We all know the saying “Many hands make light work.” As your organization grows you may need to give employees, volunteers, your accountant or board members access to the administrative side of MembershipWorks so they can help you manage your organization. That’s why MembershipWorks lets you set up an unlimited number of administrators for plans 300 and above.
Admin permissioning was designed to give you flexibility in the the level of access you provide to your admins. Let’s take a look at how it works!
Getting Started with Folders and Forms
You can set up your admin permissioning in Organization Settings > Admins.You start off entering the admins contact information. It is important to put the email for each admin as they will use that to sign in. Admins can request a password from the system so there is no need to assign one.
Next you decide which folders the admin will have access to by clicking on the folders names. You can give them read only access so they can look up information but not make any changes or you can give full admin privileges to allow them to make notes in their timeline, add payments delete accounts…
In addition to folders you can also give admins access to forms including donation, shopping and regular forms. Just like with the folders you can give read only or full access by form.
Use Case Scenarios for Folders and Forms
Giving access to a folder is a great way to let your committee chairs access to their committee without giving them full access to your membership. If you’re worried about the committee chair making changes to the system you can give them read only access and they can export the committee list to email about committee business. If you have more trust in the chair you can give them full access and allow them to make notes on the member’s timeline or move them out of the committee folder.
You can give access to your shopping form to your inventory manager so that they will be able to process and track orders. You can give them read only access if you just need them to send the orders of full access so that they can make changes to the form, such as changing item quantities.
Additional Permissioning
After you have decided which folders and forms the admin has permission to access your can set what level of access they have to other areas of your MembershipWorks account.
Events
You can give admins full access to your events or restrict them from the event portion. If you have an event chair you may want to give them access to just your events and no folders or forms. This way they’ll be able to create and manage events but won’t have access to see or change membership details. Don’t forget you can still give members the ability to post events through Event Groups.
Dashboard
There are 3 choices for dashboard access. You can give no access so that the administrator will not be able to see your financial reporting. This is a great selection for committee chairs that just need to access their committee members.
The second option is to allow them to see the full dashboard. This setting is perfect for your accountant or treasurer. They will be able to export your financial reports to a spreadsheet or QuickBooks.
The final option lets them see the dashboard but it will only be populated with information from folders and forms that you have given them permission to access. This may be useful if you are starting a new chapter and only want them to access their information.
Messages
You choose whether or not to give your admins the ability to send and view messages.
Labels & Memberships
Admins who have admin access to the labels and memberships will be able to create and edit them. This access is great for your membership coordinator as they may need to add or change memberships. However, it may be that admins like committee leaders are better off without this access.
Templates
You can give access to your membership signup, member manage and admin templates. This is great if you have a developer or employee helping you set up MembershipWorks.
Discounts
Admins who create events or memberships may also want to create or change your discount codes. You can control whether or not they have access to do this.
Admin Logins
Admins will be able to login to your MembershipWorks account in two ways. If you would like them to have access to your website you can give them a WordPress login and password and they will be able to login to MembershipWOrks from the administrative side of WordPress.
Admins you don’t want to have access to your website can login at https://membershipworks.com/admin. They can also request a password from there.
If an Admin is also a member they can use the same or different emails and passwords for the admin and member accounts. Note that the admin and member accounts are distinct and separate. Logging in from the member manage page on your website will only give them the same access that other members get. To login as an administrator, they must login either through your WordPress dashboard or on https://membershipworks.com/admin.
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