Onboarding a new client

SUGGESTED

I have two existing clients and am about to bring on a third.

For my first two, part of the agreement was that I cover the Sage subscription costs for their entities, and they didn't care if they had access to Sage or not.

This new one, however, would like to be able to log into her entity's Sage as a 'read-only'. However, I will still be covering the subscription.

Now -When I went to 'invite client', it sure seems like the options are:

1) Client can have access if THEY PAY, OR

2) I pay (as planned) and client will have no visibility to their own accounting records whatsoever.

Am I misinterpreting what I'm reading there?