> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lovable.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Share a project with internal or external collaborators > Manage project access, invite collaborators, and create protected preview links for external reviews. The **Share dialog** is where you open up a project to others: workspace members, external collaborators, or anyone with a link. It is accessible from the **Share** button in the top bar of any project. ## Add project collaborators Use **Invite people** at the top of the **Share** dialog to invite one or more workspace members, [workspace groups](/features/groups) (only on Business and Enterprise plans), or external collaborators to the project directly. Each person or group you add is granted access to the project based on the assigned role. 1. Open the project and click **Share**. 2. Enter one or more email addresses or workspace groups in the **Add people** field. 3. Choose the access level. * **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. 4. Click **Invite**. Each person receives an email with a link to join the project. If they already have a Lovable account, the project also appears in their **Shared with me** section. If they don't, they can create an account and join through the invitation. On **Business** and **Enterprise** plans: * Lovable warns you before inviting someone who isn't a member of your workspace. * Workspace admins and owners can control whether external collaborators are allowed and the highest project role they can have from **Settings → Privacy & security → External project collaborators**. When **SSO enforcement** is on, external collaborators are blocked by default until an admin or owner explicitly allows them. ## Control project access across your workspace The row showing your **workspace name** controls whether members of your workspace have access to the project by default. It sets the project's visibility across the whole workspace. | **Access level** | **Who can access the project** | Project visibility | | :--------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | :----------------- | | **Can edit** | **All workspace members and explicitly invited collaborators** can view, remix, or edit the project, based on their role.
On Free and Pro plans, projects are always visible to the workspace. You can only adjust the access level of individual collaborators. | **Workspace** | | **Can view** | **All workspace members** can view and remix the project. Workspace owners and explicitly invited collaborators with edit rights can still edit it.
Available on Business and Enterprise plans. | **Workspace** | | **No access** | **Only the owner and explicitly invited collaborators** can view, remix, or edit the project based on their role.
The project becomes personal (restricted). Available on Business and Enterprise plans.
*Note: Keep in mind that workspace owners have full access to all projects in the workspace and can view and edit them.* | **Restricted** | See [Project access](https://docs.lovable.dev/features/project-visibility) for more information. ## Share an invite link An invite link is a shareable URL. Anyone who opens it is automatically added to the project as a collaborator with the role you set. Invite links are useful for: * Onboarding a new teammate without looking up their email * Sharing a project in a chat channel or doc * Giving a contractor time-limited edit access On Business and Enterprise workspaces with **SSO enforcement** on, project invite links only work for users whose email is on a [verified workspace domain](/features/verified-domains) and the link's access level is within the workspace's just-in-time provisioning role. ### **Create an invite link** 1. In the **Share** dialog, set the **Invite link** access level: * **Edit access**: anyone with the link becomes an editor (available on all plans) * **View access**: anyone with the link becomes a viewer (requires a paid plan) 2. Click **Copy invite link** and share it Invite links expire automatically **5 days** after they are created. If a link stops working, create a new one. Only one active invite link can exist at a time. Changing the access level generates a new link and invalidates the previous one. ### **Change or disable an invite link** Open the **Share** dialog and use the access-level dropdown next to **Invite link**: * **Edit access** or **View access**: changes the link's access level. This generates a new link and the previous URL stops working. You need to share the link again. * **Disabled**: turns off the link entirely. The URL becomes invalid immediately. ## Manage who has access The **Project access** section of the **Share** dialog lists everyone who can currently access the project. You can see specific people, groups, and workspace-level access based on your plan. From this list you can: * **Change someone's role**: click the access-level dropdown next to their name * **Remove individuals or groups**: click **Remove** from the workspace member, external collaborator, or workspace group access-level dropdown * **Remove workspace access** (available only on Business and Enterprise plans): choose **Restricted** from the workspace dropdown * **Update workspace access**: choose **Can edit** or **Can view** (available only on Business and Enterprise plans) from the access-level dropdown * **Manage the invite link:** change the link's access level or disable the link entirely Available actions depend on your role. Editors can invite and remove others with the same