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• Get started with Figma Organization

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Supported on the Figma Organization plan

  Figma Organizations go beyond the team setup you may be used to in a Professional team. Instead of a single workspace for a team, you have a dedicated "Organization space".

  Everything in the Organization space is owned by the organization. This includes files from individual's Drafts and every team within the organization.

  We recommend reading through our Welcome to your Figma Organization guide to get started.

  Members and guests

  There are two levels of permissions in a Figma Organization, team permissions and organization permissions.

  Team permissions work the same way as they do in a Starter, Education, or Professional team.You'll likely be a member of multiple teams in the organization, you can have different permissions on each team.

  Everyone who interacts with an organization will also have an account type and a role.

  A person's account type defines how much of the organization they can access. A person's role defines If they can get edit access to teams, projects, or files. It also determines if they're included in the organization's billing

  • Permissions in an organization
  • Request upgrades in an organization
  • Permissions in teams
  • See what collaborators are working on

  Teams

  You can create as many teams as you need within an organization. Choose to map teams to your company's hierarchy, or create cross-functional teams for company-wide projects.

  Control how other members of the organization can find and access teams with Organization Access. There are three levels of organization access: open, closed, and secret.

  Teams in organizations also have access to extra features, like Design System Analytics, which allows you to track component usage across teams in your organization.

  Learn more about teams in an Organization →

  Resources

  Share libraries across the organization, and measure the adoption of your design system.

  • Import libraries from Sketch
  • Add and remove libraries in an organization
  • Choose default libraries
  • Track library and component usage

  Upload brand-specific fonts and share them with members across your organization. Learn how to upload fonts to an organization →

  Share files easily and with peace of mind with organization-specific link sharing settings. Learn how to share links to files in an organization →

  Control how people in your organization use and share plugins with private plugins and a plugin allow list. Learn how to manage public and private plugins →

  Learn how to share resources in an organization →

  Organization Administration

  Organization Admins can manage every aspect of the Organization in the organization's Admin Settings. They can adjust members, view teams, monitor activity, manage billing, and configure security settings.

  Figma Organization also gives you greater control over shared resources, like plugins, fonts, and organization-wide libraries.

  • Change the organization logo
  • Manage the organization's community profile
  • View and manage the organization's domain(s)
  • View or update the Organization's authentication settings
  • Enable or disable external link sharing
  • Manage user data

  📖 Guide to Organization Admin →

  Organization Admins can manage members and guest within the organization.

  • Add members to an organization
  • Downgrade members to restrict their access
  • Upgrade member roles
  • Grant members admin access
  • Remove members from the organization
  • Monitor member and guest activity with activity logs

  Learn how to manage members and guests →

  Organization Admins do not have admin access to every team in the Organization. You can only perform admin actions on teams if you are a Team Admin.

  Organization Admins can view a list of open and closed teams in the Organization. From here they can claim ownership of empty teams, and perform limited bulk actions.

  Learn how to interact with teams as an admin →

  Billing in an Organization

  As members can join many teams, Figma bills organizations as a whole. Anyone with can edit access to a team, project, or file outside their drafts is included in the organization's billing.

  • Manage billing in an Organization

  Access and security

  Figma Organization gives you greater control over what's shared within your business.

  • Privacy and security in an organization
  • Domains and domain capture in organizations
  • Privacy Policy
  • Security at Figma

  SAML SSO

  Organizations that need enhanced security requirements can configure SAML SSO.

  Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is a security standard for logging into applications.

  Single Sign On (SSO) allows users to log into many applications or websites via one set of login details.

  • Guide to SAML SSO in Figma
  • Choose Organization authentication method

  Set up SAML SSO with one of our dedicated providers:

  • SAML SSO with Okta
  • SAML SSO with OneLogin
  • SAML SSO with Azure Active Directory
  • Set up SAML SSO for ADFS

  If your provider isn't listed above, you can set up a custom SAML SSO configuration:

  • Set up a custom SAML configuration
  • Set up automatic provisioning via SCIM
• Manage teams in an organization

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Supported on Figma Organization plan

  Only team admins can manage teams in an organization.

