Introducing 1Password for Teams
Today I am happy to announce 1Password for Teams, an exciting new way to use 1Password within a team environment!
Why 1Password for Teams?
Many of you already use 1Password with your friends, family and coworkers. So it’s hard to believe that when we first released 1Password nearly 10 years ago, there wasn’t even a way to share a vault with someone else!
Over the years we added features oriented towards teams, such as vault sharing. Thanks to these features and more, many companies are happily using 1Password today, including NASA, Basecamp, and Atlassian.
But a lot of you asked us for more: more control, easier deployment of vaults, and a simpler signup and billing process. We now have an answer for you, and best of all, it meets the privacy and security standards you expect from 1Password.
Introducing 1Password for Teams
1Password for Teams allows you to share the convenience and security of 1Password with everyone in your life. It gives you the tools you need to control and manage access to your most important information.
New to 1Password for Teams is the Admin Console, a central location to manage your team, vaults and items.
The Admin Console makes teamwork a breeze and it completely changes the way you use 1Password in a group environment. It’s packed with features you’ve been asking for, and several new ones you didn’t know you needed
- Easily Bring New People On Board. Effortlessly invite new team members. Signup is super quick and you can even automate it by sending out a link to your entire organization.
- Share and Revoke Vaults. New vaults appear automatically on all devices, without anyone needing to configure syncing. Changes, additions and revocations spread instantly to all devices.
- Control Who Has Access to What. Not everyone needs the ability to see or change every password. Create read-only vaults, control who can print or export items, and even allow teammates to log in to sites without being able to see the passwords.
- Recover Locked Out Accounts. We have never been able to reset your Master Password. With 1Password for Teams, we still can’t—but you can! Admins can recover account access for teammates, giving you a backup plan for emergencies.
These are just some of the things the Admin Console can do, and the Admin Console is just one piece of what makes 1Password for Teams so amazing.
A Secure and Private Foundation
As much as I love talking about the new features, the thing I’m most proud of is how everything is built upon a foundation of security and privacy. We’ve made it priority number one to ensure that you and your teammates are the only ones who ever have access to your shared secrets.
We encrypt everything on the client and do not have a copy of your encryption keys. Your keys are generated on your local devices and we use technologies like WebCrypto and Secure Remote Password to ensure that no unencrypted data is ever shared with us.
Please see our security page for more details on how 1Password for Teams is built from the ground up to keep your team’s secrets safe and private.
Sign Up Now!
Now that I’ve given you a taste of 1Password for Teams, you probably want to know how to sign up and how much it costs. I’m glad you asked
During the beta, 1Password for Teams is completely free for you and all your teammates. Once the beta ends, we’ll move to a monthly subscription model. I don’t have exact numbers for you right now, but we plan to be in beta for at least a few months, so you’ll have plenty of time for a test drive.
To reserve your team, simply click the button below and enter your email address:
Oh, I almost forgot the best part: subscribing to 1Password for Teams gives you a lot more than just a web app. You and your teammates will also get access to our award-winning native apps for iOS, Mac, Windows and Android.
I Hope You Love 1Password for Teams
I’m super excited to finally share 1Password for Teams with you! We’ve kept it secret for a long time and it’s been incredibly hard not to spill the beans every time someone asked us for team features
I hope you love 1Password for Teams as much as we do. We’ve been using it ourselves and with our families for months and couldn’t imagine life without it.
Please let us know what you think in the comments below, on Twitter, and in our Discussion Forums. And be sure to check out our Frequently Asked Questions for more information.
Cheers!
It’s hard to believe we’ve been working on 1Password for 10 years now. While writing this post I had a fun fact for those who’ve been with us since the beginning: back when Roustem and I created 1Password in 2006, it was called 1Passwd and AgileBits was known as Agile Web Solutions.
I wasn’t able to fit this into the blog post as it got cut during editing, so I thought being the first comment was the next best thing
Bonus points for anyone who knows what our company name was before we changed it to Agile Web Solutions 😉
++dave;
I love me some bonus points, but I think I’m DQ’d from this contest
We are so excited here today and can’t wait to hear your feedback!!
