Guide Getting Started

Getting Started with Teams

Scholarly Teams puts your whole group on one Enterprise plan: every paid feature unlocked for every member, premium AI models, per-person weekly AI credits, shared materials, and one bill. This guide walks you from zero to a working team with a shared library.

For pricing, seats, and roles, see Teams and Enterprise. For employee training, onboarding, and org workflows, see Scholarly for Teams.

1. Create your team

  1. Sign up (or sign in) and choose My team or business when asked how you'll use Scholarly — or start a team from pricing or the Teams page.
  2. Give the team a name and choose how many seats you need. You can start with 1 seat and self-serve up to 29. Need more? Email hello@scholarly.so.
  3. Pick monthly ($45 per seat / month) or yearly ($324 per seat / year — save 40%) and complete checkout in Stripe.

You become the team Owner. You can later promote others to Admin. Details: Managing Your Team.

2. Pick seats (and leave room to invite)

Each seat is one active member with their own 450 AI credits per week. Before you invite people:

  • Check Used / Purchased / Available on the Team page.
  • Buy enough seats for everyone you plan to invite now — pending invites still reserve seats.
  • You can add seats later anytime from Manage billing.

See Team Billing and Seats for invoices, the Stripe portal, and adding seats mid-cycle.

3. Invite your teammates

On the Team page → Invite teammates:

  1. Enter one or more email addresses (up to 100 at a time).
  2. Choose a role — Member or Admin.
  3. Send the invites.

Each person gets an email. When they accept, they fill a seat and immediately get every paid feature plus their own weekly credits. What they see on day one is covered in Joining a Team.

4. Share your first library

A team is most useful when everyone works from the same sources:

  1. Upload (or create) the materials your group needs — PDFs, notes, recordings, slides, folders.
  2. Open Share on a folder or item and choose Your team.
  3. Teammates can browse those shared items in the shared team library.

Everyone can view team-shared content; editing stays with the owner of each item. Full details: Sharing with Your Team and Sharing and Collaboration.

5. Start creating from shared material

Once materials are shared, any member can turn them into flashcards, quizzes, study guides, podcasts, AI video lectures, slides, Deep Research, AI Meeting Notes, and more — all grounded in your sources, drawing from their own weekly credits.

Credits refill every Monday (00:00 UTC). See How AI Credits Work.

Switching from an individual plan?

If you already use Free or Ultimate personally and want to move your group onto Teams, see Switching to a Team Plan.

Was this helpful?
PreviousTeamsNextBilling & Seats