Roles and permissions
Three roles, per brand. Someone can hold a different one on each brand on the same account.
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything: invite and remove members, create another brand, rename the brand, plus everything a Member can |
| Member | Everything except the owner-only actions above: draft, approve, schedule, connect accounts, edit settings, manage the plan and billing, work with saved posts, hooks and scripts, work the inbox and comment queue |
| Client | Only Approvals and Calendar: review drafts, approve or reject them, comment on a draft under review, and see what is already planned |
There is no finer-grained permission to assign today: it is these three roles, not a checklist of individual areas. A Member has full access to the brand; if that is too much, the only narrower role is Client.
Owner-only actions
- Inviting, resending, cancelling and removing members
- Renaming the brand and editing its contact details
- Creating another brand (it goes on the account's bill, so a Member cannot)
What a Client sees
Approvals (the review queue: approve or reject a draft, and comment on it) and Calendar (read-only, to see what is already planned). Everything else in Studio is out of reach: the client role restricts to an allowlist of routes, and anything not on it refuses the request rather than rendering a stripped-down version of the page.
Client approval is still a real, audited approval
A client's Approve click satisfies the human-approval rule the same as a Member's or an Owner's. Being a client limits what else you can see and do, not the weight of that specific click.
Practical shapes
Solo. You are the owner. Everything is available. Nothing to configure.
With an editor. Invite them as a Member. They can draft, approve, schedule, connect accounts, touch settings and change the plan, same as you, short of inviting others, renaming the brand or creating another one.
With a client reviewing drafts. Invite them as a Client. They see exactly the queue and the calendar, and nothing else: no connections, no settings, no other brand data.
A Member can publish on your behalf
Any Member can approve and schedule, through the queue, to your connected accounts. The human-approval rule guarantees a person approved something. It does not guarantee it was you. Invite as Member only people you trust with the account.
Where to set it
Studio, then Settings, then the Members tab. The role is chosen when you invite someone and cannot be changed afterwards without removing and re-inviting them.