How can I add a single-board guests to a Trello board

[Iulian Vieru]

Hello, I have no experience working with Trello, but I’ve read all the documentation. I have a premium account. I have a client whom I wish to add as a guest to just one board. I’ve read that with a premium account, this is possible without any additional fees. However, I’m not able to do it. I don’t want to make the board public for everyone to see, and I’m not interested in adding him as a member of the workspace and paying for him as a workspace member when I only want him to see his specific board. I just want him to have access to a single board, the board of his company. The documentation says it’s possible, but I haven’t been able to do it. How can I achieve this?"

Thank You,
Iulian

[Brittany Joiner · Accepted solution]

@Iulian Vieru welcome to the community! you just add them to the board. You won't be charged unless you then add them to another board. But only adding to one automatically sets them as a single board guest in that workspace.

[Iulian Vieru]

Thank you for the response. After reading all the documentation and all the answers on the forum, which means about 3 hours wasted, I saw what I didn't set up correctly. I just had to set the entire workspace to accept guests, or something like that. The software is useful, but it's either too complicatedly designed by programmers who didn't consider use by non-programming specialists, or the documentation is poorly done. Oh well. Thanks for the help.

[Kelly Sattler]

Thanks for this! I too have found the documentation on how to add a guest to be lacking and not at all intuitive. For folks looking to do this in the future, the setting that I too had to change can be found in the workspace settings option from the workspace's home page (https://trello.com/w/{your workspace name here}/home) and then it is the "Sharing Boards with Guest" option needs to be set to "anybody." Then you can send an invite from the board you'd like your guest to be a part of. If they ask to join your workspace, decline the request unless you're willing to pay for them.