Hire a VA · Canva VA
Canva virtual assistant: cost per post, per deck and per month
$8.00–$14.00 an hour · $1,280–$2,240 a month full-time
That's the agency example below for a dedicated Canva VA working only for you: no recruitment or setup fee, billed monthly for hours worked. Part-time (80 hours) comes to $640–$1,120 a month.
On this page
- One design seat, three receipts
- Three kinds of Canva VA
- What one design costs
- A full-time month, priced by output
- Monthly output by plan size
- Calculator: cost per design
- Calculator: your own design hours
- Same output, US seat
- The template math
- The Canva bill and other lines
- Fonts, photos and Canva's licence
- Canva VA or graphic designer
- The numbers by type of business
- A weekly rhythm you can price
- Five ways a design budget leaks
- How the agency example bills
- The monthly report you pay for
- A design test before you hire
- The first 30 days
- How to hire one here
- Questions about the cost
One design seat, three receipts
A Canva VA is one person producing your everyday visuals in your Canva account: social posts, carousels, ads, decks, headers and documents, on your brand, every week. US government pay data has no "Canva designer" title, so the in-house slip uses graphic designers, the closest occupation. It prices a full-time employee at the national median wage, then adds what an employer pays on top.
Published by Outsourcing Insider, a VA MASTERS company. The agency slip uses VA MASTERS' published design and creative rates, which its Canva VA page also lists, shown because they're public; other agencies' prices vary. About us
Graphic designer, US
Full-time, per month, USD
- Median pay ($62,960 a year)a$5,247
- Paid leave1$439
- Supplemental pay (overtime, bonuses)1$234
- Health and other insurance1$446
- Retirement plans1$163
- Payroll taxes and required insurance1$559
Monthly total$7,088
Per year$85,051
- A computer, monitor and design software seats are usually the employer's cost and aren't on this slip.
- Benefit costs are the average for private employers with 1–49 workers; your own package may differ.
Canva VA, agency example Parent company
VA MASTERS, Design & Creative Arts
- 160 hours at $8.00–$14.00$1,280–$2,240
- Recruitment or setup fee$0
Monthly total$1,280–$2,240
Per year$15,360–$26,880
- Card or PayPal payments add 4%; USD bank transfer has no fee.
- The VA works on their own computer. The Canva seat is billed by Canva to your account.
The difference
Per month, full-time
- In-house total$7,088
- Canva VA$1,280–$2,240
Monthly gap$4,848–$5,808
- Canva, stock and font licences cost the same whoever designs, so they're left out of all three slips.
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025: national median annual wage for graphic designers (SOC 27-1024), $62,960, via O*NET OnLine; median hourly wage $30.27 (BLS OEWS May 2025, news release Table 1). Checked Oct 2026.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2026, Table 6. Checked Oct 2026.
- SHRM, 'SHRM Releases 2025 Benchmarking Reports' press release (Oct 15, 2025). Checked Oct 2026.
- SHRM, '2026 Recruiting Executives Benchmarking' page. Checked Oct 2026.
- Agency example: VA MASTERS pricing page, Design & Creative Arts ($8.00–$14.00 an hour), checked Oct 2026; its Canva virtual assistant page lists the same range, checked Nov 2026.
Read the slips for what they are. The US slip is a salaried designer at the middle of the national pay range, before the equipment and the software. Many of those designers do identity, illustration and print work a Canva VA doesn't, so the slip prices a broader skill set, not the same job. The agency slip is one dedicated remote person producing designs only for your business. Neither slip says how many posts, decks or ads come out, so most of this page prices units of work.
The in-house route has two more costs that never show on a monthly slip. Hiring: SHRM's 2025 benchmarking put the average cost per hire for nonexecutive roles at $5,4752, and its 2026 data puts the median time to fill at 39 calendar days3. For a business that posts every weekday, a month and more without a designer is a month of the owner opening Canva at night, or a month of silence on the feed. The graphic designer salary page has the full pay ranges, including what designers earn abroad.
