One of the first steps in setting up your monday.com account is inviting team members to join. Continue reading to learn how to do it!

Inviting team members to your account

There are two ways to invite members to your account. You can do it from the Invite members icon in the left pane, or directly from a board. 

Invite members icon

Click on the Invite Members icon located in upper right of your screen as below:

Note: The only way to add people to your account is by invitation or by allowing users to join through a specific email domain. You can not create placeholder accounts.

In the pop-up window, you can either invite members by clicking the Copy button beside the link and then sending it directly to your team members or by typing their email addresses into the field below. 

Note: You will only have the option to send an invite link if you have the Authorized domain option enabled in the admin security settings. You can read more on this in the following section of this article.

If you choose to type the email of the team member(s) you'd like to invite, the next step is to choose the level of access you wish to give them! You can select to make them a full Member or a Viewer, which is a read-only member who will not be able to make any changes to your data. 

You also have the option of inviting your new team member directly to an existing team within your account. Type in the name of the team (for example, HR or Customer Service) or you can even create a new team! Check out this article to learn more about using teams to organize your teammates and make assigning tasks much more efficient.

Note: Pending users who have not accepted their invitation will have a standard avatar image as their profile picture. If they accept their invitation, their initials will be shown until they upload their own picture.

When you're finished, click Invite and your new team members will receive an email invitation. Once they accept their invitation, they will be redirected to your account, where they can create a profile and get started!

Important note: Pending users who have not accepted their invitations within 90 days will be fully deleted and there will be no way to recover any data related to them.

Invite from a board

To invite team members to your account through one of your boards, click on the Invite button at the top of the board, like this:

Next, you'll see a pop-up window will all of the board's subscribers. Here, you can add new members by typing their email(s) into the search bar and pressing enter.

You'll be able to see all of your pending invitations in the list of board subscribers, as shown below:

As long as a user is pending (they have not yet accepted their invitation email), their profile picture will be a generic black and white image. Only after they complete their sign up, then colorful initials will be presented. Additionally, an admin will not be able to change the profile picture of a pending user until they are fully activated on the account.

Note:  To add a guest onto your account, you must be using a Shareable board. From this board type, you can follow the same steps through the board subscribers window to add a guest.

Who can invite team members?

Admins of an account can control who is able to add new users to the account! To control who can add new users to the account, click your profile picture and head over to the Admin section.

Next, click on Security on the left side of the admin section and toggle into the Login tab, where you can choose from one of two security and authentication settings:

• Only admins can invite users
• Any person with an email address from a specified 'authorized domain' can join the account

Let's review each option below.

Only admins can invite users

This setting is enabled by default on every account and it allows only the admins of an account to invite new users to join. The users who they decide to invite can be anyone with any email address.

Authorized Domain

Alternatively, the admins of an account may want any user from a certain email domain (for example, emails that end in @monday.com) to easily join the account without invitation. For this case, the admin can add an 'authorized domain' so that anyone who has this email domain can join the account on their own.

With this setting enabled, account Members or Viewers can also choose to invite users from the authorized domain. 

Note:  When the "authorized domain" login settings are activated, admins will still be able to invite users with any email domain if they choose to.

If you choose to customize one of these settings, simply click Save changes to apply them to your account!

How to cancel an invitation sent by mistake

Did you invite a user or a guest by mistake and want to cancel this invitation? Or did you misspell the email address and have sent it to the wrong person accidentally? You can cancel the invitation by following these simple steps:

Click on your profile picture and select Teams.

From this screen, click on the Manage users button on the top left side of the screen. You'll then be directed to the User management page that's under the Users tabs in the Administration section.

Navigate to the Pending Invitations tabs to see your pending invites. From there, you can click on the three dot menu button on the left and click on Cancel invitation. You can also click on Resend under the Actions column in order to send another invitation to a team member.

Note:  Has the new member already accepted your invitation? Don't worry, it's not too late. Admin can deactivate account users at any time following these easy steps. 

Help! My team member hasn't received the invite

The first thing we would recommend is to ask your team member to check their spam folder. If it is not in the spam, try to resend the invite by following the instructions above.

Limitations

There is a daily limit of invites you can send. The amount is calculated as "maximum users allowed in your account * 3. This means that for example, if you have purchased the 10 users package and need to grow your team, you can invite 10*3=30 users and/or guests per day.

In case you need to invite more users than your limit urgently, please reach out to us right here.