Invite people by email
2026-11-09 · The Scrums team
Type in the addresses of the people you want on your team, and each one gets an invitation of their own. Also today, scru.ms starts sending email, and we start recording how the site is used, to find problems faster.
A day after opening, here's the first new feature: bringing your team in no longer means copying and pasting links. And two changes worth knowing about, to how scru.ms sends email and to how we find and fix problems.
Invite people by email
Until now, inviting someone meant making a link and sending it to them yourself. Now you can type their addresses, and Scrums sends the invitations for you.
Open a team or an organization, choose Invite, and type an address under Invite by email. Press Enter, or type a comma or a space, and the address becomes an entry of its own. Then type the next one. You can also paste a whole list, even one copied from an email's To line, such as Sam Lee <sam@example.com>, jo@example.com. Anything that isn't an email address is marked in red, for you to fix or remove before you send.
Each address becomes an entry. Paste a list, and they all do.
Each person gets an email with a link of their own. It works once, and it expires after seven days. When they open it, they can create an account (with their address already filled in) or sign in, and they join the team and its organization.
The invitations you've sent are listed in the same dialog, under Invited by email. Resend sends a new link and turns off the old one, and the bin button cancels an invitation.
A few limits stop invitations from being used to send bulk email:
- You need to have confirmed your own email address first. If you haven't, Settings can send you the confirmation link again.
- You can invite up to 50 people at a time, and send 100 invitations a day.
- People who are already on the team aren't invited again. The dialog lists anyone it skipped, and why.
Anyone on a team can invite people to it. Inviting people to a whole organization is up to its admins. Links you share yourself are still there, under Or share a link.
Email from scru.ms
Until today, scru.ms couldn't send email at all. Now it does, from no-reply@mail.scru.ms, so all of these arrive the way they should:
- the link to confirm your email address, and the one to reset a forgotten password
- a meeting's summary when it ends, sent to the people who took part
- a note when your team's scheduled standup opens
- calendar invitations for planned sessions, and word when one is cancelled
- reminders about your action items that are due soon or overdue
- direct messages and mentions you haven't read, once they've waited a while (15 minutes, unless you choose otherwise) and you're not in the app
You choose which reminders and message emails you get in Settings. If something you expect doesn't arrive, look in your spam folder for mail from no-reply@mail.scru.ms.
Session recording, and a new Privacy Policy
To find and fix problems sooner, we've started recording how scru.ms is used. A recording isn't a video. It's a record of the pages you see and how they change, along with clicks, scrolling and errors, from which we can play a visit back. It's made by our own software and sent only to our servers.
What you type into a field is never recorded as you type it: your browser replaces it with placeholder characters before anything is sent. Once something you post is shown on the page, like a card on a retro board, it's part of what's recorded. Calls, screen shares and recordings on pages are never included.
Only the people at Scrums who run the service can watch recordings. Your organization's admins can't. Each recording is deleted three days after the visit begins. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, nothing is recorded at all.
The details are in the new Session recording section of the Privacy Policy, and the Terms of Service mention it too. Because both changed, the next time you open Scrums you'll be asked to accept the new version, dated November 9, 2026.