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Prevent users from self-upgrading to Editor

  • November 7, 2025
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Is there a way to prevent people from making edits, or self-upgrading their account from a Viewer to an Editor? I am on Enterprise Scale and constantly have to check to make sure people arent self-upgrading to Editor and thus taking away seats, or using seats we do not have available.

One solution I found was to make everyone only an editor, but then they cant configure or modify the base which means I, or my team, would have to configure their base for them which we cannot support.

 

Has anyone here found a solution for this? Seems kind of silly that there isnt a setting within the Admin panel to prevent this from happening.

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    TheTimeSavingCo
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    Yeah this question comes up every couple of months but I haven’t seen anyone with a good solution for this I’m afraid.  I take it you’ve already reached out to Enterprise Support?

    Adam, Airtable Consultant - thetimesaving.company
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    • AdamM
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    • November 11, 2025

    I haven’t seen this, but I’m wondering what steps do they take to be able to self update to editor?

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    • KevinBostwick
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    • December 18, 2025

    I haven’t seen this, but I’m wondering what steps do they take to be able to self update to editor?

    What I’ve seen is just attempting to make edits to a base; I am not entirely sure how they do that as a “viewer” but thats what the trigger shows on their profile.

     

    I would love to just make everyone an editor within my org, but that then means they need me (the admin) to make changes to the base or interface and I dont have the time or resources to handle these requests. I feel like AirTable really should have some sort of setting in the Admin Panel that prevents users from self-upgrading. I constantly have to check my admin panel to make sure no one has upgraded their own account as we are at a license limit.

    Mike_AutomaticN
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    Hey ​@KevinBostwick!

    That is how it should actually work. Make sure to submit this as a Product Idea, and reach out to support@airtable.com as needed. They are usually really helpful (make sure to ask a human response, as first one seems to be AI written usually).
     

    Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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