  One of the big benefits of Figma Organizations is that you can create as many teams as you need. Every team in Figma will have its own dedicated workspace, where team members can access team projects and files.

  Teams in an organization also have admins, these are team members with extra administration rights. They can manage members and shared resources like default libraries and custom fonts. Learn more about teams in an organization →

  Organizations admins and team admins are separate privileges and aren't interchangeable. Organizations admins don't have admin access to teams, but they can perform some administrative tasks around teams.

  In this article we'll cover managing teams in an organization as a team admin and an organization admin.

  I'm a team admin

  Team admins have can edit to the teams they manage. They can manage other member's permissions, shared resources like fonts and libraries, and delete the team itself.

  Manage team members

  View and manage members of your team in the Members tab of your team workspace.

  

  1. View a member's profile picture, name and email address.
  2. Click Invite to add a member to your team. Members and guests can invite other members or guests at or below their permission level. For example: viewers can only invite viewers, editors can invite viewers or editors.
  3. View a team member's current team-level permissions. Click the <ICON> to make changes to their access:
     • Update their permissions to can view or can edit. Learn more about permissions in teams →
     • Select admin to make them an admin of the team, this will also give them can edit access to the team.
     • Select remove to revoke their access to the team. If the Org access of the team is open or closed, members can request to join the team again. To add a guest back to the team, you need to invite them again.

  Note: The members tab for a team in an organization only includes collaborators who have a role on the team itself. This doesn't include anyone who has a role on an individual file or project within that team.

  Manage resources

  In an organization, you can share both libraries and fonts within a team. Learn how to upload and manage fonts for a team in our Manage fonts in an organization article.

  To enable a library for a team in an organization:

  1. Click on the team name in the sidebar.

  2. Select the Setting tab at the top of the page.

  3. Click Enable libraries to open the libraries modal and view a list of available libraries.

     Use the toggles to enable or disable that library in the current file:

     Library on:

     Library off:

  4. Click to close the library modal.

  Delete a team

  Caution: When you delete a team in an organization, Figma will delete the team, as well as all files and projects in that team. This applies for all collaborators, not only you.

  The owner of a team, or a team admin can restore the deleted team. They will have 28 days to restore the team before Figma will permanently delete any files and projects.

  We recommend moving files and projects to another team first. Alternatively, you can transfer ownership of the team to another admin or editor ↑.

  1. Open the team in the file browser.
  2. Click the next to the team name in the toolbar. Select Delete team from the options.
  3. Enter the name of the team in the field provided and click Confirm delete.
  4. Figma will delete the team and any files or projects.

  Note: If there are no longer any team admins, an organization admin can join the team as an owner ↓. This allows them to promote another member to admin, or move files and project to another team.

  I'm an organization admin

  Organization admins won't have admin access to every team in the organization. Organization admins can only perform administrative actions for teams if they're an admin of that team.

  There are some things that organization admins can do:

  • View a list of open and closed teams in the organization.
  • Claim ownership of teams in the organization that don't currently have an owner.

  View teams in the organization

  Like all members of the organization, admins can view a list of open and closed teams from the organization page. They can also view a list of teams in the organization's Admin settings.

  This allows them to perform bulk actions or reassign ownership of teams without owners.

  1. From the file browser, click Admin settings in the left sidebar.
  2. Select Teams at the top of the screen.

  Note: In an organization, there are three levels of Org access: open, closed, and secret teams. Organization admins can only view open and closed teams, they won't be able to see secret teams, unless they're a member of that team. The can view activity logs relating to secret teams.

  From the Teams page, organization admins can:

  1. View a list of all open and closed teams in the organization. For each team they can see the:

     • Team name and icon
     • Current owner
     • Total projects
     • Total members
     • Current Org access (Open, Closed, or Secret)

  2. Filter teams based on different criteria:

     • Org access level (Open, Closed, or Secret)
     • View only teams you're a member of
     • Teams and projects without owners: Learn how to claim ownership of a team ↓

  3. Check the box next to the team to select it. Select multiple teams to apply actions in bulk. You can perform any of the following actions in bulk:

     • Join all open teams
     • Request to join closed teams
     • Leave teams of which they're a member
     • Delete teams they're an admin on

