How to Invite Someone to Dropbox? [5 Effective Methods]

Is it possible to invite someone who doesn’t have Dropbox account? Yes, we can. In this article, I’m gonna show you how to invite someone to Dropbox and the possible ways to do it.

I am in need of inviting my friends, and colleagues to Dropbox to share some important files and it will be helpful for me if they are also in Dropbox.

I tried some ways to invite my team to Dropbox, and if you are also one among them then this article will make your day.

Below are the possible ways to invite someone to Dropbox. Let’s have a look and get clarity.

Invite someone to Dropbox by browser
Invite people to Dropbox business team
Team members invite to the Dropbox business team
Can I give access to Dropbox
How to refer friends to get more storage space

Table of Contents

Invite Someone to Dropbox by Browser

We can invite our friends, colleague, or family to Dropbox. This can be helpful for both Windows users and Mac users. Let’s have look at this.

Step-1

Open Dropbox in a browser such as Chrome, Firefox Internet explorer, safari, opera, etc.

Step-2

Sign in to that Dropbox account, by giving the proper credentials to get into Dropbox.

Step-3

Next, head to the profile picture which is in the top right corner of the home page, and click the Settings option and it will open our personal account page.

Step-4

Once the Personal account page is opened, go to the “Refer a friend” option which is middle right, and click on it to send a mail.

Step-5

On clicking on Refer a friend, we can see the email option to give a friend or colleague’s mail id or whatever we want, and we can copy the Link as well.

Step-6

After sending a mail, we will receive a notification message as “1 person was successfully invited to Dropbox”. Look at the below image for reference.

Step-7

We can copy the link by sending over the contacts to invite to Dropbox.

Step-8

And also, we can share our invitation link on our Facebook wall so that anyone can click it and sign up through our referral link.

So above are the steps to invite your friends to Dropbox.

Invite people to Dropbox Business Team

The next step we can invite people to the Dropbox Business team. Since I am a Dropbox plus user if you are a Business customer the below points will help you to move ahead.

We can invite people to the Dropbox business team based on our roles and permissions. Team members also invite a new person to the Dropbox team if the concerned admin allows doing that.

Keynotes:

We need a license for each person if they are added to our team. We will be charged for an additional license when we try to invite someone to our team.

When we try to invite someone to Dropbox via email, in some instances if that matches the team admins, they will automatically add to the team and takes charge.

The person we want to invite is already a Dropbox business user, we can’t invite them to our team. In this case, they can either join our team with an alternate email address else they can leave the current team.

Invite People to the Team

Business Admins can invite people to Dropbox individually by email or in bulk with the help of a CSV file.

Invite the People Individually to Dropbox

Let’s check how we can invite people individually to Dropbox. Just have a glance at it.

The initial step is usual, Sign in to the Dropbox account with the admin credentials
The next step is to click on the option Admin console
Click Members to proceed to invite them to the Dropbox business team.
Type the respective person’s email id which we want to invite.
Click Send invites option so that invitation will be sent to them successfully. We may receive acknowledgment messages for sending invitations as well.

Using a CSV file, invite People in Bulk.

In this, we can invite people to Dropbox in bulk using a CSV file. Let’s see how it works

Sign in to the Dropbox account with the admin credentials
The next step is to click on the option Admin console
Click Members to proceed to invite them to the Dropbox business team.
Click Import CSV file which is on the top right.
Click Download template to complete the CSV.
Bring your completed CSV in this step.
Click continue and send invites for the bulk contacts to invite to Dropbox.

Points to be noted – We will receive an acknowledgment email if the member accepted our invitation. If not, they didn’t accept our invitation to Dropbox.

These are all the shortcut methods to invite people to Dropbox individually and people in bulk using a CSV file.

Team Members Invite to the Dropbox Business Team

Instead of Admins inviting, even team members can invite someone to the Dropbox Business team if the admins allow them to do it. Have a look at the below steps to make it clear.

Open Dropbox and sign in to the respective account with the proper credentials.
Click the profile picture which is at the top right of the home page.
Click on the option view team and groups
We will see the option as Invite members, tap on it to do the next step.
If you don’t have the option to see Invite members, your admin may be disabled this Invite members features. In this case, we can click Suggest members to get into Dropbox.
Type the email of the person which you want to invite.
Click Invite to join so that person will receive an invitation from your end.

Team member invite can make use of the above step to invite to Dropbox.

Can I give Access to Dropbox?

Normally, we won’t let others access our Dropbox, though it has the possibility to do that. Moreover, that is not recommended too due to security purposes.

Even if we are trying to give our credentials if the person has changed our email id and password associated with our account, Dropbox will not responsible for that case.

Points to consider

It is not mandatory or necessary to share our account with another person. Instead of this, they can create their own account then we can send a link to them to open the files or folders in Dropbox.

How to refer friends to get more storage space

As we discussed above, we have seen how to refer a friend in Dropbox. The same thing we can do here is to get additional space in Dropbox. once we are referred, we can check the status of our referrals.

How to Check the Status of Our Referrals

We have the possibility to see the status of our referrals, please go through them below.

We can check the status of the referral by below steps.
Open a Dropbox account and sign in with the respective credentials.
Go to the profile picture and click the Settings option.
Click Refer a friend icon on the Personal account page.
Scroll down to see the total space earned.

Few points to consider after the referral

Invitation sent to another user: Our referral has been invited to use Dropbox but has yet to sign up for Dropbox.
Waiting for installation: Our referral signed up but has not yet been installed or signed in from the application
Waiting for email verification: Our referral installed and signed in to the desktop app but has not done the verification from the email address.
Completed from both ends: Both you and your referral have been credited with bonus space.
Ineligible for Dropbox: The particular recipient is ineligible for the referral program in the below case.
This means that the person already has a Dropbox account, or that the person is trying to register with the same system.
If you feel this condition is not proper, check again the email address of your recipient to try again.

The above are all the important things to consider once the referral process is done.

Refer a Friend in iOS Device

We have seen the things in the browser. Now its time to check for the iOS device to invite someone to Dropbox.

Open the Dropbox mobile app on your iOS device.
Click the settings icon in the top right.

Scroll down to see Tell Friends About Dropbox. Click on that to send referrals.

Give the name or mail id to invite others.
Once given the id click the arrow button nearby in Dropbox.

We will receive a notification message as an invitation is sent to the concerned person through Dropbox.

Refer a Friend in the Android Device

People also look for Android devices in Dropbox. So, this is for them.

Open the Dropbox mobile app on your android device.
Click the Account icon in the bottom right.

Scroll down to see Invite Friends to get free space. Open that to do next step.
Give the name or mail id to invite others.

Once given the id click the arrow mark at the top to send in Dropbox.
We will receive a notification message as an Invite sent to the concerned person.

Sending invitations to friends on Android is an easy and quick method.

Conclusion

We come to conclusion now in this article. Here I have covered everything meant to invite someone to Dropbox.

I trust you will feel easier to invite your friends if you read the full article step by step. Also, this article touched upon mobile devices as well.

Hope you got the necessary information by reading this article and kindly share to your friends as well to know about this.