Invite members and assign roles
Workspace Admins can invite new members to a workspace by:
- Enabling automatic access for members who sign up for Expensify using their domain email address (e.g., yourname@yourcompany.com)
- Sending a link (you can copy the link and send it in Slack, Teams, etc.)
- Sending an invitation email
- Importing a list of new members
Each option is outlined below in more detail.
Automatic Workspace Access with Company Email
Enabling pre-approvals allows members to automatically join your workspace when they create an Expensify account using their domain email address (e.g., yourname@yourcompany.com).
Follow these steps to enable automatic access to your workspace:
- Under Setting > Workspace > [Workspace Name] > Overview
- Scroll to the Workspace Joining Link section.
- Below the Workspace Joining Link, enable Pre-approve join requests from validated users at {domain name}.
Create an Invitation Link
You can copy your workspace’s unique link and share it with someone you want to invite to your workspace.
To find your workspace’s unique link:
- Head to Setting > Workspace > [Workspace Name] > Overview.
- Scroll down to Workspace Joining Link.
- Copy the Workspace Joining Link and send it via Slack, Teams, or any other communication method.
Invite via Email
To send an email invitation to your workspace:
- Navigate to Setting > Workspace > [Workspace Name] > Members.
- Click Invite.
- Enter the phone number or email address of the person you’re inviting.
- Select a role for the new member (see table below).
- If your workspace uses Advanced Approvals, select Approves to. This determines, if applicable, who the member’s reports must be approved by. If no one is selected, then if the member submits a report, anyone with the Auditor or Workspace Admin role can approve it.
- Add a personal message, if desired. This message will appear in the invitation email or message.
- Click Invite.
Note: If you’re inviting multiple people who will be assigned the same role, you can enter multiple email addresses or phone numbers by separating them with a comma.
Member Roles
The following table shows the permissions available for each role:
Employee | Auditor | Workspace Admin |
---|---|---|
✔ Submit their own reports | ✔ Submit their own reports | ✔ Submit their own reports |
✔ Approve reports submitted to them | ✔ Approve reports submitted to them | ✔ Approve reports submitted to them |
✔ View all workspace reports | ✔ View all workspace reports | |
✔ Approve all workspace reports | ||
✔ Edit workspace settings |
Import a Group of Members
You can add multiple members to your workspace at once by importing a .csv
, .txt
, .xls
, or .xlsx
list.
To add members in bulk:
- Create a spreadsheet with Email and Role as column headers and fill in the information for all of the members you want to add to your workspace. You can also include any of the following columns:
- Submits To
- Approves To
- Approval Limit
- Over Limit Forward To
- Under Setting > Workspace > [Workspace Name] > Members, click Import from spreadsheet.
- Match the columns in your spreadsheet with the Expensify data they correspond to.
- Click Import.
Note: If you are utilizing the Advanced Approval feature, you can specify to whom each member should submit their expense reports and who an approver should send approved reports for the next step in the approval process. If someone is the final