Theme
Roles and capabilities
Three roles, and they are the only assignable unit. See Your team and their roles for how to assign them.
The table
| Capability | Admin | Accounting | Tech |
|---|---|---|---|
| Create a site | yes | yes | |
| Buy, change, expand or cancel a plan | yes | yes | |
| Payment methods, checkout, invoices, credits, offers | yes | yes | |
| Read plans, credit, offers, card status, coupons | yes | yes | |
| Transfer users: create, edit, disable, remove, reset second factors | yes | yes | |
| Enrollment codes: mint and revoke | yes | yes | |
| Connectors: view and disconnect | yes | yes | |
| Site configuration, custom domains, protocols, security | yes | yes | |
| Be right back: pause and resume a site | yes | yes | |
| Read users, connectors, configuration, usage, status, addresses, bans | yes | yes | |
| Team: invite, change roles and scopes, remove members | yes | ||
| Support grants: create, approve, revoke | yes | ||
| Read the account activity trail | yes | yes | yes |
| Service level and tamper evidence pages | yes | yes | yes |
The shape of it
Admin holds everything.
Accounting holds the money path and only the money path, plus the money reads. An accounting member can buy a site and can never configure one.
Tech holds every technical surface and can never cause a charge, a purchase or a plan change.
Every role reads the audit trail. It carries action metadata, never file content, and transparency inside a customer's own team is deliberate.
Site scoping
Accounting and tech members can carry a site scope: an explicit list of sites, or all sites including ones created later.
A scoped member's world is their scope:
- Site lists and the dashboard filter to it.
- A site outside the scope answers exactly as a site belonging to somebody else would.
- Audit entries for sites outside the scope are not shown.
Admin is always account wide. There is no scoped admin.
Creating a new site needs account wide reach, so it takes an admin or an unscoped accounting member.
Enforcement
The matrix is enforced in the API, not by hiding buttons. A request that a role may not make is refused whether or not the interface offered it.
The one structural guard
At least one active admin must always remain. Removing the last one, or changing their role, is refused.
Support sessions
When Syncplify support views your account under an active support grant, that session holds read capabilities only, whatever the operator's own role is.
Every action taken under a grant is written to your Activity log with the grant's id.
These are not your transfer users
Everything on this page is about people who sign in to the Portal to manage your account.
The accounts your people transfer files with are a separate thing entirely, with their own permissions, granted on your Connector. See Permissions.