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I am using the free account and created a team to share with a few colleagues. All the boards show me (not the team) as the owner, and I believe they were all created before I set up the team.

I’d like to upgrade my account without paying to upgrade every team member. My plan is to delete the team and just share the individual boards with my colleagues who have their own free accounts. I found out how to delete the team, but I see the following warning:

“By leaving the team, you will lose access to all its boards.
Deleting the team will irreversibly remove all its boards and disband users.”

I want to make sure these boards don’t get deleted. How do I tell if the boards are part of the team versus my own account? I see that boards can be exported, but I don’t have the ability to do that with my free account. Any advice on how to proceed is appreciated. It’s annoying that Miro doesn’t make this easier, since I’m actually trying to get a paid license.

@Greg Collins - You can create a new, paid team team with just you as the member. Then, you can move your boards from the Free Plan team to the new paid one.

With the UI recently changing, I tried to show the steps in one screenshot:

 

Another option is, while signed into your account, go to www.miro.com/pricing and create a new team from that screen. In both scenarios, the new team will be associated with your Miro account profile.

Let us know how you make out!


@Robert Johnson Thanks for the response. In that case, it sounds like I could also just drop the other team members and then upgrade with my one-person team without having to move boards. I guess I didn't think of that initially because I wanted to remove the "team" configuration altogether. Is that possible? The downside of keeping a team, I assume, is that Miro will keep poking me to add team members and i won't want to..


@Greg Collins 

In that case, it sounds like I could also just drop the other team members and then upgrade with my one-person team without having to move boards.

You could absolutely do that.

 

I guess I didn't think of that initially because I wanted to remove the "team" configuration altogether. Is that possible? The downside of keeping a team, I assume, is that Miro will keep poking me to add team members and i won't want to.

I have around four Free Plan teams that I never use (except for testing various scenarios) and Miro never contacts me to suggest I add other people to the team.

But back to your first comment of “removing everyone but yourself and upgrading to a paid subscription”, that would be the simplest route.


So I deleted the other 3 people from my team, upgraded to the paid “Started” package, and I am unable to invite people back as an editor of the board without adding them to the team (and paying for them as well). In the fine print (not on the pricing page comparison) I find that you need the “Business” level package (double the cost) in order to invite editors to boards. This is a frustrating gap between the free and paid versions.

For others that find this and are wanting for more than 3 boards, I would recommend creating an account with another email address so you can increase your board access without paying.

If others have a better solution for my use case, feel free to chime in. Collaboration is a key aspect to Miro and the paid pricing options are not well thought out.


@Greg Collins - While not idea, the Starter Plan does allow non-team members to edit your boards using the Visitors feature.

Those non-team members would then just need to keep track of the board links, e.g., in a team Google or Word doc, SharePoint site, Confluence page, bookmarks, etc.


@Greg Collins - Another strategy for managing other team boards, would be for one of the 3 team members you removed to add you to their Free Plan team where you could set up a “Team boards” board with a links to all of your team boards – definitely some extra steps, but it could be used as a central repository for board links.


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