Give friends access to your server panel

Each person you invite signs in with their own Play Your Way account, so nobody needs your password, and they see only the tabs you allow. You stay responsible for what they do on the server, as the Terms of Service set out.

Panel access or in-game admin?

The Team tab covers the website panel. It doesn't make anyone an admin inside the game, and friends who only want to play need no invite or account, just the server address. For in-game admin, see:

• Minecraft whitelist: add players, set ops
• Rust server setup: connect, admin and wipes
• How to become admin and use admin commands on your Palworld server
• How to set the admin password and enable cheats in ARK: Survival Evolved

Invite someone

1. In your dashboard, select Open on the server.

2. Expand More in the left rail and choose Team. With no left rail (on a phone, for example), pick it from the section menu at the top of the panel.

3. Select Invite someone.

4. Under Who are you inviting?, enter the email address they use (or will use) for Play Your Way, then select Next.

   

5. Under What can they do?, pick a preset or tick the permissions you want, then select Next.

6. On Check and send, read the list under They will be able to, then select Send invite. When Invite emailed appears, the invite is on its way. If We couldn't send the email appears instead, select Copy and send them the link yourself.

Choose what they can do

Changing any tick after picking a preset switches it to Custom. The form only offers permissions your server can use.

Each permission unlocks these tabs:

What your friend does

1. They open the email "You've been invited to manage" followed by your server's name, and select Accept invite.
2. They select Sign in to accept, or Create an account, with the invited email address. A new account confirms its email first, and that email's link brings them back to the invite.
3. They select Accept & open server. The server now shows under Shared with you on their dashboard.

What no permission hands over

• Billing, the plan and the subscription.
• The Team and Notes tabs.
• The SFTP password (Connect over SFTP with FileZilla or WinSCP). Friends with File manager use the browser File Manager instead.
• Backup settings and off-site backup copies.
• Changing the server's address, adding or removing extra ports, and switching the server to a different game.

Change or remove someone's access

Each person you've invited has a card in the Team tab, marked Pending or Active.

• Change permissions - select the pencil icon (Edit permissions), change the ticks and select Save. The new tabs show when they next load the panel.
• Remove someone or cancel an invite - select the bin icon, then Remove. Their access ends, and an unused invite link stops working.
• Resend an invite - invite the same address again. The new link carries the permissions you pick this time, and the old one stops working.

If an invite or permission doesn't work

• Invite not found - each link works once. If they already accepted, the server is under Shared with you on their dashboard. Otherwise, they use the newest invite email, or you send a fresh one.
• Wrong account - they sign out, open the invite link again and sign in with the invited address. Or you invite the address they already use.
• No email arrived - ask them to check spam, then resend the invite.
• That person already has access to this server. - they've already accepted. Edit their card instead.
• You don't have permission to do that. - the action needs a permission they don't have. Add it from their card.