There are identity forms available on Vercel, called "scopes": Users and teams.

When you signed up for our service the first time, you have created a user account. With this type of identity, you can enjoy all the features Vercel has to offer and access to the data created by those features is limited to just your user account.

Sharing Your Data with Other People

Firstly, it is important to understand that you should never give any other person access to your own user account, not under any circumstance.

If you would like to share access to your deployments, domains, secrets or other resources with a co-worker, family member or any other kind of person, they first need to create their own user account on Vercel.

Point them to this URL for signing up: https://vercel.com/signup

Once they have created their own user account, you can create a team by clicking on the scope selector on the top left, and then choosing "Create a Team":

Creating a team from the account picker from the account dashboard.

After clicking the link, you will be asked to select whether you would like to set up your team with GitHub directly (which we highly suggest) and then to enter the URL of your future team. For this, please choose an accurate representation of your team's name:

Setting the team URL when creating a team.

After you filled out the URL, you only need to hit "SAVE" in order for your team to be created.

Next up, please click on the "Members" section of the menu on the top right. You will be presented with the list of people that are part of your team. At the moment, the list should only contain your own user account, as you have not yet invited any other people.

In order to invite another person, click the "INVITE" button on the right and enter the email address of the user account of the person you would like to invite:

Inviting additional team members from the team members dashboard.

After clicking the "INVITE" button the person is now part of your team and has access to all the resources (deployments, domains, certificates, etc.) created within your team.

Switching Between Users and Teams

If you are part of one or multiple teams, you can choose which to show project information for or manage from the Vercel Dashboard. To do this, click on your avatar on the top left, then select the team of your choice:

Switching teams from the account picker in the dashboard.

Note: You can also use Vercel CLI to switch between users and teams when making Preview Deployments.

Changing the User or Team Settings

Just like different scopes have different resources contained within them (access is limited to people that are members of the scope), they also allow for different configurations.

As you read above, all our interfaces allow switching between scopes without hassle. Once you have switched to the scope of your choice on the dashboard, you can click the little cog icon on the top left in order to configure the scope:

Switching teams from the Vercel Dashboard account bar.

After clicking the button, you will be presented a series of fields that you can adjust to your needs. Any changes you make to those fields are entirely unrelated to any other scopes and do not affect them in any way.

Only the scope that is indicated using the avatar icon on the top left is affected.

Concurrent Builds

By default, every Personal Account and every Team has one Concurrent Build assigned. This means that at any given time only, one Deployment can be building. All subsequent Deployments will be put into a queue and build one after another.

Teams can increase the number of Concurrent Builds in the Billing section of their Team Settings page, therefore allowing the Team to create Deployments at a faster pace. The maximum number of Concurrent Builds for a Team is 12.

Personal Accounts cannot increase their Concurrent Builds limit.


Last Edited on August 4th 2020