Three kinds of Canva VA, one rate range
"Canva VA" covers three different jobs. The agency example doesn't publish separate bands for them, so the table places each in the $8.00–$14.00 range in words.
| Profile | Typical work | Where in $8.00–$14.00 | Part-time (80 h) | Full-time (160 h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production VA | Weekly social posts, Story versions, headers and resizes on templates you already have; files and folders kept tidy | Lower end | $640–$1,120 | $1,280–$2,240 |
| Design and scheduling VA | Production work plus captions adapted from your copy, the content calendar and scheduling, a monthly report of what shipped | Middle | $640–$1,120 | $1,280–$2,240 |
| Creative or system VA | Sets up the Brand Kit and the locked template library, designs decks, ads and lead magnets across platforms, may add Adobe Express or Photoshop | Upper end | $640–$1,120 | $1,280–$2,240 |
A rule of thumb for choosing: if you already have a Brand Kit and a set of templates that work, hire a production VA and spend the difference on more hours. If every post today starts from a blank page or a free template, hire for the system first, because the templates are what make every later design cheaper.
What one design costs
An hourly rate is easy to compare and hard to plan with. What a design budget actually buys is finished pieces, so the table prices common ones. The minutes per piece are example assumptions chosen to show the math, not industry statistics. They move with how much copy is ready, how many photos need cutting out, and how strict your brand rules are. Time your own first two weeks and replace them.
| Piece | What's in it | VA minutes (assumed) | Cost at $8.00–$14.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feed post from your template | Your copy and photo dropped in, checked against the brand, exported in the right size, filed | 20 | $2.67–$4.67 |
| Story or Reel cover version of that post | Resized to 9:16, layout fixed by hand where the automatic resize breaks it | 15 | $2.00–$3.50 |
| Carousel, 8 slides | From your written points: layout, icons, one chart, cover slide built to stop the scroll | 75 | $10.00–$17.50 |
| Ad creative set | 3 variations of one message in 3 sizes (square, portrait, landscape) for testing | 90 | $12.00–$21.00 |
| YouTube thumbnail or webinar cover | From your template, with a cut-out photo and up to five words | 30 | $4.00–$7.00 |
| Email or blog header | One banner in your template, two sizes | 15 | $2.00–$3.50 |
| Sales or client deck, 10 slides | From your outline and figures: layout, two charts, consistent type, PDF and shareable link | 180 | $24.00–$42.00 |
| Lead magnet, 12 pages | Guide or checklist laid out from finished copy, cover, table of contents, export for download | 360 | $48.00–$84.00 |
| One revision round on a post | Changes from your written notes, re-export, replace in the scheduler | 10 | $1.33–$2.33 |
| New locked brand template | A reusable layout with the logo, fonts and grid locked and the text and photo areas editable | 90 | $12.00–$21.00 |
Two things stand out. First, the feed post is cheap only because the template exists: the same post from a blank page can take two or three times as long, which is the whole case for the template math further down. Second, the revision line is small per round and large per month: three rounds on every post would add $4.00–$7.00 to each one, and usually means the brief was thin, not that the designer was slow.
A full-time month, priced by output
Here is one example of how 160 hours might split for a business posting daily on two platforms, running paid ads and sending a few decks a month. The split is an assumption for illustration; your own mix will differ.
| Block | Hours a month | Cost at $8.00 | Cost at $14.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 48 feed posts at 20 minutes | 16 | $128 | $224 |
| 48 Story versions at 15 minutes | 12 | $96.00 | $168 |
| 12 carousels at 75 minutes | 15 | $120 | $210 |
| 8 ad creative sets at 90 minutes | 12 | $96.00 | $168 |
| 4 sales or client decks at 3 hours | 12 | $96.00 | $168 |
| 1 lead magnet at 6 hours | 6 | $48.00 | $84.00 |
| 8 email and blog headers at 15 minutes | 2 | $16.00 | $28.00 |
| 4 new locked templates at 90 minutes | 6 | $48.00 | $84.00 |
| Revision rounds (about 60 at 10 minutes) | 10 | $80.00 | $140 |
| Scheduling and the content calendar | 16 | $128 | $224 |
| Brand Kit, folders and asset library upkeep | 8 | $64.00 | $112 |
| Requests from the team: resizes, one-pagers, certificates, documents | 25 | $200 | $350 |
| Banked content: two weeks of posts ready ahead of schedule | 20 | $160 | $280 |
| Total | 160 | $1,280 | $2,240 |
That month produces 133 finished pieces: 48 posts, 48 Story versions, 12 carousels, 8 ad sets, 4 decks, a lead magnet, 8 headers and 4 new templates, for $1,280–$2,240, or $9.62–$16.84 per piece on average with the scheduling, upkeep and team requests included. Put the whole seat on the 48 feed posts alone and each costs $26.67–$46.67: that is the fair number to hold against a per-post quote, because a per-post quote usually covers the design and nothing around it.
