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# 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. Everyone gets access to the free version of Mavrik whether they are in their own team or join another one.
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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 an Admin or Team Member to your team         | ✓                    | -           |
| 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.

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

<figure><img src="/files/lit8qlYFRDkwWBjH52tI" alt="Validation Cloud Team Page Admin view"><figcaption><p>Team Page (Admin view)</p></figcaption></figure>

## 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, if they already had an account on the Validation Cloud Platform, their previous Node API keys are deleted.&#x20;

Any applications or services running with those keys will break and the keys 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 in your application and verify they are working before joining a team.
{% endhint %}

To add a teammate:

1. Make sure you are an Admin in the team you are inviting someone to
2. Go to <https://app.validationcloud.io/team>
3. Type in the email address of the person you wish to invite, select their role, either Member or Admin ([see Roles above](#roles) for differences). Then click Invite.
   1. If this person has *not* previously set up an account on Validation Cloud before, they will receive an email guiding them through the process to create an account and join your team
   2. If this person already has an existing account on the Validation Cloud platform, they will receive an email inviting them to join your team. *As above, please note they will lose access to any keys they have in the team they are moving from*

## Leaving or moving between teams & changing permissions of existing team members

To leave a team, move between teams or change permissions of existing team members, contact your account manager.


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