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# Roles and permissions
There are several possible roles in a Zulip organization.
## User roles
* **Organization owner**: Can manage users, public streams,
organization settings, and billing.
User roles make it convenient to configure different permissions for different
users in your organization. You can decide what role a user will have when you
[send them an invitation](/help/invite-new-users), and later [change a user's
role](/help/roles-and-permissions#change-a-users-role) if needed.
* **Organization administrator**: Can manage users, public streams,
and organization settings. Cannot create or demote organization
owners.
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* **Moderator**: Have the permissions of full members; additionally,
many **Organization permissions** settings allow moderators to be
given additional privileges or do so by default.
Learn about [stream permissions](/help/stream-permissions), including
**public** and **private** streams.
* **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**.
* **Organization owner**: Can manage users, public streams, organization
settings, and billing. Organization owners can do anything that an
organization administrator can do.
* **Guest**: Can only view or access streams they've been added to.
[Guest users](/help/guest-users) interact with public streams as
though they were private streams with shared history. Cannot
create new streams or invite other users.
* **Organization administrator**: Can manage users, public streams, and
organization settings. Cannot make someone an owner, or change an existing
owner's role.
* **Moderator**: Can do anything that members can do, plus additional
permissions [configured](/help/roles-and-permissions#manage-permissions) by
your organization.
* **Member**: This is the default role for most users. Members have access to
all public streams. You can [configure different
permissions](/help/restrict-permissions-of-new-members) for **new members**
and **full members**, which is especially useful for [moderating open
organizations](/help/moderating-open-organizations). New members automatically
become full members after a configurable waiting period.
* **Guest**: Can view and send messages in streams they have been added to.
Guests cannot see other streams, unless they have been specifically added to
the stream. See [guest users documentation](/help/guest-users) for additional
details and configuration options.
* **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.
administrator. Billing administrators can manage billing for the organization.
For example, someone from your billing department can be a **billing
administrator**, but not an **administrator** for the organization.
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).
## Change a user's role
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.
{!change-a-users-role.md!}
## Manage permissions
{start_tabs}
{settings_tab|organization-permissions}
1. Review organization permissions, and modify as needed.
{!save-changes.md!}
{end_tabs}
## Related articles
* [Change a user's role](/help/change-a-users-role)
* [Stream permissions](/help/stream-permissions)
* [Inviting new users](/help/invite-new-users)
* [Zulip Cloud billing](/help/zulip-cloud-billing)