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Add your team — seats & roles

4 min read · Updated 2026-10-20

“Add your team — seats & roles” is a Direct University lesson from Direct REI, the AI cold-outreach platform and CRM for real estate investors. Give a VA, acquisitions manager, or partner their own login. How seats, roles, and account switching work.

Direct REI lets other people work inside your account with their own logins — no password sharing. Manage it all under Settings → Team (only the owner and admins see the team controls).

Seats by plan

The four roles

How to invite someone

  1. Go to Settings → Team.
  2. Enter their email and pick a role.
  3. Direct REI emails them an invite link with that email locked in. If the email couldn't be sent, use Copy link and send it yourself.
  4. They open the link and create their own password. Then they click the confirmation email we send to that address, and they're added to your team and land in your account. You never see or handle their credentials.
  5. If they already have a Direct REI account, they just sign in with that email and join automatically.
Heads up: for your security, you create the invite but each teammate sets their own password. Never share your own login. Remove anyone's access anytime from Settings → Team.

Account switching

Once someone accepts, they get an account switcher in the top bar. They switch into your account and see your data — and your plan's caps apply while they work in it, not their own. A VA on a free personal account still gets full Pro capabilities while working inside your Pro account.

Tip: The most common use is dropping a cold-calling VA into your Dialer rotation. Sell the Earth (in the partner list) trains real-estate VAs specifically for this.
Tip: To track hours, post announcements and keep your scripts in one place, see Team page: time clock, announcements & your script library. People you only track time for don't need a login or a seat.

What's next

Put a teammate to work in the Cold-call workflow with the dialer.

This lesson lives in Direct University inside the Direct REI app, where you can search every lesson and ask the built-in AI assistant. Sign in to open it there.

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