# Team Accounts

With Team Accounts, your team can have individual accounts with controlled access to your Node API keys, Staking, and a single bill, instead of sharing one login.

If you already have a Validation Cloud account, you are the Admin of your own team. Until you add teammates, nothing changes about how you use your account.

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**Scope.** Team Accounts cover Node API and Staking. Mavrik is not part of Team Accounts currently.
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## Roles

There are two roles: **Admin** and **Team Member**. A team must always have at least one Admin.

| Action                                           | Admin                | Team Member |
| ------------------------------------------------ | -------------------- | ----------- |
| View and create Node API endpoint keys           | ✓                    | ✓           |
| View usage and metrics                           | ✓                    | ✓           |
| View team members                                | ✓                    | ✓           |
| Delete Node API endpoint keys                    | ✓                    | —           |
| View billing, change plan, change payment method | ✓                    | —           |
| Access Staking                                   | ✓                    | —           |
| Add, remove, or change role of team members      | via Validation Cloud | —           |

One bill per team covers Node API usage for all team members.

## Where to manage your team

As an Admin, you can see your team's members and their roles on the Team page in your Validation Cloud account. To add, remove, or change a teammate's role, email your account contact. Self-serve controls are coming in a future release.

Team Members see a read-only version of the team page.

![Team page](https://1292504766-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FF3uvE671dWWOTAu9svnI%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-8f138d93eebae282597ec9ff7f19773c9bdcd97e%2Fteam-page-v0.png?alt=media)

## Adding teammates

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**Before you add a teammate, make sure they are not using their own existing Node API keys.**

When someone joins a team, their previous Node API keys are deleted. Any applications or services running with those keys will break and cannot be recovered.

Have an Admin or Team Member in the account you will be invited to create any keys you need. Switch them over and verify they are working before joining the team.
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To add a teammate:

1. Have them sign up for a Validation Cloud account at [app.validationcloud.io/auth/login?screen\_hint=signup](https://app.validationcloud.io/auth/login?screen_hint=signup).
2. Email your account contact (or reply in your existing support thread) with their email and the role they should have (Admin or Team Member).
3. We will add them to your team.

Self-serve email invitations are coming in a future release.

## Leaving or moving between teams

To leave a team or move between teams, contact your account manager.


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