# Additional Core Seats

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/additional-core-seats/130520>\
**Category:** Account & Settings\
**Tags:** billing\
**Created:** [April 24, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/additional-core-seats/130520 "2025-04-24T17:40:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JMullen8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@JMullen8](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JMullen8)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/additional-core-seats/130520/1 "2025-04-24T17:40:05Z")

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I’m a solopreneur and do not have a team. Yet I saw in my billing today I pay for 3 additional core seats. Do I really need to pay for these if I’m the only one using the software?

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/additional-core-seats/130520/2 "2025-04-24T17:44:06Z")

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Hi @JMullen8,

If you’re the only user, you don’t need more than one core seat. Go ahead and remove them 🙂 [Assign and manage seats](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/account-management/manage-seats#add-or-remove-paid-seats)

Best regards

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**Author:** ![JMullen8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@JMullen8](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JMullen8)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/additional-core-seats/130520/3 "2025-04-24T17:45:29Z")

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Great, thank you!

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**Author:** ![RubenBurdin](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/rubenburdin/32/75212_2.png) [@RubenBurdin](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RubenBurdin)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/additional-core-seats/130520/4 "2025-04-24T17:45:31Z")

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@JMullen8 Short answer: no—you don’t need to keep (or pay for) three extra Core Seats if you’re the only one in the portal. HubSpot just defaults to a certain seat count when a subscription is first set up; you can reduce it in two steps.

1. **Remove or unassign the unused seats:** Settings → Users & Teams → look for any “empty” users or users marked as having a paid core seat. Either delete those users or click the dropdown and un-assign the seat. (If you’re truly solo you should end up with just your own user listed, holding one Core Seat.)
2. **Shrink the seat count in billing:** Settings → Account & Billing → Products & Add-ons → Manage seats. Drop “Quantity” from 4 down to 1 and save. HubSpot pro-rates the difference on your next invoice. If the UI won’t let you edit (older contracts sometimes lock that field) open a chat ticket or call support—they can issue a seat-count amendment in two minutes.

Double-check after the change: Billing should now show 1 of 1 Core Seats in use, and your next cycle will charge only for that single seat.

Hope that clears it up.

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