Monthly output by plan size
Design hours are easy to size because the output is countable. With the example minutes above, here is roughly what each setup holds at the agency example's rates:
| Setup | Hours a month | Monthly cost | Roughly fits (example minutes) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 40 | $320–$560 | One brand posting 4 times a week with Story versions, a carousel a week, 2 ad sets and 1 deck, plus scheduling |
| Part-time | 80 | $640–$1,120 | 32 posts with Story versions, 8 carousels, 4 ad sets and 2 decks, plus scheduling, revisions and team requests |
| Three-quarter | 120 | $960–$1,680 | Three or four client brands at three posts a week each, or one brand with daily posts and a monthly lead magnet |
| Full-time | 160 | $1,280–$2,240 | The example month above: 133 pieces plus upkeep and two banked weeks |
| Two seats | 320 | $2,560–$4,480 | A production VA and a system VA, or an agency with eight or more client brands |
Starting small is sensible, because the first month tells you your real minutes per piece. For how hours change the bill across roles, see part-time vs full-time VA cost.
Calculator: your cost per design
- Total cost a month (VA + Canva and licences)–
- Hours these designs need / hours paid–
- Cost per post–
- Cost per carousel–
- Cost per deck–
- Whole month ÷ posts (all-in)–
Calculator: what your own design hours cost you
Most people who search for a Canva VA are designing themselves, usually late in the day. That time has a price: the client work, sales calls or rest you didn't get. Put in your own figures; the starting values are examples. Keep some review time in, because nobody hands over their brand without looking at the work.
- Your hours back a month–
- Value of those hours–
- VA cost a month–
- Difference a month–
Same output, US seat: where the gap shows up
If a US designer and a VA produce the same post on the same template, the minutes depend mostly on the template and the brief, so the cost per piece scales with the cost per hour. Using the example minutes above:
| Unit | US graphic designer (slip above) | Canva VA (agency example) |
|---|---|---|
| Per paid hour | $44.30 | $8.00–$14.00 |
| Per feed post (20 min) | $14.77 | $2.67–$4.67 |
| Per carousel (75 min) | $55.37 | $10.00–$17.50 |
| Per ad set (90 min) | $66.45 | $12.00–$21.00 |
| Per 10-slide deck (3 h) | $132.89 | $24.00–$42.00 |
| Per 12-page lead magnet (6 h) | $265.79 | $48.00–$84.00 |
| The example month (133 pieces) | $7,088 | $1,280–$2,240 |
The template math: why the first month costs more
The biggest lever on cost per design is not the hourly rate but the template library. Here is the arithmetic with example assumptions, so you can swap in your own:
| Step | Example assumption | Cost at $8.00–$14.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Build one locked post template | 90 minutes, once | $12.00–$21.00 |
| Post from a blank page or a free template | 45 minutes | $6.00–$10.50 |
| Post from your locked template | 20 minutes | $2.67–$4.67 |
| Saved per post | 25 minutes | $3.33–$5.83 |
| Template paid back after | 90 ÷ 25 = 3.6 posts | The fourth post |
| Saved a month at 40 posts | 40 × 25 = 1,000 minutes, about 16.7 hours | $133.33–$233.33 |
A full set-up in month one, with the Brand Kit (colors with hex codes, fonts, every logo version), about ten locked templates for the designs you make most and a clean folder structure, might take 20 hours in this example: $160–$280 once. After that the library is upkeep: a new template when a new format appears, an update when the brand changes.
