Teams and members

A changelog usually isn't one person's job. Each repo has its own team roster, managed from the repo's settings under Team — you invite the people who should review, publish, or just watch.

Access is by invitation

The person who connected the repo is its owner and always has full access. Everyone else gets access by being invited — access to the changelog dashboard is separate from access to the repository on GitHub, so a GitHub collaborator can't see your drafts until someone invites them, and you can invite someone (an agency, a technical writer) who isn't on the GitHub repo at all.

Roles

Invites carry one of three roles:

• Admin — manages the roster, changes repo settings, edits and publishes entries; billing, ownership, and API credentials (tokens and webhook endpoints) are owner-only.
• Member — the day-to-day role: reviews, edits, and publishes entries. Can't change settings or manage the team.
• Viewer — read-only: can see the dashboard, drafts, and analytics, but can't publish, edit, or change anything.

The owner and admins manage the roster; the owner alone handles billing and ownership.

Seats

A repo's seats are the owner plus its members. Free includes 1 seat — the owner, no invites. Pro includes 5 — the owner plus four others. A pending invite holds a seat until it's accepted or you withdraw it, and removing a member frees theirs immediately.

Everyone on a repo gets that repo's plan features: members of a Pro owner's repo get the Pro experience without paying separately. The plan follows the repo's owner, not each member.

Inviting someone

From the Team section, enter their email and pick a role. They get an invitation link by email; accepting it signs them in (or up) and adds them to the roster. An invite that would take the repo past its seat cap is refused with a clear message rather than quietly over-filling the team.

Transferring ownership

The owner can hand a repo to an active admin or member of it. The repo moves to the new owner's account — including billing, so its plan becomes the new owner's plan — and the previous owner stays on the roster as an admin rather than losing access.

Removing someone

Removing a member takes effect immediately and frees the seat. They can be re-invited later.