Getting started

Roles and permissions

Owner, manage, view and admin — who can change things and who can only read.

Permissions are split into management and viewing. This protects the project from accidental paid checks, deletion or a domain change.

owner
The project owner has management rights: settings, checks, keywords, competitors, connections and sharing.
manage
In practice the right to act. In the system logic wrs_can_manage is true for admin or owner.
view
Read-only access through “Share for viewing”. Can see data, filters and the Helpbook, but cannot change them.
admin
If you are an administrator, you see all projects and the administrator screens.

What a person with manage can do

  • Runs SERP, AI, volume, audit, Labs, backlinks and on-page actions.
  • Adds and deletes keywords, competitors and search engines.
  • Connects/disconnects GSC and GA.
  • Changes the project and the AI policy.
  • Shares view access.

What a person with view can do

  • Opens all user reports.
  • Changes period, tab, filter and sort.
  • Sees historical data and help.
  • Does not see, or cannot use, buttons that change data.

Questions & answers

How do I give a client management rights?

Standard sharing is for viewing only. Management stays with the owner/admin.

Why does the administrator see more sites?

Admin sees all of them, while a regular user sees their own and the shared ones.