What is an invited user?

What is an invited user?

In invited user us a user with ATLAS.ti account with whom you have shared your licenses. In other words, this is a user that is invited to use the licenses that are registered under your organization account.
The invitation is one-time operation to associate a guest account (for example, a student's account) with your license.

Here is how it works:
- You are the license administrator and have an account. Our recommendation is that organizations or universities create an administrative account.
- Licenses are purchased and activated under this account. This means that the licenses belong to the account and the account can use those licenses.
- The account can invite other accounts, so those account can use the licenses it may have. This is done by sending people the invite code.
- Other users (employees, students, team members) create their own account each. They normally do not purchase licenses or activate licenses.
- If the employee or student has your invite code, they can "invite themselves" into your organization. This allows them to use the licenses you may have activated under your account.
- When an employee or a student starts ATLAS.ti (normally installed by the university, but they can download it directly and install it themselves), it asks for their account credentials.
- The system looks if they have a license, either their own or if somebody has shared a license with them, in this case, your organization or university.
- The system then allocates one seat from your licenses to that user.
- Once they close the app (or even if the app crashes, after some time of inactivity), the system will free the occupied seat that this user blocked.

This means that you can have as many invited users as you want, but no more active users (currently using the app) at any given time than you have license seats. This reflects our licensing model, which is per concurrent seat.