I’m unable to deploy my project and getting this error: The Deployment was blocked because the commit author does not have contributing access to the project on Vercel. Hobby teams do not support collaboration. Please upgrade to Pro to add team members. Problem I’m the only team member, but Verc…

Problem Hello, I’m the creator of my project but for some reason under Project Settings > Project Members, I’m listed with the Project Role: Project Viewer. Each time I try to deploy, it asks me to upgrade to Pro because I can’t have multiple members in one project. Current Behavior I am receiving …

Hi everyone, I’m experiencing a “Deployment Blocked” error on my Hobby project and I’m looking for a way to resolve it. The Error Error: The Deployment was blocked because the commit author does not have contributing access to the project on Vercel. Hobby teams do not support collaboration. The…

Hey! I moved your original posts to this thread. There’s a solution above someone else shared, can you take a look?

hii, i tried to relinked and still give me error on redploy. [image] i just have 1 github account linked and its in this vercel account. Thanks

Hey Croquete1 , I don’t see any answers yet, so maybe this helps! Looks like you’re on the Vercel Teams page and you’re the only owner with 2FA on. Since you only have one GitHub account, it’s probably not a team conflict. Most of the time, redeploy errors come from repo permissions or OAuth token i…

I solved this by simply matching my local Git email/username with the GitHub account connected to the Vercel project. My system’s global Git config (user.name and user.email) was set to a different identity than the GitHub account/repo I was actually pushing to. Vercel checks the commit author’s em…

Vercel deployment blocked because commit author does not have contributing access on Hobby plan

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croquete1 (Croquete1) March 19, 2026, 3:43pm 17

hii,

i tried to relinked and still give me error on redploy.

i just have 1 github account linked and its in this vercel account.

Thanks

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