Share Interface

Hello,

This is Airtable's licensing policy. You can have as many read only users as you want without extra cost, but you have to pay a licence for each user with editor rights, the licence cost depending on the plan your are on.

Regards,

Pascal

Many business users find that granting editor access to users is cost prohibitive. A user who occasionally edit a single select field costs the same as a user who builds and maintains the entire base. When you add users, your monthly bill will show a pro-rated cost for any new users that you added based on when they were added. 

Sometimes people use a third-party portal system for these types of users. Most third party portal systems have a flat monthly rate instead of a per-user rate.

In some very simple use cases, people use a combination of buttons that open prefilled forms and automations to update Airtable data. This technique can be free; however, the workflows are a bit kludgy.

You are charged extra for each writer on Airtable's Business plan. This means that your bill goes up every time you add someone who can edit. There is no way around this, though, so you can't share editing access for free. Assigning team members as "readers" or "commenters" when possible would be one way to get around the problem. Another would be to give editing chores to fewer people to save money. If you need to make regular changes, you might want to use automations to cut down on the number of edits you need.