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title: Users & roles
slug: users-and-roles
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createdAt: 2022-01-03T08:49:10.000Z
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# Invite users to an organization

Any account* Owners* & *Managers* can invite other users to join their organization.

To do so head to [https://app.echoeshq.com/admin/invites](https://app.echoeshq.com/admin/invites).

Invites have an expiry date. 

At any time, *Owners* & *Managers* can revoke an invitation to a user. Click on the garbage can icon next to the invite. Once revoked, the invite disappears from the list and the user can no longer accept the invitation.

There are 2 types of invites:

- Personal
- Shared

## Personal invite

Fill the Email and Role of the invitee and click send.

The invitation email is sent to the user at the specified Email. From there the user can signup and create its Echoes Account.

## Shared invite

A shared invite is useful for giving access to Echoes via a public Slack channel for instance.

By clicking on the `Get invite link` button a unique sharable invite link is generated.

A maximum of **5** links can be generated.

Every user clicking on the link will be able to signup and access the Echoes Account with the default *Contributor* role.

# Account Roles

Echoes holds 3 specific roles:

- Owner
- Manager
- Contributor

A user cannot set its own role.

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**Owner**

An *Owner* can promote a user from:

- Contributor to Manager
- Manager to Owner

**Manager**

A *Manager *can promote a user from *Contributor* to *Manager*

**Contributor**

A *Contributor* cannot edit any role.

## Access matrix

|                         |           |             |                 |
| ----------------------- | --------- | ----------- | --------------- |
|                         | **Owner** | **Manager** | **Contributor** |
| Activity                | ✅         | ✅           | ✅               |
| Releases                | ✅         | ✅           | ✅               |
| Outcome                 | ✅         | ✅           | ✅               |
| My contribution         | ✅         | ✅           | ✅               |
| Settings/Outcomes       | ✅         | ✅           | ❌               |
| Settings/Initiatives    | ✅         | ✅           | ❌               |
| Settings/Teams          | ✅         | ✅           | ❌               |
| Settings/Metrics        | ✅         | ✅           | ❌               |
| Admin/Integrations      | ✅         | ❌           | ❌               |
| Admin/Invites           | ✅         | ✅           | ❌               |
| Admin/Billing           | ✅         | ❌           | ❌               |
| Admin/Security/Api Keys | ✅         | ✅           | ✅               |
| Admin/Security/SAML     | ✅         | ❌           | ❌               |