Authentication
Send an API key as a bearer token. This endpoint does not state a specific permission in the specification, so give your key the least it needs and check the response rather than assuming.
This endpoint takes no organisation id. Your key already identifies the organisation it belongs to, and the response is scoped to it.
Try it
Replace anything in angle brackets with your own values, and the key placeholder with a key from your dashboard.
curl -X POST https://api.zinndigital.com/v1/sites/{siteId}/collaborators \
-H "Authorization: Bearer zdk_live_…" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "email": <string>, "role": <SiteCollaboratorRole>, "reason": <string> }'Signed in? The API console in your dashboard fills in your real organisation id and your own key, and runs the request against the live API so you can see the actual response. Open this endpoint in the API console
Details
Grants one person access to this one site at one role, optionally until a date, and gives them the narrow `site_collaborator` organisation membership if they have none. The narrowing is enforced by Postgres row-level security on the site table itself, not by a filter in a query, so it applies to every endpoint on this API rather than to the ones somebody remembered. ⭐ **The person need not have an account yet.** An address nobody has signed in as is invited in the same call: an ordinary organisation invitation is sent at the `site_collaborator` role, and the grant is returned with `status: pending` and a null `user_id`. The moment they accept — which proves control of that inbox through the identity provider, so no id is ever guessed — the grant activates for that person. A pending grant narrows nobody: nothing is reachable until the accept. If the address already holds a pending invitation to the *whole* organisation the call is refused with `SITE_COLLABORATOR_ALREADY_INVITED` rather than quietly downgrading that invitation to one site. **What a collaborator may then do is the per-site role, on that site only.** A request whose path names a granted site is evaluated with the role's keys (`viewer` reads; `editor` adds `hosting.deploy.manage`, `sites.cache.purge`, `hosting.performance.manage`, `sites.wp_login`, `sites.panel_access`, `sites.restart`, `hosting.php.manage`; `manager` adds `hosting.backup.manage`, `hosting.ssl.manage`, `hosting.cdn.manage`, `hosting.applications.manage`, `hosting.import.manage`). A request naming any other site answers `404`, and a request naming no site — the collection endpoints and every organisation-level surface such as members, API keys and billing — carries only `sites.view`, so it is refused with `403`. Revoking a grant takes effect on the next request, whatever token the person is holding. Every refusal carries its OWN `error.code`, because the status says what happened and only the code says what to do about it. `409` is about the world: `SITE_COLLABORATOR_ALREADY_GRANTED` (this person already has a live or pending grant here), `SITE_COLLABORATOR_ALREADY_A_MEMBER` (they are already an unrestricted member, so a grant would imply a restriction we are not applying — a lie in an access table) and `SITE_COLLABORATOR_ALREADY_INVITED` (above). `422` is about the request: `SITE_COLLABORATOR_EXPIRY_IN_THE_PAST` and `SITE_COLLABORATOR_REASON_REQUIRED`. ⛔ Key on the code, never on `error.message`. The message is a sentence written for a person and it is translated; the code is the contract.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
siteId (path) | Uuid | Yes | Site ID (UUIDv7). |
Request body
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
email | string | Yes | The person to share with. An address with no account here is invited in the same call and the grant is returned `pending` — see the endpoint description. |
role | SiteCollaboratorRole | Yes | What a collaborator may do on the site they were granted. `viewer` reads it; `editor` adds the day-to-day work (deploys, cache, plugins, staging); `manager` adds the structural… |
reason | string | Yes | Why they are being given this site. Required rather than optional: an optional reason is one nobody fills in, and the audit value of the record collapses to *"somebody granted s… |
expires_at | object | No | Optional automatic end. Null means until revoked. A time in the past is refused with `expiry_in_the_past` rather than silently creating a dead grant. |
Response
| Name | Type | Required | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
id | string | Yes | — |
site_id | string | Yes | — |
user_id | object | Yes | The collaborator, once known. Null while the grant is `pending` — the address has been invited and nobody has signed in as it yet. |
email | string | Yes | — |
role | SiteCollaboratorRole | Yes | What a collaborator may do on the site they were granted. `viewer` reads it; `editor` adds the day-to-day work (deploys, cache, plugins, staging); `manager` adds the structural… |
reason | string | Yes | Why this person was given this site. Required on creation, and returned here because a year later it is the only thing that can answer *"why does this person have my site?"*. |
granted_by | string | Yes | The audit ref of whoever granted it, `user:<id>`. |
created_at | string | Yes | — |
expires_at | object | Yes | When the grant lapses on its own, or null for *until revoked*. Evaluated at read time, so it takes effect on the clock rather than when a sweep next runs. |
active | boolean | Yes | Neither revoked nor past its expiry, as of this response. |
status | string<pending, active, expired, revoked> | Yes | `pending` — invited, waiting for the person to sign in as that address; `active` — in force now; `expired` — lapsed on its own end date; `revoked` — ended by the owner, the row… |
Errors this endpoint can return
401 · 403 · 404 · 409 · 422 · 429