Coworker Invitations

Salesforce users can invite coworkers without Salesforce licenses to Chatter. Invited users can access Chatter people, profiles, groups, and files, but users without a Salesforce license can’t see record data.

Required Editions

Available in: Essentials, Group, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, Contact Manager, Developer, and Database.com Editions

Salesforce CRM, Approvals, Chatter email notifications, Chatter Invitations, and customer invitations aren’t available in Database.com.

To enable coworker invitations, select Allow Coworker Invitations in Salesforce Setup | Chatter Settings.. The email domain of the first Salesforce user who is added to the organization is used as the company domain in the Company Email Domains field. Coworker invitations aren't enabled if the first Salesforce user's domain is a free public email provider such as yahoo.com or gmail.com.

In the Company Email Domains field, enter the domains that are used in your company’s email addresses. You can enter up to 200 domains. Avoid public email domains such as hotmail.com, yahoo.com, or gmail.com. If invited, anyone with an email address in these domains can join and see user profiles, feeds, and Chatter groups.

When you turn off this feature, users can't accept outstanding invitations. Similarly, if you remove an email domain, users can't accept outstanding invitations from that domain.