What is a seat?

A seat is one person's place on your plan. Your plan comes with a number of seats, and until you give one to a person, they cannot download codus at all. A seat covers one person using codus on one computer at a time.

Seats belong to the team, not to a person

You buy seats for your organisation, and you hand them out. If someone leaves, you take their seat back and give it to someone else. You are not buying a permanent licence tied to one human, so you never have to re-purchase when your team changes.

Two things are easy to mix up:

• Being a member means someone belongs to your organisation and shows up on your team page.
• Having a seat means they can get codus and work in it.

Someone can be a member with no seat. They will see your organisation in the web app, and the download will send them to the billing page instead of giving them the app. Adding a person is therefore always two actions, not one. See How do I add someone to my team?.

One computer at a time

A seat covers one active computer, not one specific computer. Your teammate can install codus on a laptop and a desktop and use either, but a seat is not meant to run two machines at once.

If you need someone on two machines at the same time, that is a second seat.

What a seat does not include

Seats unlock codus itself. The optional capability packs, for example the SEO, Video and Support surfaces, are charged separately and switched on per person from the same team page. Someone can hold a seat and still not see a given pack, because those are two different switches.

How do I know someone has one?

Go to app.trycodus.com and click team. In the Seats panel, anyone holding a seat has a green seated label next to their name, and the counter at the top of that panel counts them, for example 3 / 5 used.

If the counter reads the same as your total, every seat is taken. You cannot assign another one until you either take a seat back from someone or buy more.