A Framer workspace is the top-level container that holds your sites, team members, billing, and permissions in one place. Workspaces decide who can edit what, how invoices are issued, and whether your agency can spin up client sites without each one paying a separate seat. Choose your workspace structure before you invite anyone.
What Is a Framer Workspace?
A Framer workspace sits at the highest level of the Framer hierarchy. Inside a workspace you create projects (the design files), and from each project you publish one or more sites. The workspace owns the billing relationship, the team roster, the permission system, and any shared assets like custom code components or design tokens.
Beginners often conflate the three layers. A project is the editable design file where you build pages, set up CMS collections, and wire up animations. A site is the published URL that visitors see. A workspace is the umbrella that contains many projects, many sites, and many people. You can have one project that publishes to a staging URL and a production URL as two separate sites, both living inside the same workspace.
Workspaces also gate plan-tier features. Custom code, advanced CMS limits, password protection, and SSO all attach to the workspace plan, not to individual projects. Move a project from a free workspace into a paid workspace and it instantly gains whatever features that plan includes.
Workspace vs Personal Account
Every Framer account starts with a personal workspace. This is fine for solo work, prototypes, and learning the tool. The moment you bring in a collaborator, send invoices under a company name, or start managing client projects, you want a dedicated team workspace.
Personal workspaces have practical limits. Billing flows through your individual account, which makes expense reporting awkward for agencies and freelancers who need clean invoices in the company name. Permission controls are coarse because there is no team to manage. And if you ever sell the agency or transfer a client account, the assets stay tangled with your personal identity.
A team workspace solves all of that. Name it after your company, issue invoices to the business, invite colleagues with scoped permissions, and transfer ownership cleanly if the team changes hands. For anyone running paid work through Framer, a team workspace is the right default from day one.
Setting Up a New Workspace
Creating a workspace takes about two minutes. From the Framer dashboard, click your current workspace name in the top left, then select “Create new workspace.” Give it a name (use your company name or a clear project identifier), pick an icon or upload a logo, and choose a starting plan. You can begin on the free tier and upgrade later, but if you already know you need custom domains, more bandwidth, or team seats, picking the right plan up front avoids a forced migration mid-project.
After the workspace exists, take five minutes to handle the housekeeping that pays off later. Set the workspace timezone so scheduled CMS publishes fire when you expect. Configure default brand assets (logo, favicon, fonts) at the workspace level so every new project inherits them. Add billing details and a backup payment method. Review privacy settings, especially if you handle client data under an NDA.
Inviting Team Members
Adding teammates happens through the workspace settings, under the Members tab. Enter the email address, pick a role, and Framer sends an invitation. If the invitee already has a Framer account, the workspace appears in their dashboard immediately.
Two billing implications matter. First, most paid Framer plans charge per editor seat. Inviting a viewer is usually free, but inviting an editor or admin triggers a per-seat charge that prorates against your current billing cycle. Second, the workspace owner is the only person who can change billing or remove the workspace. Make sure ownership sits with someone who will be around long-term, and add at least one admin as a backup.
For agencies juggling multiple clients, decide early whether you want one workspace per client or one workspace for the agency with all clients inside it. Reviewing the best website builders for agencies shows the workspace model favors agencies that consolidate, because seat costs aggregate across all client work.
Permission Levels Explained
Framer workspaces use a four-tier permission model.
Owner has full control. The owner pays the bill, transfers or deletes the workspace, manages billing, and can promote or demote any other member. There is one owner per workspace, but ownership can be transferred to another admin at any time.
Admin can do everything the owner can except change billing or delete the workspace. Admins invite and remove members, change roles, create and delete projects, and publish to any site. Use this role for senior designers, team leads, or anyone who needs the keys without needing the credit card.
Editor can create and edit projects, publish to staging or production, and use any feature the workspace plan unlocks. Editors cannot invite members or see billing. This is the default role for most designers and developers.
Viewer has read-only access. Viewers can open projects, leave comments, and review changes, but they cannot edit or publish. Ideal for clients, stakeholders, or QA reviewers who need to see work in progress without risking accidental edits.
Permissions in Framer are workspace-wide, so an editor on the workspace is an editor on every project inside it. If you need project-specific permissions, spin up a separate workspace for that scope.
Billing and Plan Structure
Framer pricing has two axes. The first is plan tier (Free, Mini, Basic, Pro, and higher business tiers), which gates features and quotas. The second is per-seat pricing, which scales with the number of editors and admins on the workspace. Viewers are typically free.
The free plan works for small personal sites with the Framer subdomain. Once you want a custom domain, more CMS items, or removed branding, you move up. The Mini and Basic tiers fit single-site projects and small businesses. The Pro tier unlocks higher CMS limits, more bandwidth, and password protection. Business tiers add SSO, audit logs, and dedicated support.
Billing happens at the workspace level. The owner sees a single invoice that bundles plan cost plus seat fees plus any per-site overages. Annual billing usually shaves around 20 percent off monthly pricing and is the right call once you commit to Framer as your production tool.
