations. Members who have been removed or who have left the workspace are not retained on this list. Available information:- Name and email
- Role: Owner, admin, editor, viewer, or collaborator
- Joined date: When the member accepted an invitation or was provisioned
- Current month usage: Credits used this calendar month
- Total usage: Lifetime credit consumption on this workspace
- Credit limit: Monthly limit per member, either the workspace default as set in Workspace settings, or the individual override if set. Empty if neither is set.
When a member hits their limit, they cannot consume more workspace credits until the 1st of the next month UTC.
- Search by name or email
- Filter by role, or by SCIM-managed status for Enterprise workspaces with SCIM configured. This lets you show SCIM-provisioned seats or non-SCIM seats. The selection is reflected in the URL, for example
?scim=managedor?scim=unmanaged, so deep links and browser navigation work. - Sort by name, role, joined date, current month usage, total usage, or credit limit
- Open a member’s row menu to:
- View their profile in a new tab
- Set an individual credit limit
- Remove the member or revoke their pending invitation. On your own row, the remove option becomes Leave workspace.
- Change a member’s role by clicking the role dropdown next to their name in the role column
- Select multiple members for bulk actions (change role, set credit limit, remove members)
- Export the full workspace member list as a CSV
User insights
Click any member row to open a User insights profile. Workspace owners and admins can use it to review what a member does in the workspace without leaving the People tab, for example to audit seat usage, set sensible credit limits, or review project access before offboarding. The profile shows:- Identity: the member’s name, email, workspace role, and a SCIM badge if the seat is provisioned through your identity provider
- Credit usage: credits used in the last 7 days and the last 30 days
- Created: projects the member created in the workspace, with visibility and per-project credit usage over the last 30 days
- Collaborated on: projects the member has direct access to, with their access level, per-project credit usage, and a Pending badge for project invitations they have not yet accepted
Invite members
You can invite members in two ways: by email or with an invite link (not available on Enterprise plans).Email invitations are limited per workspace each day: 5 on Free, 20 on Pro, 100 on Business, and no limit on Enterprise. Joining through an invite link does not count toward these limits.
Invite by email
- Go to Settings → People
- Click Invite members
- Enter one or more email addresses
- Select a role:
- Owner (only available to existing owners on Business and Enterprise plans)
- Admin (available on paid plans)
- Editor
- Viewer (available on paid plans)
- Click Invite
On Enterprise plans, you can choose to only allow admins and owners to invite people by email. Go to Settings → Privacy & security → Restrict workspace invitations.
Invite by link
- Go to Settings → People
- Click Invite link
- Select the role:
- Editor
- Viewer (available on paid plans)
- Click Create invite link
- Copy and share the link
Enterprise workspaces do not support invite links. On all other plans, admins and owners can disable invite links entirely from Settings → Privacy & security → Invite links.
- Only one active link per role can exist at a time.
- Creating a new link replaces the previous one.
On Business and Enterprise workspaces with SSO enforcement on, workspace invite links only work for users whose email is on a verified workspace domain and the link’s access level is within the workspace’s just-in-time provisioning role.
Automatic user provisioning
Beyond manual invites available in the People tab, Lovable can automatically add members. The provisioning options are configured in Identity (Settings → Access → Identity); see Manage workspace identity and user provisioning for the full setup. Provisioned members appear in the People tab, where roles and access can be managed.- SSO sign-in (just-in-time, or JIT, provisioning): When a user signs in to Lovable through your configured SSO provider for the first time, they’re automatically added to your company workspace at the JIT default role you set (admin, editor, or viewer). On Enterprise plans, owners and admins can toggle this from the SSO sign-in row once an SSO provider is configured; on Business plans, it’s enabled automatically with a configured SSO provider and shown as a read-only status. See SSO for more information.
- Verified email sign-up (domain-based provisioning): When a user signs up to Lovable with an email matching one of your verified domains, Lovable adds them at the configured default role (editor or viewer). This works for any sign-up on a verified domain, with or without SSO.
