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title: "Add or change user roles in your organisation"
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This is a step-by-step guide to adding or changing roles for the existing users in your organisation.

> ℹ️ **Note:** Only an *Organisation Administrator* can assign or change user roles.
> ℹ️ 
> ℹ️ The first person who registers an account for an organisation automatically becomes the *Organisation Administrator* and is responsible for assigning roles to colleagues who register afterwards.

## **Change roles for an existing user:**

1. On the left side menu, you will find the cog icon for *Settings. *Select this to open *General Settings.*
2. From there, you can select *User management.*
3. Search for the user you want to update and open the user’s details by selecting* Edit *via the 3-dot menu on the right side.
4. Click Roles to view which rights the user currently has

> ⚠️ If the user is connected to multiple organisations, make sure you select the correct organisation before editing roles.

5. Then click *Edit *to manage the roles and select the roles the user should have

6. Click ‘Save’.

The change in role is then effective immediately.

> ⚠️ The *User**** ***role provides limited access and should only be assigned when it is intentionally required to restrict a user’s access. It is automatically assigned to all new user requests that are linked to a company through self-signup.


<span style="color: #97a0af">*Article Ref: 301020251146*</span>