Permissions and Roles

Control what each team member can see and do inside your Boei account.

How to get there: Go to Setup → Team in the top menu, then click a team member to edit their permissions.

The two types of users

Boei does not use named roles like "Admin" or "Agent". Instead, there is the Owner and any number of Team members, each with eight individual permission toggles.

Owner

The person who created the account. There is one owner per account, and the owner has full access to everything: all widgets, chatbots, FAQs, inbox, contacts, deals, analytics, and billing.

Transferring ownership. There is no "transfer ownership" button. To hand the account over to someone else, change the account's email address to the new owner's email under Account → Profile. If a Boei account already exists with that email, the new owner needs to change the email on that existing account first (or delete it), and then you can swap yours in.

Team members

People you invite into your account. A new team member starts with zero permissions, and you turn on each capability they need. They have their own login and password but, when they sign in, they see your account's data based on the permissions you've granted.

See Team Members for how to invite and remove them.

The eight permissions

Each team member has these eight toggles. Each one is independent, so you can mix and match.

Permission What it unlocks
Manage Sites & Widgets Create and edit websites, widgets, and channels
Manage Chatbots Create and edit chatbots, train them, edit the AI prompt and tone
Manage FAQs Create and edit FAQ databases and questions
View Inbox Open the Inbox, read conversations, reply, export transcripts
Manage Contacts & Deals View and edit contacts, manage deals, run bulk follow-ups
View Analytics Open analytics dashboards for chatbots and widgets
Be a Live Chat Agent Receive and reply to live chat conversations as an agent. Uses one live chat seat from your plan. See Live Chat Agent Seats
Manage Billing Change the subscription, update payment methods, view invoices

A "read-only" team member is just a team member with View Inbox and/or View Analytics enabled and nothing else.

Editing permissions

  1. Go to Setup → Team
  2. Find the team member and click the permissions count (e.g. "3/8 enabled")
  3. Tick or untick the permissions you want
  4. Changes save automatically and take effect on the team member's next page load

The owner can also toggle Be a Live Chat Agent on themselves, which adds the owner to the live chat agent pool and consumes one seat.

Inbox scoping (per-inbox restrictions)

There is no built-in way to restrict a team member to specific inboxes or specific chatbots. A team member with View Inbox sees every conversation on the account.

If you need a team member to only see conversations from one website or one chatbot, please contact support and we'll arrange it for you.

Agencies: permissions across client accounts

If you run an agency with subaccounts (client accounts), the permissions you grant on the agency's main account automatically extend to every subaccount underneath it.

For example, if your colleague has Manage Chatbots enabled on your agency account, they can also manage chatbots inside every client subaccount, without you needing to invite them into each client separately. The same applies to all eight permissions.

If you want a team member to only have access to one specific client and not the others, invite them as a team member on that subaccount instead of on the agency level.