What Are Project Member Roles?

In Studio.Design, you manage and build websites on a project-by-project basis. You can invite multiple users to a project and assign each person a role that determines what they can do. This article explains the types of roles, what each can access, and how to change them.

What Are Roles?

A role defines what actions a project member can take. Studio.Design offers three roles for project members:

Owner
Billing Owner
Editor

Tip: For details on how to invite users to a project, refer to Inviting and Managing Project Members.

Screenshot: Setting permissions when inviting a member.

Types of Roles and Their Permissions

There are three types of roles in a project: Owner, Billing Owner and Editor

Tips: For more granular permission settings, consider using either advanced permission controls (available for Business plans and above) or use workspace permission settings (available on the Team plan, a paid plan).

Owner

Has full control over the entire project.
Can access everything: the editor, all dashboards, member invitations, plan and payment management—without any restrictions.
You can have multiple Owners in a single project. There’s no limit to the number of Owners.

Tip: We recommend having more than one Owner. If one Owner can’t log in, another can continue managing the project.

Billing Owner

Manages project payments.
This role exists only for paid projects, and there can be only one Billing Owner per project.
Has all the permissions of an Owner, plus the ability to manage payment information.
The Owner who upgrades a project to a paid plan automatically becomes the Billing Owner.
The Billing Owner can be changed later. Any Owner with billing information set up can make themselves the Billing Owner.
For details, refer to How to Change the Billing Owner.

Editor

Can create content and manage some parts of the project.
Can use the design editor, CMS, and forms, but cannot change the plan or view payment history.

Role Permissions Overview

Action	Billing Owner	Owner	Editor
Use Editor	✓	✓	✓
Use CMS Dashboard	✓	✓	✓
Use Form Dashboard	✓	✓	✓
Change Plan	✓	✓	×
View Payment History	✓	✓	×
Edit [Apps] Settings *(1)**	✓	✓	×
Duplicate Project	✓	✓	×
Change Member Roles	✓	✓	×
Invite Users	✓	✓	×
Remove Other Members	✓	△	×
Remove Pending Invites	✓	△	×
Remove Self from Project	×	×	✓

1* What are [Apps] settings?

These are settings for integrating external tools and APIs, like Google Analytics. You can access them from the [Apps] section in the project dashboard.

About Roles from Previous Plans

Form Viewing Restriction (Available only for legacy plans: Starter, CMS, Business)

You can set viewing restrictions for form response results for editors.This is a useful option when you want editors to be able to work with design and CMS but "don't want them to view form response results."

For more details about viewing restrictions, see Form Response Viewing Restrictions.

Writer (Available only for legacy plans: Starter, CMS, Business)

This permission level is available in legacy plans (Business and CMS plans).CMS plans can have up to 3 writers, while Business plans have no limit. Writers can perform certain editing tasks in the CMS dashboard and editor. See the table below for details.

Operation scope for legacy plans (Starter, CMS, Business)

How to Change a Member’s Role

Note: Permissions cannot be changed while the member status is "invited."

Only Owners can change member roles.

1. Open the Member List

Click the [+] button in the top-right corner of the screen, or navigate to the [Members] menu from the dashboard's [Home] section.

Tip: If your project is linked to a workspace, the workspace member editing menu will open. For details, see [Inviting and Managing Workspace Members].

2. Change the Role

Click the current role of the member to open the dropdown menu, then select the new role. Changes are applied immediately.