  4. Click the heading to change the sort to ↑ ascending or ↓ descending order.

  5. Use the Search field to find a specific team.

  6. Click Create new team to create a new team in the organization.

  7. Click to see any available team-level actions.

     If you're a member of the team:

     • Leave team (if in team)
     • View projects
     • View team members
     • Rename team
     • Delete team

     If you're not a member of the team:

     • Join open teams
     • Request to join closed teams
     • Join team as owner for teams without owners

  Claim ownership of a team

  If there are no longer any members in a team, an organization admin can join the team as an owner. This applies to:

  • Teams with no owners or admins
  • Teams with no members
  • Secret teams with no owners, admins or members

  Join as a team owner from the Teams tab in the organization's Admin settings.

  1. From the file browser, click Admin settings in the sidebar.
  2. Select Teams at the top of the screen.
  3. Check the Teams and projects without owners box.
  4. Click Join as owner to join the team and claim ownership.
  5. From here organization admins can:
     • Move files to another team or project
     • Move projects to another team
     • Delete files in the team
     • Invite new admins, editors or viewers to the team ↑
     • Transfer ownership of the team to someone else ↑
     • Delete the team permanently ↑
• Manage members and guests in an organization

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Supported on Figma Organization plan.

  Only Organization Admins can manage members and guests in an organization.

  Everyone in an organization has both an account type and a role. These control:

  • What people can access in the organization.
  • If they can view or edit resources in the organization.
  • If Figma includes them in the organization's billing.

  You can have any combination of account type and role in an organization. Learn more about roles and account types →

  Account type

  • Members are people in the organization with an email address that matches any of the organization's domain(s). Members can access other resources in the organization.
  • Organization admins are members with extra administrative rights, they can manage and control extra settings within the organization.
  • Guests are members with an email address that doesn't match any registered domains. Guests can only access resources you invite them to.

  Role

  There are three roles in an organization: viewer, viewer - restricted, and editor.

  • Viewer is a provisional role within the organization. Viewers can upgrade themselves to editors through specific actions.
  • Viewer -restricted roles can perform limited actions within an organization.
  • Editors can edit resources they have access to, and are included in the organization's billing. Learn more about managing new editors in your billing →

  Manage members

  Organization admins can manage members and guests in the organization's Admin settings.

  1. Open Figma in the file browser.
  2. Select Admin settings in the sidebar.
  3. Select Members at the top of the screen.

  

  From the Members tab, organization admins can:

  1. View a list of all members, admins, and guests in the organization. Every member will have an icon, name, and email address.
  2. Badges will show next to members who are admins, guests, or pending.
  3. Filter members by Role, Account type, or date of Last edit.
  4. Use the checkbox to find Editors that are New since last invoice.
  5. Sort results by Last edit, Last active, date Upgraded, Role, and SCIM member data (optional).
     • Last edit: The last date and time the user took an edit action on a Figma file in the Organization space. This includes files in a user's drafts.
     • Last active: The last time they performed an action in Figma. For example: moving or renaming a file, publishing a library, etc. This is not their last login date.
  6. Use the Request CSV button to Figma will send a CSV file to the admin's email address, which lists all members in the organization. This includes more member data including job title, date added, and teams.
     If you have configured SCIM, Figma will also include SCIM member data in the export. This includes cost center, division, department, or employee member.
  7. Use the Search field to find specific members and guests.
  8. Click the information icon to open the Recent activity modal ↓
  9. Click to access more actions for each member:
     • View user activity
     • Copy email
     • Grant user admin access
     • Remove user

  Bulk actions

  Use the checkboxes next to each member to select members and apply actions in bulk. You can perform any of the following actions in bulk:

  • Change role to upgrade or downgrade members or guest in bulks
  • Copy emails to your clipboard
  • Grant admin access to selected members and guests
  • Remove users from the Organization

  View activity and access

  At the top of the modal view a summary for that member, this includes their profile picture, name, and email address, as well as their current access within the organization.

  There are two tabs in this modal:

  

  • 1

    Recent activity

    View a snapshot of a member's activity to determine whether they need edit access to the organization.

