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Remove someone's access

Take away a person's access to your brand, remove a login, cancel an invitation, and what happens to access given through a portfolio or an agency.

4 min readUpdated 7 October 2026

When someone no longer needs to see your brand, remove their access straight away. How depends on how they see the brand, and the right-hand side of their row in the Team list tells you which applies.

Before you start

  • You need Manage users on the brand. Client Owners have it by default. Agency staff who manage users can do this on any client they work on.
  • Every client user can see the list. Only people who manage users see the remove controls.

Step by step

  1. Open your brand. Client users go to Settings, Team. Agency staff go to the client's Account, Access.
  2. Find the person. Use the search box, the views Everyone, Agency staff, Client users and Invited, or the Access through filter.
  3. Look at the right of their row and follow the matching case below.

Remove access

The person was given this brand by name and has other ways in, or other brands. Choose Remove access, then confirm in Remove access to your brand.

The confirmation says what they keep, for example "They still see" the brand "through the" portfolio. If they keep nothing, it says they "can no longer open" the brand. Their login stays.

Remove user

This brand is the person's home brand and the only one they use. Choose Remove user, then confirm in Remove this user? with Remove user. This deletes their login permanently and cannot be undone.

At the moment only the agency's owner can complete this. Anyone else, Client Owners and agency directors included, sees "Admin access required" and nothing is removed. In that case ask your agency's owner, or email support@fabrik.ae with the person's email address and we will remove the login for you.

Through the portfolio

They see the brand because they are a member of a portfolio it belongs to. They are removed on the portfolio's Access page by the portfolio's agency. Agency staff see a link, Managed on the portfolio. See Portfolios and who can see them.

Home client

This is the brand they belong to, and they see other brands too, so their login stays. Agency staff change it on the person's user page with Change on their user page. Client users should ask their agency.

Through the connection

Agency staff see your brand through the agency's connection and cannot be removed one by one. Their access ends when the connection ends, for example when your brand is offboarded. Agency staff who leave the agency lose access through the agency's leaver checklist. See Run joiner and leaver checklists.

Cancel an invitation

On a row under Invitations, choose Revoke. The link stops working at once and the seat is freed.

What you will see

  • A message such as "Sam Lee no longer has" your brand "by name", or "Sam Lee has been removed".
  • The person disappears from the list, or stays with the other routes they still have.
  • Seats are freed straight away.

Troubleshooting

"Nothing was removed. It may have changed since this page loaded, or your role cannot manage this client's users.": reload the page and check the row again.

"Admin access required": see Remove user above.

The person still sees the brand: check the list again. They may see it another way, through a portfolio or because they are agency staff.

Frequently asked questions

Someone has left the company. What should I do?

Open Settings, Team and use the control on the right of their row. If it says Through the portfolio, they are removed on the portfolio's Access page. Revoke any invitation still waiting for them.

What is the difference between Remove access and Remove user?

Remove access takes this brand away and leaves their login and anything else they see. Remove user appears when this brand is the only one they use, and deletes their login for good.

Why does Remove user say Admin access required?

Deleting a login is currently limited to the agency's owner. Ask your agency, or email support@fabrik.ae with the person's email address, and we will remove the login for you.

Can a removed user be brought back?

A deleted login cannot be restored. Invite them again and they create a new login. Their own settings, such as notification choices, start fresh.

Why can I not remove an agency staff member?

Agency staff see every client the agency manages through its connection. Only ending that connection, which happens when your brand is offboarded, takes it away from them.

Will the person be told?

No email is sent when access is removed. Tell them yourself if you need to.

Is someone who is still signed in cut off straight away?

Yes. The database refuses their next request for the brand's data, so their next page load can no longer open it.

Still need help?

Email us with a link to the page you were on and what you expected to see. A screenshot helps us answer first time.

support@fabrik.ae