# Members \[One person across many teams, with their own profile, keys, and a role per team]

A **member** is a person in Splits, identified by their email address. One member can belong to any number of [teams](/teams), and holds two kinds of things:

* **Across every team**: their profile (display name, email, avatar) and their [signing keys](/members/keys) (passkeys and registered EOAs). These belong to the member, not to any team.
* **Per team**: a membership, stored offchain, with a [role](/teams/roles) (Owner or Member), granting read access to that team's accounts, balances, and transactions plus the role's administrative capabilities.

Membership confers **no onchain authority**: a member cannot move funds unless one of their signing keys has been added to an account's signer set, making them a [signer](/accounts/signers#signers-vs-membership) on that account.

## Signing up

Members authenticate by email: enter yours at [app.splits.org](https://app.splits.org) and click the emailed sign-in link, or sign in with a passkey once you've saved one. Most members register by [accepting an invite](#inviting); registering directly leads into [creating a team](/teams#creating-a-team).

## Inviting

Prerequisites: you must be an **Owner** of the team.

1. Go to [Settings > Members](https://app.splits.org/settings/team/members/) and select *Invite member*.
2. Enter the invitee's email address and select their role.
3. The invitee receives an email with a join link (it may land in spam). If they're new to Splits, they register as part of accepting.
4. During acceptance, the invitee is prompted to save a passkey: they need at least one [signing key](/members/keys) before they can be added to an account's signer set.
5. You receive an email confirmation once they've accepted.

To give the new member signing power on an account, continue to [Changing signers](/accounts/editing#changing-signers-and-thresholds).

## Role changes and removal

Owners can change a member's role, remove a member, or revoke a pending invitation from the member's row in [Settings > Members](https://app.splits.org/settings/team/members/).

Removing a member revokes their offchain access only. If their signing keys are signers on any account, remove them via a separate onchain [signer update](/accounts/editing#changing-signers-and-thresholds).

## Programmatic access

Via the [Splits CLI / MCP](/introduction/agents):

* `splits members list`: list all members of the team (requires **Read** scope)
* `splits members signers <userId>`: list a member's passkey IDs, needed when adding them as a signer via `accounts create` or `accounts update-signers` (requires **Read** scope)

Managing members (inviting, removing, changing roles) is web-only today.