    • View the last five events in the member's history. Figma will show the date, description of the activity or event, the team thee activity is related to, and the IP address of the user.
    • View the date and reason of their upgrade of any new or recently upgraded editors.
    • Click the See more activity button to open the Activity log with this member selected. Learn more about viewing member activity →
  • 2

    Guest access

    🚧 Caution: This feature is part of a phased rollout. If you don't see this tab in your Figma account then it's coming soon!

    If you view the recent activity for a guest of the organization, you can switch to the Guest access tab to see what resources they have access to.

    • View a list of the teams, projects, and files they can access in the organization.
    • See their current permissions across every resource.
    • Update their access or remove them from the organization.

  Invite members

  There are a few ways to add members and guests to your organization.

  Note: Anyone with an external email address will be a guest, there is no way to make someone with an external email address a member. This includes external contractors or people using their personal email address.

  Learn more about roles and account types in an organization →

  Invite them to a resource

  Any member or guest can invite someone to a resource. People can only invite others with permissions at or below their own permission level: viewers can invite other viewers; editors can invite viewers or editors.

  • Invite viewers or editors to a team
  • Invite someone to a project
  • Invite a collaborator to a file

  Tip! If domain capture is off, you can invite users who already have Figma accounts. They can use the switcher to move between teams inside and outside the Organization.

  Add them to the organization

  You can only add members to the organization itself, if domain capture is off. If domain capture is off, organization admins can add members directly to the organization.

  Note: Figma will give everyone you invite via this process a provisional viewer role. You can update their access to viewer restricted or editor once Figma shows them in the Members tab.

  1. Click on the Admin settings option beneath the organization nam in the sidebar.
  2. Select the Members tab and click the Invite member button in the top-right corner.
  3. Enter the member's company email address and click Send Invite.
  4. Figma will send an email to the member's email address. They can follow the link in the email to join the organization.

  Note: You won't see the option to invite a member in your Admin settings if domain capture is on. You will need to invite the member to a resource in the organization, like a team or file.

  If your organization uses SAML SSO, you can also add them to your identity provider to add them to your Figma Organization.

  Add them via SAML SOO

  If you have configured SAML SSO in your organization, you can add members to your organization via your identity provider.

  Follow the links to third-party documentation below for detailed instructions on how to add members to your identity provider:

  • Azure Active Directory
  • OneLogin
  • Okta
  • Google

  Downgrade members

  If you do not want someone to be included in your organization's billing you can downgrade their role to Viewer - restricted.

  This will restrict their access and actions within the organization. This includes any files, projects, or libraries in the organization. Learn more about what viewer restricted can and can't do →

  1. Use the search field to find the member or guest.
  2. In the Role column, click the next to editor and select Viewer - restricted.
  3. Next time the member tries to share or edit a file, they will see an "Access Restricted" message.

  Note: Restricted member can request an upgrade to Editor again. This will send a request to every Admin in the Organization, who can approve or reject the request.

  Upgrade member roles

  Upgrade a member to an editor to allow them to edit resources in the organization. Figma will include them as an editor seat in your next billing true-up.

  Upgrading a member's role to editor won't affect their permissions on any files, projects, or teams. You can still control a member's access to each team individually.

  1. Use the search field to find the member or guest.
  2. Click the next to Viewer and select Editor.

  Note: If a member upgrades after you have finalized your current true-up, Figma will include them in your next true-up. Learn more about billing in an Organization →

  Grant members admin access

  Grant a member admin access to upgrade them to an organization admin.

  1. Click the next to the member.
  2. Select Grant Admin Access from the options

  Learn more about what admins can and can't do →

  Remove members

  Remove members to immediately revoke their access from the organization. This prevents them from accessing any teams, files, projects, or libraries in the organization.

  There are a few steps to take when removing a member or guest from an organization.

  Transfer teams, files and projects

  We recommend you transfer ownership of a member's teams, files and projects, before you remove them. This allows you to select the new owner of those resources.

  If you don't, Figma will transfer ownership to a team Admin or an Editor on a file or project.

  • Change the owner of a team
  • Transfer ownership of a file
  • Transfer ownership of a project

  Note: If there are no other admins or editors on those teams, files, or projects, those resources won't have an owner. Organization admins can claim ownership of a team, once they have ownership of the team they can claim and manage any projects.

