Manage Advanced Billing Users

Who can see and change what in Advanced Billing comes down to three account levels and, for team members, a set of per-site access controls you assign yourself. This article covers those levels, how to add and export users, and exactly which parts of the application each access level reaches.

Keep your user records current

Stale user records are both a security risk and an operational one. If you're an owner or admin, confirm that the Owner on file is a current, appropriate decision-making contact with a valid email address, and remove or edit any dormant users.

WARNING: Only the owner can approve changes to the account on behalf of the business. If the person recorded as owner leaves your company and ownership isn't transferred first, nobody is authorized to make those decisions, and restoring that authority requires contacting Maxio Support.

Advanced Billing also keeps a separate internal customer record used for billing and account communication. That record is your main billing contact, not your decision-making authority, because billing correspondence often goes to accounting or a third party. To change either the owner or the billing contact, the current owner must contact support@maxio.com.

User access control

Fine-grained user access control lets owners and admins give each user a different set of access levels on each site, rather than one setting across the whole account.

Access levels

There are three levels of access for user accounts:

• Owner: The first user account on the seller account. Owners have administrative capabilities that can't be revoked. To transfer ownership, contact support@maxio.com.
• Admin: Any user may be made an admin by the owner or by the other admins.
• Team Member: A user on the account without admin privileges.

Team member access controls

User access control applies only to users with the team member status. Users with admin status will have access to all sites.

The access levels that can be assigned to team members are as follows:

• Read-only: the user can view limited information related to the site
• Setup: the user can manage the product catalog, settings, and integrations
• Financial: the user can view and export financial performance metrics
• Customer Support: the user can manage subscriptions and customers

Add users

You can add more user accounts (login and password) to your seller account if you are an admin or owner, so others can help you manage it.

From your Seller homepage, navigate to the Users tab and click Create New User.

Unique user emails

Using an email that already exists anywhere in Advanced Billing returns the warning Email: must be unique - that value has been taken.

When adding a user to an Advanced Billing account, the user email may only be used once across all Advanced Billing accounts. If you have a situation where a person must be part of two Advanced Billing accounts, you must use a unique email for each user account.

User limits

• All Advanced Billing Developer plans have a limit of 10 users on each account.
• All paid Advanced Billing plans have a limit of 100 users on each account.

Export Users

For easy access to user information, like user permissions, click Export Users.

A Downloads page appears. When ready, click the Download link to access the CSV export file.

The export contains one row per user per site, with the columns User Id, User Name, User Role, User Email, Site Id, Site Name, Setup, Financial, and Customer Support.

Team member settings

Team members can do everything an admin can, except for the account-level areas below. These restrictions apply regardless of which site access controls you grant.

• Site access - You control which sites each team member can reach.
• My account - Team members can't enable or disable two-factor authentication.
• Sites - Team members can't clone, edit, or delete a site.
• API access - No access.
• Merchant info - No access.
• Security - No access.
• Users - No access.
• Billing and plans - No access.

Team member site access controls

Beyond those account-level restrictions, you control a team member's access site by site, so someone can have full access on a test site and none on your live one.

Most accounts combine access controls to fit a role. For example:

• Give an accountant permission to export financial performance and metrics.
• Give a customer support representative permission to manage subscriptions and customers.
• Give a developer permission to manage the product catalog and integrations on a test site only.

Each control appears as an icon against each site in the user's record.

Team member access reference

The tables below break down what each access level reaches, area by area.

In every table, X means the team member has no access to that feature, and ✔ means they do.

Dashboard

The dashboard is the landing page for the Advanced Billing application. From within the dashboard, team members may view a number of different metrics. Additionally, webhook data and financials are displayed.

The following table details access to the panes showing recent activity and metrics.

Dashboard financials

Embedded in the application, financial data is displayed. Use team member access controls to restrict access to these numbers:

Billing

The billing section is for subscription management. View your subscriptions, customers, transactions/payments, and invoices.

Subscriptions

Groups

Subscription groups are available on Relationship Invoicing.

Catalog

The catalog section of the application depicts where you create and control pricing for your subscribers. Give careful consideration to whom can augment pricing on your live sites.

Products

Control what team members can access in your catalog of products, components and coupons. For more information on product and product families, see the Creating Plans help article.

Public Signup Pages

Decide what team members can access and edit your Public Signup Pages. See the Understand Public Pages help article.

Insights

Tools

Advanced Billing’s tools section deals explicitly with email, webhook and site activity. See the Monitor and Resend Webhooks help article.

Config

Settings

Settings access should be limited to trusted team members. See the Settings Overview help article.

Integrations

Every integration is managed under Config > Integrations, which requires the Setup permission. A team member with that permission can configure any integration your site uses; one without it can't reach the page at all. Which integrations appear depends on the features enabled for your site.

Referrals

Custom taxes