How can I transfer the ownership of a project?
In this article, you'll learn how to transfer the ownership of a Weglot project to another member.
- Use the transfer code (recommended)
- Use the manual transfer
It's indeed possible to transfer the ownership of a project to one of your team members.
Important information:
Please note that:
a. Only the current owner of the project can transfer the ownership.
b. The account that will receive the project has to be able to manage the project's limits, such as the number of translated words and the number of languages.
This means that if your project has 10.000 translated words and 3 languages, your team members would need to upgrade to a business plan to be able to manage it.
1. Use the transfer code (recommended)
You can easily give a project to another Weglot user using a code.
To do so, the first step is to allow project transfer into the Workspace.
The account that will receive the project has to go to Weglot Dashboard> settings. Here there is a code to give to the user that will share the project:
Once activated, you can copy the code and share it with the current owner of the project.
Then, the account that needs to transfer the project can go to the project in Weglot Dashboard > General Settings and click on Transfer project.
You will have a place where you can paste the code you previously got, and you can click on Transfer
2. Use manual transfer
a. Transfer a project
- Steps the giving account needs to follow to transfer the project
To give an organization, the account that will give the project must have written right into the account that will receive the organization.
First, connect to your Weglot > Dashboard, then click on the profile icon at the top right of the screen:
Then scroll down to Workspaces and click on the building to transform this workspace into an Organization:
- Steps the receiving account needs to follow to transfer the project
After this, the giving account needs to add a new person to the Organization as a manager. Go to User > Add member > Select "Manager" as the role and enter the new email > Save change.
(In the meantime, the user that will receive the project will have an invite to accept)
Connect to your Weglot Dashboard > Click on the "Attention required" at the top right of the screen > You have one pending invitation" > Accept the invitation.
Once the invite is accepted, you can transfer the project to another account.
Then go to Project > General and click on the shield to transfer the project:
b. Transfer an organization
- Steps the giving account needs to follow to transfer the project
- First, connect to your Weglot > Dashboard, then click on the profile icon at the top right of the screen:
Then scroll down to Workspaces and click on the building to transform this workspace into an Organization:
- Steps the giving account needs to follow to transfer the project
- After this, the giving account needs to add a new person to the Organization as a manager Go to User > Add member > Select "Manager" as the role and enter the new email > Save change.
(In the meantime, the user that will receive the project will have an invite to accept)
Connect to your Weglot Dashboard > Click on the "Attention required" at the top right of the screen > You have one pending invitation" > Accept the invitation.
Once the invite is accepted, you can transfer the organization to another account.
Then go to User > click on the shield to transfer the organization:
