How do seats work in Applane?

Who

Applane admin or owner

Time

Ongoing; a minute per action

Use People to decide who can build tools and to manage paid seats. A seat belongs to someone who signs in to the builder. Employees who only use finished tools do not need seats, and Applane does not track their app visits.

A seat is created at the first successful sign-in and stays active until it is reclaimed or blocked. Self-serve plans have no minimum seat count. Enterprise starts at 50 builders.

Check current access

People opens with “N active of M seats” and a bar. The bar turns amber at 90% of the cap and red at 100%. Emails go to every admin at both marks.

Seat modes

Mode	Who gets a seat
Open (default)	Any verified user at your domain, first come first served, up to the cap. Employees open app.applane.dev and sign in; Google group membership and project permissions are also required.
Allowlist	Only emails on the allowlist. Others see “ask your admin” with the admin addresses. For companies that bought seats for a named group.

Switch modes with the control above the table. In allowlist mode an editor appears: add addresses one per line or comma-separated, remove with the button next to each. Addresses outside your domain are refused.

The cap

The trial cap is 10. After subscribing, monthly plans have no fixed cap (you pay for active seats each month) and the cap field is a limit you choose; annual plans buy a block of N seats and the cap is N.

Existing seats are never cut off by a cap change. Only new sign-ins are refused. A refused sign-in shows as a cap_refused event with a Raise cap link.

The seats table

Columns: email, status (active, reclaimed, blocked), last seen, client version, source (sign-in or admin). The per-row menu:

Action	Effect
Reclaim seat	Frees the seat now. The person’s next sign-in re-activates it if there is room. For leavers, also remove Google access or block the seat so it cannot reactivate: Offboarding.
Block	Refuses this person even in open mode, until unblocked.
Unblock	Lifts the block.

Seats are also reclaimed automatically after 60 days without a sign-in. Reclaimed rows are kept 12 months for invoice disputes, then deleted.

Seat events

The last 50 events under the table: activated, reclaimed, blocked, cap_refused, allowlist_refused, with time, email and who did it.

Invite admins

Invite admin opens a dialog: email at your domain, and a role.

Role	Can
Admin	Everything except billing and managing admins.
Owner	Everything.

There is no accept step. The invitee signs in at https://admin.applane.dev/signin with that address and lands on your company. An email tells them so. Owners can remove any admin except themselves.

Only owners see the Invite button. Admins see the owners’ addresses instead.

How seats become an invoice

Monthly plans: a daily job counts active seats and sends the number to the billing provider as the subscription quantity. You pay for who used it that month. Annual plans: you bought N; if more than N are active, admins get a weekly email. See Billing.