Your first workspace#

A workspace is the container for everything: boards, tickets, the wiki, the people, and the subscription. This page covers making one and what you get in it.

Prerequisites: a Laver account. Any signed-in user can create a workspace, and there is no cap on how many you create. Each one is billed separately.

You may already have one#

Signing up without an invitation creates a workspace for you automatically, named Your first name's workspace. You do not need to create a second one to get started.

Signing up from an invitation does not: you join the workspace that invited you, with the role and board access it granted, and no workspace of your own.

Creating a workspace#

1. In the left sidebar, click the Workspace switcher at the top.
2. Click New workspace.
3. Type a name (up to 200 characters) and click Create.

Names do not have to be unique — two workspaces may share one, and the name can be changed later by the owner. Very occasionally a create can come back with "A workspace with that name already exists."; nothing was created, so try again.

You should see: the switcher now showing the new workspace, one board in the sidebar, and — because it has no subscription yet — the Billing page.

What a new workspace comes with#

Every workspace is created with the same three things.

A starter board called General#

One board, named General, ready to use. You can rename it with the pencil beside its name, or create more with New board.

Three status columns on that board#

The starter board comes with three columns, in this order:

Done is marked as the board's completion column. That flag is what the tick shortcut on a card targets and what sprint rollover treats as finished. Columns you add later are not complete, and there is no setting to move the flag — Statuses and workflow explains what that means in practice.

Every board you create afterwards starts with these same three columns.

A wiki#

One wiki, named Wiki, with no pages in it. Reach it from Workspace tools → Wiki in the sidebar. It belongs to the workspace rather than to any board, so everyone in the workspace can read it. See Wiki pages.

You are the owner#

Whoever creates the workspace becomes its owner. There is exactly one owner role at creation, and it carries the things nobody else can do:

• Start, change, or cancel the subscription.
• Rename or delete the workspace.

Owners also do everything an admin does — invite people, set roles, grant board access, issue API keys, read the audit log.

Admins run the workspace day to day but cannot delete it or touch billing. Ownership is not something you set from the role dropdown; it moves through a separate transfer. See Roles and permissions.

It is locked until the subscription starts#

A brand-new workspace has no subscription, and Laver locks a workspace without one — the boards and wiki refuse to load and the app sends you to Billing. Nothing is missing; it is simply closed until someone pays.

The owner opens it with Start 14-day free trial on the Billing page. A card is taken up front, nothing is charged for fourteen days, and the trial is available once per workspace — a workspace that has subscribed before is charged immediately instead.

Deleting a workspace#

Only the owner can delete a workspace, and doing so removes access for everyone in it and cancels its subscription. It is a soft delete: nothing is destroyed immediately, but there is no way to undo it from inside the app, so treat it as permanent.

Next#

• Quickstart — put a ticket on the board and invite someone.
• Workspaces and boards — how access works once there is more than one board.