Organization roles

Overview

In Contentful, roles are used to grant permissions to users to view and perform tasks related to their job.

Organization role is assigned when a user is invited to an organization. An organization role defines user's access to the organizations settings, as well as their access to spaces and teams.

By default, the user who creates the organization is assigned the Owner role. Every user in an organization needs, and can only have one organization role. As an owner or admin, you can manage the organization roles of users from the "Users" tab in the Organization settings & subscriptions.

Types of organization roles

The organization roles are as follows:

Owner - can manage everything at the organization level. There must always be at least one owner in an organization.
Admin - can manage everything except subscribing to new services and viewing invoicees.
Developer - can access spaces and teams they are added, as well as manage app definitions under the Apps tab and taxonomy under Taxonomy manager.
Member - can only access spaces and teams they are added to, as well as submit apps to the Marketplace.

Permissions matrix

The table below displays roles' access to organization settings tabs and spaces.

Role	Owner	Admin	Developer	Member
Access to organization settings
Organization information	Yes	Yes	No	No
Space licenses	Yes	Yes	No	No
Invoices	Yes	No	No	No
Spaces	Yes	Yes	No	No
Usage information	Yes	Yes	No	No
Users	Yes	Yes	No	No
Teams	Yes	Yes	Only those user is added to	Only those user is added to
Apps	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Submit Marketplace apps	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Taxonomy manager	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
CMA tokens	Yes	Yes	No	No
Optimization data	Yes	No	No	No
AI	Yes	Yes	No	No
Audit logs	Yes	Yes	No	No
Access tools	Yes	Yes	No	No
Access to spaces
Spaces	Only those user is added to	Only those user is added to	Only those user is added to	Only those user is added to

Organization roles

Overview

Types of organization roles

Permissions matrix

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