Thank you all for your support!!!
Sara
AgileBits Minister of Magic
PalmSphere?
You nailed it!!
Yes indeed, our original name was PalmSphere. When Roustem and I first started we were were designing a website to sell apps for the Treo/Palm.
Thank you for being with us since the beginning, Dave!
++dave;
Can you make the “reserve your team” button work, please?
Works now! Thanks.
Thanks for your excitement Nathan!!
Thanks Nathan! I’m sorry for the issue with the button. As you say it is fixed now.
What is any launch without at least one silly typo, right?
++dave;
Do I still need some US Providers like Dropbox to sync my data across devices?
Like to have the sync on my own OwnCloud Server.
Hi John,
When using 1Password for Teams we take care of everything for you. New items, vaults, and changes automatically appear on all your devices without you needing to configure syncing or use any 3rd party service.
For the personal version of 1Password, we continue to support Dropbox, iCloud, and Wi-Fi Sync. You can also use Folder Sync and allow OwnCloud to sync the folder between your Mac and PCs, and then use Wi-Fi to sync to iOS. This user guide article covers this in more detail:
https://support.1password.com/guides/mac/sync-folder.html
I hope that helps.
Cheers!
++dave;
Will there be a possibility to NOT let 1password “magically” sync the passwords (i guess this refers to storing them on your / some amazon cloud / rackspace… whatever servers)? I think storing sensitive data on servers we don’t control would be a no go.
Another Question: Why won’t there be a “Pay and use forever” (aka buy a license) Model? I mean: What if some company (for whatever reason) isn’t able to pay their (monthly) bills for a certain amount of time. ALL their CRITICAL login data won’t be accessible for them. Depending on what type of company we’re talking about this could harm them (by not being able to access servers, accounts…) even more.
Hi Felix,
In answer to your second question, anyone wanting to “Pay and use forever” can simply purchase 1Password and not subscribe to 1Password for Teams. You and your team would be able to use all the features of 1Password; you simply would not receive the additional features of the team version, including:
As for accessing your data, we will never lock you out of your account for not paying. If you chose not to continue paying (when paying is even an option – during the beta everything is free) your account will go into read-only mode. You won’t be able to create new vaults or items, but you and your teammates will still be able to sign in, view, and export all your data.
I hope that helps. Cheers!
++dave;
Hi Felix,
1Password will not magically sync your data to anywhere you don’t explicitly tell it to. Your vaults and items stay where you put them and you decide what to do with your data, not us.
In other words, 1Password for Teams is completely opt-in. And if you do opt-in, you can continue to use your personal vaults exactly as you are today. Any team vaults that you are given access to will stay completely separate.
I hope that helps,
++dave;
Dave
All I can remember is that for a while you were called Agile Bits. Inc.
I do recall though that when you first started up, the 1Password.com but that was already taken.
Do I get help points??
I don’t remember AgileBits ever having a space in it, Jim, but I’m sure we’ve had our share of typos over the years
As for 1Password.com, you’re totally right. In the beginning this domain wasn’t available and since we were just starting out and had no VC money, we couldn’t afford to buy it at the time. So we went by 1Passwd for quite a while. Thankfully awesome customers like yourself supported us over the years so we were able to finally purchase it.
You certainly get points in my book, Jim!
++dave;
I learned something new today!
This looks like the perfect work we all expect and know from the AgileBits team.
Markedly well done!
Thank you so much for the kind words, Loredo! <3
++dave;
Is there a way to convert our existing business licenses and switch to Teams?
Hi Stefan,
I’m glad to see you’re excited about 1Password for Teams!
It is a little premature to talk about converting business licenses at this point as we still need to finalize pricing. Once we complete the beta process we can absolutely work with you to figure out what works best for you and your company. At that time reach out to us at support@1password.com and we’ll take it from there.
Cheers!
++dave;
Seems like this would be a great way to support “other platforms” like Linux, etc… even for just personal accounts. Does it work with Linux Chrome/Firefox?
Any consideration of a “family level” of the teams product?
Good questions, Bruce.
