Your first workspace#
A workspace is the container for everything: boards, tickets, the wiki, the people, and the plan. This page covers making one and what you get in it.
Prerequisites: a Laver account, and nothing else. Any signed-in user can create a workspace, and it starts on the free plan with no card. Each workspace carries its own plan, and free includes one workspace of your own — see Creating a workspace below.
You may already have one#
Signing up without an invitation creates a workspace for you automatically, named Your first name's workspace, already holding a board called General and a wiki. It is on the free plan, and you land on that board rather than on a billing page — there is nothing to start and no card to enter. You do not need to create a second workspace to get going.
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#
- In the left sidebar, click the Workspace switcher at the top.
- Click New workspace.
- 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.
The free plan includes one workspace of your own. The cap counts the free workspaces you own, so a second one is refused with "The free plan includes 1 workspace and you already own 1. Upgrade an existing workspace in Billing to create another." Workspaces you were invited into do not count, however many you belong to. Once you are paying for a workspace, the ones you create afterwards are covered by that subscription instead of starting on free.
You should see: the switcher now showing the new workspace, its General board in the sidebar, and the board itself open in front of you.
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, in the three-dot menu beside the Boards heading in the sidebar.
Three status columns on that board#
The starter board comes with three columns, in this order:
| Column | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Backlog | Accepted, not started |
| In progress | Being worked on now |
| Done | Finished — the board's completion column |
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 starts on the free plan#
A brand-new workspace runs on the free plan and is open from the first minute: the boards and the wiki load, everyone reads and writes, and no card is asked for at any point. There is no deadline on it either — free is where a workspace stays until its owner decides otherwise.
What free is, then, is a set of limits rather than a locked door:
| Limit | On free | On Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Workspaces you own | 1 | Unlimited |
| Boards in this workspace | 3 | Unlimited |
| Billable seats | 3 | Unlimited |
| Storage | 100 MB | 10 GB per billable seat, pooled |
| Automation rules per board | 2 | Unlimited |
Guests from outside the workspace, publishing a wiki page or a board to a public link, and private wiki pages are the four things held back for Pro. Everything else works on both plans.
Nothing is taken away when you reach a limit. The action that would go past it — a fourth board, a fourth billable person, an upload that overruns the 100 MB — is refused with a message naming the plan, the limit and your current usage, and the rest of the workspace carries on exactly as before.
Upgrading is the owner's to do, from Billing in the sidebar: a card is taken at Checkout and the subscription starts immediately. Cancelling later returns the workspace to free rather than closing it. Prices, seat counting and the billing states are in Billing.
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.