Invite to a payment method

# Get ready

Understand that an account at fortrabbit represents a person. Apps are owned by payment methods, which are objects that are controlled by people. See billing collaboration for the concepts.

# Use cases

Use the 'invite to payment method' flow to invite someone to access an existing payment method. The invited person can be a non technical business owner (client, see account types) or a tech-savvy developer to connect a team. Use this flow to invite:

• A co-founder of a startup or agency
• Someone from the billing department
• Another team

Depending on the account type people connected to a payment method can:

• Clients and developers: receive invoices, change the billing credentials
• Developers: attach the payment method to new apps or existing apps

# How it works

This describes the app invite flow from both sides:

# On the inviter side

1. You need to have a billing connection to a payment method
2. In the dashboard, find the link
3. Select the apps you like them to pay
4. Enter the email address of payee

# On the invited side

1. Receive an email with an invite link
2. Login to fortrabbit or create a new account for this
3. Accept the invite and follow the steps to create or choose a new payment method for the apps

# Consequences

• The inviter will loose their billing connection to the app
• The inviter will keep the developer connection
• The invited account is in power to delete the app or assign other developers
• It's also possible to connect a team to a payment method
• All interactions are recorded as events

# Alternatives

This flow is specifically made to share access on a payment method. You can also invite someone to a take over billing.

With team collaboration members with unlimited access - see team roles - automatically have access to payment methods that are connected to the team.