- Add existing users: A one-time action in the Identity tab that adds people who already have Lovable accounts with verified-domain emails to your workspace, so you don’t have to wait for them to sign in or sign up again.
- SCIM provisioning (Enterprise): User and group lifecycle is managed centrally from your identity provider. When you assign a user to Lovable in the IdP, the user is created in the workspace at the configured role. Unassigning the user removes their membership, and changes to group membership or role mappings in the IdP are synced automatically. SCIM is configured separately from the User provisioning section. See SCIM for more information.
External collaborators
The collaborator role is for people outside your core team, such as freelancers, clients, contractors, or partners, who need access to specific projects but shouldn’t have broad workspace access. Collaborators can only:- See basic workspace information
- See and access projects that have been shared with them (via the Shared with me tab on the Lovable dashboard), according to the assigned project access level
- Open the Plans & credit usage tab to see the current plan, credit balance, and usage, but every billing control is disabled for them. They cannot initiate or approve any charge against the workspace
- Leave the workspace
How collaborators are added
The collaborator role is assigned when you invite a non-member to a project from that project’s Share dialog. After that, they appear in the People list as members of your workspace with the collaborator role. This lets you track their activity, set a per-member credit limit, and remove their access when needed. Collaborators cannot be invited from the People tab. On Business and Enterprise plans, Lovable warns you before inviting someone who isn’t a member of your workspace.Project invitees whose email matches one of your verified domains do not become collaborators when Verified email sign-up is enabled in Identity settings. They join the workspace as full members at your configured default role instead, and the invite is not subject to the External project collaborators setting. Existing verified-domain collaborators are upgraded to the default role the next time they’re invited to a project.
Project access levels for collaborators
When sharing a project with someone, the Share dialog offers these project-level access options:- Admin (available on paid plans): Full access to the project, including all project settings, integrations, and external connections.
- Editor (default on all plans): Can build, edit, and manage most project settings. Some advanced settings, like integrations and external connections, are reserved for admins.
- Viewer (available on paid plans): Read-only access to the project editor.
How collaborators use workspace credits
In Lovable, credits belong to the workspace that owns the project. Every prompt draws from that workspace’s credit pool, regardless of who is prompting. External collaborators always consume your workspace’s credits, not their own.Block or limit external collaborators
On Business and Enterprise workspaces, owners and admins can control whether people outside the workspace can be added as project collaborators, and the highest project role they can have. This setting is available whether or not you enforce SSO. When Enforce SSO is on, external collaborators are blocked by default until an owner or admin explicitly allows them. To block or limit external collaborator access:- Open Settings → Privacy & security and find the External project collaborators control.
- Choose the highest project role someone outside the workspace can have:
- None allowed: block external collaborators entirely. If members try to invite someone outside your organization to a project, they get an error informing them that this is not allowed.
- Allow viewers: external collaborators are capped at read-only access on every project they’re invited to.
- Allow editors and viewers: external collaborators can have at most editor access.
- Allow all: external collaborators can be given any project role, including admin.
How access setting changes affect existing collaborators
When you turn on Enforce SSO, Lovable shows a confirmation dialog with a Remove all external collaborators checkbox, on by default.- If you leave it checked, existing external collaborators are removed at the same time SSO is enforced.
- If you uncheck it, existing external collaborators keep their access on every project they were already invited to, capped at editor level. The workspace’s External project collaborators setting is set to Allow editors and viewers as part of this flow.
Manage existing members
You can demote or promote existing members, remove members, or set individual credit limits from the People tab. This includes external collaborators as well.Change a member’s role
To change a member’s role, click the role dropdown next to the member’s row, then choose a new role. Changes take effect immediately. When you make someone an admin or owner, Lovable shows what the role includes and asks you to confirm first, and the workspace’s other admins and owners receive an email about the change.- Only owners can promote existing members to owner.
- Existing members cannot be downgraded to collaborator. See External collaborators above.
- Existing collaborators can be promoted to a regular workspace role (viewer, editor, admin, or owner). After promotion, they become full workspace members with corresponding access. They’re no longer limited to specific projects.
