Understand developer roles

The Developer Dashboard has four standard user roles—Owner, Admin, Business, and Technical—with default permissions. The owner can:

• Invite other users to create their developer member accounts and access the Developer Dashboard. See Invite members. Members can have three roles—Admin, Business, and Technical.
• Create custom roles, such as pricing specialist, release engineer, or human resources, and assign specific permissions for controlling the custom roles. See Create a custom role.

The following table provides more information:

Understand permissions for developer roles

Permissions are assigned to each developer role:

• Owner role is assigned all permissions.
• Member and custom roles are assigned specific permissions.

Watch video: Developer account roles and permissions

Invite members

As a developer with an owner role, you can invite members to join your team. The invite is sent as an email with a link to access the member developer account.

1. Log in to the Developer Dashboard with your owner account details.
2. From the left navigation menu, click Developer Settings > Members. The Members page appears.
3. Click Invite Members. The Invite Members To Your Developer Account pop-up appears.

4. Enter the email address of the user you want to invite as a member. If needed, enter a list of email addresses separated by commas.
5. From the Role drop-down list, select a member role—Admin, Business, or Technical.
6. Click Invite. The invited member receives an email with instructions to access their developer account.

Information for all invited members and members who accept the invite to join the owner’s developer account displays on the Members page with email address, role, and status details.

7. Click the ellipsis icon next to a member’s name to:

• Resend the invite.
• Deactivate a member account.
• Edit the role assigned to the member.

For any member or custom role, you can manage assigned default permissions. See Manage default permissions.

Create a custom role

The owner can create custom roles for members to perform custom tasks and assign relevant permissions, such as in the beta tester team, production testers team, customer support team, and so on.

1. Log in to the Developer Dashboard with your owner account details.
2. From the left navigation menu, click Developer Settings > Roles. The Roles page appears.
3. Click Add Role. The Add New Role window appears.

4. Enter the custom role name.
5. From the Default Permission drop-down list, select permission to assign to the custom role. For example, for a Customer Support custom role, you can select default permissions for the Business role.
6. Click Save. The custom role displays on the Roles page.
7. From the Actions column for a custom role, click an icon to edit the name of the role or delete the custom role.

For any member or custom role, you can manage assigned default permissions. See Manage default permissions.

Manage default permissions

To review the default permissions assigned to each role:

1. Log in to the Developer Dashboard with your owner account details.
2. From the left navigation menu, click Developer Settings > Permissions. The Permissions page appears.

3. Review the list of permissions assigned to each member and custom role.
4. For any role, select or clear checkboxes to assign or remove permissions as needed. Your changes are saved automatically.