Seats

How seats work in Felt — Full Access seats, Viewer seats, and how they relate to permissions.

Felt uses a simple seat model: Full Access seats for people who create and edit, and Viewer seats for everyone else. Seats set the ceiling on what someone can do in your workspace; permissions determine what they can do on a specific project, map, or data source.

Seat types

Full Access	Required to create maps, upload data, edit layers, or contribute changes. 10 Full Access seats are included on the Professional plan. Enterprise plans scale to your organization.
Viewer	Free. Viewers can open maps shared with them, browse data, and read comments. They can't edit, upload, or create maps.

Seats vs. permissions

Seats are workspace-level. Permissions are granular and apply to a specific project, map, or data source.

• Seat = "Do you have a paid seat in this workspace?" (Full Access or Viewer)

• Permission = "What can you do on this specific project / map / data source?" (View, Contribute, Edit, or Admin)

A Full Access seat can be granted any permission level. For example, an analyst with a Full Access seat might have Edit access on the Operations project but View access on the Marketing project. The seat is the ceiling; permissions decide where they sit beneath it.

For the full permission matrix — what each permission level can do at the workspace, project, map, and data source level — see Permissions.

Admin access

Admin is granted on top of a Full Access seat. Admins manage workspace settings, members, and billing. There must always be at least one Admin in the workspace.

Switching a member’s seat

Workspace Admins can change member seats on the members page. For step-by-step instructions on inviting members and assigning seats, see Managing members.

Commenting

Posting comments requires a Full Access seat — any member with a Full Access seat can comment, even on maps where they only have View permission. Viewer seats can read comments on maps they're shared with but can't post them. (Workspaces on some legacy plans still allow Viewer seats to comment; if yours is one, nothing changes for you.)