The Canva bill and other lines on your budget
Whoever designs, these are subscriptions and licences billed by their providers. We don't quote prices: they change by plan, seat count, region and promotion, and we haven't checked Canva's today. Get one price per line for one designer.
| Line item | What it pays for | Whose account |
|---|---|---|
| Canva plan and seat | The workspace, a seat for the VA, the Brand Kit, brand templates and the paid tools a design VA relies on | Your business, with the VA invited as a team member; billed by Canva |
| Stock photos and graphics beyond the plan | Images, icons and video clips your plan doesn't include | Your business, under a licence that covers how you use them |
| Brand fonts | Typefaces you upload to the Brand Kit | Your business; check the font licence allows that use |
| Scheduling tool | Publishing to social accounts, if you don't use Canva's planner | Your business, with the VA as a user |
| Adobe Express or Photoshop | Heavier photo work, only if the role needs it | A seat in your name or the VA's own, agreed in advance |
| File storage | Source photos, logo files and exported designs outside Canva | Your business, so the files stay yours |
Several of the features a design VA uses every day, such as one-click resizing, the background remover and a full Brand Kit, sit on paid plans, and Canva changes its plans and feature names from time to time. Check Canva's pricing page for what each plan includes before you add a seat. How to set up named access for every tool is in how to give a VA access to accounts.
Fonts, photos and Canva's licence: whose rights
A cheap design gets expensive when an element in it isn't cleared for the way you use it. The plain rule for any designer, in-house or remote: design in your account, with assets your business owns or licenses. In practice:
- The account: your business buys the plan and owns the team. The VA joins as a member, so designs, the Brand Kit and templates stay with you if the VA changes.
- Canva's own elements: photos, graphics, fonts and templates from Canva's library come with Canva's licence terms. Check Canva's content licence for what your plan allows, especially for ads, print runs and products you sell.
- Your uploads: logos, product photos, team photos and fonts you own or have a licence for. Photos "found online" stay out.
Deciding what to do about any rights question is yours. This is general information, not legal advice.
Canva VA or graphic designer: which work goes where
Most overspending on design is buying the wrong kind of hours: a full-time designer for template production, or a general assistant "who knows Canva" for work that needs design judgment.
| Work | Canva VA | Graphic designer |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly social posts, Stories, carousels | Yes, the core of the role | Can, at a higher cost per post |
| Ad creative variations for testing | Yes, from your brand templates | For a new campaign look |
| Decks, proposals, one-pagers, lead magnets | Yes | For investor decks with a custom look |
| Brand Kit and template library in Canva | Builds and keeps it up | Designs the identity behind it |
| New logo, brand identity or rebrand | No | Yes |
| Illustration, packaging, print with exact specifications | No | Yes |
A common and cheap setup: pay a designer once for the identity, then a Canva VA every week to turn it into templates and output. Freelancers fit one-off pieces and price per piece or per project; compare their quote against your VA's cost per piece from the calculator, and remember a freelancer is briefed again each time. For the wider choice, see VA vs freelancer vs agency and outsourcing vs hiring in-house.
The numbers by type of business
The same VA is hired for different reasons, and the unit worth tracking changes with the business. So does the decision that stays with you. The per-unit costs use this page's example minutes.
| Business | Typical output | Unit to track | Stays with you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real estate agent or team | Just listed, just sold, open house flyers, listing decks, market updates | Cost per listing: a 155-minute set (just-listed post, Story and carousel, flyer, just-sold post) is $20.67–$36.17 | Prices, market figures, the disclosures your brokerage requires |
| Marketing agency | Posts, ads and report decks across several client brands | Design cost per client brand: 160 hours over 5 brands is $256–$448 each | Client approvals and what each client is billed |
| E-commerce brand | Listing images, sale banners, launch graphics, product mockups | Cost per product image set: at an example 4 hours for 7 images, $32.00–$56.00 | Product claims and the photos' rights |
| Coach or consultant | Quote cards, webinar slides, course promos, ebooks | Cost per launch pack | What you promise clients and your content |
For an agency, the per-brand line is the one to price retainers against: if design for one client takes 32 hours a month, that is $256–$448 before your margin, whatever you charge for it.
A weekly rhythm you can price
A dedicated VA earns its cost through rhythm: content in on a fixed day, designs out on a fixed day. One example for a business posting five times a week with a weekly carousel, minutes from the unit table:
| Day | Canva VA | You | VA hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | Pulls the week's copy and photos, designs 5 posts and their Story versions | Drop the week's captions and points in one document | 2.9 |
| Tuesday | Designs the carousel and one ad set; shares everything for review | Nothing | 2.75 |
| Wednesday | Applies your notes; schedules the week | One round of written notes, 15 minutes | 1.25 |
| Thursday | Team requests: a one-pager, a resize, an email header | Send requests through one channel | 1.5 |
| Friday | Banks next week's evergreen posts; tidies folders; logs what shipped | Glance at the log | 1.6 |
About 10 hours a week, or 43 a month: a part-time seat with room left for a deck or two. In VA time that is $80.00–$140 a week. Your part is under half an hour plus the copy you write anyway.