role or lower; admins and owners can manage any collaborator. ## Share preview links A shared preview link is a **view-only URL** for the latest in-progress version of your app. Anyone with the link can open it without a Lovable account. If the link requires a password, viewers also need the password. Shared preview links do not add people as collaborators or grant access to the Lovable editor, chat, or source code. You can create separate links for different reviews, give each link a name, choose whether guests can comment, and delete a link when you no longer want it to work. ### Why and when to use shared preview links Use shared preview links when someone needs to review your work without joining the project. For example, you can: * Send a client a password-protected link for a design review. * Create a comment-enabled link for usability feedback. * Create a comment-free link for a demo or bug report. * Give different groups separate links that you can delete independently. For ongoing production access, [publish the project](/features/publish) instead. For access to the editor, invite the person as a [project collaborator](#add-project-collaborators). ### Availability and permissions People with edit access to a project can create, copy, and delete its shared preview links. | Plan | Shared preview link features | | :------------------------------ | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Free** and **Pro** | Create multiple named links and allow or disallow guest comments per link. Links expire after 7 days. | | **Business** and **Enterprise** | Everything on Free and Pro, plus the option to require a password and choose an expiration of 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or never. | On **Enterprise** plans, workspace admins and owners can disable shared preview links across the workspace from [Privacy & security](https://lovable.dev/settings/privacy-security) (**Settings → Security → Privacy & security → Preview link sharing**). When disabled, **Share preview** is hidden for every project in the workspace. ### Create a shared preview link Configure a separate link for each audience before you share it. Open the project, click **Share**, and select **Share preview**. Click **Create new preview link**. Enter an optional **Link name** to identify the audience or purpose, such as `Client review`. Each active link in the project needs a different name, so if the name is already in use, change it or delete the other link first. A deleted or expired link frees its name for reuse. Choose whether to enable **Allow comments**. On **Business** and **Enterprise** plans, you can also: * Enable **Require a password** and enter a password with at least 8 characters. * Set **Link expiration** to **24 hours**, **7 days**, **30 days**, or **Never**. The default is **7 days**, and the expiration can't be changed after the link is created. Click **Create preview link**. Lovable copies the URL to your clipboard. You can copy or share it again at any time from **Your active links**. Lovable cannot show a link's password again after you leave or reload the editor. The key icon in **Your active links** reveals it only in the session where you set it, so save it in a password manager and send it to reviewers separately from the link. If you lose the password, create a replacement link and delete the old one. ### How password-protected preview links work When a reviewer opens a protected link, Lovable asks for the password before showing the preview. After the reviewer enters it, the preview stays unlocked in that browser for 24 hours, and then Lovable asks for the password again. Each password applies only to the link it was created for, and you can't change it after the link is created. On links where **Allow comments** is disabled, the password page also shows **Workspace member? Sign in to Lovable**. People who already have access to the project can select it and open the preview by signing in instead of entering the password. Opening a password-protected link is not a sign-in. Lovable does not identify who opened the link, and anyone who has both the URL and the password can open the preview while the link remains active. To give access to specific known people, use project collaboration or [published app access controls](/features/publish#who-can-see-your-published-app). ### Collect feedback with guest comments When **Allow comments** is enabled for a link, anyone who opens it can leave comments directly on the preview without project access or a Lovable account. For a comment-free preview, disable the setting when you create the link or later from **Your active links**. To leave a comment, a guest opens the preview link and: 1. Clicks **Comment** in the preview toolbar. 2. Clicks anywhere on the preview to pin a comment to that spot. 3. Guests signed in to Lovable comment under their Lovable account. Guests who aren't signed in are asked to enter a name the first time they comment. No account or email is required, and signing up is optional. 