zulip/help/roles-and-permissions.md

49 lines
2.0 KiB
Markdown
Raw Normal View History

# Roles and permissions
There are several possible roles in a Zulip organization.
* **Organization owner**: Can manage users, public streams,
organization settings, and billing.
* **Organization administrator**: Can manage users, public streams,
and organization settings. Cannot create or demote organization
owners.
* **Moderator**: Have the permissions of full members; additionally,
many **Organization permissions** settings allow moderators to be
given additional privileges or do so by default.
* **Member**: Has access to all public streams. Member is the default
role for most users. [Some organization
settings](/help/restrict-permissions-of-new-members) allow an
organization to restrict the permissions of **new members**; Members
who do not have those restrictions are called **full members**.
* **Guest**: Can only view or access streams they've been added to.
Guest users interact with public streams as though they were private
streams with shared history. Cannot create new streams or invite
other users.
* **Billing administrator**: The user who upgrades the organization to
a paid plan is, in addition to their normal role, a billing
administrator. Can manage billing in addition to the existing
privileges. This allows someone from the billing department to
manage billing without needing organization administrator
permissions.
For details of the access control model, see [Stream
permissions](/help/stream-permissions). You can decide what role to
invite a user as when you [send them an
invitation](/help/invite-new-users).
Organization owners can do anything an organization administrator can
do. For brevity, we may sometimes refer to "organization
administrators" being able to do something; unless stated explicitly,
this means "organization owners and administrators" can do that thing.
## Related articles
* [Stream permissions](/help/stream-permissions)
* [Inviting new users](/help/invite-new-users)
* [Zulip Cloud billing](/help/zulip-cloud-billing)