Five ways a design budget leaks
- No templates. Every post rebuilt from scratch costs more than double in the example above. Build the library in month one.
- No brand brief. Without hex codes, fonts, logo files and 10–15 examples you like and dislike, the first weeks go on guessing. One hour of your preparation saves many of theirs.
- Vague notes. "Make it pop" costs a revision round; "bigger headline, swap the photo for the blue one" costs five minutes. Written notes, in one place, once per design.
- The free plan. Resizing by hand and cutting out photos without the paid tools turns 15-minute jobs into 45-minute ones. The seat usually costs less than the hours it saves; check with your own numbers.
- The owner as the bottleneck. Designs waiting days for approval cost the same hours and miss the slot. Approve within a day, or let the VA publish template posts on schedule after one review.
How the agency example bills
- Billed monthly after the work, for hours worked only
- Nothing to pay before you choose your hire
- 30-day trial with each new hire: end it right away, no notice
- After the trial, 30 days' written notice
- Replacement at no extra cost
- A one-time advance payment once you choose your hire, credited against your first invoices and refundable
- Recruitment, placement or setup fee: None
- Bank transfer in USD: No processing fee
- Credit card or PayPal: 4% processing fee
The monthly report you pay for
A design VA is judged on what they control. Reach and engagement depend on the topic, the audience and each platform's feed, which no designer controls. Ask for these numbers every month instead:
| Number | How it's counted | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Pieces delivered | Posts, carousels, ads, decks and documents finished, by type | Whether paid hours turn into output |
| On-time rate | Pieces delivered or scheduled by the agreed day ÷ pieces due | Reliability, the main reason to have a dedicated seat |
| Revision rounds per piece | Rounds of notes before approval | How well the VA knows your brand, and how clear the briefs are |
| Minutes per post | Time logged per post type | Your real cost per design; it should fall as the templates grow |
| Weeks banked | Approved posts ready ahead of the calendar | How exposed you are to a sick day or a busy launch |
The site's VA KPI scorecard template has a ready layout for a monthly review like this.
A design test before you hire
A portfolio shows taste on someone else's brand. A short test on your brand shows speed and how well someone follows rules. One format that works:
- The series (48 hours to deliver): three feed posts and their Story versions from your copy, logo and colors. Score hierarchy, spacing, type and consistency across the three.
- The resize: one design adapted to four other sizes. Score what they fixed by hand after the automatic resize.
- The template: one reusable layout with the logo and fonts locked. Ask them to explain what they locked and why.
- The critique (in the interview): show three weak posts of yours and ask what they'd change first. Then give vague feedback ("make it pop") and listen for clarifying questions.
Use your own assets for the test, or stock under your licence. More questions for creative roles are in the interview questions template, and the job description templates help you write the posting.
The first 30 days: what you're paying for each week
| Week | Canva VA | You |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleans up or sets up the Brand Kit; first small designs; folder structure | Invite to your Canva team; logo files, fonts, hex codes; 10–15 examples you like and dislike |
| 2 | First 5–10 locked templates; the weekly design calendar agreed | Written notes on each design; decide what "good enough" means for routine posts |
| 3 | Full weekly output on templates; scheduling; times each design type | Replace the calculator's starting minutes with the real ones |
| 4 | First monthly report; a week of posts banked | Set the monthly output target from real minutes, not hopes |
The onboarding checklist template covers the access and first-week items in a list you can tick off.
How to hire a Canva VA here
Requests from this site go to our recruiting partner, the agency in the example above:
- Tell us the job: what you design each week and for which platforms, whether you have a Brand Kit, and two designs whose style you want.
- Meet a shortlist: candidates with Canva portfolios for real brands, usually in about 2 business days. Run the design test above.
- Choose and start: nothing is paid before you choose; billing is monthly, after the work, for hours worked.