  Remove members from Figma

  Remove the member from the Members tab in the Admin settings.

  1. Use the search field to find the member or guest.
  2. Click and select Remove.
  3. Check the box next to I understand that this action isn't reversible and click Remove member.

  Remove members via SAML SSO or Google SSO

  If your organization members are configured via SAML SSO, you will also need to remove the user from your identity provider.

  This isn't something that we can help you with directly, but we've rounded up some documentation from supported providers below.

  • Add or Delete Users in Azure Active Directory
  • Suspending or Deleting Users in OneLogin
  • Activate and Deactivate Users in Okta

  To remove someone from your GSuite organization, check out Google's Delete a user from your organization article .

  View and manage shared projects

  Anything within the organization space is the organization's intellectual property, this includes member drafts.

  When you remove a member from an organization, Figma moves any files from the member's drafts to the Shared Projects folder.

  This locks files and projects for any collaborators with access to them. Admins will need to assign new owners to those resources before collaborators can continue to edit them.

  1. Open Figma in the file browser and select Shared projects in the sidebar.
  2. Find the member's drafts you want to manage. It will look something like Name's (email@address.com) Deleted Drafts
  3. You'll need to move the folder to a team before you can access the files within it. Click on the folder name and select Add to favorites from the options.
  4. Figma will add the project to the sidebar. Click and hold on the folder in the file browser and drag it to a new team.

  Learn more about managing projects →

• Monitor member and guest activity

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Supported on the Figma Organization plan

  Organization admins can view member and guest activity.

  Activity logs provide a record of how members and guests of your organization are using and interacting with files and shared resources.

  • See who is accessing, copying and sharing files.
  • Track changes made to teams.
  • Track changes made to team, project and file permissions.
  • View actions taken by specific members.
  • Monitor changes to organization-level settings (made by organization admins).
  • Identify and prevent misuse of any organization resources.

  View activity logs

  Organization admins are able to access activity logs in the Activity tab of the organization's Admin settings.

  1. From the file browser, select Admin settings under the Organization's name in the sidebar.
  2. Click the Activity header at the top of the screen to open the activity log.
  3. Use the fields to filter results by your desired criteria. Choose from:
     
     1. Member: Enter a person’s email address to view their activity.
     2. Date: Enter a start and end date to see results for a specific date range.
     3. Events: use the dropdown provided to select a specific type of event. Learn more about what Figma tracks ↓
     4. Team: Select a team to view activity within that specific team.

  Tip! Admins can also view recent activity for a specific member or guest in the Members tab. If they click to see more activity, Figma will open the Activity tab with that person's email address already populated.

  

  Export activity logs

  You can export a copy of your activity logs, which includes all the data in your activity logs. This is great if you want to back up this information or dig further into events.

  When you request a CSV export, Figma will ignore any filters you've applied and export your entire activity log for the selected date range.

  1. Enter a start and end date to see results for a specific date range.
  2. Click Request CSV in the top-right corner of the screen.
  3. Figma will download a CSV to your designated downloads folder.

  There are a few different dates we reference in the CSV file:

  • Last active: The date and time the user was last active in Figma. This is not specific to edit actions and includes activity in the file browser.
  • Last edit: The date and time the user last took an edit action on a Figma file in the organization space. This includes files in a user's drafts.
  • Last seen: The date and time the user last visited a Figma link.

  

  Activity log events

  Figma will record the following information, for every event that is added to the Activity Log. Figma records and logs events for a maximum of 365 days.

  • Date and time the event occurred. All times are shown in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
  • IP address of the related user
  • User's actor Id. For example: John Appleseed or Figma Support

  Tracked events

  • A new file is created
  • A file is viewed
  • If you view a publicly accessible file
  • A user deletes an existing file
  • A file is moved between teams or projects
  • A user views a Prototype
  • A user exports content from a file
  • A user duplicates a file
  • A user's file permissions are changed
  • A user's project permissions are changed
  • Someone makes a file publicly accessible (link sharing)
  • A user joins a team
  • A user leaves a team
  • A new team is created
  • A team is deleted
  • Any Admin or member logs in to or signs out of their Figma account.

