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After a trial ends, the organization’s workspaces become read-only when Workspaces reports the organization as expired. Workspaces keeps write access active when the organization’s subscription status or billing exemption allows it. Expiry does not delete anything. Personal workspaces stay writable. This page covers hosted Workspaces. Self-hosted instances do not use hosted trials or billing enforcement.

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What stays available

Anyone who still has read access can:
  • Read workspaces, documents, comments, and version history.
  • Use existing app, guest, and raw links according to their access.
  • Join live documents in read-only mode.
An API key still works within its owner’s access for these tasks:
  • Read through the API and MCP.
  • Clone, fetch, and pull with read-only Git and an API key.
Workspace owners can list and revoke existing guest links for their workspaces. Organization admins can remove members, change roles, rename the organization, or delete it.

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What Workspaces blocks

Workspaces blocks changes to organization workspaces, including:
  • Creating, editing, moving, restoring, or deleting documents and artifacts.
  • Adding, replying to, resolving, reopening, editing, or deleting comments.
  • Creating or moving a workspace into the organization.
  • Renaming an organization workspace, changing its visibility, or deleting it.
  • Creating a new guest link.
  • Inviting a new organization member.
An owner, or a member using Your organization access, receives 403 with billing_expired. Requests using a guest link, public visibility, or open visibility receive a plain 403 without the organization’s billing status.

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Check the deadline and status

An organization admin can open the organization’s Workspaces tab. The Billing card shows the trial days left and exact end date. After expiry, the organization header shows Read-only for admins. Members do not see the Billing card or Read-only chip. Some screens may still show an edit control, but Workspaces blocks the change.

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Regain write access

An organization admin can restore write access by subscribing:
  1. Open the organization and select Workspaces.
  2. Find the Billing card.
  3. Select Subscribe annual or Subscribe monthly.
  4. Finish checkout on Stripe’s page.
Stripe returns you to the organization. The Billing card changes to Active after Workspaces receives the subscription update. Creating another organization does not change the expired organization’s status. Every organization a person creates uses that person’s one trial deadline. Check Manage a Workspaces subscription for checkout, payment, and cancellation steps. Reviewed July 22, 2026. Maintained by the Plannotator documentation team.
Last modified on July 24, 2026