Why you can only be on one team

A person can be on one team at a time. If you try to join a second one, GetCalendario stops you and tells you why. The same goes for starting a team while you are on someone else's.

The messages you may see

• You are on another team: "You're on (team name)'s team. Leave it to join this one." Leave the first team, then join the new one. See Leaving, removing and releasing people from a team.
• You run a team: "You run (team name). A person can only be on one team." Owning a team counts as your team, even if you chose not to take a seat on it. To join another, hand yours over or close it first: How to hand your team to someone else or How to close a team.
• You are a secondary: "Your account is part of (name)'s account, so it can't join a team on its own."
• Your access was removed: "Your access was removed by (team name)." A removed account is frozen until the team restores it.

Why a secondary cannot join or start a team

A secondary account lives inside another person's account. If it could join a team, the whole account it sits in would be covered by that decision, and the decision is not the secondary's to make. For the same reason, only the main person on an account can start a team: starting one gives the message "Only the main person on an account can start a team." See What a secondary account is.

If a secondary wants to be on a team, the way is to have an account of their own and join from there.

What about a Managed member who wants to move?

Once a team has started, a Managed member cannot leave it themselves. Their account belongs to the company that manages it. They can join another team only after the first team releases them. If the team removes them instead, the account is frozen and cannot join anything until it is restored. See Managed and Sponsored members.

The one exception: a verified company domain

When a team proves it owns a company email domain with a DNS record, everyone with a verified sign-in address at that domain joins that team as Managed, even if they were on another team, apart from people who own a team, secondaries, anyone whose access was removed, anyone this team released earlier, and anyone who has not yet verified their address at the domain (they join when they do). They leave the other team and move across. Only a DNS-verified domain does this. An invitation, a link or an email check never moves anyone.

The move skips some people:

• anyone who owns a team of their own;
• secondaries, because the account they live in is not theirs to move;
• anyone whose access was removed, until the team restores them.

How a domain is claimed and what each kind of proof does is in Which domains a team can claim, and the invitation side is in How people with your company email join your team.

What to know

• Joining a team does not touch your calendars or rules. See What changes for you when you join a team.
• Anyone with their own account can start a team from People & Team. Team prices are on the pricing page.