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Davey27543401p3fu
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June 16, 2026
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Granular controls for Stock Credits

  • June 16, 2026
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Is there a way to specify who can access Adobe Stock credits in an organization?

 

I have become the admin for an organization that has 2 Adobe Orgs with separate Admin consoles I am told the reason for this is because 1 user has an Adobe Stock license, however the credits from that license are stored at an organization level, meaning that anyone part of the Org could accidentally use those credits which a specific group in the Org is exclusively paying for.

 

This makes absolutely no sense to me and really makes Administration difficult not to mention the user experience as this user has to sign into Stock with one account and then sign into other Adobe products with another as the other products are under the main Organization tenant. Adobe support has confirmed this is still the case, but I just struggle to see Adobe continuing with this setup for so long. I’m left wondering if there was a miscommunication when I asked support about this.

 

Is there a different type of license? For a recent issue with the Stock license, I was told by support that the license was a “Team” license, since this is for ONE user is there an individual license or some sort of Enterprise license that provides more controls over the credits and who can use them?

Correct answer BaniVerma

Hi ​@Davey27543401p3fu,

 

Thank you for reaching out, and we understand your frustration. Inheriting an admin setup where one license's credits are effectively accessible to the wider organization is exactly the kind of thing that makes day-to-day administration harder than it should be, and we appreciate you taking the time to lay out the context so clearly.

 

To confirm what you're seeing: with Adobe Stock for teams, licensing is pooled by design. Any team member who is the Contract Owner, a System Admin, or assigned to any product in the team can use the shared Stock plan, and there is no per-user credit allocation or restriction available within that plan type. The only way to revoke a user's access to Stock credits on a Teams plan is to remove them from the team. This is documented here: https://adobe.ly/43CPrt9

The good news is that what you're looking for does exist, just under a different plan: Adobe Stock for enterprise. With Stock for enterprise, credits are assigned at the product profile level rather than pooled across the whole organization. That means you can:

  • Create one or more product profiles for Adobe Stock, each with its own credit quota.

  • Assign only the specific users (or user groups) who should have access to those credits.

  • Set a product profile's quota to 0 to allow members to view and download already-licensed assets without being able to license new ones, which is useful for review and approval workflows.

 

Full details on how this works, including how credits are shared within a profile and how quotas are managed, are here: https://adobe.ly/4vYvgC4

 

Please let us know if you have any further questions on how the Enterprise controls work, and we're happy to help.

 

Thanks,
^BS

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June 17, 2026

Hi ​@Davey27543401p3fu,

 

Thank you for reaching out, and we understand your frustration. Inheriting an admin setup where one license's credits are effectively accessible to the wider organization is exactly the kind of thing that makes day-to-day administration harder than it should be, and we appreciate you taking the time to lay out the context so clearly.

 

To confirm what you're seeing: with Adobe Stock for teams, licensing is pooled by design. Any team member who is the Contract Owner, a System Admin, or assigned to any product in the team can use the shared Stock plan, and there is no per-user credit allocation or restriction available within that plan type. The only way to revoke a user's access to Stock credits on a Teams plan is to remove them from the team. This is documented here: https://adobe.ly/43CPrt9

The good news is that what you're looking for does exist, just under a different plan: Adobe Stock for enterprise. With Stock for enterprise, credits are assigned at the product profile level rather than pooled across the whole organization. That means you can:

  • Create one or more product profiles for Adobe Stock, each with its own credit quota.

  • Assign only the specific users (or user groups) who should have access to those credits.

  • Set a product profile's quota to 0 to allow members to view and download already-licensed assets without being able to license new ones, which is useful for review and approval workflows.

 

Full details on how this works, including how credits are shared within a profile and how quotas are managed, are here: https://adobe.ly/4vYvgC4

 

Please let us know if you have any further questions on how the Enterprise controls work, and we're happy to help.

 

Thanks,
^BS

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