4. The guest can then start comment threads, reply to existing ones, and edit or delete their own comments. Comments appear in a panel alongside the preview. The project owner receives an inbox notification in Lovable when a guest comments on the preview. Anyone with access to the project can reply to guest comment threads. Guest comments stop when their link expires or is deleted. To enable or disable comments for an existing link, select the link under **Your active links** and update **Allow comments**. ### Manage active preview links Open **Share → Share preview** to see **Your active links**. Each row shows the link name or URL, its remaining lifetime, whether it has a password, and whether guest comments are enabled. From the list, you can: * Copy the URL. * Select a link to enable or disable **Allow comments**. * Reveal the password with the key icon, available only in the session where you set it. * Delete a link. Expired links stop working and disappear from the list automatically. A link with **Never** selected remains active until you delete it. Deleting a shared preview link is irreversible. The URL stops working for everyone who has it, but the change can take up to one minute to apply everywhere. ## Publish project Deploy the project to a permanent public URL on `lovable.app` or your custom domain. See [Publish your project](/features/publish) and [Custom domains](/features/custom-domain) for more information, or follow [Launch your site on a custom domain](/tips-tricks/launch-on-a-custom-domain) for the full path. The publish project link in the **Share** dialog only redirects you to the **Publish** dialog where you need to go through the whole publishing flow. Inviting someone here makes them a project collaborator with access to the editor. On the Business and Enterprise plans, if someone outside your workspace should only view an internally published app, not edit the project, [invite them by email from the publish dialog](/features/publish#invite-people-outside-your-workspace) instead. ## FAQ An invite link turns the person who opens it into a project collaborator (editor or viewer) inside the Lovable editor. They must have a Lovable account. A shared preview link gives anonymous, view-only access to the preview of your in-progress app. It does not create a collaborator, require an account, or grant any edit rights. Viewers do not see the Lovable editor, chat, or source code. On Business and Enterprise plans, you can require a password. The password limits access to people who know the password, but it does not identify them. Yes, if **Allow comments** is enabled for that link. The setting is enabled by default. Anyone who opens the link can leave comments without a Lovable account, and the project owner is notified in their Lovable inbox. For a comment-free preview, disable the setting when you create the link or later from **Your active links**. A shared preview link gives anonymous, view-only access to the latest in-progress version of your app, even before you publish. On Free and Pro plans, links expire after 7 days. On Business and Enterprise plans, you can choose 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, or no automatic expiration. Publishing deploys the app to a permanent URL on `lovable.app` or your custom domain, with its own access controls. Yes. Invite people by email, share an invite link, or create a shared preview link. On Business and Enterprise plans, the **External project collaborators** setting in **Settings → Privacy & security** controls invited external collaborators. On Enterprise plans, admins and owners can separately disable shared preview links across the workspace. The invite link can stop working for several reasons: * Invite links expire after 5 days. Create a new link and share it again. * Changing the link's access level generates a new link and the previous URL stops working. You need to share the link again. * The invite link is disabled. Yes. The project owner can hand the project to another workspace member from **Project settings → Transfer ownership**. See [Where to find project settings](/features/projects/settings#where-to-find-project-settings) for how to open it. Your access after the transfer depends on your workspace role. See [Project access](/features/project-visibility) for how workspace roles map to project access. To hand over several projects in one step, [change the owner of several projects at once](/introduction/dashboard-overview#change-the-owner-of-several-projects) from the dashboard. When a project owner leaves the workspace, ownership of their projects is auto-transferred to the member with the highest role (owners first, then admins, then editors). When an admin or owner removes them, that person [chooses who inherits the projects](/features/people#choose-who-inherits-their-projects). Projects with access set to **Restricted** are not transferred. A workspace owner has to transfer them manually from the [dashboard](/introduction/dashboard-overview#change-the-owner-of-several-projects) or from [project settings](/features/projects/settings#transfer-project-ownership). If you're not the project owner and want a personal copy of a project, remix it into your own account. You'll be the owner of the new copy. Only if you opt in. The move dialog has a **Transfer project collaborators** checkbox, off by default. When it's off, people invited directly to the project and any pending invites are removed during the move. When it's on, Lovable keeps them when the destination workspace allows their role and you have permission to grant it there. See [Move a project to another workspace](/features/projects/settings#move-a-project-to-another-workspace). ## Related topics - [Control project access](/features/project-visibility.md) - [Privacy & security settings](/features/privacy-and-security-settings.md) - [Manage workspace members from the People tab](/features/people.md) - [Projects in Lovable](/features/projects/overview.md) - [Find and search projects](/introduction/project-search-and-find.md)