## TL;DR
Reclaim unused Figma seats or add more to the pool. The assignment fails because no seats are available.

## Error
```text
Figma seat assignment failed: license pool exhausted
```

## Steps
1. Check seat usage in the Figma admin console: who holds paid seats. Expected: the allocation visible.
2. Reclaim seats from inactive users, downgrading them to viewers where appropriate. Expected: seats freed.
3. If demand is real, purchase additional seats. Expected: the pool grown.
4. Retry the assignment. Expected: it succeeds.

## When to use
- Figma seat assignment fails on pool exhaustion
- New designers cannot get editor seats
- The pool was fine until team growth

## When not to use
- Seats are available but assignment fails (a different error)
- The issue is the API export timing out (a different problem)
- You want viewers, not editors (viewers do not consume paid seats)

## Tool compatibility
Figma organization administration.

### Variant phrasings
### pool exhausted by inactive editors
Downgrade the inactive ones; editors who never open Figma are pure waste.

### assignment fails right after purchase
Wait for the purchase to propagate, then retry.

## Why it happens
Figma bills per editor seat, and seats are claimed on first edit. Inactive editors hold seats indefinitely unless someone reclaims them.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_kRjUjiH9HZZYgPsKdo2R8A