  Figma also records the following events made my organization admins:

  • An admin changes the organization's membership settings, including changing the name, icon or any domains associated with the organization.
  • An admin changes the organization's authentication settings. For example: when you enable or enforce log in via SAML SSO.
  • An admin updates the permissions of a shared resource.
  • An admin removes a member from the organization.

  Note: There are a few events worth mentioning that Figma doesn't record:

  • Any log in activities for guests of the organization.
  • When a member closes a browser window or exits Figma without logging out.
• Manage fonts in an Organization

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Supported on Figma Organization plan

  Only Organization Admin can upload fonts to the Organization.

  Only Team Admins can upload fonts to a team.

  Figma supports .TTF and .OTF fonts. Webfonts are not supported.

  Figma Organizations can upload and share custom fonts in the Organization. Share fonts in a specific team, or across the entire Organization.

  • Organization Admins can upload fonts to the entire Organization.
  • Team Admins can upload fonts to a specific team.
  • No need to share, install or update fonts for individual users.
  • Chromebook and Linux users can access custom fonts.

  You can only upload fonts in .TTF and .OTF format. It's not possible to upload or install web fonts. Access any fonts on your computer via the Figma Desktop app or Figma Font Helper.

  Warning: Admins should only upload fonts they own or have a license to use in Figma. Find out more in the Content and Content rights section of Figma’s Terms of Service

  Upload a font to the Organization

  Who can upload fonts to an Organization?

  Only Organization Admin can upload fonts to the Organization.

  Any Fonts you upload to the Organization will be available to everyone. Members of any team in the Organization can access and use these fonts.

  Fonts can only be uploaded to the Organization by an Organization Admin.

  1. Open Figma in the file browser.
  2. Select Admin Settings to open the Organization's settings.
  3. Select Resource and then Shared fonts:
  4. Click the Upload Fonts button:
  5. Select the font file from your computer. You can select as many font files as you want. Click Open to select the fonts.
  6. Confirm you have the necessary rights and licenses to use the font(s). Click Upload to start the upload process. The font will now be available in the font picker for files in the Organization.

  Note: Figma will let you know if you already have fonts uploaded with that font family name. Click Skip to leave the font out of the upload, or Replace to update the existing font.

  Upload a font to a team

  Who can upload a font to a team?

  Only Team Admins can upload fonts to a team.

  1. Open the file browser and select the team in the sidebar.
  2. Click on the Settings tab.
  3. Click the Manage Shared Fonts link.
  4. Figma will show you a list of all the fonts available in that team, including the Font Family, Style, Version and a Sample of the font.
  5. Click the in the top-right corner to add a font.
  6. Select the font file from your computer and then Open to select. You can select as many font files as you want.
  7. Check the box to confirm you have the necessary rights and licenses to use the font(s).
  8. Click Upload to start the upload process. The font will now be available in the font picker in any files in that team.
• Request upgrades in an organization

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Anyone on the Figma Organization plan

  Only Organization Admins can change a member's role in the Organization.

  Everyone who interacts with an organization will also have an account type and a role. Only Organization Admins can manage these permissions.

  In this article, we are focusing on upgrading roles in an organization. Learn more about permissions in an organization →

  Roles in a Figma Organization

  A person's role determines:

  • If they can get edit access to teams, projects, or files
  • If they're included in the Organization's billing

  There are three roles:

  • Viewer is a provisional role that removes barriers to collaboration. Viewers can view and comment on resources in the organization. Viewers can also upgrade themselves when they perform any of the upgrade actions.
  • Viewer Restricted is a role that can only perform limited actions within an Organization. They can't upgrade themselves, so they will need an Organization Admin to upgrade their access.
  • Editor is a role for members with can edit access to at least one team, project or file. They can't edit all resources in the organization, just the ones they have edit access to. Figma only includes Editors in the organization's billing.

  There are a few ways members and guests can be assigned roles:

  • If you upgrade to Figma Organization from a Professional team, anyone with an existing Editor role on any teams or files will be made an Editor in the organization.
  • When you add people to your organization, via domain capture or manual invitation, Figma will give them a provisional Viewer role. Organization Admins can update a member's role after adding them to the organization.
  • If you use SAML SSO with Figma, you can provision user roles and cost centers using SCIM. Learn more about SAML SSO and SCIM →

  Note: You can have any combination of account type and role in an organization. That includes Guests who are Editors, or Organization Admins with Viewer Restricted access.

