[Solved] Seats in free tier - Cannot add member

I’m on a Free plan and I’m trying to add a user to a group.

On the page https://gitlab.com/groups/[GROUP]/-/usage_quotas of this group it says: 2/5 Free seats used

But when I try to invite a user by email from https://gitlab.com/groups/[GROUP]/-/group_members I get the notice “There are not enough available seats to invite this many users.”.

Although I don’t think it should matter, I’ve tried removing members from other groups I own, but this doesn´t seem to have any effect.

It is 5 free seats per top level group, right? So what might be the issue here?

Solved.

This post set me on the right track: I only have 3 group members but it says I have reached my max of 5 - #4 by twimmers

I had the option “Restricted Access (Beta)” active under Project > Settings > General > Permissions and Group Features > Seat Controls

I changed it to “Set user cap: 5” and now it works as expected.