Share your Microsoft 365 Family subscription

How to share your Microsoft 365 Family subscription

1. Go to your Microsoft account dashboard's Subscriptions sharing page.
   Sign in

2. Select Share.

   Notes: 

   • If you don't see the Start sharing button, you may not be the owner of the Microsoft 365 Family subscription. If you're using a Microsoft 365 Family subscription that someone else shared with you, or if you have another type of Microsoft 365 subscription, you can't share your subscription with other people.

   • If the person you want to share your Microsoft 365 Family subscription with is not yet in your family group, send them an email invitation or link to join your family group. If they are already in another family group, they will need to leave it to join yours.

3. Choose how you'd like to share,

   1. Select Email invite then enter their email and select Invite.

   2. Select Create link then select Copy link. You can then paste the link in an email, text, or other message and send it to those you want to share with.

      Notes: 

      • When you share your subscription with someone, they get an email from Microsoft telling them that you've shared your Microsoft 365 Family subscription with them.

      • Each person you've shared with will need to select Get started in the email they receive to go to their Microsoft Family Safety site. If they don't have a Microsoft account, they'll be prompted to create one in order to move on.​​​​​​​

      • They should then select Join now to accept the invitation to join your family group before they can access the benefits of your Microsoft 365 Family subscription.

      • If you need to send an invitation again, find their name, and choose Resend invite.​​​​​​

4. They will need to accept your invitation within 48 hours. During this time, you will see "Pending invite" in your Microsoft 365 subscriptions dashboard.​​​​​​​

   Note: Once you have shared, they can select the Install Microsoft 365 on all your devices option one their account dashboard to install Microsoft 365 and access their OneDrive storage.

Troubleshooting

See Also

Manage Microsoft 365 subscription sharing

Set up Microsoft Family Safety

Install Office on your PC or Mac

Set up Office apps and email on a mobile device

Someone invited you to share their Microsoft 365 subscription

Can't find an invitation to share Microsoft 365​​​​​​​