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# Accepting a Team Invitation

> How to join a team you have been invited to — the Accept button in the notification bell if you already have an account, or automatic joining on first sign-in if you don't

How you join depends on whether you had a QRtub account when the invitation was sent.

## If you already had a QRtub account

Sign in and click the **bell icon** in the top right of the dashboard. The invitation is listed
there — "You've been invited to join \[team] as \[role]" — with **Accept** and **Decline** buttons.
Click **Accept**. You are now a member, and the team appears in the team switcher at the top of the
left sidebar; switch to it to see its Collections and Items.

**The link in the invitation email does not accept for you.** It signs you in and drops you on the
Team page, which is a good place to be — but you still have to open the bell and click **Accept**.
Until you do, the team is not in your switcher and you cannot see any of its data.

This kind of invitation does not expire. It waits in the bell until you accept it or the team's
owner removes it.

## If you did not have an account

The email you received has a link that creates your account. Click it, set a password when prompted,
and you are dropped into the dashboard already in the team — a message confirms you have been added.
There is no Accept button in this path, because clicking the link is the acceptance.

Two things follow from that. QRtub does not create a personal "your name's Team" for you, because you
were invited into an existing one; and the invitation expires **7 days** after it was sent. If the
link no longer works, ask the person who invited you to hit **Resend** — that issues a fresh link and
a fresh 7 days.

If you already have several teams, note that the joining happens on your first dashboard load after
signing in, so give it a moment before deciding the invitation failed.

## Declining

**Decline does not currently work.** The button sends a request the server rejects, so you get an
error message and the invitation stays where it is.

Ignoring an invitation has the same practical effect: an invitation you never accept never gives
anyone access to anything, and the team's owner can remove the pending row from their end. If you
want it gone from your bell, ask them to remove you from the team's member list.

## If you can't find the invitation

* **Nothing in the bell?** You may have been invited under a different email address than the one you
  signed in with. Invitations are matched on the exact address.
* **Team not in the switcher after accepting?** Reload the dashboard, then check the switcher again.
* **Told you were added but you never got an email?** Ask the owner to resend it and to check the
  address they used.

## Related

* [Inviting Team Members](/team/invite-members)
* [Managing Pending Invitations](/team/pending-invitations)
* [Switching Between Teams](/team/switching-teams)
* [Team Roles](/team/roles)