Give managers and staff the right access

Let each store reach its own customers while the owner keeps the All Customers sends and billing.

What this helps you do

You can invite staff and volunteers onto the team and give each one the right level of access, so they help without over-reaching. Each person signs in as themselves, so you always know who sent what. Dangerous actions, such as sending to everyone, changing roles, or leaving the Hub, ask for a fresh step-up confirmation with a passkey or an approval on the person's phone.

  • Owner: everything, including billing, the Blasts account connection, and leaving the Hub.
  • Admin: every audience, team management and integrations; no billing or account connection.
  • Leader: sends to, and reads replies from, only the audiences you grant.
  • Viewer: read-only reports and history.

When to use it

Use roles when more than one person sends: a store manager who should tell their own customers about a closure, a buyer or events lead who owns the classes and trunk shows, a bookkeeper who should see credit history but never send.

How to do it

  • Open Team.
  • Invite a person by email and pick a role; they sign in with an email code or through the Blasts app.
  • For a Leader, choose which audiences they can send to and which replies they can read.
  • Review Access requests: people connected as members who asked for Hub access after signing in through Blasts. Nobody gets in unless you approve, and you pick the role first.
  • In Settings, decide whether a leader's Blasts need an administrator's approval before they go out.
  • Add a passkey on Home so step-up confirmations use Face ID, Touch ID or your device PIN.

Example

The owner invites the head of retail as an Admin, the events lead as a Leader granted Events & Classes, each store manager as a Leader for that store's audiences, and the bookkeeper as a Viewer. A manager can tell their own customers the store is closed for a burst pipe; only the owner and the head of retail can send to All Customers, and that send asks for a passkey.

Good to know

  • A Leader only sees replies from the audiences they are granted, so a question about a class reaches the events lead and not the stockroom.
  • Sending to All Customers, changing roles and removing users all require a fresh step-up confirmation.
  • Grants are per audience and cover sending and reading replies separately, so someone at the counter can answer a hold request without being able to send to the whole customer list.
  • Staff are an audience as well as a role: a shift or stock notice is a normal Blast to the Staff audience.
  • The audit trail on Home records who sent, approved, invited or changed what.

Do it in your Hub

Inside your Hub, Help shows this same article next to the screen it describes. Sign in at retailblasts.com or right here.