The trade-offs: an agency costs more per hour than hiring a freelancer yourself, in exchange for screening, payroll handling and free replacement; and the first weeks need your time for the brand brief, notes and approvals. If you're still comparing the cost of a general assistant first, see how much a virtual assistant costs.
Questions people ask about the cost
How much does a Canva virtual assistant cost?
In the agency example on this page (our parent company's published rates), a dedicated Canva VA costs $8–$14 an hour: $320–$560 a month for 40 hours, $640–$1,120 for 80 hours and $1,280–$2,240 for 160 hours, with no recruitment or setup fee. Weekly social graphics on existing templates sit lower in the range; building the Brand Kit and template system, decks, ads across platforms and Adobe skills sit higher.
Does the VA's rate include Canva itself?
No. Canva bills its own plans and seats to whoever holds the account, which should be your business. This page doesn't quote Canva's prices because they change by plan, seat count and region; check Canva's pricing page before you add a seat for the VA.
How much does an in-house graphic designer cost in the US?
The national median wage for graphic designers (SOC 27-1024) was $62,960 a year, or $30.27 an hour, in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). Payroll taxes, paid leave, insurance and retirement come on top; the slip on this page adds them line by line from BLS employer cost data. A full-time Canva VA in the agency example costs $15,360–$26,880 for 1,920 hours a year.
What does one social media post cost with a Canva VA?
It is the rate times the minutes. At an example 20 minutes for a feed post built on your existing template (your copy, your photo, export, filed in the right folder), one post costs $2.67–$4.67 in VA time. A post designed from a blank page takes longer, which is why the template library matters. Time your own first two weeks and use the calculator on this page.
What does a pitch deck or a lead magnet cost to design?
Using this page's example assumptions: a 10-slide sales deck from your outline takes about 3 hours, or $24–$42; a 12-page guide laid out from finished copy takes about 6 hours, or $48–$84. Charts built from your data, custom icons or many rounds of changes add time. Writing the content is a separate job unless you hire for it.
How many designs does a part-time Canva VA turn out a month?
With the example minutes on this page, 80 hours a month covers about 32 feed posts with Story versions, 8 carousels, 4 ad sets, 2 decks and the scheduling, revisions and template upkeep around them, for $640–$1,120. Your own mix will differ; the output calculator shows what fits your hours.
Is a Canva VA the same as a graphic designer?
No. A Canva VA is strongest at steady, on-brand production from templates: posts, carousels, ads, decks and documents. A new logo, a full brand identity, custom illustration, packaging or print with exact specifications, and files that must be delivered in Illustrator, InDesign or Figma are a graphic designer's work. A common setup is a designer once for the identity and a Canva VA every week after that.
Who owns the designs, and what about Canva's licence?
Keep the account in your business's name: you buy the plan, create the team and invite the VA as a member, so designs, the Brand Kit and templates stay with you if the VA changes. Photos, fonts and logos you upload should be ones you own or license. For Canva's own photos, graphics and fonts, check Canva's content licence for what your plan allows, especially for ads, print and products for sale. This is general information, not legal advice.
Can a Canva VA also schedule our social posts?
Yes. A common setup is design plus scheduling: the VA designs the post, adapts your caption, schedules it in Canva's planner or your scheduling tool and keeps the content calendar. Writing all the copy, community management and paid ads are bigger jobs that need more hours or a social media hire.
Are there extra fees on top of the hourly rate?
In the agency example there is no recruitment, placement or setup fee and no fee for USD bank transfers; card or PayPal payments carry a 4% processing fee. A one-time advance payment is due once you choose your hire, credited against your first invoices and refundable. On your side, budget for the Canva seat and any stock or font licences.
When do I pay, and can I cancel?
In the agency example, nothing is paid before you choose your hire, and billing is monthly after the work, for hours worked only. Each new hire has a 30-day trial you can end right away; after that, 30 days' written notice applies. A replacement is provided at no extra cost. First candidates usually arrive in about 2 business days.
How do I give a Canva VA access without losing control of the brand?
Invite the VA to your Canva team with their own login, never your owner password. Share only the folders the role needs, keep the Brand Kit and brand templates under an admin you control, and lock the logo, fonts and layout on templates other staff use. Remove the VA from the team the day the role ends; the designs stay in your account.