What Are Accounts, Users, Groups?

What is an Account?

You Account is your entry point into SharedPlan Central.

Your billing is based on your account type.

Information may be shared within your account as determined by you. Information is never visible across accounts.

What Is A User?

Users are how individual people access SharedPlan Central. Before a user may access Central she must have the account name, her user name, and the password as set by the account administrator when the user was created.

Note that all paid accounts in Central provide you with unlimited users so you can add as many as you would like.

Each account has an administrator (the user that created the account). The administrator manages the billing and may create, delete, and modify the details of users, groups and all projects in the account.

What Is A Group?

Groups allow you to control project access for a set of people. You can have functional groups (marketing, sales, engineering,...) or project based groups (wadget project, frazzle project) and then set project access based on the group.

Each account has at least one group: default. And all users must belong to at least one group.

Managing project access through groups is very handy when you have a large number of people in your account.

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