# Inviting and Managing Team Members

> How to invite family, friends, or colleagues to share your calling balance, what each person is allowed to do, and how to remove someone later.

**TL;DR:** Open Team Settings (web) or the Team tab (app), enter the person's email, and press Send invite. The team needs some credit first; once they accept the email invitation they can call immediately.

A team's power is sharing one balance across several people - family, colleagues, or friends. You top up once, and everyone you've invited can call using that credit. As the owner, you decide who joins, and inviting someone takes under a minute.

## Inviting someone, step by step

1. Open the team screen: on the website, click **Team Settings** in the menu; in the app, open the **Team** tab and go to members.
2. Find the invite box, type the person's **email address** into it, and press **Send invite**. Double-check the spelling - the invitation travels to exactly the address you type.
3. One requirement to know: your team needs some calling credit before invites can be sent. If your balance is empty, [top up](/help/8412937-how-to-top-up-your-balance) first, then invite.
4. The person receives an **email invitation** with a link. When they open it and sign in (creating their free account if they don't have one), they become a member of your team.

From that moment they can start calling on the shared balance right away - nothing else to set up.

While an invitation hasn't been accepted yet, it appears in your list as **pending**. Changed your mind or typed the wrong address? Press **revoke** next to it and the invitation stops working.

## Who can do what

Every team has one **owner** (the person who created it) and any number of **members**. Here's the difference at a glance:

| What | Owner | Member |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Make calls, manage contacts, view history | Yes | Yes |
| Add credit / [auto top-up](/help/4573082-auto-top-up-never-run-out-of-credit) | Yes | No |
| Invite or remove members, rename the team | Yes | No |
| Send [gift credits](/help/7650213-gift-credits-send-calling-credit-to-anyone) | Yes | No |

In short: members use the service, the owner manages the money and the people - the complete permission-by-permission breakdown is in [Team Roles: What Owners and Members Can Do](/help/9284360-team-roles-what-owners-and-members-can-do). If a member runs into a "please top up" message, the app gently points them to you - see [Minimum Balance to Start a Call](/help/6829471-minimum-balance-to-start-a-call).

## Removing a member

1. Open the members list (same place as inviting).
2. Find the person and choose **remove**.

Their access ends immediately - they can no longer call on your balance or see your team's history. Nothing bad happens to them otherwise: their own CallTuv account keeps existing with its own personal team; they're simply no longer part of yours.

## Keeping an eye on usage

Every member's calls appear in the shared [call history](/help/7482016-your-call-history) with their name attached, so you always know how the credit is being used. For a summary view of who's calling how much, see [Team Activity and Call Stats](/help/4906138-team-activity-and-call-stats).