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Workspaces

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A workspace is your main Butter hub. Everything you do in Butter happens in a workspace. It’s where you’ll find your rooms, templates, recaps, and team members. You can join as many workspaces as you like!

🎥 Video Tour: Navigating the Butter dashboard

Here’s a 2-minute tour of everything that’s in a workspace!

What is a Butter workspace?

Everything you do in Butter is tied to a workspace. In a workspace, you’ll find your rooms, a shared library of agendas and tools, session recaps, and your team members.

Here’s what you can do in a workspace:

  • See & plan what’s next: Your workspace has a Home tab with an overview of upcoming sessions, recent rooms, recaps, and more. You can also plan your upcoming sessions and schedule it directly from Butter!
  • Plan sessions together: Collaborate on room setup with other members of your workspace.
  • See & share templates: View our curated public library of templates you can use to create your Butter sessions. Create a team library of agenda templates and tools to save on setup time.
  • Manage your team: Invite workspace members and assign workspace- and room-level roles
  • Manage your billing: Manage workspace permissions, plans, and billing from one account.

Navigating your workspace

Navigate your way through the Butter workspace using the lefthand sidebar
Navigate your way through the Butter workspace using the lefthand sidebar

Sidebar navigation

You’ll find your workspace navigation on the lefthand side of your workspace.

At the top, you’ll find your workspace switcher, where you can easily switch between workspaces you’re a member of.

Then, you’ll find these menu items:

  1. Home
  2. Rooms
  3. Library
  4. Template Gallery
  5. Recaps
  6. Settings (Workspace and Personal)
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1. Home

Home gives you a personal at-a-glance view of your upcoming sessions, recently used rooms, latest recaps, and new templates added to your team library.

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Get to know your Home

See HomeHome for a full tour of the Home tab.

2. Rooms

In Rooms, you will find all of the rooms that you have created. Additionally, you’ll find rooms where you have been invited to collaborate.

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What’s a room?

Rooms are where you plan and run your sessions in Butter. Check out RoomsRooms for a full rundown.

3. Recaps

Recaps is where all of the outcomes and data from your sessions is stored. Recaps from a session includes your recordings, notes (both shared and private), poll results, attendance lists, and more for every session.

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Recaps rundown

Check out RecapsRecaps for all the details on recaps.

4. Library

Here, you’ll find both your personal templates as well as all the templates that have been shared by your team members. You can save anything from agendas and agenda blocks to flashcard decks, poll questions, playlists, presentations, videos, and more.

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Learn more about your library

Check out LibraryLibrary for a full explanation of how to share Butter templates.

5. Template Gallery

This is where you can explore hundreds of ready-made Butter templates created by many amazing Butter people!

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Get inspired with our curated templates

Explore ready-to-use activity and agenda templates from our community of expert facilitators from the Butter Template Gallery.

6. Settings

Your workspace Settings are where you manage your workspace, your team, and your personal settings within the workspace.

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Workspace settings

See Workspace SettingsWorkspace Settings to learn how to manage your workspace branding, plan and billing, and team members.

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Personal settings

See 👤Personal Settings to learn how to change your display name, profile picture, email notifications, audio and video, and more.

Creating a workspace

There are two ways to create a workspace in Butter.

  1. When you first sign up: If you weren’t invited to a team workspace, you’ll be prompted to create your own workspace when you first sign up to Butter.
  2. From your Butter dashboard: You can create a new workspace by selecting the workspace dropdown from the dashboard navigation and then selecting “Add new workspace.” From there, just follow the prompts!

Joining a workspace

To join an existing workspace, you’ll need to be invited by an existing member. Any workspace member can invite you to their workspace.

See Workspace SettingsWorkspace Settings for details on how to invite team members to your workspace.

Switching between workspaces

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To switch between workspaces, select the workspace dropdown in the top-left corner of your workspace navigation.

Then, just pick the workspace you want to switch to!

Understanding free vs. paid workspaces

In Butter, you have the option to have a free or paid workspace.

All members in your workspace will be on the same plan. Free workspaces can have up to 5 members on free plans, while paid workspaces can have unlimited members.

Here’s a quick rundown of the available workspace plans in Butter:

Free
Starter
Unlimited
Price (per member)
$0/member
$24/member billed monthly or $216/member billed yearly (save $72/member/year)
$39/member billed monthly or $351/member billed yearly (save $117/member/year)
Max. members in workspace
5
10
Unlimited
Max. participants in a session
20
50
200
Session length
Up to 60 minutes
Unlimited
Unlimited
Recording hours per workspace (resets monthly)
1 hours
10 hours
Unlimited 🔥
Pay-as-you-go recording availability
No
Yes. $3/hr per recording hour started.
No need, your recording’s already unlimited!
Recap history
7 days
45 days
Unlimited
AI summary engine
ChatGPT-3.5
ChatGPT-3.5
ChatGPT-4o
Rooms
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Room collaborators & Co-facilitators (in session)
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Branding
No
Yes
Yes
Custom invoicing
No
No
Yes (annual billing only)
Workspace role management
No
Yes
Yes

For more details on the different plan options, head to 💰Workspace Plans & Pricing

Managing workspace roles

Workspaces are made for teams to plan and run incredibly engaging sessions together! To access your workspace members, navigate to Settings > Workspace.

In a Butter team workspace, there are three different member roles:

  • Owner: The creator of the workspace and the only person who can delete the workspace.
  • Admin: Can manage workspace settings, members, and the templates library.
  • Member: These are members have full access to the workspace’s rooms and library, but can’t manage workspace settings (including member roles). They can create unlimited rooms, run sessions, and start sessions from any shared rooms they’ve been added to as collaborators.

See Workspace SettingsWorkspace Settings to learn how to manage your workspace members.

See 🦹Workspace Roles & Permissions for a complete breakdown of each role.

Workspace FAQ

How many members can I have in my workspace?

How can I manage my workspace’s members and roles? How do I add or remove team members from my workspace?

How many workspaces can I create/join?

Do session participants/co-facilitators have to be members of my workspace?

Do room collaborators have to be members of my workspace?

Can I brand my workspace with my own logo?

How do I delete a workspace?

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