Licenses

How seats and licenses work in Felt — full seats, viewers, and how they relate to permissions.

Felt uses a simple license model: full seats for people who create and edit, and viewers for everyone else. Licenses 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.

License types

Full seat	Required to create maps, upload data, edit layers, or contribute changes. 10 full seats are included on Professional. 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.

Licenses vs. permissions

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

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

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

A full seat can be granted any permission level. For example, an analyst with a full seat might have Edit access on the Operations project but View access on the Marketing project. The license 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 seat. Admins manage workspace settings, members, and billing. There must always be at least one Admin in the workspace.

Switching a member's license

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

Commenting

Posting comments requires a full seat. Viewers can read comments on maps they're shared with but can't post them.