feat(teams): tell invitees what joining gets them in the invite email by jbecke · Pull Request #8550 · macro-inc/macro

jbecke · 2026-10-22T18:36:03Z

Why

Team invites rarely turn into teammates. In PostHog, 14% of team invites sent July–September ended in a join (51 of 355; domain auto-joins send no PostHog event, so this is a floor), and joins happen within a day or not at all. Invitees who click through mostly finish: 93% of those who start onboarding from an invite link reach the team step, and 79% end up on the team. The loss is in the email, which said only "Your team is on Macro." and "Join team".

How it works

The invite records what joining would give the invitee, derived the way join_team grants entitlements, and the email renders from it:

invite_users_to_team
  enterprise team ───────────────────────────────▶ premium
  in good standing, has a subscription ───────────▶ premium
  in good standing, no subscription ──────────────▶ free (join grants no Pro seat)
  not paying, has a subscription ─────────────────▶ TeamNotPaying (unchanged)
  not paying, no subscription ── link owner's sub ─▶ linked ? premium : free

What

invite_email: InviteePlan (free | premium) on InviteToTeamMetadata. #[serde(default)] reads payloads queued before deploy as free, which stays true: joining never costs the invitee.
New template: "Join {team} on Macro", the inviter plus a one-line pitch, a "Pro is included" or "Free to join" callout (also in the preheader), a button naming the team (falls back to "Join team" past 24 characters), a note to accept with the invited address (the accept page rejects other addresses), a pasteable link, and a "not expecting this?" footer. The button is full width on phones. Subject: "{inviter} invited you to join {team} on Macro".
teams: invite_users_to_team derives the plan and records invitee_plan on its span; backfill_legacy_team_subscription_or_free returns whether it linked a subscription. Tests cover each billing state.
Regenerated the notification-service web client, SDK specs and types, SDK reference, and code-mode SDK docs.
Gotchas in crates/invite_email/AGENTS.md; agent guide note with renders.

Before: a heading "Your team is on Macro.", one line, and a "Join team" button. After:

Follow-ups

Onboarding sends invites at the team step, before the paywall, so they mostly come from free teams and read "Free to join". Sending them after the plan step would let teams that start a trial say "Pro is included".
A trialing owner's subscription is not linked to a team created after checkout (get_subscription_id_for_customer filters to active), so those invitees get Free; the email reflects that.
Reminder emails for unanswered invites and a pending/resend list for inviters.
Name the inviter rather than show their address; the invite path has no display-name source.

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Team invites rarely become joins: 14% of invites sent July to September ended in a join, and joins came within a day or not at all. Invitees who click through mostly finish (93% of those who start onboarding from the link reach the team step), so the loss is in the email, which only said "Your team is on Macro." and "Join team". invite_users_to_team now derives an InviteePlan the way join_team grants entitlements: Pro from an enterprise team or one with a subscription, including an owner's active subscription linked during the invite, and Free otherwise. A free team in good standing without a subscription stays Free, because joining it grants no Pro seat. The email names the inviter and team, says what Macro is, states "Pro is included" or "Free to join", names the team on the button, asks the invitee to accept with the invited address (other addresses can't accept), and adds a pasteable link and a "not expecting this?" line. Payloads queued before deploy have no plan and read as Free, which stays true: joining never costs the invitee.

The team invite metadata gained an optional inviteePlan, so the notification service's OpenAPI spec changed. Regenerated the web client, the SDK specs and types, the SDK reference, and the code-mode SDK documentation from it.

Emailed team invites now say "Pro is included" or "Free to join" depending on what joining grants. Note it in the team membership section, with desktop and phone renders of both variants.

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- Team invitation emails now identify the inviter and team, explain what’s included, and distinguish between Pro being covered and joining for free.
- The join button adapts to longer team names, and the email includes sign-in guidance and a fallback invitation link.
- Invitation emails are easier to use on mobile, with a full-width call-to-action on smaller screens.

Team invitations now include a Free or Premium plan in their notification metadata. The team invite operation selects the plan from enterprise status, payment standing, and subscription information. Invitation emails use the plan to display corresponding benefit details and include updated invitation wording, join-button labels, and sign-in instructions. The notification schemas and public metadata exports include the new plan type.

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The change adds plan-specific wording to team invite emails and carries the plan in notification metadata. Older queued invites default to Free. No new merge-blocking risk was found. A separate pre-existing ordering problem in the invite permission check is noted in review but was not introduced here.

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- Around line 1513-1515: In the invite flow, check `allow_non_admin_invites` and
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jbecke · 2026-10-22T22:32:32Z

The test check failed because of breaks on main, not because of this PR. #8474 removed the @claude system bot, but two tests from #8364 still use it:

crates/channels/src/outbound/channel_name/test.rs names bot_id::CLAUDE_BOT_ID, so channels doesn't compile.
name_search::channel::test::persona_direct_messages_are_found_by_bot_name searches for a DM by the name "Claude", which no longer resolves.

I ported fixes into this PR, after merging main in:

4aeb24f: the channels test builds its bot id from the uuid its participant already uses.
6007b5c: the name_search test and its fixture use the Codex system bot instead.

If main gets its own fixes, these two tests may conflict on the next merge; either side resolves them.

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Why: main's channels tests no longer compile; #8474 removed bot_id::CLAUDE_BOT_ID while a test from #8364 still names it. What: build the test's bot id from the uuid its participant already uses.

@claude

Why: #8474 removed the @claude system bot, so the persona DM test from #8364 no longer finds its DM by that name, failing main's tests. What: point the test's DM and search at the Codex system bot.

claude added 3 commits October 22, 2026 18:34

docs(agent-guide): describe what team invite emails promise

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Emailed team invites now say "Pro is included" or "Free to join" depending on what joining grants. Note it in the team membership section, with desktop and phone renders of both variants.

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fix(teams): link an owner's trial subscription to their team #8574

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feat(teams): remind invitees of unanswered team invites #8597

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fix(channels): stop using the removed Claude bot id in a test

4aeb24f

Why: main's channels tests no longer compile; #8474 removed bot_id::CLAUDE_BOT_ID while a test from #8364 still names it. What: build the test's bot id from the uuid its participant already uses.

fix(name_search): find persona DMs by a system bot that still exists

6007b5c

Why: #8474 removed the @claude system bot, so the persona DM test from #8364 no longer finds its DM by that name, failing main's tests. What: point the test's DM and search at the Codex system bot.

jbecke merged commit 80d8ae2 into main Oct 23, 2026
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