Managing Multiple Sites in a Workspace
A single workspace can host many projects, and each project can publish to multiple sites. Most teams use this to maintain a clean separation between staging and production, between language variants, or between distinct brand properties.
Folders inside the workspace dashboard let you group projects by client, by team, or by status. Folders are organizational only, so they do not change permissions or billing, but they keep the dashboard navigable once you cross 10 or 15 projects.
For shared assets, the workspace lets you save components, color tokens, and text styles that any project in the workspace can import. This is powerful for agencies that want a consistent component library across client sites, similar in spirit to the patterns covered in our Framer components guide. If you are running many client sites, pair the workspace structure with a clean domain strategy via our Framer custom domain guide.
Workspace Security and SSO
Larger teams and regulated industries need controls beyond standard role-based permissions. Framer offers SSO (Single Sign-On) via SAML on its business plans, which connects Framer to identity providers like Okta, Google Workspace, or Azure Active Directory.
SSO does three things at once. It enforces password and multi-factor authentication policies through the central identity provider. It automates provisioning, so adding a designer to the right group in Okta automatically grants them access to the Framer workspace. And it automates deprovisioning, which matters most: when someone leaves the company, removing them from the identity provider revokes Framer access immediately. Audit logs on business plans round out the picture by recording who did what, which is essential for compliance reviews.
Common Workspace Mistakes
The first mistake is putting client work in a personal workspace. Invoices come from your name, ownership tangles with your account, and handing the work off later is painful. Start every paid engagement in a properly named team workspace.
The second mistake is leaving everyone as admin. Admin access is appropriate for two or three people. When designers, junior developers, or contract collaborators all get admin, you end up with accidental deletes, surprise plan upgrades, and members removed by people who should not have had that power.
The third mistake is mixing client billing inside an agency workspace without a cost allocation system. If your workspace runs 12 client sites and three Pro seats, the monthly invoice is one big number that needs to be split across clients. Decide up front whether you allocate by site count, by traffic, or as a flat per-client retainer fee.
The fourth mistake is inviting clients as editors. Clients should almost always be viewers, with a comment-only workflow that protects production. If a client genuinely needs to update copy or CMS entries, isolate that work in its own workspace.
Best Practices for Agencies and In-House Teams
Agencies should consolidate client work into one or two workspaces wherever the client agrees. Seat costs aggregate, which keeps the agency operating cost predictable as the client roster grows. Use folders to keep client projects organized and the workspace asset library to standardize components across deliverables.
When a client insists on owning their own Framer instance, create a dedicated workspace named after the client, set the client as owner once handoff completes, and document the transfer in the project handover packet. Picking a clean starting template at kickoff helps, and our best Framer templates for consultants roundup is a shortcut for solo operators.
In-house teams typically run a single workspace per brand. Editors get the editor role, designers in adjacent functions get viewer or editor depending on how often they touch production, and engineering leads get admin so they can manage integrations without escalating to the workspace owner. Both agencies and in-house teams benefit from a written workspace charter that documents who has which role, who the backup admin is, and which projects are production versus staging. If you need help on the production side, the team at Framer Websites handles enterprise rollouts and migrations across multiple workspaces.
When to Split or Merge Workspaces
Split a workspace when you have a clear access boundary. Common triggers include a major new client that requires isolated billing, a separate brand or subsidiary that should not see the parent company’s work, a regulatory requirement (HIPAA, GDPR) that demands data separation, or a divestiture where one set of projects moves to a different owner.
Merge a workspace when you are paying for duplicate seats. Two workspaces with the same five editors cost twice as much as one workspace with five editors. If both workspaces serve the same team and there is no access reason to keep them separate, consolidate. Before any split or merge, take a full export of each project, document the current member list and roles, and schedule the change for a low-traffic window. Reconnect any external integrations after the move, because tokens scoped to the old workspace will not carry over.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I have multiple workspaces under one Framer account?
Yes. A single Framer login can belong to many workspaces simultaneously. You switch between them from the workspace picker in the top left of the dashboard. Each workspace has its own plan, billing, members, and projects, but you use one set of credentials to access all of them.
How much does an extra editor seat cost?
Seat pricing varies by plan tier and changes periodically, so check the current Framer pricing page for the exact rate. As of 2026, expect to pay per editor per month on top of the base plan, with the per-seat rate dropping at higher business tiers and on annual billing. Viewer seats are usually free.
Can a viewer leave comments on a project?
Yes. Viewers cannot edit or publish, but they can open any project in the workspace, browse pages, and leave comments on the canvas. This makes the viewer role ideal for client review cycles, stakeholder feedback, and QA passes.
What happens to my sites if I cancel the workspace plan?
Sites attached to a paid plan stay published during your current billing period. When the plan ends, sites on custom domains usually revert to the Framer subdomain (or go offline depending on the plan you downgrade to), and any features above the free tier stop working. Downgrade with a clear migration plan if production sites are involved.
Can I transfer a project from one workspace to another?
Yes. From the project settings, choose “Transfer project” and pick the destination workspace. You need admin or owner access in both workspaces for the transfer to succeed. Version history transfers with the project, but you may need to reconnect external integrations after the move.