The cleanup happens by itself
The hardest part of short-term access isn't granting it - it's remembering to revoke it. Temporary access flips that around: you decide up front when someone's access should end, and the account enforces it for you. The member keeps full access right up to their cutoff, then loses it the moment it passes.
Set it when you invite, in the units you actually think in
Temporary access lives right in the invite form and on the open invite link, so you set it the moment you bring someone in. Pick how their access should run:
- Permanent - the default; no expiry.
- 1 year - a one-click yearly term.
- Until a date - access ends on a specific calendar date (the earliest you can pick is tomorrow, so access never expires the same day you grant it).
- For a number of days - access runs for N days counted from the moment the member joins, handy for invite links where you don't know exactly when each person will accept.
Choose what happens when time runs out
When a member's cutoff passes, SimplyPrint does one of two things - you decide which:
- Suspend - the membership stays on the account but access is blocked. An admin can re-enable the member later by clearing or extending their date. This is the right choice when someone is likely to come back, like a substitute who covers again next term.
- Remove - the member is removed from the account on expiry. Getting them back in takes a fresh invite. This is the right choice for genuine one-offs.
Members get a heads-up before access lapses
Nobody likes being locked out with no warning. SimplyPrint emails the member ahead of their cutoff - 30 days, 7 days and 1 day before it passes - so they can wrap up their work or ask an admin for an extension in good time. The reminders are sent once each, and resetting a member's date starts the warnings fresh.
Access stops the moment it should, not the next morning
Temporary access is enforced in real time. The instant a member's cutoff passes they lose access - no waiting for an overnight job to catch up, and any live session they have open is dropped. The account owner is always exempt: an owner's access can never be set to expire, so you can't accidentally lock yourself out.
Set it for one member or a whole cohort at once
Temporary access is bulk-friendly: re-date several members, or make a group permanent again, in a single action from the users page - useful at the end of a term or a project when a batch of short-term members all need the same treatment. Setting a member's access cutoff requires the user-management permission and respects rank authority, so people can only manage members at or below their own rank.
See the full permission systemWho temporary access is for
A few short-term situations it handles cleanly.
Plan access: which plans include temporary access?
Temporary access is included on the School and Enterprise plans, on top of the full multi-user system. On other multi-user plans the controls appear in the invite form but are locked until you upgrade.
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Temporary access
Grant members timed access that auto-expires, with a suspend or remove outcome.
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Multiple users
Invite real user accounts, set ranks and permissions, track who did what.
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