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User Roles Explained

Understand the differences between the Employee, Admin and Reviewer user roles

Written by Bruno de Oliveira

Employee

Employees are the default staff role. They have broad access to day-to-day operations, including:

  • Create, update, activate, and manage records

  • Manage templates (record, inspection, workflow, email, report)

  • Handle fees and payments

  • Schedule and log inspections

  • Conduct plan reviews and annotations

  • Manage calendar events and alerts

  • Create and manage violations

  • Generate reports

  • Void invoices

  • Delete their own comments

  • Create and modify view dashboards

  • Send emails from records

  • Reassign records and update record statuses

  • Add/edit files and generated documents

Employees cannot:

  • Manage organization users (add/remove/change roles)

  • Create, edit, or delete meetings

  • Access most settings and configuration pages

  • Approve or reject action proposals

  • Delete other users' comments

  • Close or cancel records

  • Undo payments


Admin

Admins have full access to everything within their organization. In addition to everything an Employee can do, Admins can:

  • User management – Add, remove, edit, and invite users to the organization; change user roles and record type access

  • Meeting management – Create, edit, and delete meetings; manage agendas, recordings, and meeting files

  • Settings & configuration – Access all settings pages, manage modules, configure calendar integrations, and manage violation types/codes

  • Record workflow actions – Close or cancel records, undo payments, bypass form validation, edit imported applicant info

  • Comment moderation – Delete comments made by any user (not just their own)

  • Action proposals – Approve or reject high-risk action proposals

  • Plan reviews – Access additional plan review admin tabs; complete plan review actions even when not the assigned owner; access non-most-recent plan sets

  • Violations – Access archived violations in exports

  • Organization overview – View the organization overview page

  • Insights – Access restricted insight sections

  • Sidebar & navigation – See admin-only navigation elements


Reviewer

Reviewers are a restricted role intended for third-party inspectors and plan reviewers. They can only see records where they are directly involved (as owner, assignee, inspector, or plan reviewer). Compared to Employees, Reviewers cannot:

  • Access the inspections page (unless also assigned as inspector)

  • Create or modify view dashboards

  • See the Activity or Fees tabs on records

  • Access settings pages

  • Create test records

  • Reassign records or update record statuses

  • Send emails from records

  • Add or edit files and generated documents

  • Edit tags, templates, or expiration dates

  • Access the code enforcement module

  • Add inspections to records

  • Edit form submittals

  • See the Payments section in the sidebar

Reviewers can:

  • View and work on records they're assigned to

  • Submit and complete plan reviews they own

  • View inspections they're assigned to

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