Starter plan permissions

On the Starter plan, you can share assets at three different levels: team, projects, and files. If you only have teams on the Starter plan, your plan also controls sharing permissions for your drafts.

Read our Guide to sharing and permissions for more information on how sharing works in Figma.

Team

All teams support the same permissions: can view, can edit, admin, and a team owner. Explore team permissions →

On the Starter plan, a person’s team permissions determine their access to the team. This controls what actions they can take within the team—like the ability to create and move files—as well as their permissions on design and FigJam files.

Team actions

Permissions table with a list of general team tasks. Icons indicate if someone with that permission can ✓ or can't ✕ perform that task.

Projects

Every project has a team access setting. This controls the default access team members can have on that project. In Starter teams, all projects have the can access team setting.

With the can access permission, team members can access the project based on their team-level permissions. For example, if a user has can view team permissions, and the team access level for the project is set to can access, then the user has can view access on the project.

If you want to make projects with can view access or have projects that are only open to those invited, you need to upgrade to a paid plan.

Team files

A team member's access to files in the team is based on their team permissions.

It's possible to invite external collaborators to individual files. This will give them access to just that file and not the rest of the team's files. You can give them can view or can edit access.

Files in a team also have link sharing permissions. This controls the default access for anyone outside the team who accesses the file from a link. On the Starter plan, you have the following link sharing settings:

Figma Design files

Permissions table with a list of Figma Design specific tasks. Icons indicate if someone with that permission can ✓ or can't ✕ perform that task.

FigJam files

Permissions table with a list of FigJam specific tasks. Icons indicate if someone with that permission can ✓ or can't ✕ perform that task.

Drafts

If someone only has teams on the Starter plan, they can only invite collaborators to files in their drafts with Can view access. If you want to invite collaborators to your files with edit access, you need to upgrade to a paid plan.