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User Roles Explained

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

Written by Bruno de Oliveira
Updated over 3 weeks ago

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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