Mailchimp accounts have up to 5 user levels: Owner, Admin, Manager, Author, and Viewer. Each level has different permissions that impact their role within the account. All accounts have an Owner, and your pricing plan determines the number of additional user seats and levels
available to you. In this article, you'll learn about the different user levels and how to grant and revoke account access. User levels
User LevelDescriptionPlan Type Requirement Owner
The Owner serves as the primary contact for the account. Owners can perform all actions in the account, including inviting new users, editing billing information, and closing the account.
Any plan
Admin
The Admin has the same permissions as the Owner.
Essentials, Standard, or Premium
Manager
The Manager can create and send campaigns, import audiences, and view reports, but can't view billing information, export audiences, or close the account.
Premium
Author
The Author can create, edit, and delete campaigns and templates, and view reports.
Standard or Premium
Viewer
The Viewer can view reports in the account.
Standard or Premium
Note
- You can transfer ownership of your account at any time. To do this, you must be an account Owner or Admin.
- Depending on your user level, certain account pages and features may look different or be inaccessible. Owners and Admins have full account access.
Grant account access
The Users page displays the names, usernames, and user levels for everyone with access to your Mailchimp account. On this page, Owners and Admins can revoke access, view pending account invitations, and re-send or cancel invitation emails. Each account can invite up to 25 new account users in a 24-hour period.
To grant account access to a new user, follow these steps.
Click your profile icon, then click Account & billing.
Click the Settings drop-down, then click Users.
- Click Invite A User.
- Enter the email address of the person you want to grant access to, then choose an option in the User type section. Add an optional message to share instructions or other information for that person.
- Click Send Invite.
The email invitation asks the recipient to join your account under the user level you selected. The recipient can create a new username and password, or log in with their existing Mailchimp account. To better protect accounts with multiple users, add two-factor authentication to your Mailchimp account.
Troubleshoot a user invite
If you invite a new user to your account and they don't receive the email right away, check out these common causes for the delay and tips on how to troubleshoot each.
- The address contained errors or was mistyped.
Make sure you typed the correct address when you sent the invitation. - The email is still in transit.
Depending on internet traffic and how busy the recipient's ISP is, it can take a couple hours for emails to arrive. This is more likely to happen around holidays and peak sending times. - The email is
getting trapped by spam filters.
Ask the recipient to check their junk or spam folder for the invitation email. If it's not there, it may be getting blocked at the server level. Resend to an alternate email address, or ask the recipient to talk to their server administrator. - The email is being blocked by a corporate firewall.
Corporate email servers sometimes have firewalls that block certain emails for security reasons. Check if your recipient has an alternate address that you could send to, or ask them to check with their server administrator to see if they need to get Mailchimp's servers allowlisted (other providers may refer to as "whitelisted").
Change account access
An Owner or Admin can change a user's level of access from the Users page in their account.
Click your profile icon, then click Account & billing.
Click the Settings drop-down, then click Users.
Click Edit for the user whose access level you want to change.
Choose the level of access you'd like to grant the user, then click Save.
Revoke account access
Here are some things to keep in mind if you want to revoke account access.
- Owners and Admins can revoke other users’ access.
- Managers, Authors, and Viewers can revoke their own access.
- Owners and Admins can’t revoke their own access.
- To revoke Owner access, the Owner must first transfer ownership to an Admin. The previous Owner's user level will automatically revert to Admin. Once the new Owner is in place, they can revoke the previous Owner’s access, who is now an Admin.
- An Admin’s access can only be revoked by the Owner or another Admin.
- Every account is required to have an Owner at all times.
Revoke a user’s access (Owner or Admin)
When a user’s access is revoked from an account, any API keys they created in the account are removed. If they have access to the account through either Mailchimp for iOS or Android, they are logged out of the account in the app.
To revoke a user’s access, follow these steps.
Click your profile icon, then click Account & billing.
Click the Settings drop-down, then choose Users.
Click the Revoke Access button for the user you want to remove.
In the Delete User pop-up modal, click Delete User.
When you leave an account, your profile is permanently deleted and you can no longer access the account. If this is the only Mailchimp account you have access to, your username and password will stop working on the login page.
To revoke your own access, follow these steps.
Click your profile icon, then click Profile.
In the Connections and notifications section, find the account you want to leave, then click Leave Account.
In the Are you sure? pop-up modal, click Leave Account.
Compare user level permissions
Account actions
Invite users | ||||
Revoke account access | ||||
Set user access level | ||||
Require two-factor authentication | ||||
Change billing information | ||||
Change company/organization name | ||||
Add or access API keys | ||||
Check/reconnect integrations | ||||
Referral program | ||||
Account export | ||||
Close account | ||||
Add files to content studio |
Audience actions
Create audiences | ||||
View audiences | ||||
Audience export | ||||
Audience import | ||||
Add contacts | ||||
Delete contacts | ||||
View segments | ||||
Edit audience settings | ||||
Archive contacts |
Email design
Create or import templates | ||||
Edit templates | ||||
Create campaigns | ||||
Edit campaigns | ||||
Send/publish campaigns | ||||
Pause/unpublish campaigns | ||||
Delete campaigns |
Reports
View reports | ||||
View abuse reports | ||||
View campaign statistics | ||||
Use conversations | ||||
View recipients | ||||
Top locations | ||||
Contact details | ||||
Open details | ||||
E-commerce product activity | ||||
Domain performance |
Ads
Create campaign | ||||
Place order | ||||
Get order information | ||||
Pause/unpause campaign | ||||
End campaign | ||||
Replicate campaign | ||||
Publish campaign |
Websites
Create your website | ||||
Publish/unpublish your website | ||||
View report |
Stores
Create your store | ||||
Enable/disable your store | ||||
Add/Update a product | ||||
View products | ||||
Hide/Unhide a product |
Appointments
Create Service | ||||
View Service | ||||
Edit Service |
Landing pages
Create campaign | ||||
Publish/unpublish campaign | ||||
Replicate campaign |
Postcards
Create campaign | ||||
Place order | ||||
View report |
Domains
Verify a domain | ||||
Connect a domain | ||||
Purchase a domain |
Customer Journeys
Create Customer Journey | ||||
View Customer Journey | ||||
Edit Customer Journey | ||||
Turn on/pause/turn back on |
Mailchimp Inbox
View messages | ||||
Leave comments | ||||
Send messages | ||||
Toggle user notifications |
Surveys
Create survey | ||||
Edit survey | ||||
Publish survey | ||||
Delete survey |