1Password has fantastic native apps for Mac, iOS, Windows and Android. The 1Password apps for Mac and iOS already have full support for 1Password for Teams, and the Windows and Android apps will join in the fun by the time of our official release.
1Password for Teams also has a fully featured web app that allows you to view the items in your vaults use the Admin Console to manage your team. You can sign into the web app on any platform (including Linux) that supports Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
As for families, 1Password for Teams is designed for teams of any size. Teams of all shapes and sizes are enjoying the benefits of 1Password, all the way from startups to members of the Fortune 500. Teams aren’t limited to companies, either. We’ve been using 1Password to protect and share with our own families as well.
Thanks Khad… sorry, I missed the FAQ page (duh).
Guess my concern was that pricing would be at a “corporate level” which isn’t always family friendly, but guess I’ll evaluate when I get that far
Thanks
Hey Bruce,
No worries about missing the FAQs; it’s happened to everyone at one time or another
You’re right that sometimes products can price themselves at the corporate level and ignore families. We’re a family company so we plan to do things quite differently – we have some ideas that I think will make you happy. I can’t share any specifics at this time but I can say that families are absolutely on our minds.
Cheers!
++dave;
Hey Dave. I was happy to see your reply. I must say the “monthly plan” thing triggered very negative feelings in me (a “there you go” kind of feeling), the first time I’ve experienced this with an AgileBits product, and I’m an old customer…
I basically want to control what my life-partner (just because he’s very little tech-savvy and prone to blunders with his shiny new toys) and I share in a common vault, and that’s it. That’s just 2 persons, and I would be really disappointed if that required to pay the price of, say, a 10 Gb cloud storage monthly plan.
So, yeah, super news, congrats AND fingers crossed!
Thanks for being with us since the beginning, Bruno!
I understand exactly where you’re coming from. Teams of two are just as important as any other team, if not more so
I’m pretty sure you’ll like what we have in store for you.
Cheers!
++dave;
The web app is read-only.
You dodged the issue highlighted by the parent: There is no native GNU/Linux support by 1Password and it’s a highly desired feature for a lot of organisations, and 1Password for Teams is aimed at those organisations.
Nice! Now when will you get Linux support?
It really is a great question, Tarjei. From the FAQ (and my reply to Bruce above):
1Password has fantastic native apps for Mac, iOS, Windows and Android. The 1Password apps for Mac and iOS already have full support for 1Password for Teams, and the Windows and Android apps will join in the fun by the time of our official release.
1Password for Teams also has a fully featured web app that allows you to view the items in your vaults use the Admin Console to manage your team. You can sign into the web app on any platform (including Linux) that supports Chrome, Firefox or Opera.
Will there remain a free tier even after the beta?
We haven’t had enough time to think that far out to be honest, Keehun. The issue with free tiers is it’s incredibly difficult to balance things in such a way that the free tier is amazing enough to use yet the higher tiers are compelling enough to upgrade to. It’s certainly possible but many companies have gotten it wrong and gone out of business. We plan on being here for a very long time, so it’s not a risk we want to take any time soon
Cheers!
++dave;
All my colleagues already have personal 1password installed on all the devices. How do we add team accounts to personal ones now?
Hello Anton,
First I gotta say thank you for using 1Password! We wouldn’t be here without you
As for personal and team vaults, they will stay completely separate. Once you join a team, any vaults you are given access to will automatically appear in 1Password, and your existing personal vaults will stay exactly where they are. Items will stay in there respective vaults until they are explicitly moved.
I hope that helped answer your question. By the way, I think you might enjoy this list of Frequently Asked Questions and answers we wrote up
for existing 1Password users:
https://support.1password.com/teams-faq-existing-user/
Please let us know if there’s anything else I can do to help.
++dave;
I have been using 1password since 3 years now and I think its a great tool. I’m excited to know about these new features. I have been using multiple vaults over Owncloud and thought that there were a lot of things that were missing. It looks like the new features will get most of the problems sorted.
I’m just wondering how the automatic sync would work. I suppose all the users will have a unique Id. Using which 1password would identify them . Which would help in removing the users access since there is a unique Id.