Manage team access

Each workspace in the Clerk Dashboard supports role-based access control to help manage what team members can see and do. When assigning roles, consider the following:

• Which resources does this team member need access to?
• What actions should this team member be able to perform?
• What level of system configuration access is required?

Available roles

The following table summarizes the available roles:

Owner

The Owner role is the highest level of authority within a workspace, possessing comprehensive access and control over all settings and resources.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee and manage all resources and applications within a workspace
• Modify workspace settings, including Billing and member roles
• Access and modify all applications, including their settings, API keys, and domains
• Impersonate users and manage restrictions (allowlist, blocklist, waitlist)

Permissions

Admin

The Admin role handles day-to-day management across applications and instances.

Key responsibilities

• Manage applications and instances within a workspace
• Modify workspace settings, including Billing and member roles
• Access and modify all applications, including their settings, API keys, and domains, but cannot delete or transfer applications
• Impersonate users and manage restrictions (allowlist, blocklist, waitlist)

Permissions

Developer

The Developer role focuses on technical configuration and integrations with limited production access.

Key responsibilities

• Manage restrictions (allowlist, blocklist, waitlist)
• View API keys and Billing information
• Manage configuration and API keys in development instances only
• Impersonate users in development instances only

Permissions

Support

The Support role provides tools to assist customers while preventing modifications to sensitive application configurations.

Key responsibilities

• Provide direct user support and troubleshooting
• Impersonate users for issue resolution and debugging
• Manage restrictions (allowlist, blocklist, waitlist)

Permissions

Viewer

The Viewer role has read-only access to configuration and workspace-level data.

Key responsibilities

• Review configuration settings of applications
• Review workspace-level information and configuration

Permissions