Managing access and feature controls for your organisation

Need help setting up your team's access permissions and features? You're in the right place!

As a team admin, you've got the power to customise access rights, permissions, and features based on your organisation's needs. Let's walk through how to set everything up.

Before you begin

If you need help with:

  • SCIM integration setup, check out our guide on [SCIM user provisioning and de-provisioning]
  • SSO configuration, visit our guide on [Setting up SSO login and signup controls]

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Setting up team access controls

Step 1: Access your permissions settings

  1. Click the gear icon (Settings) from your homepage
  2. Under your team section, click Permissions
  3. Navigate to the Access tab

Step 2: Configure joining policies

Click the Who can join this team? dropdown and choose from:

  • Only invited people can join
  • Anyone with an [emaildomain] email can join
  • Anyone with an [emaildomain] email can request to join

Step 3: Set leaving permissions

To protect your content when team members depart:

  1. Find the Who can leave this team? dropdown
  2. Choose between:
    • Admins only (recommended for content security)
    • Everyone (note: this means you can't control content transfer)

Step 4: Manage invite permissions

Under Who can invite new members? choose from:

  • Everyone
  • Members with admin approval
  • Admins and brand designers
  • Admins only

Heads up: Selecting "Everyone" means new team members will incur subscription charges.

Role-based access and email visibility

Remember:

  • Only team admins can modify team member roles
  • Team admins and brand designers have publishing rights for Brand Templates

To set up:

  1. For group creation, choose who can create groups (Everyone or Admins only)
  2. For email visibility, select who can view member emails (Everyone or Admins only)

Managing feature controls

Need to customise which features your team can access? Here's how:

  1. Head to Settings (gear icon)
  2. Click Permissions under your team
  3. Configure these categories:

Magic and AI

  • Canva Assistant settings
  • Dream Lab access
  • Magic feature permissions

Canva content

  • Template usage controls
  • Element access settings

Team content

  • Content transfer settings
  • Import permissions

Share and Publish

  • Content sharing controls
  • Publishing permissions

Integrations

  • Third-party app workflow settings

Need more help?

If you're using Canva Enterprise, you get extra control over:

  • Team joining policies
  • New member invite restrictions
  • Email visibility settings

Learn more about Canva Enterprise features

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