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PlayerFirst Role Access Guide

A catalog of every assignable PlayerFirst role, grouped by request-board bundle, how role dependencies actually work, and where to assign a role.

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Overview

  1. Assignable role bundles — the six request-board groupings: Admin, A La Carte, Team/Event Management + Concessions, Team/Event Management, View Only w/ Communication, View Only w/ Financials. These are usually added together.

  2. Supporting roles (not in a bundle) — roles granted individually rather than as part of a bundle.

  3. How to assign a role — where role assignment happens in the app.

1. Assignable Role Bundles

Admin

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Brand owners / HQ staff who should have full control

Role

Description

Admin

All rights within a brand

Also grants two Admin-only abilities not listed as separate roles here: creating/editing Concession Codes, and overriding concession or discount limits on a registration.

A La Carte

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Front-office/registration staff (refunds, invoices, credits); marketing staff sending very large sends; website editors — added individually, not as a group

Role

Description

Notes

Shop Enter Refunds

Can create refunds and account credits

Requires Orders Admin

Communications Marketing Admin

Can send marketing messages only

Manual Invoicing

Create a new blank invoice, add, edit, or delete line items from the invoice page

Requires Orders Admin

Create External Payments

Create External CC, External ACH, Cash, Check, and Bad Debt

Root Admin Assigns Only

Requires Orders Admin

Create Account Credits

Create account credits

Requires Orders Admin

Web Content Admin

Can update various public web content

Site Content Admin

Can update news, alerts and general static site content

Team/Event Management + Concessions

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Club Directors / Program Directors running day-to-day operations

Role

Description

Notes

Communications Admin

Can send mass transactional & marketing messages

Create Concessions

Can create Concessions (discounts, prorates, scholarships)

Requires Orders Admin

Financial Admin View

Able to view financial reports and projections

Financial Admin View Cash

Like Financial Admin View, but able to view more cash detail

Orders Admin

Can view and modify orders

Program Admin

Edit Program Info and Registration

Team Admin

Can schedule teams, approve scores and edit team information

User Admin

Can create and edit users, including most roles

Team/Event Management

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Same roles as Team/Event Management + Concessions, minus Create Concessions

Role

Description

Communications Admin

Can send mass transactional & marketing messages

Financial Admin View

Able to view financial reports and projections

Financial Admin View Cash

Like Financial Admin View, but able to view more cash detail

Orders Admin

Can view and modify orders

Program Admin

Edit Program Info and Registration

Team Admin

Can schedule teams, approve scores and edit team information

User Admin

Can create and edit users, including most roles

View Only w/ Communication

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Regional supervisors, auditors, bookkeepers — visibility without edit rights

Role

Description

Program Admin View Only

Can view program details, but cannot edit or register

Financial Admin View

Able to view financial reports and projections

Financial Admin View Cash

Like Financial Admin View, but able to view more cash detail

Communications Admin

Can send mass transactional & marketing messages

User

A generic role suitable for initial registration

View Only w/ Financials

Role

Description

Financial Admin View

Able to view financial reports and projections

Financial Admin View Cash

Like Financial Admin View, but able to view more cash detail

Program Admin View Only

Can view program details, but cannot edit or register

User

A generic role suitable for initial registration

2. Supporting Roles (Not in a Bundle)

Program & Registration

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Registration/ops staff handling approvals and location changes

Role

Description

Program Approval - Admin

Can approve Admin program approval requirement

Program Approval - Operations

Can approve Operations program approval requirement

Interbrand Registration

Grant permission to select the brand as the buyer of an interbrand registration

Registration Moderator Admin

Take registration for other customers through the class/hard-goods shop

Root Class Manager Admin

Permission to manage the class finder for all brands

Location Admin

Can approve new and updated locations

Program Reporting

Limited role for viewing programs

Finance & Data Ops

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Accounting staff doing higher-level finance tasks

Role

Description

Financial Admin Edit

Able to Edit Financial Reports and Projections

Financial Analyst

High level finance tasks: cloning invoices, etc.

Full User Database Export

Can export all user data from the communications page

Create Admin

Create Other Admin Users

Shop & Site Content

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Staff managing the shop or public staff directory

Role

Description

Shop Admin

Can edit what appears in the shop through admin

Marketplace Admin

(no description on file)

Global Content Admin

Can edit global templates and global uploads

Staff Admin

Can edit what staff appears on publicly listed staff page

Person Classification

Role

Description

Coach

Access Special Coaching Materials

College Coach

User is a college coach

Staff

Staff Member

Hotel Employee

User is an employee of a hotel we work with

Scheduling & Timekeeping

Who Needs These Roles?

  • HR/ops staff managing time cards and schedules

Role

Description

Schedule Admin

Admin of staff schedules, validates other staff entries

Schedule Non-Pay Admin

Allows administration of certain Admin areas not related to payroll

Schedule Activity Admin

Can approve custom activities added to schedules

Schedule Validator

Validates events for payroll purposes

Schedule - Add Times

Can add their own events to their schedule

Schedule Staff User

Time card access for W2 Employees

Schedule Contract User

Time card access for 1099 contractors

View All Schedules Admin

Can view all other users' schedules

Scheduling Reports

(no description on file)

Timeline View

Can view a readonly version of the Timeline

Vensure (HR Partner)

Who Needs These Roles?

  • HR/payroll admins working with the Vensure PEO integration

Role

Description

Vensure Brand Operator

Allows user to create work rosters and enter/approve time entry

Vensure Operations Administrator

Regional/Corporate role only. Allows user to approve payments (second level of approval), terminate contracts, etc.

Vensure Signer

Allows user to sign contracts in Vensure (Brand Director only)

System & Technical

Who Needs These Roles?

  • Internal engineering/support only — not relevant to a customer's own admins

Role

Description

Super Auth

Allow a user to sign in as another user via username:password pattern, as in the apps

Swagger

Access to API Docs

NetSuite API

Access to NetSuite reporting via API

Servicer - LiveBarn

Servicer access for LiveBarn

Stay to Play Admin

TTS role for access to the stay to play page

3. How to Assign a Role

  1. Sign in to a PlayerFirst website.

  2. On the left navigation, click User > Management, then open the person's record and go to their Details tab.

  3. In the Add Roles table, check or uncheck the roles you want to grant or revoke, then save.

Quick Reference

Where

What you'll do

User > Users > [person] > Details

Check or uncheck a role in Add Roles to grant or revoke it for that person

Global Settings > Roles (Root Admin only)

Edit a role's description, or its assignability/Admin-only/Root-Admin-only flags

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