Sponsored Families for Non-Members
As a benefit to employees, Enterprise organizations can offer sponsorships for free Families organizations. Sponsored families organizations allow users to securely share personal credentials with up to five family members or friends, encouraging good security habits at home as well as at work.
This article pertains to Families sponsorships for employees who are not currently a member of the Bitwarden organization, however organizations can also sponsor members.
Unlike sponsorships for members, sponsored Families organizations for non-members:
Require that an organization owner contact Bitwarden to turn on the functionality.
Require that an owner, admin, or permitted custom role member issue a sponsorship for each employee they wish to extend the benefit to.
Will occupy one seat in the Enterprise organization per employee who is issued a sponsorship.
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If your Enterprise organization is self-hosted, an administrator will need to complete these steps before employees can redeem their Families sponsorships.
The remainder of the instructions on this page will help administrators issue sponsorships and non-members redeem issued sponsorships.
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If the employees you want to sponsor Families organizations for are already members of the Enterprise organization, they can redeem the sponsorship without an administrator needing to manually issue it.
To issue a Families sponsorship to an employee who is not a member of thee Enterprise organization:
In the Admin Console, navigate to Members → Free Bitwarden Families and select Add sponsorship.
Free Bitwarden Families In the Add sponsorship box, enter the employee's email address and any notes you'd like to make about the sponsorship and select Save to issue a sponsorship invitation to that employee's inbox:
Add sponsorship
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You can resend an invitation, or remove an employee's sponsorship, at any time using the options menu on this page.
One seat in the Enterprise organization will be occupied per employee who is issued a sponsorship using this method.
To accept an Families sponsorship that has been issued to you by an employer:
Check your email inbox. When you receive the invitation, select Accept Offer:
Invitation Email Follow the prompts on-screen to log in with your personal Bitwarden account or create a new one.
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If you have an existing Bitwarden Families organization, you can apply the sponsorship to that organization. Make sure you log in with the account that's an owner of your Families organization.
Once logged in, you'll be directed to a screen where you can redeem your sponsorship for a New Families organization or apply the sponsorship to an Existing Families organization:
Sélectionnez Nouvelle organisation des Familles dans le menu déroulant:
Nouvelles Familles Bitwarden Gratuites Remplissez les informations suivantes :
Un Nom d'organisation
Un courriel de facturation
Que vous souhaitiez ajouter Stockage supplémentaire (Go). Votre parrainage couvre 1 Go gratuit.
Informations de paiement
Vous n'aurez pas à effectuer de paiements pour l'organisation Familles tant que vous êtes un membre actif de l'organisation de parrainage, à moins que vous n'ajoutiez de stockage supplémentaire. Lorsque vous avez terminé de remplir vos informations, sélectionnez Soumettre.
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After redeeming your sponsorship, you may still get renewal reminder emails for your Families organization in your personal inbox. As long as you're still an active member of that sponsoring Enterprise organization, you can ignore these emails. If you're no longer a member, navigate to Billing → Payment method, and check that the payment method is valid.