Shares
Shares is the integer count of equity units a member holds in their syndicate. It is set on the invite, carried through on acceptance, and editable later by an admin from the Edit member dialog. Shares are how Syndik8 expresses ownership: there is no owner role, and holding shares neither adds nor removes any app permissions.
shares > 0, the member is an equity holder. Ownership-weighted calculations (maintenance cost splits, cash calls, and the majority-of-shares threshold used by votes) treat them proportionally to their share count.shares = 0, the member is a non-equity member. They are still a full member of the syndicate; they book, log usage, and see the calendar, but they are not included as a payer in cost splits or cash calls, and they cannot cast a ballot.
How the total works
Section titled “How the total works”A syndicate’s total share count is not stored anywhere. It is computed at query time as the sum of shares across all currently active members:
total = SUM(shares) WHERE status = 'active'This means:
- Adding a member never requires rebalancing anyone else’s shares. The total goes up by however many shares the new member holds.
- Removing a member (marking them former) drops them out of the denominator immediately. The remaining members’ percentages re-compute on the next read.
- A single-asset syndicate where the three equity members hold 1 share each has a total of 3, each holds 33.3%. If a fourth equity member joins with 2 shares, the total becomes 5, the three originals each drop to 20%, the new member is at 40%. Nobody’s share count changed.
Shares are not the billing scheme
Section titled “Shares are not the billing scheme”A member’s shares describe what they own. Their billing scheme describes what they pay. The two are independent.
- An equity member (
shares = 1) can be on the Standard scheme, the Founder scheme, the Renter scheme, or any other scheme the syndicate has set up. - A non-equity member (
shares = 0) can be on the Standard scheme, the Renter scheme, or any other scheme; putting them on the “Renter” scheme is convention, not a requirement.
See Roles, equity, and member rates for the full reasoning.