Invited by a consultant

[Jaime Perez]

We engaged a consultant who uses Atlassian\Confluence and they invited several of us to a page. As a company we do not use Atlassian products and the project will last longer than 30 days.

There is a free Confluence account for up to 10 users. However, it looks like Atlassian is a 30 day trial and our project will last longer than the trial. Atlassian allows easy access to all products but is it necessary to create an Atlassian account to access Confluence?

[Robert Wen_ReleaseTEAM_ · Accepted solution]

Hello @Jaime Perez ! Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

The Atlassian account is how you authenticate to the cloud-based products such as Trello and Confluence cloud.

[Jaime Perez]

So the bottom-line is if you don't use the product(s) but a vendor does and invites you. You have to create a paid Atlassian account and administer it for your internal users.

Thank you for you reply! 

[Robert Wen_ReleaseTEAM_]

Actually, your vendor is essentially "paying" for the Atlassian account in the form of licenses for your use.

Your vendor should also be shouldering the administration as well.

[KAGITHALA BABU ANVESH]

Hello @Jaime Perez ,

Welcome to Atlassian community..

For free 10 user tier, there is no expiry date. but these free user tier having some limitations.

please check below --> https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing 

For Atlassian cloud products Jira and Confluence or any other they use SSO for all their applications by using Atlassian account.

Yes once you created a Confluence account, the same will be used for all Atlassian tools stack like Support, Community, other products and etc.