In plain English
A seat is one place for one individual user. The seat limit tells you the highest number of those places an account or subscription is set to have at the same time.
In context
Here, seat limit names the maximum number of user seats the workspace's account or subscription can use at one time.
- Situation
- SaaS sign-in, invitations, roles, permissions, and account status
- What it communicates
- names the plan cap on how many user slots the workspace can use.
Meaning limits
The term by itself does not say which people occupy those places or what permissions they have.
Examples
“Although only six people were using the account, its seat limit was still ten.”
“Our workspace reached its seat limit when the twelfth user was added.”