---
slug: join-a-team
title: Join a team
summary: Accept a team's invitation or use its join link, choose what the team can see, and open your member view, with a seat or your own Pro.
journey: teams
level: free
role: member
features: [teams, team-invitations, join-links, team-seats, member-view]
last_checked: 2026-11-02
next: [what-your-team-can-see, write-weekend-posts-with-ai]
mcp_topics: [teams]
in_app: [/dashboard/connections/teams, /join/*]
questions: [How do I join my club's team on exclusively.me?, Do I need to pay to join a team?, What happens to my page when I join a team?]
---
Joining a team takes one press: **Accept** on an invitation, or **Ask to join** on a join link. You keep your own account and page; the team sees that you're a member and which of its groups you're in, and anything more only if you agree. Once you have a seat, or your own Pro, you can open the team into your member view.

## Before you start

- An exclusively.me account. Free is fine: if you got a join link and have no account yet, [claim your name](/guides/claim-your-name) first, then open the link again.
- If you're under 18, a parent or guardian agrees before you join ([Members under 18](/guides/members-under-18)).

## The steps

::: step Accept your invitation
Invitations are emailed to you, and wait in your dashboard under **My Connections**, then **Teams** (a dot marks something new). Each one says who invited you, as what, and to which group. Press **Accept**, or **Decline** if it isn't for you. If the team asks to show you in its media kit, that's a separate switch, and it's up to you.
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*Screen: My Connections, Teams: an invitation from the team, with Accept and Decline.*

::: step Or ask to join with a link
If your team shared a join link, open it while signed in and press **Ask to join**. If we don't know your date of birth yet, we ask for it here; nobody sees it, the team included. Your request waits under My Connections, Teams, as *Waiting for the team to approve*, until an admin approves it.
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*Screen: A join link opened while signed in: what the team will see, and Ask to join.*

::: step Get your seat
A team gives its members Pro's features through a **seat**. If you already pay for Pro yourself, you don't need one. Otherwise your team's admins allocate you a seat; until then, your team card says so, and you can upgrade to Pro yourself so you never wait for one.
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::: step Open your team
On your team's card under **Teams**, press **Open team**, or click your name at the top left of your dashboard and pick the team from the menu; the team's name in the same place takes you back to your own account. Your member view has the team's **Message House**, **Brand Guide** and **Sponsors**, and teammates who show themselves under **Members**.
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*Screen: Your team card: your status, seat and groups, what the team can see, and Open team.*

## Check it worked

Click your name at the top left: the menu lists the team. Open it and you see the member view's tabs across the top.

## If something's different

### My invitation isn't there
Check you're signed in with the account they invited. If they couldn't find you, tell them your username, or ask for the team's join link.

### It says Needs a seat
The team hasn't given you a seat yet. Ask an admin, or upgrade to your own Pro.

### Will the team see my statistics?
Only if you switch it on. See [What your team can see](/guides/what-your-team-can-see).

## Do it with your AI

Joining is yours to do, here. Once you're in, connect your AI ([Connect your AI](/guides/connect-your-ai)) and it can read your team's message house, brand and sponsors to help you write posts.

## Why it's worth it

You keep your own page and your own name, and get your team's guidance in one place: what to say this weekend, which sponsors to tag, and the hashtags to use, ready for your AI.