Remove a member
To remove a member, click on the three dots menu from that member’s row, then click Remove. When you remove someone:- Their workspace-level access is revoked immediately
- All of their project access within the workspace is revoked immediately
- They receive an email letting them know they were removed from the workspace
- For regular members (owner, admin, editor), any projects they owned are auto-transferred to the most senior remaining member of the workspace (owners first, then admins, then editors). External collaborators never own projects, so no transfer is needed.
You cannot pick which member inherits their projects. If you want a specific person to take over their projects, transfer ownership manually from each project’s settings before removing them.
- This cannot be undone. To restore access, invite them again.
Set a per-member credit limit
The workspace default applies to all members without overrides (set in Workspace settings). Individual credit limits apply only to members where an explicit credit limit has been set. To override the workspace default monthly credit limit for a member, click on the three dots menu from that member’s row, then click Set credit limit. When a member hits their limit, they cannot consume more workspace credits until the 1st of the next month UTC.Bulk actions
Select multiple members using the row checkboxes, then use the bulk actions menu to:- Change roles
- Set credit limits
- Remove members
Access requests
When someone tries to join the workspace or asks for access to a specific project, the request appears on the People tab.Workspace access requests
People who discover the workspace through the Find workspaces flow can request to join it. The flow is driven by Workspace discovery, which is a Business and Enterprise feature. Business and Enterprise workspaces are discoverable by default. Owners and admins can turn this off in Privacy & security → Workspace discovery. The Find workspaces flow is available to accounts using non-public email domains (such as@yourcompany.com). Public domains like @gmail.com or @hotmail.com cannot discover or request access to workspaces this way.
Each incoming request includes the role the requester is asking for (viewer, editor, or admin). Owners and admins can approve the request (granting the requested role, or a different role if you adjust it) or deny it.
Project access requests
When a workspace member or external user clicks through to a project they don’t have access to, they can request access at the role they need. Requests appear in the People tab for owners, admins, and editors.What happens after you request access? When a request is submitted, an email notification is sent to the project owner and to workspace owners and admins. If your request is approved, you’ll receive an email with a link to the project. If it’s denied, no notification is sent.
- Granting admin or viewer access additionally requires a paid plan.
- Approving a request from someone outside your workspace is subject to the External project collaborators setting on Business and Enterprise workspaces.
Related settings
FAQ
How many members can one workspace have?
How many members can one workspace have?
Workspaces support unlimited members on all plans. For Enterprise workspaces, custom member limits can optionally be set.Inviting people by email or invite link is limited to 20 people per workspace per day.
Can I change the workspace owner?
Can I change the workspace owner?
Yes. Owners can promote other members to owner. A workspace can have multiple owners.
Can workspace admins promote another member to workspace owner?
Can workspace admins promote another member to workspace owner?
No. Only existing owners can promote another member to owner. Admins can manage every other role (admin, editor, viewer, collaborator).
Can workspace editors invite anyone to the workspace?
Can workspace editors invite anyone to the workspace?
Editors can only invite viewers and external collaborators (the collaborator role is used when inviting non-members to a project).On Enterprise plans, owners and admins can remove this capability by turning on Restrict workspace invitations in Privacy & security. After that, only workspace owners and admins can invite.
Why are external collaborators on my member list?
Why are external collaborators on my member list?
External collaborators have a workspace membership record so Lovable can track their access, bill credits to your workspace, and let you manage or remove them. They only have access to the specific projects you invite them to, never the full workspace.
What happens if a pending invitation expires?
What happens if a pending invitation expires?
Email invitations expire after 30 days. When an invite expires, the link stops working, and the person will need a new invite to join.To send a new invite, go to Settings → People and invite them again. This resets the 30-day window.
What happens if I remove a member?
What happens if I remove a member?
Removed members lose workspace and project access immediately. Any work they created stays in the workspace, they just can’t open or edit it.If they own projects, ownership is automatically transferred to the most senior remaining member of the workspace (owners first, then admins, then editors). Transfer ownership manually beforehand if you want a specific person to take over.