  Upgrade member or guest roles

  Organization Admins can upgrade a member's role to Editor, or downgrade them to Viewer Restricted in the organization's Admin Settings. Learn more about managing members as an Organization Admin →

  Tip! Figma allows Organization Admins to view and manage new Editors via quarterly true-ups. Admins can restrict a member's access to remove them from the Organization's billing. Learn how to manage billing in an organization →

  Upgrade from Viewer

  Viewer is a provisional role, which mean Figma doesn't place any restrictions on upgrading. Anyone with a Viewer role can upgrade to an Editor role by performing any of the following actions:

  • Share a file from their Drafts with another member of the Organization. This needs to be from their Drafts in the Organization space.
  • Click the Edit file button when they open an edit link for a file.
  • Create a new team or new project in the organization space.
  • Request to join a closed team as an Editor. A team Admin will need to accept their request.
  • Join a team that doesn't have any existing Editors.

  Other Editors in a team can also upgrade Viewers by inviting them to teams or files as Editors. This also applies when updating a collaborator's permissions from Can view to Can edit.

  Upgrade from Viewer Restricted

  Note: Organization Admins are the only ones who can upgrade anyone with a Viewer Restricted role to an Editor.

  Figma will give anyone with a Viewer Restricted role the opportunity to request an upgrade, if they attempt the following actions:

  • Share a file from their Drafts with another member of the organization. This needs to be from their Drafts in the Organization space.
  • Click the Edit file button when they open an edit link for a file.
  • Create a new team or new project in the organization space.
  • Request to join a closed team as an Editor. A team Admin will need to accept their request.
  • Join a team that doesn't have any existing Editors.

  An Organization Admin will need to approve their request before they can gain edit access.

  Request an upgrade

  If you have a Viewer Restricted role, you can request to upgrade to an Editor role. You can submit an upgrade request via your account settings, or from a restricted access message.

  View your role and account type

  View your role and account type in your account Settings.

  Note: Upgrading your organization permissions won't give you edit access to every team or resource in the organization, just the resources you currently have or will have can edit access to.

  1. Open Figma in the file browser.
  2. Click on your name in your global settings to open your account.
  3. Select the Settings tab and scroll down to the Organizations section.
  4. View the name of the organization, your role, and your account type.
  5. Click the Request Upgrade link next to your role.

  

  Request upgrade

  From the Request upgrade modal:

  1. Use the checkboxes to choose which admin(s) you'd like to send your requests to.
  2. Add a message to explain why you are requesting the upgrade.
  3. Click the Request upgrade button.
  4. Figma will send an email to the admin(s) you selected.
  5. Figma will notify you of the admin's response via in-app notification. If an admin accepts your request, you'll be upgraded to an Editor. If they deny your request, your role won't change.

  Contact Organization Admins If you don't agree with an Admin's decision, we recommend reaching out to your manager or an Organization Admin.

  Figma will include the email address of the Admin who declined your request in the notification. You can use this to reach out to them directly via email.

  You can also find other Admins in your organization from your organization page in the file browser. Figma will list Admins on the right side of the page.

• Claim ownership of a project

  Before you start

  Who can use this feature

  Users on the Figma Organization Plan

  Only a Team Admin or the Team Owner can claim ownership of a project.

  If there is no longer an owner of a project, the Team Owner or a Team Admin can join the project as the owner.

  This applies to:

  • Projects shared with the entire Team without an Owner
  • Private projects without an Owner
  • View-only projects without an Owner

  Claim ownership of a Project

  Note: If the Team also has no Owner, an Organization Admin can claim ownership of the Team. This allows them to manage aspects of the Team, including the ownership of abandoned Projects.  

  1. Click on the team name in the file browser.
  2. Select the project from the grid or list.
  3. Click the Join as Owner button.

  Once you have joined the project, you can:

  • Move the Project to another Team
  • Transfer ownership of the Project
  • Delete Project