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Team invite limits: 20 pending, 10-minute resend cooldown, 7-day expiry

You might be here because: “an invite was emailed to this address less than 10 minutes ago” · “your team has 20 invites waiting to be accepted” · “can’t resend the invite” · “my teammate never got the email, resend not working” · “invite link expired” · “too many team invites”

Short answer

Three limits protect the invite flow: an invite link lasts 7 days; re-inviting the same address within 10 minutes of the last email is refused and sends nothing — the link already sent still works; and a team can have at most 20 invites waiting to be accepted at once. The dashboard shows the server’s exact message with the wait time.

Check first

  • Ask the invitee to check spam for “You’re invited to join a Driftstack team”.
  • Did you send the invite less than 10 minutes ago? Wait it out; the first link is valid.
  • Are there many unaccepted invites on the team? They stop counting when accepted or after 7 days.

Likely causes and fixes

  1. “An invite was emailed to this address less than 10 minutes ago. You can send it again in N minutes.” (429) — resend cooldown. Fix: wait the stated time; or tell the invitee to use the email they already have.

  2. “Your team has 20 invites waiting to be accepted, the most allowed at once. Try again when one is accepted, or in …, when the oldest expires.” (429) — pending cap. There is no way to withdraw a pending invite yet. Fix: have people accept, or wait for the oldest to expire (7 days after it was sent).

  3. “This address has been sent too many team invites recently.” — a per-address email limit. Wait the stated time.

  4. Invitee says the link expired. Links expire 7 days after sending (server message “Invite has expired. Ask the team to send a fresh invite.”). Fix: send a new invite (after the 10-minute cooldown if just sent). Re-inviting a live pending address does not add to the 20 count.

  5. Invitee has the email but cannot accept. See Accepting a team invite.

If it still fails

Press Talk to a person in this chat (or open Help) and include: owner account email, the invitee address, the exact message and time shown. Email delivery problems on our side are checked by a person.