User types, roles, and permissions

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To control access to an organization and its projects, you assign user types and roles to organization members and project members:

User types are the member's default permissions in the organization or project.
User roles are the member's additional permissions in the organization or project.

Note

Unity ID user types and roles include inheritance. Users who are added to an organization with a non-guest user type inherit their user type at the project level. For example, a user with the Manager user type in their organization also has Manager-level access to all projects within that organization. You can use roles to assign different permissions to users.

User types and roles

Users are assigned permissions to a seat at an organizational level. These roles include Owner (billable), Manager, User, and Guest. Project roles are assigned permissions to a seat that are specific to projects. For example, a Unity Pro user could be a Viewer for one project and a Contributor in a different project.

Overview of user types

The table below gives a high-level overview of the different user types.

User type	Summary
Guest	Guests have limited access to organizations or projects they're explicitly added to. For organization-level permissions, refer to the Guest column in Organization-level access.
User	Users can view organization members, organization settings, and projects, but not finance or billing. On projects they align with Project User baseline capabilities (view environments and settings, view services, and limited service-level write access where applicable). Refer to Organization-level access and Project-level access.
Manager	Managers can manage most of the organization and its projects, for example, members, settings, policies, projects, apps, and environments. Managers can't manage billing or payment details. Refer to Organization-level access (Organization Manager) and Project-level access (Project Manager).
Owner	Owners have the highest access, including finance, subscriptions, notifications, and full organization-level add-on role management, plus all manager-level project capabilities. Refer to Organization-level access (Organization Owner) and Project-level access (Project Owner).

For information about which permissions are available to each user type, refer to the following tables.

Organization-level access

The following table lists organization-level permissions and whether each user type has them.

Permission	Organization Owner	Organization Manager	Organization User	Guest
View organization members	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View organization settings	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
View projects	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Add and remove members	Yes	Yes, except on the Owner	No	No
Edit organization members, except for owners	Yes	Yes, except on the Owner	No	No
Edit and delete organization user baseline properties	Yes	Yes	No	No
Edit organization settings	Yes	Yes	No	No
Manage organization-level add-on roles for members	Yes	Yes	No	No
Assign Finance Admin add-on role to organization members	Yes	No	No	No
Create projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Edit projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Archive and unarchive projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Transfer projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Delete projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Link projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Unlink projects	Yes	Yes	No	No
Manage organization policies (create, edit, and delete)	Yes	Yes	No	No
Set up personal notifications	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Manage webhook integrations for notifications	Yes	Yes	No	No
Manage finance and billing settings	Yes	No	No	No
Manage subscription settings	Yes	Yes	No	No
Sign up for Unity Gaming Services	Yes	No	No	No

Note

This is a non-exhaustive overview of permissions to illustrate the levels of access for different types of users. The Organization Owner and Organization Manager roles in particular are very powerful and have further permissions not listed above.

Project-level access

The following table lists project-level permissions and whether each project role has them.

Permission	Project Owner	Project Manager	Project User
Access financial and billing information	Yes	No	No
Access and edit everything across all projects	Yes	Yes	No
View project environments	Yes	Yes	Yes
Create, view, and delete environments	Yes	Yes	No
Create and delete environment policies	Yes	Yes	No
Add and remove project icons	Yes	Yes	No
Manage project-level add-on roles for members	Yes	Yes	No
Edit project members, except for owners	Yes	Yes, except on the Owner	No
Edit and delete project user baseline properties	Yes	Yes	No
Manage apps (create, update, archive, unarchive, and transfer)	Yes	Yes	No
Edit app policies	Yes	Yes	No
View project settings	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edit project settings	Yes	Yes	No
Manage project policies (create, edit, and delete)	Yes	Yes	No
Manage groups (edit groups, add and remove members)	Yes	Yes	No
Edit customer data settings	Yes	Yes	No
Edit and delete customer data setting confirmations	Yes	Yes	No
Manage service accounts (create, edit, and delete)	Yes	Yes	No
Create and delete API credentials for service accounts	Yes	Yes	No
Restrict the visibility of projects	Yes	Yes	No
View restricted projects	Yes	Yes	Yes (project members only)
Enable services	Yes	Yes	No
View project services	Yes	Yes	Yes
Access and edit project services	Yes	Yes*	Yes*
Service-specific write access (manage features at service level)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edit and delete project resource policies	Yes	Yes	No
Edit and delete player resource policies	Yes	Yes	No
Archive and unarchive projects	Yes	No	No
Transfer projects	Yes	No	No
Manage webhook integrations for notifications	Yes	Yes	No
Manage finance and billing settings	Yes	No	No
Manage subscription settings	Yes	No	No
Sign up for Unity Gaming Services	Yes	No	No

* Additional access to services, and permissions on those services, can vary by service.

Roles

An Owner or a Manager can:

At the organization level, assign a user type and roles to an organization member. This grants the organization member access to the data and services of all projects that require this specific role. Within a project, the member's role is labeled Inherited from the organization.
At the project level, invite an organization member, or a guest from outside the organization, to the project and assign them a user type and roles. Project members can access only the data and services of this specific project. Guests can access only the selected project. Within the project, the member's role is labeled Individual Grant.

Note

Organization members are listed as project members of all projects within their organization. However, they still need to be assigned the correct roles to access a project's data and services.

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Overview of user types

User type

Summary

Organization-level access

Permission

Organization Owner

Organization Manager

Organization User

Guest

Project-level access

Permission

Project Owner

Project Manager

Project User

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