Teams
A team is the account unit that owns your projects and one balance. Data Labeling pipeline runs and Training Runs use that balance under their own product-specific billing rules. You work in one team at a time. A team can be your own personal team or one shared with other people, and you may belong to several.Switch teams
The team switcher sits at the top of the sidebar on your project list and shows the team you are in now; inside a project there is no switcher. Your own personal team reads Personal, and a read-only team carries a Read only badge. Open the switcher to see every team you can reach. Each row shows the team’s name and one access badge, Full access or Read only. Your personal team also carries Your. Selecting a team takes you to that team’s project list. On sign-in the platform selects a team for you: the one you used last, then your personal team, then your first available team. There is no team-choosing screen. See the tutorial’s sign-in step.Read-only access
Your access to a shared team is either full or read-only, and the switcher badge tells you which. Full access lets you do everything on the team. Read-only access lets you open and read everything the team owns, including projects, pipelines, runs, datasets, and results. It does not let you change them. On a read-only team these write controls are hidden outright:- create a project
- add a secret
- chat with the agent (the chat input and the new-chat button are gone)
- apply a promocode or top up (Apply promocode and Top up are removed from the Balance menu)
- edit a message you already sent to the agent
When you have no team access
If you belong to no team, you land on the Waiting for access page. Ask a teammate with Full access to add you — see Give someone access. If a team is missing from the switcher, ask its owner or Toloka support to check your access.Give someone access
Grant access in the Business Console, the same application Top up opens. The platform does not add members; it reads the membership after you save it. The colleague must already have a Toloka account. You must have Full access on the company. A View only member does not see the Share access tab. Adding a company member with Full access grants write access on all of that company’s teams and projects. To grant only one team, open that team’s Share access tab and click Add team member, with the same Full access and View only options.- Ask the colleague to open https://console.toloka.ai/profile. The heading is Profile. Under Personal data, copy Login with Copy Login. If the page shows hyphens in the login, the control copies the value without them.
- Open https://console.toloka.ai/companies. The heading is Companies. Open the company.
- Open the Share access tab.
- Click Add company member. The Add company member dialog opens.
- Paste the login into Login or email. Leave Full access selected to give write access; that is the default. Choose View only for read-only access. On the platform, that member’s badge reads Read only.
- Click Add member. Cancel closes the dialog without adding the member.
Your balance
The sidebar shows a Balance item with the team’s current balance beside it, in US dollars. An empty balance reads$0.00.
The team owns the balance, and all of its projects share it. Billing explains the common balance flow and the distinct reserve, charge, release, and pause rules for pipeline runs and Training Runs.
Click Balance to open its menu. On a full-access team the menu has three items — Apply promocode, Top up, and Billing history. On a read-only team it shows only Billing history. The balance amount is always visible.

Top up
Top up opens the Business Console’s billing page in a new tab. You add money there, then return to the platform. Payments, invoices, and payment methods live in the Business Console. When paid work needs more funds, follow its product-specific prompt to this same billing page, then return to the platform. See Billing for the shared top-up path and the separate pipeline and Training recovery flows.Apply a promocode
A promocode adds credit to your balance. Apply promocode opens a dialog with one field, Promocode. Enter the code and click Check to preview it. A valid code shows “The promo is active” in green, with its dollar value when it carries one. An unknown or inactive code shows “The promo code does not exist or is invalid” in red. The code credits the team you have selected, so switch to the right team first. Then click Apply. The dialog closes either way — on success a confirmation appears and the Balance amount refreshes; on failure the toast reads “Unable to apply promocode”. Cancel closes the dialog without applying anything. You can also enter a code when you register. The registration form has a Promo code (optional) field.Billing history
Click Balance → Billing history to open the Business Console billing page. This is also available to read-only members.Related
- Billing — how both products use the shared team balance
- Pipeline pricing — forecast and contract mechanics for Data Labeling
- Training cost — maximum-charge holds and Training settlement
- Get your first labeled dataset — signing in and landing in your team