How to allow someone to share google credentials with my workflow

[bombjackm]

Hi,

I’m creating an automation agency. I’ll create automations for other.
N8N looks great!
I’m testing a simple google calendar automation. It works perfectly with my own credentials but I’d like to use my customer google calendar, not mine.

Is there a simple method to ask a customer to sign in google before the first run of a workflow?

I found a method to share my credential but not for someone else to share his/her crendentils with me.

[n8n]

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[bombjackm]

It’s a general question with both the docker and the trial version from your web side.

[liam]

Hi @bombjackm, welcome to the community!

That is not currently possible and actually violates the license, at least under the community self-hosted edition.

You are allowed to use n8n for your own business uses but are not allowed to “white label” n8n for your customers.

don’t worry though! n8n supports us freelancer and agency owners. See my previous reply here for an in depth explanation. What i explained there was later confirmed by the founder Jan.

Running n8n automation for clients

tldr: it depends but probably not, but there are ways “around” it. Disclaimer, im not a lawyer or part of the n8n team, send the n8n team an email if you aren’t sure, they are always very nice and helpful That being said, as someone who offers n8n services I have had to figure all of this out. You can find n8n’s license here and an explanation of it here. You are allowed to provide consulting services like creating workflows, nodes, providing support, etc. You are NOT allowed to offer n8n as…

There is also a thread here where active community member and long time n8n pro BramKn discussed it in this thread

What kind of license is there for free templates for workflows? Can I build a website around such a free template and sell the service?

You are allowed to use it for anything thats non commercial. I don’t think there are any restrictions on non commercial use at all. You can use it for your own business purposes. But you can not host it for another company. You can use it to make a report that you sell. I am not exactly sure where the link is, but if the entire process is automated by n8n i would say it very likely is not allowed. If you use n8n to generate the report and even to send it automatically, that is fine. That woul…

I recommend reading through those and your questions will likely be answered!

[bombjackm]

Thanks Liam for your answer.
I could use the Paid version to not violate the licence.
The Enterprise Tier is too expense for a starting solopreneur like me.
I’ll take a lower tier.

So, is there a possibility to add credential using a script that I could use in nodes ?

[BramKn]

Hi @bombjackm

Using your own n8n instance with customer credentials is going against the license. If you want to do it you need a license, it is as simple as that. You could also create a seperate Cloud instance for each client that should also be fine.

There is a startup license for 400(euros or dollars) a month. That might help you.

[bombjackm]

Thanks for your answer