Free Viewer Users
Learn how to give colleagues read-only access to your workspace without using a seat
Viewers let you give someone read-only access to your workspace. They can see your bookings, analytics, and settings, but they cannot change anything. Viewers are free and do not count toward your seat limit.
What Is a Viewer?
A viewer is a member of your company who logs in like anyone else but can only look. Every attempt to create, edit, or delete something is refused.
Viewers are ideal for:
- Managers who want to follow team performance without touching the setup
- Finance or leadership colleagues who only need reporting
- Auditors and reviewers who need visibility for a limited time
- Anyone you want to keep informed without giving them the ability to change things
What Viewers Can Do
- Sign in to the dashboard
- See bookings and appointments
- Open analytics and reports
- View meeting types, teams, and settings
What Viewers Cannot Do
- Change anything: creating, editing, and deleting are all blocked
- Be booked: viewers do not appear in host pickers, round robin queues, or team member selection, and they get no booking page
- Connect a calendar: there is nothing to schedule, so calendar connections are not available
- Use a seat: viewers are free and never affect your subscription
The read-only restriction is enforced by our API, not just hidden in the dashboard. A viewer cannot work around it with a personal access token, an integration, or a direct API call.
How Many Viewers You Get
The number of viewers included depends on your plan:
| Plan | Viewers included |
|---|---|
| Free | 10 |
| Light | 20 |
| Suite | 50 |
| Premium | 100 |
| Enterprise | Unlimited |
When you reach the limit, adding another viewer is blocked until you upgrade or remove an existing one.
Company-Wide or Specific Teams
When you invite a viewer, you choose how much they can see:
- The whole company: all bookings, meeting types and analytics
- Only specific teams: only the members of the teams you pick
A viewer limited to specific teams can only open the areas where we can reliably apply that limit: bookings, booking requests, meeting types, and analytics. Everywhere else stays unavailable to them rather than showing data from teams they were not given access to. A company-wide viewer has no such restriction.
You need at least one team before you can use team scoping. See How to set a user as a team admin for how teams work.
How to Invite a Viewer
- Go to the Users page
- Click Add member, then select Viewer
- Enter one or more email addresses
- Choose whether they see the whole company or only specific teams
- If you picked specific teams, select which ones
- Click to send the invitations
Each person receives an email with a link to accept. If they do not have a meetergo account yet, they create one during the process at no cost.
Viewers are available on every plan, including Free. You do not need a paid subscription to add them.
Turning a Viewer Into a Full Member
If a viewer needs to start working in the workspace, remove them and invite them again as a team member. A full member uses a seat and will affect your subscription.
A viewer sees a banner at the top of the dashboard explaining that their access is view-only, so they know why saving is unavailable.
Viewers and Partners
Viewers and partners both avoid using a seat, but they are opposites:
- A partner is external and gets admin access to manage your workspace for you
- A viewer is someone you want to keep informed and who can change nothing
See Partner Users on the Free Plan if you need someone to administer your account instead.
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